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Washington can't erase jurisdictional frontiers, but it can encourage metropolitan government via tax incentives and cheerleading. | Jurisdictional frontiers are able to be expunged by Washington. | contradiction |
Once again, a plea to Susan and Sylvester. | Susan and Sylvester plead. | neutral |
Wandered all over the room and blew on some other guy's dice. | I blew on some guy's dice. | entailment |
Friends of mine, especially women, found sitting through the film akin to being smeared with excrement. | My female friends loved the film. | contradiction |
John points out that by 1828, only 36 years after Congress passed the Post Office Act of 1792, the American postal system had almost twice as many offices as the postal system in Great Britain and over five times as many offices as the postal system in France. | In 1828 the American postal system had almost twice as many offices as the postal system in Great Britain. | entailment |
Second, economic theory predicts that some incentives matter more than others, and the data confirm the Executions prevent murders, but convictions prevent even more murders. | Convictions prevent more murders than executions. | entailment |
Audiences literally boo avant-garde director Robert Wilson for his minimalist staging of Richard Wagner's classic opera, and most critics agree with the verdict. | The audience loved the minimalist staging used by director Robert Wilson. | contradiction |
Farrow is humorless and steeped in a bottomless melancholy. | Believed to be the worst to date, the performance by Farrow has been roundly criticized. | neutral |
The only figure to emerge untainted is Hillary Clinton, whose approval rating is 33 percentage points higher than it was before the scandal. | Hillary got the best of both worlds, emerging whole from the scandal while gaining sympathy and support from the public. | entailment |
Will her job description be done by then? | She is employed. | entailment |
Chernow attributes this attitude to Rockefeller's uncommon respect for the dollar. | Rockefeller's respect for the dollar was very common at that time | contradiction |
As long as there are still U.S. workers paying payroll taxes (and if there aren't, we'll have many far bigger problems), these can cover at least partial benefits. | The partial benefits will cease if the American workers continue paying the payroll taxes. | contradiction |
Russia continues to bomb Chechnya. | Russia started the conflict. | neutral |
The Network Vehicle designers left car phones off the list, I guess, because they assume that car phones are practically standard equipment today. | Car phones are used by many people who drive cars. | entailment |
Raves for this London import, directed by Howard Davies and starring Kevin Spacey. | Howard Davies has directed many hit films. | neutral |
Under the immigration bill, Clinton directed the Immigration and Naturalization Service to deport asylum seekers without giving them any opportunity to appear before a tribunal. | INS was directed to accept asylum seekers by Clinton under the immigration bill | contradiction |
I think your first instinct, that children should address adults in the manner in which the adults ask to be addressed, is absolutely dead on. | Children should call adults whatever they want. | contradiction |
America in the 1950s was a middle-class society in a way that America in the 1990s is not. | America in the 1990s was different from the 1950s. | entailment |
An interview with Unabomber Ted Kaczynski finds him good-humored and sincere. | The Unabomber was liked by the interviewer. | neutral |
And no one will be nicer. | Being nice can leave one exposed. | neutral |
The Indonesian movement was a rather spontaneous resistance led by ordinary students, workers, the unemployed, and the lower-middle classes. | The Indonesian movement had issues getting off the ground and attracting attention. | contradiction |
Appealing as that position might sound, it's also suspiciously incoherent. | The position is appealing when some aspects are ignored. | neutral |
It sparked a vigorous debate about morality, introduced role models who defied stereotypes (powerful attorneys in wheelchairs, patrician female lawmakers), and demonstrated that the political process is sturdy and forgiving. | Individuals who broke the mold and rose above stereotypes, which are generally broad assumptions about a group, participated in a debate about morality. | entailment |
Buying a new tie would be fun, not an obsessive, central, tail-wagging-the-dog-of-life activity. | Shopping in general is a fun activity. | neutral |
Gloria Steinem announced that in the new incarnation of Ms. , fat is no longer a feminist issue. | Gloria Stiennem believes that the new incarnation is no longer a feminist issue. | entailment |
