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The Amman fiasco could cost both Israel and Mossad.
Amman was a costly failure involving billions of dollars
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Time 's Terry Teachout says the 75-minute work's themes are nondescript, its harmonies blandly predictable, [and] its structure maddeningly repetitious.
Terry Teachout was not a fan of the workout.
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But even these relatively honest conservatives have let all the fat fish wriggle off the hook.
The conservatives wrestle with themselves over honesty.
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The basic premise of this line is that the findings of faith and reason are not at odds--only their methods are.
This line's basic premise is that faith and reason are not at odds.
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Instead, they looked the other way.
They willingly ignored important information
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Continuous improvement, which compels workers to look for ways to make their jobs more efficient, is de rigueur at companies ranging from Polaroid to GM.
Efficiency is highly recommended in major companies to improve performance.
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Nobody ever wanted to emulate this effect
This effect causes worldwide problems
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Of course, this decision raises plenty of questions of its own.
The decision answers all questions and settles the matter fully.
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He did so with surety, using the elbow of his bad arm to steady himself at the threshold, then raising both fists in a stretch.
He was injured in combat, resulting in a bad arm
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If you are worried about that story, it means one of two things.
The story has been worried about.
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Then his pathetic self-loathing might have been exorcised.
His poor self-esteem goes back to his childhood
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the guy over there, in charge, in Taiwan ...
That man is in Taiwan where he is in charge.
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When Chechens raided the Russian territory of Dagestan, and bombs wrecked Moscow apartment buildings, the army seized the opportunity.
bombs wrecked Moscow and Dagestan was raided by Chechens .
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He's got plenty of name recognition.
He is a well known celebrity.
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That leaves Case 1. But if you believe that your neighbor has no right to live well at the expense of your fabulously wealthy grandchildren, you must also believe that your neighbor has no right to live well at the expense of Bill Gates.
This neghborhood is a wealthy neighborhood for all.
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(Russia, for example, consistently undercounts its war dead.)
Russia has never been involved in a war.
contradiction
In that sense, the stock market boom is founded firmly on the steadier achievements to which Kazin refers.
The stock market booms without steady achievements.
contradiction
Ways to ward off Peter Lorre in M .-- Andrea Carla Been in a Coma Since 1932 Michaels
The coma diagnosis was rescinded by the doctors.
contradiction
O'Connor's desire for a baseball-free Good Friday, on the other hand, is surely heartfelt.
O'Connor knows about baseball
entailment
This brings soft money and other much criticized practices under scrutiny.
The only practice that has been criticized in this sector is soft money.
contradiction
In 1982, Ronald Reagan invoked this right to keep EPA documents about toxic-waste disposal from Congress.
Ronald Reagan was the President in 1982.
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Mixed reviews for the Broadway debut of Horton Foote's Pulitzer Prize-winning play.
Horton Foote won a Pulitzer for his play but the reviews were less than you would expect
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That is the sense in which we are all on the same bus.
The author is explaining to people why they should work together.
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Afterward, the doctors compare the results of the placebo surgeries with those of real operations.
Each and every step of a placebo surgery is recorded with the same level of care that a real operation receives.
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Consider the opening to The End of the World, which introduces an angry son who, as the story goes on, will be called to Paris to care for a selfish dying
The son resented having to go to Paris.
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I never spoke to my aunt, and I am not a student of the large literature by and about her.
Their uncle was also a writer and they have not read his work either.
neutral
The fate of love letters written by Diana to her former lover, James Hewitt, and stolen from him by his Italian mistress, who recently tried to sell them to the London Daily Mirror, which instead handed them over to her executors, has preoccupied all the London newspapers for several days.
London newspapers love Royal gossip because it sells.
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An article says his daughter Tina and wife Barbara will squabble over his $200 million estate.
Tina hates Barbara
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For about $50,000, the blind can have a circuit board inserted in their brains that will stimulate the visual cortex and produce grainy black-and-white images out of optical data captured through a tiny camera.
The circuit board can produce pictures for the blind
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The end of the Cold War has freed them to pursue humanitarian The United States now can be the world's policeman, so it should be.
The United States is now the policemen of the world after the end of the Cold War.
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A couple of serious Before removing any components, you must save copies onto a floppy disk.
To avoid data loss, it's best to back up on floppies.
entailment
Time 's Terry Teachout says the 75-minute work's themes are nondescript, its harmonies blandly predictable, [and] its structure maddeningly repetitious.
Terry Teachout recommended the workout to all his friends.
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Microsoft did not demand that Netscape be removed, only that IE be there as well.
Microsoft insisted the IE be there.
entailment
Campaigns do not come much more ruinous than Saddam's 1980 invasion of Iran or his occupation of Kuwait a decade later.
Saddam's main downfall was his occupation of Kuwait.
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In the beginning there was a great tortoisewho supported the world.
The tortoise supported the world for a very long time before it got tired.
neutral
According to Newsweek , Clinton attorney David Kendall is gathering dirt about Lewinsky's mendacity and presidential obsession.
