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On Saturday, Mainichi Shimbun devoted its main editorial to Britain's new defense cuts, pointing out that Britain expects to save 141 billion yen on its defense bill over the next three years, while Japan's defense expenditure continues to rise. | More then 200 billion yen are expected on Britain's defense bill. | contradiction |
To take only the most extreme Outright bribes do not, as far as we can tell, play a big role in determining federal policies--and who doubts that they would if they were legal? | Bribes play a big role with how policies are done in government. | contradiction |
The economics are easy enough to understand, lacking major stars, these movies are inexpensive to make and draw the ideal teens who are capable of seeing Titanic 17 times. | The movie was costly to produce. | contradiction |
Solid candidates, such as RFK (or HRC), weather the charges. | Some candidates, like RFK, fail to weather the charges | contradiction |
In particular, he has spoken of Salon 's dedication to a mission of exposing important facts. | He made negative remarks about the publication | contradiction |
There was much grumbling in the ranks about this question but, if imperfect, it does rest on a solid theoretical foundation. | A solid theoretical foundation is severely lacking for this question | contradiction |
Who can blame him for lying to the gullible young? | He didn't feel guilty lying to the young people. | neutral |
So World War II is avoided, millions of lives--you know, the right sort of lives--are saved, and history is transformed in ways so utopian, you'd never recognize the present. | The Holocaust is avoided | neutral |
But then I don't know whether you mean that the attraction is physical or that the consummated relationship is physical and sexual. | I completely understand what you are saying about the relationship. | contradiction |
To resume my economist's hat, scarcity confers value, and the realization that one's days are few increases one's appreciation of their value. | There are scarce objects which don't appreciate in value. | neutral |
I noticed this as I was moving the furniture on the second floor back into the bedrooms. | I noticed while moving furniture. | entailment |
A few seconds later, Jackie Kennedy comes on the line. | Jackie Kennedy came a few seconds later. | entailment |
For most American companies today, success depends on selling more of your product next year than you did this year. | A corporation can be successful with zero sales | contradiction |
(Remember, they weren't Time Warner fans prior to the AOL deal.) | The people who disliked Time Warner before the deal with AOL loved them afterwards. | contradiction |
The Presidential Initiative to Increase Seat Belt Use Nation-wide | Some people don't like seat belts | neutral |
Sunday's NYT was more than a little fascinated with the topic of whether or not companies with 20th Century in their names would change with the times. | New York Times wonders if companies that had named 20th century would change them over time. | entailment |
He had been able to get some Chinese-made replacement valves. | The replacemnt valves were sent from Europe. | contradiction |
Bending over backward to show how sensitive they can be, they forget that violence--even if it's just emotional violence--belongs in ordinary dramas, too. | By bending over backward to show how sensitive they could be they failed to produce a good drama. | neutral |
When the American diplomat who supervises the international peace monitors in Kosovo accused Serb police of the massacre, the Yugoslav (i.e. | The American diplomat in Kosovo accused Serb police of the massacre in 1999. | neutral |
But Milosevic, in turn, may have underestimated Clinton's agility. | Milosevic misjudged Clinton. | entailment |
I'd say some News Quiz participants owe some quasi-autonomous but government-regulated agency a letter of apology. | The participants are wrong in their assessment. | neutral |
Richard Romley, the district attorney for Maricopa County ( which includes metropolitan Phoenix), was perhaps the most incisive of those who testified before a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing early this month. | Metropolitan Phoenix is a part of Maricopa County. | entailment |
House Majority Leader Dick Armey, R-Texas, has compared Barr to former Rep. | No one agrees with Dick Armey's comparison | neutral |
Alas, all he writes about, all he thinks about, all he wants to do, is give in to fat. | He wants to give into fat. | entailment |
And what, exactly, is the line between stalking and not stalking, anyway? | Taking pictures qualifies as criminally aggressive pursuit | neutral |