At bequest time, the strategic gift motive would evaporate, and the favored child would be favored no longer. | Planning is not important when planning to distribute property after a death | contradiction |
No matter how fast we all run, someone must be behind. | There is more than one person running | neutral |
DeParle also notes that her husband, Donald, recently found a job, as a hotel maintenance man. | DeParle and her husband Donald were both hired on as hard-working bellhops whose primary role was to transport visitors' luggage to and from their rooms. | contradiction |
If partial-birth abortion is too gruesome to allow, however, it is hard to see how other late abortions, especially D and Es, are any different. | partial-birth abortions are too unpleasant to be allowed | entailment |
The White House says there's no such system. | The source of the quote was Kayleigh McEnany | neutral |
They wouldn't do it with just any woman. | this woman was perfect | neutral |
Ohio Democrats want Jerry Springer to run for Congress. | Springer is not popular. | contradiction |
Last week Israel also ordered the PA to arrest one of its high-ranking police officers for planning an attack on a Jewish settlement. | The high ranking police officer was saving the Jewish settlement. | contradiction |
A sidebar speculates that Slobodan Milosevic is probably hoarding chemical weapons, including nerve gas, blister agents, choking compounds, and hallucinogens. | Slobodan Milosevic is likely stockpiling chemical weapons | entailment |
The West prevailed because it was rich, rather than because it was good. | The West became rich via gold and silver | neutral |
She is also enjoying the imprimatur of the law. | She enjoys the law giving her the ok. | entailment |
Last week we purged our delivery lists of people who hadn't subscribed. | People who hadn't subscribed are still on the delivery lists | contradiction |
An even older source reminds me of an investment for old age at which Cicero only hints. | Cicero seems to hint at a possible investment for old age. | entailment |
Not all falsehoods, of course, are lies (the key ingredient in a lie is intentionality). | Telling a lie might be done unitentionally. | contradiction |
One of the few remaining ways to obtain a coveted downward departure--a sentence below the official range--is through cooperation with the government . In Lewinsky's case, lawyer Ginsburg, rather than turning state's evidence after indictment, is asking for immunity--a guarantee that his client will never face charges ... | Lewinsky's attorney is recommending she turn states evidence | contradiction |
Should we reward him for prosperity? | Her is prosperous | entailment |
And even with clean practices and technologies like steaming of meat (which hasn't been tested nearly as much), some food would still be contaminated. | A lot of food will always be contaminated, no matter what measures are taken. | neutral |
The governor claimed his wife low-balled only because she was embarrassed to confess to him how much she'd blown on clothes and jewelry. | His wife low-balled the governor because she was embarrassed. | entailment |
You say that it's not important who asked the question. | You have said that identifying the inquirer would not be a good use of our time. | entailment |
(It is this same vision that Kaplan so admires.) | Kaplan believes that this same vision is fatally flawed | contradiction |
The court upheld a trial judge's decision to 1) reduce Woodward's conviction from murder to manslaughter in the death of an 8-month-old baby and 2) reduce her prison sentence from 15 years to the 279 days she had already served. | The court decided to reduce her prison time and charges. | entailment |
And a lot of Americans, when they are first introduced to you ... | the author is refering to Europeans. | contradiction |
The recent clamor in the press and among some politicians to allow patients to sue insurers for medical malpractice makes it sound as if we are going in the wrong direction here, too. | The press is instigating arguments with politicians regarding allowing patients to sue insurers for medical malpractice. | neutral |
Never mind that according to Time , he privately told several financial backers in January, I love my wife. | The man told others that he loves his wife for policitcal reasons. | neutral |
Now think what would happen if Microsoft had a monopoly in the browser market. | They want you to imagine what would happen if Microsoft had a monopoly in the browser market. | entailment |
As one less-than-prescient ad exec put it in 1991 while labeling Intel's advertising efforts awfully stupid: Most people that buy computers don't even know that that chip is in there. | An Intel Ad exec believes most users don't know that an Intel chip is being used. | entailment |