Clinton had a lawyer named David Kendall, whose job was to collect rumors about Lewinsky's inability to be unconcerned with the president.
entailment
(Only He plans a fourth Indiana Jones movie.)
A fourth Indiana Jones movie has already been made.
contradiction
Dr. Arroway (Foster) explains herself to Joss (McConaughey).
Arroway and Joss are acquainted
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Colleagues had called Notra Trulock's allegations against Wen Ho Lee racist and had said there was not a shred of evidence against Lee . Trulock countered that only three of the 12 initial suspects in the case were of Chinese background and called a recent report exonerating the Clinton administration a whitewash.
Colleagues see no evidence against Lee
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It would be shorter once you got the hang of it.
The task will remain cumbersome even with prior experience.
contradiction
And third, in the issue it published the following Monday, Newsweek included the full excerpt--which is where Brill found the out-of-context quote he claims Newsweek ignored.
Newsweek excluded the full excerpt in the issue it published the following Monday
contradiction
We may have lumped several different diseases together in describing the syndrome.
We could have lumped several different diseases together when we described the syndrome.
entailment
I'm not sure how with a pair of e-mail messages I managed to effectively double the price of Chuck Close lithographs.
It took a dozen email messages to double the price of Chuck Close lithographs.
contradiction
Please, do you have an answer for these well-wishers that would not require giving them private and personal information?
Can you answer these well-wishers without giving them private and personal information?
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Mossad, which employs about 1,200 people, now has difficulty competing with private-sector recruiters . Its early agents were well-educated, European-born cosmopolitans who ran the agency like an exclusive club.
1,200 people are employed by Mossad
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Congress, the United Nations, and other international forums.
Congress and the United Nations are two separate groups.
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As far as Pundit Central knows, this is the first instance of talking heads elevating their own comments to the status of newsworthy chat fodder.
It is worthless
contradiction
This is particularly unwise because after weeks of raking Clinton, reporters and pundits are inclined to demonstrate their balance by going after the GOP.
Pundits and reporters coddle Clinton.
contradiction
Map maker, map maker, make up your mind, and make me a perfect map!
Map maker was meant to make maps.
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But when he became impotent, it took his identity away.
His impotency was power related, not sexual in any way.
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But it is not a transitional problem.
The problem is present across all transitions.
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His skepticism and short fuse, which once seemed so radical, are taught at the Actors Studio.
The Actors Studio teaches skepticism.
entailment
So, how did Caltech come out on top?
Caltech's various liberal arts schools are failing and have destroyed its ability to perform.
contradiction
Among the black agents courting rookies are Puffy Combs, Master P, and Johnnie Cochran.
Black agents are offering rookies.amazing deals.
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Editorialists conducted the usual food-scare calming the public and explaining that risk can never be eliminated, while decrying ad hoc government responses and demanding stricter laws.
Recalls for unsafe food are standard practice.
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When pollsters talk about a representative sample they mean a sampling that accurately reflects the population at large.
Representative samples change quickly.
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My mother, who is a charming woman in almost all other respects, appears to have a grave problem staying employed.
My mother is younger than me.
contradiction
Buy utilities, bottom feed on mutual funds that invested in the Southeast Asian markets and got slammed, try real estate investment funds, and seek stability in U.S. bonds.
Real estate is a safe investment.
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Its language pointedly avoids accusing him of perjury or obstruction of justice.
He was not accused of perjury or obstruction of justice.
entailment
Tanenhaus elevates Chambers to the pantheon of great American postwar intellectuals and declares Alger Hiss a Soviet spy, and no critics object.
It is claimed Alger Hiss is a Soviet spy.
entailment
Demonstrations on television never look right.
The media were universally banned from television the demonstrations.
contradiction
The Dow Jones industrial average topped 7,000 . Financial reporters, while proclaiming once again that the optimists have been vindicated, are having more and more trouble finding anyone on Wall Street who was this optimistic.
The Dow Jones industrial average dropped to 1,000.
contradiction
Check out our newest feature, Ask Bill Barnes.
Most people in the world have talked to Bill Barnes at some point or another.
contradiction
During World War I, as he conveyed vegetables to the troops quartered nearby and refused to leave Giverny as the German line advanced, Monet's panels took on some of the dark mood of war.
Monet observed what was happening in Germany during WWI.
entailment
Time 's cover story celebrates Hip-Hop Nation and chronicles the genre's 20 year rise.
Hip-Hop has been around for 50 years.
contradiction
The daughter's boyfriend, Dominic, is a cynic who lives only for himself.
Dominic has a girlfriend
entailment
Paul agrees that such a rise in national savings might have some tendency to depress the economy, along lines of Keynes' multiplier model.
Keynes' model was in agreement with Paul that a rise in savings tends to depress the economy.
entailment
The Amman fiasco could cost both Israel and Mossad.
Amman was a costly failure
entailment
Reporters aren't interested in the clash of ideas.