After the Boston Globe and Boston Mayor Tommy Menino raised a ruckus, however, Harvard's communications director admitted that the school had committed a breach of trust, and promised to be more up front in future maneuvers. | The communications director at Harvard insisted the school was innocent of all wrongdoing. | contradiction |
Wait Until Dark (Brooks Atkinson Theatre). | Wait Until Dark had yet to be completed by the time The Brooks Atkinson Theater had already disbanded. | contradiction |
All praise is reserved for the production The staging is infinitely inventive, says New York 's John Simon. | The production is part of a play. | neutral |
The Globe claims that actress Sarah Michelle Gellar--whose thoughts on John Kennedy's passing are dutifully recorded in the Star 's Hollywood Weeps story--threw a lavish, catered birthday party for her dog, Thor, and 20 of his nearest and dearest. | The newspaper has published many stories about the grand parties thrown for Sarah Michelle Gellar's dog. | neutral |
But I have been unable to visualize one think-tank scholar killing another. | It is easy to visualize one think-tank scholar killing another. | contradiction |
As I write, the house is alive with flowers and foliage, and it is starting to snow again. | Greenery is present in the home | entailment |
Ambrose--in the very next sentence! | Ambrose was mentioned for no real reason. | contradiction |
Revealed Clinton family troubles immediately after his pastoral visit. | After his pastoral visit, he spoke of how well the Clinton family was doing. | contradiction |
The little identifying cards psychologist Gordon sets beside each item display an impressive mastery of the manipulative arts. | Gordon is unable to have his way in his sessions with people. | contradiction |
Analysts consider Jiang a clumsy weakling compared with Deng, and are debating whether 1) he will continue Deng's reforms or return to authoritarianism and 2) he can consolidate power or will be outmaneuvered by rivals. | Deng's reforms led to a more democratic form of government. | neutral |
The early scenes evoke elation and dread simultaneously, the later ones just dread; and the last half-hour is unrelieved torture. | The play left you feeling like you wished you hadn't attended. | neutral |
The political culture of nationalism reserved its approval for those who led ruinous campaigns in pursuit of impossible quests, Ajami writes. | The political culture of nationalism disapproves of those who led ruinous campaigns in pursuit of impossible quests, | contradiction |
Forgive the debtors, especially the hopeless cases among the very poorest nations. | Forgiving the debtors, especially the hopeless cases among the very poorest nations, could stimulate the global economy. | neutral |
The final rooms feel like classrooms, with lessons hammered home. | The lessons are homework. | neutral |
In the case of Microsoft, Blumenthal of Connecticut appears to have won the coveted prize, managing to eclipse Iowa Attorney General Tom Miller, who is chairman of the NAAG's antitrust committee, and New York's Vacco, who heads the consumer committee. | Blumenthal is from Connecticut | entailment |
Responding to Bauer's assertion that he had never violated his wedding vows, another reporter cracked, President Clinton said that too. | Bill Clinton had a very drawn out hearing. | entailment |
Well, the big picture looks like Both the number of good jobs and the pay that goes with those jobs are steadily rising. | This benefits the economy as more people get those jobs. | neutral |
So there is no way yet to know for sure who wins and loses. | There will be a big difference in performance between the winner and the loser. | neutral |
A great many of us witness to a faith of grace, not judgment--and do it with grace, not judgment. | Almost all of us witness to a faith of grace, not judgment--and do it with grace, not judgment.. | neutral |
Junger is grimly precise about the mechanics of drowning, says Time 's John Skow. | Junger is knowledgeable about drowning. | entailment |
An article hypes the Hale-Bopp comet, which will be visible for the next month, as the best celestial show in decades. | The Hale-Bopp comet will be visible for at least 30 days. | entailment |
Acclaim for the pulp-fiction writer's 34 th novel. | The author's 34th novel is a best seller. | neutral |
That is the sense in which we are all on the same bus. | They are all on the same situation. | entailment |
Bettelheim believed grandiosely in being a guide, but he had fundamentally humble guidance to that in the end, as in the beginning (one of his favorite phrases), one can hope to grow only by endeavoring to be one's own guide. | Bettelheim believed one is unable to grow by endeavoring to be their own guide. | contradiction |
They want laws that require of teens that they behave like obedient children. | Some people want laws that require teenagers to behave like obedient children. | entailment |
