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[E]ven after being taken down a notch or two, [cities] will remain, by virtue of their concentrations of energy and intellect, at the center of the American political imagination. | One of the cities is a reference to New York. | neutral |
Another option is to blend spandex with fleece to make it stretchier and more form-fitting. | Like holding a sausage in it's casing, the new blend is able to hold any shape. | entailment |
But these targets still seem far out of reach. | The archery range's bullseyes are hard to hit. | entailment |
Nudity on stage can be powerful, and is still protested, but not as powerful as the frightening glimpse I had as a child of Ethel Merman in Gypsy . Now, if you could get the ghost of Ethel Merman and the undead Mickey Rooney to strip to the waist for 10 rounds of bare-knuckle action, that would be truly frightening sta... | Most people oppose nudity on stage. | neutral |
When Kurlak cuts his rating on Intel, what matters is not that he's right or wrong about Intel's prospects but that his cut in the rating will drop the stock regardless. | Intel's stock will increase after the cut in the rating. | contradiction |
It would also help our thinking if we could avoid the sex and violence mantra. | We should avoid sex and violence | entailment |
My kids after they graduate. | The author has children. | entailment |
The online Times offers a daily Whitewater, Etc. update, as well as flashbacks to Whitewater coverage from a year and two years ago. | Whitewater was covered both last year and the year before that. | entailment |
A hint of hulk is apparently not unwelcome in the modern woman's image, and a slightly humped back, spinal curve, and forward-thrusting neck go well with that. | A bit of hulk is unwelcome for modern women | contradiction |
This is the third Democrats have overlooked the legal question in the middle. | The Democrats are unable to read and comprehend English. | contradiction |
They also see it as easing their way toward economic integration with Western Europe. | Western Europe is undesireable economically. | contradiction |
Bloomie's says I've got $40 due, | Bloomie is ignorant of what is owed | contradiction |
Is Clinton saying he didn't commit perjury because of the peculiar definition of sex in the Paula Jones suit, or is he saying he actually didn't have sex? | Clinton is unaware of Paula Jones' existence. | contradiction |
Which is odd, considering that five years ago Bennett was fretting that there were too few. | Bennett has no opinions on it. | contradiction |
Unless Wanamaker was willing to pay double for reaching the right half of the people, his total ad spending would go down and not up. | Wanamaker wants to advertise to everyone possible. | entailment |
The key points of their critique of The Bell Curve are as | There are no reasons to be critical about the Bell Curve. | contradiction |
The 'Russian miracle,' that of always avoiding catastrophes at the last moment, remains, however, fragile--more and more fragile, it said. | The Russian miracle rarely comes to fruition. | entailment |
It runs several new pictures of Lewinsky, including two that are embarrassingly revealing. | Images seen of Lewinsky show her in an embarrassing position. | entailment |
They are a corporate soft money issue advocacy outfit, as is this [party] program financed by corporate soft money. | The program is financed by billions of dollars in corporate money | neutral |
And revelations about the agency's Cold War malfeasance have damaged its prestige. | The agency in question is the FBI. | neutral |
In fact, what his grand principle amounts to no vote for cash. | Votes are exchanged for cash. | contradiction |
Forty thousand of us die that way each year. | More than forty thousand are expected to die in the described manner next year. | neutral |
Newt Gingrich messed with Medicare and went down in flames. | Messing with Medicare caused Newt Gingrich to go down in flames. | entailment |
Will Tina tame these tough guys? | These tough guys have been tamed for weeks by Rosanna Rosannadanna. | contradiction |
Even better for the veep, Gov. | The governor is influencing the Vice President. | neutral |
Bottomless Mug | The Bottomless Mug is an affordable way to get lots of coffee. | neutral |
Do you steal Tootsie pops at checkout counters? | Tootsie Pops were recalled due to the great sucker poisoning of 2018. | contradiction |
Diseases contracted in early infancy can have a lifetime impact on health--not necessarily a big one, but an impact nevertheless. | Diseases contracted in early infancy always have a big lifetime impact on health. | contradiction |
The students who the year before had marched and chanted and proclaimed it is forbidden to forbid had been arguing for liberation of the oppressed of virtually every kind, and when it comes to the sexually oppressed, Berman says, the last two decades can be seen as a victory. | Berman views the past 20 years as being good for the sexually oppressed. | entailment |