As geologist Nathan Winslow puts it in a gently skeptical review on self-organized criticality, A theory can, once in the pop science regime, acquire a level of acceptance and momentum that may or may not be warranted by its actual scientific credibility. | Nathan Winslow is a young child who only believes in fairy tales and illegitimate ideas. | contradiction |
Indeed, Banks has written a useful survey of African-American scholars and writers and the ways in which they have worked throughout the history of the republic. | The survey was authored by a person named Banks. | entailment |
We hate to sound like Girl Scouts, but you really must accept cookies if you're going to subscribe to | Because you have to accept cookies when you subscribe, they sound like Girl Scouts. | entailment |
Even Graham's earliest confessions of incompetence are refuted by her father's transparent scheme to groom her for some top slot at the Post . After she graduates from the University of Chicago, he arranges a job for her as a reporter at the San Francisco News , and afterward hires her as a Post editorial writer. | Her father was instrumental in helping her get an executive editor position at The Post. | neutral |
Nonetheless, Ehrlich's book was treated to a 21 st anniversary reprinting in 1997. | Ehrlich's book was originally released 21 years prior to 1997 | entailment |
This is odd because it collapses the distinction between willingness to pay and ability to pay. | this says they definitely can pay. | contradiction |
Newsweek 's cover story hails the success of the Hubble Space Telescope. | The Hubble Space Telescope is in the news. | entailment |
And what exactly is the scandal about Wolf that Gore is covering up? | Wolf that Gore have a history of covering up scandals | neutral |
Yes, the American people have a right to be skeptical. | Americans should trust everyone and everything one hundred percent. | contradiction |
Encryption is OK because its authority is created in my very own machine. | Because the authorization keys for the encryption method are generated from my own machine, it lacks any security and is tantamount to not encrypting my data at all. | contradiction |
Similarly, the early United States may have been not so much a country with a post office, as a post office that gave popular reality to a fledgling nation. | The citizens of America complained which lead to first mailing system in the country. | neutral |
Exempted from Novak's observation might be executives at Reebok, who last year professed to have been unaware of connotations associated with the name they gave to a new women's running Incubus. | Reebok gave a questionable name to a running shoe for women | entailment |
That goddamned hamster dance. | There isn't a dance named after a hamster. | contradiction |
on going to the cinema, you would be seeing American films sold for foreign consumption, Molotov argued. | Molotov made an argument. | entailment |
To protect your privacy, ask your bank to restrict access to your records and beg your member of Congress for legislative protections. | Put your foot down and insist that your institutions keep your business private. | entailment |
One deterrent to food-stamp use, remember, is the Checkout-Line Factor--people tend to look at you funny when you whip out your food-stamp card to buy your groceries. | The embarassment felt at the checkout line by users of food stamps can be aliviated in many different ways. | neutral |
I would encourage a reinterpretation of the exclusionary principle to keep criminals in jail where they belong, but only if the cops and prosecutors are severely punished for their crimes as well. | Prosecutors are not bound by the exclusionary principle. | contradiction |
But if the answer is no--if we have no obligations to those imprisoned souls--then it seems there can be no moral objection to our trashing Earth, to the point where there will be no future generations. | There can be no moral objection to our trashing the whole Solar System if we have no obligations to those imprisoned souls | neutral |
Somehow I doubt that Bill Gates thinks of Dell as parasitic because its computers run only on Windows. | Though he might think that Toshiba is. | neutral |
Success in Ireland just proves that the World's Only Superpower must intervene more frequently, say Kristol, Steve Roberts, and George Will ( This Week ). A few pundits stress potential pitfalls along the road to peace. | Steve Roberts, and George Will have been around for a long time. | neutral |
will probably experience a series of terrible events--wrenching calamities that are economic or social or environmental in nature seems well within the realm of plausibility. | We have no control over the terrible events that take place. | neutral |
The publication turns to science to assess the truthfulness of Clinton's denials of the romance. | Clinton never denied the romance. | contradiction |