5) The real outrage is that the fight was boring. | The fight was exciting. | contradiction |
All three are correct and earn a point each, though Gigot loses half a point for scoring on a bunt. | Every one of them scored a point. | entailment |
The cookie-cutter profiles note that Kennedy was a mediocre student but had a perfect 6-0 conviction record as a prosecutor. | Kennedy put away more than one thousand people as a prosecutor. | contradiction |
From now on, officials will be reluctant to discuss tricky legal issues with government attorneys, fearing that their conversations will come back to haunt them, and will instead secure private counsel . | Officials find government lawyers to be less trustworthy than other lawyers. | neutral |
George W. is lying either when he professes his faith or when he denies its implications. | When he professes his faith, George W. is actually talking about how much he loves pizza. | contradiction |
It's also possible that experience will lead them to approximate rationality, and they'll reduce their bids. | Experience leads to irrationality. | contradiction |
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. | Your grandchildren are wealthy. | entailment |
Any blood sport can be barbaric, whether it's boxing or wrestling or ultimate fighting. | Ultimate fighting is illegal in 5 countries | neutral |
They have mainstream acceptance and no shock value, and are worn by young career women and old grandmothers alike. | Young career women and old grandmothers are both known to wear a specific object. | entailment |
Team owners bought land and paid for stadium construction--some even built trolley lines to transport fans to the games. | The fans were grateful of the team owners. | neutral |
On the sex front, nonpresidential illicit encounters are all the tabs can muster this month. | The tabs could only muster accusations of financial mismanagement and misappropriation. | contradiction |
But in the long run, it's unavoidable. | One can avoid it in the short run. | neutral |
Outside, the vetting committee at the door kept the great unwashed in their horrible disco regalia from getting past the velvet ropes. | Many people that showed up for the event were dressed in disco clothes. | entailment |
Eleven billion dollars in shareholder value is $11 billion. | $11 billion in shareholder dollars is eleven billion after taxes. | neutral |
It is not overarching moral or political meaning that Didion has suddenly discovered. | Didion just discovered politics and overarching morals | contradiction |
Its lesbian/bisexual (we're never told which) female subject allows shoes to tap wider contexts of a male protagonist wouldn't have had her access to the history of discrimination in the work place; and an infusion of color ( race) might have narrowed the canvas, making the problem seem less pervasive than it is. | Lesbian acts happen | neutral |
He got $3 million for Basic Instinct , then $2. | Basic Instinct was good for his long term career. | contradiction |
One could argue, charitably, that the movie is meant to be prescriptive, that Barker intends for us to regard the ways in which his subjects delude themselves and thereby learn to see through our own self-delusions. | Barker directed the movie. | neutral |
And Jacob said to Rebekah, his mother, 'Behold, Esau my brother is a hairy man, and I am a smooth man, so maybe I should take him to a good stylist who would no doubt be, as so many of them are, gay. | Jacob was smooth while his brother Esau was hairy. | entailment |
Also, the routine random inspections used by U.S. government agencies such as the Occupational Safety and Health Administration and the Environmental Protection Agency are almost exactly like those planned under the CWC, and these have been found constitutional. | Routine random inspections have been found unconstitutional. | contradiction |
Though Wilson was unmarried, dating another woman so soon after his wife's death seemed vaguely scandalous in 1915, especially because, as Starling discreetly put it, Wilson was afraid another woman--a Mrs. Peck, whom the President had known years before--would make trouble if an engagement were announced. | Wilson had never been married. | neutral |
Instead of my trusty old typewriter from my days at the Nashville Tennessean , I did get to write this article on a state-of the-art, ergonometric keyboard. | The author misses their old typewriter. | neutral |
It does not report whether he has sought the services of Catherine Oxenberg. | He tried to get help from Catherine Oxenberg. | neutral |
All three have high per-student expenditures and all three are especially strong in the hard sciences. | The three of them are good at the hard sciences. | entailment |
By contrast, Mundell's writings since the early '70s have been discursive, one might almost say rambling, and often reveal a sort of hankering for the lost certainties of the gold standard. | Mundell has been writing since the early 70's. | entailment |