From this perspective, Clinton has yet to get with the program. | Clinton is handling things well | contradiction |
In New York, for example, where more than half the city's current population is foreign-born, immigrants have helped renew Koreans and Chinese have revitalized Flushing, Queens; as have Russian Jews Brighton Beach; Caribbeans Flatbush; and Dominicans and Irish Washington Heights. | Most New Yorkers are American born | contradiction |
Inflation is at a 23-year low of 7 percent. | Inflation was at a twenty three year high. | contradiction |
Even in a fetus, a fibroblast is as highly specialized and fully differentiated as a mammary cell. | fetuses contain specialized cells. | entailment |
All these guys just have to be worried. | These guys are worried | entailment |
The New York Times reported that HMOs, rationing, and other medical-insurance nightmares conjured up in 1994 by enemies of the Clinton health-care plan are coming to pass anyway. | The New York Times reported on enemies of the Clinton health-care plan. | neutral |
To refrain from purchasing one would insult the working class and dishonor the labor of our fathers' fathers! | Refrain from purchasing is happening because consumers are not happy with the working conditions of the working class. | neutral |
All these guys just have to be worried. | Just another day without and issues | contradiction |
But the most affecting act is the kaddish , the statement of mourning that a son says on the death of his father. | Kaddish is an old world sort of dish, served at the Irish Wake. | contradiction |
In this context, it's hard to know what makes a kaffeeklatsch odd. | Talking is discouraged at a kaffeeklatsch | contradiction |
I remember that some people complained President Eisenhower was distracted from the business of his office because he was out playing golf so much. | President Eisenhower played a lot of golf. | entailment |
Getting the president re-elected is only one of the many, many accomplishments claimed by Morris, who plays both Boswell and Johnson in his memoirs. | Morris' accomplishments made him a very successful person. | neutral |
The Nation 's Katha Pollitt takes Putnam's very example, the shift from league bowling to ad hoc bowling, and suggests that [that] story could be told as one of happy progress from a drink-sodden night of spouse-avoidance with the same old faces from work to temperate and spontaneous fun with one's intimate friends and... | Ad hoc bowling is more popular than league bowling. | neutral |
Only a few years ago--three to be exact--managed care was the prescription of liberal reformers for an over-stressed health care system. | Some time ago, managed care was outlawed in many areas because of deaths. | contradiction |
It would be nice to say that we were rich because we were good, but the randomness of the market and the casual ethics of the hidden hand allow no such theocratic conclusion. | Just because a person is rich doesn't mean that they're good people. | entailment |
But more often the word is OPEN--evidence, says one neon connoisseur there, of continental affection for Americana, along with a changing European culture. | European culture fluctuates. | entailment |
In Sulloway's theory, as in life, Daniel is the category-defying, black sheep Baldwin. | He is the black sheep of a family of Baldwins. | neutral |
But I hope the British people will see it in the spirit in which it is intended--one of reconciliation and peace and hopes for the future. | It is intended to be kept secret from the British | contradiction |
These improvements have not taken place because well-meaning people in the West have done anything to help--foreign aid, never large, has lately shrunk to virtually nothing. | Western countries ignored countries who needed aid because of their economy. | neutral |
In modern romantic comedy-- Working Girl to Pretty Woman --we're meant to applaud the heroine's rise from working-class to First Class, with the confidence that she can still listen to Garth Brooks. | Working Girl and Pretty Woman are examples of modern romantic comedies. | entailment |
Who can blame him for lying to the gullible young? | He only told the young people the truth. | contradiction |
Do they have an open marriage in which his extracurricular activity is accepted, or is each new revelation a painful surprise to her? | Not all people have a traditional marriage. | entailment |
My problem is Although I am Peter Maass, the writer, I am not Peter Maas, the writer. | Peter Maass is a better writer and more famous than Peter Maas. | neutral |
And privacy--cloak of night, stocking mask, and any digital equivalent--is all that separates the thief from the law. | The cloak of night and stocking masks make it easier for the law to capture thieves. | contradiction |
To hold costs down, the $24 billion program doesn't cover kids who are currently insured. | There are kids with insurance. | entailment |
