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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. | Scarce potential time creates appreciation of potential time's value. | entailment |
Get rid of all guns? | Throw away all guns? | entailment |
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. | When stretching he lowered both his fits towards his feet | contradiction |
Whites still outearn blacks, black unemployment is twice the rate of white unemployment, and 13 percent of black men are disenfranchised because of felony convictions. | There have been attempts to narrow the gap | neutral |
When the nation's overall trade deficit increases, it means that Americans, on average, are spending more than they are earning. | When the trade deficit decreases people are spending more than they can afford to buy. | contradiction |
Denis Diderot has much to say about dress in the theater, and Honore de Balzac wrote an incisive treatise on neckties, among his many essays on elegance. | Balzac wrote essays about ghosts. | contradiction |
In the last debate, Hatch gave a patronizing lecture about how the unseasoned Bush would make a fine vice-presidential choice for him. | The candidate lost the election because he came off condecending. | neutral |
The superficial The even split of many of his assets vindicates her argument and bodes well for corporate wives. | The even split of many of his assets, which vindicates her argument, was expected. | neutral |
He set up a national e-mail tree designed to get people to send their friends in Iowa to Ames as Forbes supporters. | The majority of people who used the e-mail tree lived in Ames, Iowa | neutral |
Judging from their undergraduate careers alone, you might well argue that the examples of Bill Bradley and George W. Bush illustrate a subtler point about affirmative action than mere thumbs-up or thumbs-down. | Bill Bradley and George W. Bush both attended college. | entailment |
Norquist has been spreading the word that Rupert Murdoch, the Standard 's owner, must stop funding the magazine. | Rupert Murdoch plans to stop funding the magazine. | neutral |
And the reason why the rest of us sit in our armchairs and read about these accomplishments is because we wish we'd done something as interesting with our time. | Most people don't do interesting things. | entailment |
I don't see any reason to postpone the vote. | A crisis of epic proportions would have to take place for me to delay the vote. | neutral |
This may not be the best foundation for a durable business empire. | This is the best foundation for a durable business empire. | contradiction |
Thanks to computers, however, investment banks now offer a vast array of financial instruments, and hedging has become much easier. | Investment banks are more profitable now that they offer a vast array of financial instruments that make hedging easier. | neutral |
Prudie must confess that your advice is a tad more constructive than her own. | Prudie is against giving advice. | contradiction |
Modern Japanese, he contends, derives from an archaic form of Korean that took root in Japan but was stamped out in Korea during the first several centuries. | Japanese language has been influenced by Korean language in the past. | entailment |
That is, we're paralyzed by the repeated idea that his election is inevitable. | The idea that his election is inevitable has been repeated by the mainstream media. | neutral |
Yes, we're all suffering from scandal fatigue, but rape? | Scandals are rare. | contradiction |
The Czech expat's second novel written in French causes some reviewers to proclaim his decline. | The Czech expat spoke only French. | contradiction |
Lucinda-- Write a song about Pale Fire and he's yours! | If Lucinda writes a song about Pale Fire, it will kill him. | contradiction |
There isn't really anything on the other side. | There is a small thing on the other side. | neutral |
But you could very well make the opposite argument. | It has always been impossible to make the opposite argument, and that is still true today. | contradiction |
A special place in the Liberal Humanitarian pantheon belongs to New York Times columnist Anthony Lewis. | Anthony Lewis is a New York Times columnist. | entailment |
The reader is led to despise one character because of his bad taste in neckties, but not to hold racism and homophobia against another. | The homophobic character is the hero of the story liked by the reader. | neutral |
The editors Slate is here for the duration. | Slate go bye-bye | contradiction |
It's agreeable to find him grounded in the here and now--the magic is there but below the surface. | He had a solid grip on reality. | entailment |
Reviews of the latest one suggest the answer is yes. | The suggested answer is the opposite of yes. | contradiction |
The University of Chicago has just announced a deal with UNEXT.com, an online education company partly funded by Milken and headed by a Chicago trustee. | The University of Chicago Is interested in adding or expanding online education. | entailment |
we, like you, secretly covet recliners, purrs the card beside a 1952-style Metro Finer Recliner, priced at $990. | We have no desire for recliners | contradiction |
But my point Who's going to hire him? | They wonder who is going to hire him. | entailment |
What Murray likes about the idea is that it would finally discharge society's obligation to members of the underclass. | Murray thinks the idea would increase society's obligation to members of the underclass. | contradiction |
The WP reports that following a year of sensitive negotiations, the German government has finally agreed to spend $110 million to compensate 18,000 Jewish victims of the Nazis who are living in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. | Germany paid out the most to Jewish victims of any affected party after negotiations. | contradiction |
Giuliani is clearly wrong in trying to stop the exhibit, but how many people defending the museum right now would be trying to shut it down if the art was offensive in other, even less acceptable, ways? | Giuliani is offended by the exhibit | entailment |
The tide has turned so much that one might wonder whether Wilson needs to make such a fuss about the unity of knowledge. | Wilson is disagreeable about the topic of knowledge. | entailment |