The reporters love clash of ideas and frequently showcase them.
contradiction
Listen, for instance, to the 33 minute Circle in the Round, in which Hancock plays celesta and the band is joined by guitarist Beck, and imagine it being played on FM radio.
In the 33 minute Circle in the Round, Hancock plays guitar and the band is joined by the celesta playing Beck.
contradiction
(To read Krugman's defense of the World Trade Organization in
Krugman defends the World Trade Organization.
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Second, Finkelstein echoes conventional historical thinking when he says Nazism's main appeal lay in Hitler's promises to restore order in post-Weimar Germany, end unemployment, and make the country an international power.
Hitler had a plan to end unemployment.
neutral
I went to high school with Fred Fournier, and believe me there's nothing to admire.
Fred Fournier is a great man who deserves great respect and has received numerous accolades.
contradiction
He wanted a sound bite--something pithy to take out of context.
The sound bite was created word for word so that it was accurate.
contradiction
And Stewart Brand's II Cybernetic Frontiers (1974), which recounts how this generation of computer kids designed computer games based on science fiction and used the Internet to fashion a universe of their own.
Cybernetic Frontiers was released in 1974
entailment
Murder episodes are almost always one hour in length.
Murder shows seldom are longer than an hour.
entailment
In Rome, La Repubblica reported from New York on the ambivalence of President Clinton's attitude toward Hollywood, pointing out that a few hours after accusing it of promoting violence and having direct responsibility for massacres in American schools, he had gone to dinner in Beverly Hills with film industry friends w...
President Clinton went to dinner in at an upscale restaurant in California.
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The leading example of such an auction is the stock market.
The stock market is the primary example of an auction.
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Besides denying reproductive freedom to women, such efforts would increase the number of children born and reared in impoverished single-parent families.
Denying a woman the right to choose increases the family's chances for succcess.
contradiction
The 1960 World Book says that means Missouri supports itself and the United States, although it looks more like a poster for animal boxing, which might be the state sport of Missouri.
Missouri has a state sport that involves animals.
entailment
Later this month, Behind the Legend , a new warts-and-all (and-more-warts) biography, will hit bookstores.
Behind the Legend is a wonderful piece of fantasy fiction that hits bookstores in about a year.
contradiction
But still Wendy Wasserstein eludes us.
Wendy Wasserstein got away and never caught
neutral
Some weeks before, Nash had declined a University of Chicago offer of an endowed chair on the grounds that he was scheduled to become the emperor of Antarctica.
Nash is delusional.
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That would cause a sensation, Mr. Saatchi!
The speaker felt that it will be a blockbuster of a failure.
contradiction
The cover story on Trent Lott doubts that he can control the Republican Senate.
Trent Lott supports tax cuts
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The girls who believe the scarves mean freedom may in fact be blinded by them.
The scarves are worn by girls.
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Soon, Starling was conscripted into following the couple on their walks through Washington's Rock Creek Park (for more details, click ) and fending off reporters.
Starling was hired to welcome reporters and invite them to interviews.
contradiction
Demonstrations this winter against Tudjman quickly dissipated (at the time, he was being treated in the United States for cancer--he may not live much longer).
Tudjman was being treated for cancer in Germany.
contradiction
Next, the students pour samples from a variety of white wines.
The students poured drinks from a number of white wines into sample cups smaller than the larger wine containers.
entailment
It's as though the book was not edited at all.
It appeared as if the volume hadn't been edited.
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Unfortunately, the Supreme Court had never ruled that the First Amendment could be used in this way.
There are limits on the First Amendment.
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An unmarried dependent student qualifies before age 23, as does any adult child who acquired a physical or mental disability before age 21;
An adult who aquired a disability before the age of 21 is qualified.
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Bill Bradley does not talk about his religous faith on the campaign trail.
Bill Bradley is not supported by many religious voters.
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The rest of the new UPN lineup--debuting a month before other networks' fall programs--consists mostly of sitcoms that are generally condemned for mindlessness and tastelessness.
UPN knows the sitcoms in its new lineup are insipid and bland
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To be sure, the Army's program insists, though more vaguely than people admit, that affirmative-action beneficiaries must meet the same minimum qualifications as their white counterparts.
The Army is completely white
contradiction
But laws pertaining to child-rearing are surprisingly marriage-neutral.
No Child rearing laws contain the words marriage, in regard to their parents.
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Then Lehman hit into the rough by the 16 th green and lost a stroke.
Lehman gained a stroke when he hit into the rough.
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He'd probably pick it up in his fillings.
They are talking about food.
neutral
To aid the larger lexicographical enterprise, I'm interested in collecting samples of references to yadda yadda yadda (or similarly imitative terms) in any communications media other than paper.
Yadda Yadda was first found in communications media outside paper.
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There are people who are not members of the Libertarian Party but who are open-minded about it and willing to listen, even though you may not be able to convert them.
There are zero members of the two main political parties who NOT open-minded.
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