Hives feature the mathematical genius of honeycombs and precise divisions of labor. | Hives have a specific and detailed structural organization in their division of labor. | entailment |
No wonder, then, that right-wingers think of PBS as liberal and lefties regard it as a corporate/conservative tool. | PBS is actually non-partisan. | neutral |
Just as an aside, Prudie cannot quite understand your wearing the T-shirt bra with its thin padding. | She is wearing a thick padded T-shirt bra. | contradiction |
Bill, our program manager (chief tech guy) answers questions about problems and possibilities in reading SLATE. | Slate is Bill's source material for solutions in tech. | entailment |
The cover story attributes teen-agers' mercurial behavior to underdeveloped brains. | Neuroscientists agree with the story's main points | neutral |
But somehow you expect that from Republicans, whereas you don't expect it from big-name national Democrats, especially Northerners like George Mitchell. | Republicans have certain expectations that Democrats don't have. | entailment |
The Vermont Supreme Court granted gays greater partnership rights. | In Vermont gays wanted more partnership rights. | neutral |
For instance, suppose you are buying a Beanie Baby for your little brother or a discounted airline ticket to Cabo San Lucas. | Airline tickets and Beanie Babies have two separate intentions. | neutral |
The Globe runs what it says is Martin's open letter to Shepherd, in which he pleads with her to open [her] heart and do what's right by repaying him the $4,000 she reportedly owes him. | Shepherd realizes fully admits that she owes the money to Martin. | neutral |
His masterpiece, Fallingwater, has been girded by steel scaffolding to prevent it from crumbling. | Fallingwater is admired by many. | neutral |
By sidestepping obvious cliches (rushing crowds, crashing waves) in an effort to make a sensitive and tasteful show about a trashy subject, says Newsday 's Linda Winer, the production achieves only banality. | It is difficult to make a tasteful show about a trashy subject without the obvious cliches | neutral |
The cover story says pro sports are in trouble. | The most prominent article claims problems ahead for professional sports. | entailment |
Consider Ehrlichman's reference to a certain left-wing Harvard professor, [first name unknown] Pomerantz, or whatever his name is, whose generosity towards the George McGovern campaign raises Nixon's suspicions. | Nixon's suspicions were raised by a certain left-wing Harvard professor's generosity towards the George McGovern campaign. | entailment |
Note 3 : Here's Theroux on | This is Note 3. | entailment |
The Enquirer is probably the only publication in the world to go with this Lucy Mercer hypothesis. | The Enquirer was the only publication who had access to the Lucy Mercer hypothesis. | neutral |
Might they be used for this purpose before meeting their ends if we make their deaths as humane as possible? | Responsibility for their deaths lies with someone else. | contradiction |
As one agent A parolee of mine is OK and is looking for a job. | The parolee was in prison | entailment |
So, by a process known to psychologists as transference, she transferred her feelings, both positive and negative, to you, the second-most-important Bill in the country. | She transferred both her positive and negative feelings to the second-most-important Bill in the country. | entailment |
And according to the WP TV column, the two talk when they're in the exercise yard together--about old-time flicks they've enjoyed on Turner Classic Movies, which they see via the prison's free cable hook-up. | They talk very little when they're in the exercise yard together due to the lack things in common. | contradiction |
(Only He plans a fourth Indiana Jones movie.) | There are plans for a fourth Indiana Jones movie to be filmed in Europe. | neutral |
But reporters don't need artful seducers like Davis to make news. | Reporters are fine using seducers like Davis to make news. | neutral |
And those damn video games. | Some people have a love hate relationship with video games. | neutral |
News ' Web shopping package centers on the America Online-Netscape merger. | The shopping package offered by News' Webb is focused on the merger of America Online and Netscape. | entailment |
Upon his death, the pop artist ascends from the controversial to the canonical. | The pop artist canonized is Michael Jackson | neutral |
3) The study is flawed because it assumes the participants correctly recalled their dietary habits. | The study should have had more clear guidelines and rules for its subjects; maybe include a diet journal to jog their memories. | entailment |
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