The market for general-interest weekly magazines has long since dried Look and the Saturday Evening Post are dead. | General-interest weekly magazines like Look and the Saturday Evening Post are alive and well. | contradiction |
And so a comedian's success creates his failure. | A comedian who has escaped failure has succeeded. | contradiction |
As Chatterbox pointed out in his earlier item, movie tickets are fundamentally inexpensive , so you aren't going to lure many more people into seeing, say, Eyes Wide Shut by slashing the already low price of first-run admission. | Eyes Wide Shut was not a very popular movie. | neutral |
Indeed, many small and furry animals tend to be funny and, if you squint, resemble genitalia taken disturbingly out of context and scampering about the place. | A small, furry squirrel scampering around is sometimes mistakenly thought of as something that resembles genitalia. | neutral |
When I checked a couple of years ago, the shelter population had indeed increased, but only by a handful of families. | The shelter population has continued to increase. | neutral |
The brawny Neeson is a calamity as Wilde, says New York's John Simon. | John Simon is from Britain. | contradiction |
Friday, we publish the weekend edition at about 11 a.m. | It was Saturday that we published the weekend edition. | contradiction |
He hasn't much changed America. | America was changed greatly by him. | contradiction |
After its early failure, Hubble now provides vital clues to the universe. | Hubble will learn from its earlier mistakes. | neutral |
And the last thing Bradley can afford is to look like a strategist. | his actions are proof of that. | neutral |
Thus, the putting-in-place of the final piece of Roosevelt's and Truman's grand design for a free world--a piece that they had tried and failed to put in place in their day--would be an accomplishment to be proud of. | Roosevelt and Truman's plan for a free world is a worthy accomplishment in the author's eyes. | entailment |
Many people think Microsoft can easily separate Windows and IE if it wants to, but nobody would claim that Microsoft can single-handedly re-create the culture of Washington. | IE is installed in Windows as bundle for Microsoft's gain. | neutral |
Does W. agree with this sentiment? | W. has said a sentiment. | neutral |
No More Teachers, No More Books ... | People want more teachers and more books. | contradiction |
He doesn't chew tobacco--I had to help him out a bit. | He doesn't have teeth to chew tobacco. | neutral |
(Read for Slate 's take on Jackson's findings.) | Slate refutes Jackson's ideas, which ignores his findings. | contradiction |
As it happens, right now the deal isn't looking as great for Lucasfilm as it originally did. | It is a bad deal | entailment |
I have certainly forgiven Bob Inglis. | I refuse to forgive Bob Inglis. | contradiction |
Equity options themselves aren't the problem--they have legitimate uses--and without the ability to lock in positions that equity options offer, certain folks might not be in the equity market in the first place. | Equity options allow certain people into the equity market. | entailment |
The administration's spin is that demands and conditions are the opposite of negotiation. | The administration stated that the demands and conditions are the same as not negotiating. | entailment |
Walcott's faith, as expressed in The Bounty, is finally a painter's faith, that the poet's job is to write of the light's bounty on familiar things. | Walcott believes that the poet should only write about unfamiliar things. | contradiction |
Dostoyevsky wrote a book called The Idiot about a guy who is unprepossessing and naturally holy. | The Idiot's main character was a smart, witty, prideful man who stood above people. | contradiction |
For instance, as the mobility of capital reduces the power of unions, the chance for including labor rights in the world trade treaty known as GATT--the General Agreement on Trade and Tariffs--grows remote. | Labor right will not be part of the world trade treaty | neutral |
But Robert Pinsky--also poetry editor of | He works for a publishing company | neutral |
American companies have claimed that the launches helped the United States more than China. | American companies have claimed that the launches did not help the US at all | contradiction |
Still, Wolfe's portrait captures an essential truth. | Wolfe's portrait is important to humanity. | neutral |
It is not that I expect anything practical. | Something practical is expected | contradiction |
There is some symmetry in the diagnosis of Clinton, our therapeutic president, as patient in addition to healer. | Clinton was a janitor. | contradiction |
Russian soldiers will shell Grozny to its foundations and fly their flags, but they won't engage in street-to-street It's too bloody. | Street-to-street combat, or urban warfare, was highly unpopular amongst the Russian troops. | neutral |
He is relocating to his home state of Georgia. | By proclaiming Georgia as their primary residence, they are now eligible to run for local elections there. | neutral |
13-year-old I hate the people in our grade--they're all so boring! | The author just transferred from another school | neutral |
Today, we neither have such a group nor the atmosphere for its emergence. | That group just doesn't exist today. | entailment |
Other news from 1) British Prime Minister John Major announced that a new national election will be held May 1. Polls show the opposition Labor Party leading by nearly 2-to-1. | There is a great chance the Labor Party wins this. | neutral |
By abandoning macroeconomics the profession not only leaves the world without guidance it desperately needs | The author feels that macroeconomics is an important part of guiding the world. | entailment |
If we want to change that attitude, Hollywood should not be the main place we look. | Those who want to shift that attitude should look outside of Hollywood. | entailment |
In effect, Nixon's misdeeds () so dwarf Clinton's--even the most severe charges of suborning perjury--that Republicans could wind up bollixed. | Nixon did so many bad things that anything Clinton was accused of is inconsequential. | entailment |