Nor is it the result of the benign policies of national governments, which are as callous and corrupt as ever. | The ruling bodies of countries are not pure. | entailment |
On the radio, they are still talking about the Brooklyn Museum's controversial art exhibit. | They have been talking about the Brooklyn Museum's controversial art exhibit on the radio for months now. | neutral |
I'm assuming they never think of me in this context because to them I was the other half of a couple with Rob, and it would somehow be disloyal on their part to introduce me to other men. | The author is no longer in a relationship with Rob. | entailment |
[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. | Despite everything the cities will still be around. | entailment |
A reporter from a major publication cornered me recently, and Nathan, I only have a couple of minutes. | The reporter wanted to speak off the record | neutral |
Greider wants to change the tax incentives and subsidies for private enterprise by rewarding firms that fostered greater employment and penalizing those that did the opposite. | Greider wants businesses to decrease employment. | contradiction |
I can only hope that these low critical standards extend to my own work. | I work regularly. | entailment |
But then I'd be swept up in the sinuous motion of his filmmaking, in the elation of watching point of view passed like a baton from hand to hand, in the liberating force of his language and soundtrack. | I feel constrained by the language and soundtrack used in his films. | contradiction |
4 billion is spent on medication and doctor visits . There is plenty of room for growth--only an estimated 12 percent of hay fever sufferers seek medical treatment. | Treatment for seasonal allergies is expensive. | neutral |
And a lot of Americans, when they are first introduced to you ... | The citizens of the US are waiting in anticipation. | neutral |
Would that suddenly make you less of a person, less of an individual? | Would that mean you were less humane? | entailment |
If you can find a way to deal with and improve their relationship, what she calls him will become a moot point. | Thus, you shall pull asunder the bonds of them, making what she says and calls unto him verily, null. | contradiction |
Bush has several decisive advantages on this question. | The Bush being referred to is George W Bush | neutral |
Sure, there may be life on other planets--if you call that life. | Earth is the only planet with life. | neutral |
As surrogate mothers have proved, knowing that you've given no genes to an infant needn't stop the bonding process. | It is impossible to love a child that does not share you genetics | contradiction |
The distinction blurs a bit in Fantastic Voyage, the movie where Raquel Welch was part of a medical team shrunk to microscopic size and injected into the body of some guy with a brain tumor. | Raquel Welch was not one of the actresses in the Fantastic Voyage movie. | contradiction |
I think he perceives our friendship as being stronger than it is. | They are friends. | entailment |
When Time asks if Jiang should make a gesture on human rights to ease relations with America, Jiang I would like to know what you refer to specifically as a gesture. | It's as clear as a bell, Jiang has made many concrete measures, making his country a leader on Human Rights. | contradiction |
Having endlessly debated the staying power of his '60s comic-strip sendups, most critics now conclude his art will last. | No one appreciated his art. | contradiction |
Songs like their biggest hit, , are sense-less but skillful pastiches of classic Beatles moments. | The pastiches of the Beatles are haphazard. | contradiction |
good after-school programs, lots of computers, smaller classes, and higher standards for teachers. | Smaller classes, and higher standards for teachers were mentioned. | entailment |
( Slate published a piece co-authored by Glass last year. | Slate's animosity toward Glass has prevented them from working together for years. | contradiction |
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. | Americans are from Mars. | contradiction |
The OPEN sign is not pretty, but it provides the information you need. | The business used a sign to announce it was open. | entailment |
Politicians get away with advertising bogus family bliss | Politicians present images of artificially happy families to win. | entailment |
It would also help our thinking if we could avoid the sex and violence mantra. | Sex and violence is a trigger | neutral |
Give Microsoft a monopoly on browsers, and you'll intensify the downward pressure on the price of its operating systems. | The browser owned by Microsoft has little impact on the pricing. | contradiction |
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