By time-shifting this feel-good scene forward, Man on the Moon relieves the true story of Kaufman's depressing decline. | The true story of Kaufman's depressing decline is relieved in the Man on the Moon. | entailment |
It's not that hard to imagine a similar message being sent home by someone investigating what happened to Tsingtao. | A murder case that involved Tsingtao is being investigated. | neutral |
Physicians will unionize against managed care. | Managed care is so popular with Physicians, they have chosen to disband their union. | contradiction |
Obviously, the institutional structure of the U. S. government had everything to do with the spread of the postal network. | The postal network was slowed down by the U.S. government. | contradiction |
Of course they have delighted voters by goosing popular social programs with extra millions. | Social programs are popular when they are well funded. | neutral |
Vouchers, they argue, are simply a guise for the edu-welfare system to cast its net over several million more families and children. | Vouchers ar seen as the best option for fixing the education system. | contradiction |
Western analysts now fear that the generals are using Chechnya to reassert control over national security and foreign policy. | Chechnya will reassert control over national security and foreign policy. | neutral |
The use of mind-altering drugs has probably increased as Huxley foresaw, although probably not to the extent that he foresaw. | Huxley rightfully assumed that drug use would increase. | entailment |
Your best friend/replacement matron of honor, herself, lives out of state. | The best friend was not the original matron of honor. | entailment |
For most hyphenated Americans, a trip to the ancestral lands is enough to reinforce the point--assuming, that is, that there are ancestral lands to speak of. | Visiting ancestral lands can provide answers. | neutral |
Suppose, he says, that someone was willing to lend you a trillion dollars to invest as you like. | He asks you to quickly imagine someone lending you a trillion dollars. | neutral |
In the New York Times Book Review , Daphne Merkin calls Allegra Goodman's Kaaterskill Falls a throwback to a time before fiction turned graphic and interior and hot to the touch. | Kaaterskill Falls was not written by Daphne Merkin. | neutral |
In fact, although all other nominees are welcome, Slate 's software-development team--through a simple iterative program--has already cast 1.8 million votes for Bill Gates. | Nominee Bill Gates has already cast 1.8 million votes for other nominees. | contradiction |
I also think it is commendable that his articles, although unfavorable to Microsoft in the main, are being hosted on a Microsoft-owned site. | His articles were read by a large audience. | neutral |
It would be shorter once you got the hang of it. | The task is less cumbersome than chopping wood. | neutral |
I find it interesting that Alfred Gingold, in Onward, Christian Clothiers, doesn't have a problem with pro-abortion T-shirts or vulgar T-shirts (shit happens, coed nude basketball, bitch on wheels, etc.) but finds it necessary to tee off on evangelical Christian apparel. | Alfred Gingold seems to be a bit of a hypocrite when it comes to political statement criticisms. | entailment |
On Late Edition , Wolf Blitzer trots out Friday's CNN/Gallup/ USA Today poll indicating that if John McCain and Bill Bradley win some early primaries, Bush voters may switch to McCain, but Gore voters likely will not switch to Bradley. | Voters who supported Bush may support McCain | entailment |
While this may have been true for a good many (Beatles, Dylan), the requirements of publishing every two weeks meant others, like the Moodies, Vanilla Fudge, Jefferson Airplane (Son of Jesus, anyone?) | publishing every two weeks was good for the Beattles | entailment |
Former Republican National Committee Chairman Haley Barbour, too, is working on behalf of the companies involved in the settlement, and he deserves as much scorn as his Democratic counterparts. | Haley Barbour is a hero in the case and should be applauded. | contradiction |
(Mother Teresa cared passionately about animals.) | Animals were favored by Mother Teresa. | entailment |
The teen-age fertility rate has been dropping for several decades--a tribute, no doubt, to contraception--though for most of that time the teen-age out-of-wedlock birth rate was increasing. | Teens are producing fewer babies recently | entailment |
When I interviewed Klein for my piece about the Microsoft case, he singled out Brian Arthur as the economist who has most influenced his thinking about the way in which high-technology markets operate. | Because of the high-tech markets' incredible value, Klein was singled out by Brian and his team of lawyers for his expertise with them. | contradiction |
It depends on how you score it. | It revolves around how you rate it. | entailment |