At this point, I imagine that readers have three objections. | It is imagined that the readers don't have any objections. | contradiction |
Equally important--and I admit this sounds kind of cornball--success required the civic spiritedness of pro- and anti-busing parents alike, who saw their way clear to hammering out compromises. | This sounds kind of like an unsophisticated person | entailment |
In the lobby, children waiting for music lessons bend over their homework, mom perched at their shoulder. | Children waited in the lobby. | entailment |
Lucas II (1987, of the painter Lucas Samaras) has a wild-man intensity--part Ezra Pound, part Jerry Garcia--accentuated by Close's one-time experimentation with a radiating circular grid. | Lucas II is hung in an Art Museum. | neutral |
Such self-referential questions can be pointless and irritating, and books that dwell on them generally belong in a category that one friend of mine calls art about art supplies. | The author loves self-referential questions | contradiction |
And so economists have, more and more, simply avoided the subject; and being human, have tended to rationalize that avoidance by asserting that the subject isn't really important anyway. | Economists think the subject is crucial | contradiction |
I don't believe in group thinking--pitting one group of people against another. | Groups can become antagonistic towards another. | neutral |
But laws pertaining to child-rearing are surprisingly marriage-neutral. | Rules encoded into law, do not really mandate marriage in order to rear children. | entailment |
In appointing the bland, seemingly slow-paced Chernomyrdin as his envoy, Boris Yeltsin is probably hoping that Chernomyrdin will somehow pull off a settlement without really seeming to or without raising too many hackles, and that his ultimate success will be Primakov's loss. | Chernomydrin will pull off a settlement without much problems. | neutral |
In this climate popular hostility was trained against powerful private interests and gave new life to anti-Masonry as a political movement. | anti-Masonry was a political movement. | entailment |
One had to separate the relationship, whatever it was, between Monica, et al. | Monica regrets the relationship. | neutral |
Contrary to David Plotz's Assessment, Winnie-the-Pooh is neither American nor British. | Winnie the Pooh isn't from the United States or Britian. | entailment |
Greenberg's survey, for example, asks people who voted for Clinton to pick from a list of possible reasons why they did so. | Greenberg is uninterested in Clinton voters' opinions | contradiction |
The 1) Bush's declaration marks the earliest start ever to a presidential campaign. | Bush's speech announcing his presidential bid could have been the earliest ever. | neutral |
I have never seen a trial before where you had factual disputes where you didn't have witnesses where you could watch their demeanor on the stand, listen to them, judge one witness vs. another witness (DeWine). | A trial had witnesses on the stand | entailment |
His to find out more about Kathleen Willey's allegations of sexual harassment by Clinton. | Kathleen Willey worked in the White House. | neutral |
But aside from a few exceptions, the supply of genuinely offensive language has dwindled almost to nothing as the 20th century comes to an end; the currency of swearing has been inflated to the brink of worthlessness. | It was easy to offend people with swears at the end of the 20th century | contradiction |
It was not always this way. | The way has never changed over time. | contradiction |
Chosen under the auspices of the center's director, historian Peter Gay, the fellows include cultural critic Paul Berman, at work on a literary and political history of the Nicaraguan revolution; technology historian Gregory Dreicer, who will study the architecture of racial segregation; and historian Marion Kaplan, wh... | The Nazi government had a significant impact on the lives of Jews from any of the states in Germany. | neutral |
It will be interesting to see if Nerve can keep it up. | Nerve has already given up. | contradiction |
In recent years, children's entertainment has contained an increasing number of apparently intentional or even obviously intentional gay references. | More intentional gay references are being included in children's entertainment. | entailment |
Rather than distinguish these varieties of consumer experience, Frank stuffs everything into the boxes of square and hip--receptacles that were already full back when the '60s dawned. | Frank is neat and tidy. | contradiction |
Sufficient money and party regulars and money have been assembled to make the primaries and indeed the general election even more than usually irrelevant. | Money and party regulars improve the primaries and general election by avoiding any chance of nullifying the relevance of the events. | contradiction |
As in the case of slavery and the Holocaust, alongside which the famine will be taught, there must be a culprit. | Someone is to blame for the Holocaust | entailment |
People are smart--or, at least, they are smart Darwinian robots . Darwinian theory does posit that homo sapiens were designed to get their genes into the next generation, but not that they were designed to do so consciously and rationally. | Darwinian theory talks about how human genes in mating can produce children with certain traits. | neutral |
U.S. immigration law permits spouses of American citizens to become American citizens with only a few exceptions, such as sham marriages undertaken for the purpose of obtaining citizenship. | Marrying am American citizen is usually a way to also become a citizen. | entailment |
Johnson's naivete is as convincingly natural as her nose, her lips, and her breasts. | One might compare the naturalness of Johnson's naivete to the naturalness of her breasts. | entailment |
But aside from a few exceptions, the supply of genuinely offensive language has dwindled almost to nothing as the 20th century comes to an end; the currency of swearing has been inflated to the brink of worthlessness. | One of the few exceptions that still was offensive is 'bitch' | neutral |
I might even vote for her. | She is running for office. | entailment |
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