Officials at the Justice Department and FISA Court deny that the latter is a rubber stamp, attributing Justice's winning percentage to rigorous internal review that weeds out bad applications before they're filed. | the justices had a losing percentage | contradiction |
If he becomes a serious threat, Livingston and other GOP leaders will make sure to stop him. | Livingston will stop a serious threat | entailment |
What Bradley needed was a policy expert who could block Brazile's cheap shot. | Bradley doesn't need anything | contradiction |
Is it not clear that such unrestricted applications of the principles of 'equal opportunity' would in practice mean the veritable economic enslavement of the small states and their subjugation to the rule and arbitrary will of strong and enriched foreign firms, banks, and industrial corporations? | Equal opportunity keeps some from succeeding. | neutral |
(Some of these folks are still writing for Commentary today.) | Commantary has no writers. | contradiction |
After 15 years of almost uninterrupted superlative performance--which not even the Katzenberg and Ovitz contretemps could seriously slow down--it's almost impossible to remember how close Disney was to being dismantled in the early 1980s. | The Katzenberg and Ovitz contretemps tried very hard to slow down Disney's success. | neutral |
In reality, it takes more work and more character for poor student X to finish in the top ten percent of his or her public school class and obtain a mediocre SAT score than it does for rich kid Y to finish in the bottom half of his private school class and score slightly higher on the SAT. | It is more difficult for poor students to finish in the top of their class than for a rich student to finish in the bottom of their class. | entailment |
I am 18 years old and face a serious problem. | At 18 years of age, I face a serious problem. | entailment |
Latin American gangs routinely kidnap rich foreign executives and demand multimillion-dollar ransoms. | Kidnappings are regurlarly performed by Latin American gangs. | entailment |
Ever since Seymour Hersh's book came out detailing the raw side of Jack Kennedy and the dark side of Camelot, I've been wondering what JFK did in today's context that warrants an eternal flame at Arlington National Cemetery. | JFK was buried in a plot in his family's cemetery. | contradiction |
Officials at the Justice Department and FISA Court deny that the latter is a rubber stamp, attributing Justice's winning percentage to rigorous internal review that weeds out bad applications before they're filed. | Justice Department and FISA Court worked hard to get the result | neutral |
How could an economist of Greenspan's sophistication fumble such important questions in such an unsophisticated manner? | The economist answered every question without problems. | contradiction |
In Gigot's mind, he is the most successful loser in political history--his failed presidential run defined a conservative agenda that was eventually elected in the person of Ronald Reagan. | Gigot was an important voice in conservative politics. | entailment |
Other nation products--its purported AIDS cure, for instance--have undermined their claim that black businesses are less exploitative than white ones. | A black business found a legitimate AIDS cure | contradiction |
There were no pigs in pokes, no when pigs fly, no in a pig's ear, no Pigmeat Markham, no pork salad Annie, no Gadarene swine, no Piggly Wiggly, no E. B. White's Wilbur, no there in the wood the piggy-wig stood. | Pig related idioms did not exist. | entailment |
I am surprised, Richard, that you find Faludi's characterizations of the male crisis to fit the British profile. | The author is interested in Faludi's character | entailment |
We're told of Estella's inner struggle--of the tug of war between the punishing cock-tease that her aunt has engineered her to be and her inherent decency--but the conflict isn't palpable in Paltrow's paltry performance. | Paltrow's performance felt phoned in, unnatural, and entirely unbelievable. | contradiction |
The Hackathlete who polls the greatest total will be declared the winner and will return next year to face three new challengers. | The winning Hackathlete was Michael Specter | neutral |
The New Yorker began offering . Brown did her producing buzz to fuel circulation. | The New Yorker was in dire straits filing bankruptcy ahead of Brown's hiring. | neutral |
Last year we were pretty thrilled to get 3,000-plus responses in a month. | Last years responses were lower than expected. | contradiction |
The computer is currently composing a new Mahler I'm so tired of the 10 symphonies, Cope said. | The 10 symphonies all included violin playing. | neutral |
I asked Czech president Vaclav Havel about this when he came to Washington a few years ago, and he agreed wholeheartedly with my analysis. | Vaclav Havel is from China. | contradiction |
Well, maybe two jokes if you count Heritage USA; is that still for sale? | Heritage USA filed for bankruptcy. | contradiction |
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