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And being read, ultimately, is the name of the game. | The goal is to be read | entailment |
The decline in the won, by making imports more expensive and exports more competitive, would help bring about the decline in the current-account deficit, or the generation of a surplus. | The company is prospering and has a vast profit margin in their current accounts. | contradiction |
Why, if Isikoff's so bad? | Isikoff is a respected journalist. | neutral |
A story reports on haggling over ownership of the Zapruder film of JFK's assassination. | There is a disagreement about who owns the rights to the Zapruder film. | entailment |
You can have a park in your backyard (as I do) and still make it to work in 15 minutes (if you keep a sharp eye out for the potholes). | If your backyard has a park you will be unable to make it to work in 15 minutes. | contradiction |
The tensions between, say, competition and compassion, or efficiency and equity, which blighted politics for so long, are sterile quarrels of yesteryear. | Tension exists between competition and compassion. | entailment |
The RPH who must legislate or govern (Gingrich, Kasich, Bush) is quieter about his principles--probably because he actually has to live by them. | There is an expectation that an individual abides by the principles they put forth. | entailment |
And being read, ultimately, is the name of the game. | We should strive to be read | neutral |
Being loyal Republicans, Lamar's contributors talk about such happenings only obliquely. | Lamar hangs around one type of political party. | entailment |
Christopher is precisely the sort of mobster who turns government witness at the thought of real jail time. | Witnesses fail to turn when Christopher gets involved. | contradiction |
Since communism closed shop in Russia, all the volunteers have disappeared. | Russie still practices communism. | contradiction |
Some of my friends in the financial industry think that hedge funds were not just a , but the source of instability in the late crisis. | Some in the financial industry implicate hedge funds in the financial crisis. | entailment |
If a politician were to say today that he opposes abortion except when yadda yadda yadda , we would all know what he means, and we would know what was meant if, after an arrest, a police officer pulled out a card and just said yadda yadda | Both politicians and police officers usually believe the opposite of whatever they say. | neutral |
I think I can read your story between the lines. | The story was written with hidden meanings. | neutral |
They think the big boys knew the risks but believed that if LTCM came to grief its creditors would be protected from loss by the government. | The big boys thought that the creditors would be protected by the government. | entailment |
(Watch previews and join The Odyssey chat on NBC's site.) | The Odyssey chat is on NBC's site. | entailment |
In a delicious turn, Christopher Plummer makes the co-anchor less a journalist than a pompous prima donna, but he also gives him a bullying force and real charisma. | Christopher Plummer is very typical and laid back. | contradiction |
The trade organization was created in 1995 as the third leg of the world financial order, along with the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. | The trade organization has influence on global finances. | entailment |
Does this mean that unpopular individual rights are in peril? | Some individual rights that are less popular than in the past may be in danger now. | entailment |
Truly, I believe the country is in the best of hands, but how do I rid myself of these impure thoughts? | I am happy with my thoughts | contradiction |
Their last words are, Honest, I wish I could persuade you that I neither love nor hate technology. | The person was an avid fan of tech. | contradiction |
The affinity between pigeons and tourists makes sense. | Most tourists enjoy seeing pigeons. | neutral |
There followed the epoch of leg warmers and other mutations into the aerobics class look. | Leg warmers remain popular among those in states where winter is apparent. | neutral |
80 HK for a super-value meal and $6 HK for each Snoopy toy McDonald's sells. | Mcdonalds exclusively sells only meals without a toy. | contradiction |
Circulation has barely risen since World War II, and it's been falling for five years. | Circulation in WWII was at its peak. | neutral |
Of course they have delighted voters by goosing popular social programs with extra millions. | Voters enjoy the extra funding that popular social programs get. | entailment |
The product itself won't be in stores until summer, so it's way too early to know how the shaving public will respond. | The product should hit stores by the summer months of June, July, and August. | entailment |
They love the Backstreet Boys, Dawson's Creek , and wrestler Steve Austin, and their superficial sophistication hides insecurity. | They are teenagers | neutral |
Candidates for citizenship must 1) be 18 or older; 2) have resided in the United States continuously for five years--or three years if married to a U.S. citizen--(short absences are OK); 3) demonstrate the ability to speak English, and a basic knowledge of American history and government (click here to see if you pass ... | Applicants should have lived in the United states at least 3 years to be granted citizenship. | entailment |
A package of stories in Newsweek examines India 50 years after independence. | India is a dependent nation. | contradiction |
Time 's cover story celebrates Hip-Hop Nation and chronicles the genre's 20 year rise. | There is an article in Time about the history of Hip-Hop. | entailment |
Some medical ethicists and constitutional scholars say that the Supreme Court was wrong to create the pre-viability/post-viability distinction in the first place. | The Supreme Court is infallible. | contradiction |
They don't understand that they've lost that fight and that Bush is willing to repudiate the fight and everyone in it--including them--in order to ruin Gore's strategy and beat him. | Gore is not competing against Bush | contradiction |
Martha's Web readers are younger and richer than her magazine subscribers. | Martha answers more questions from her web readers. | neutral |
Twenty-five years ago, Pennsylvania pinball machines displayed this for entertainment purposes only. | Pinball machines were banned in Pennsylvania 25 yrs ago | contradiction |
To be sure, KYC would have encroached on financial privacy just as sensitivities about the Internet and other new technologies have increased demands for privacy. | KYC encroached on privacies | entailment |
A number of Korean businesses went bankrupt, either because of dishonest practices or because the possible Korean share of world markets for some products, like automobiles, had been overestimated. | The Korean share of the automobile market is larger than initially thought | contradiction |
There is an increased sense of desperation in China about Taiwan. | Prior to last year, China felt Taiwan was a better friend to them than later on. | neutral |
In this situation, Johnson's impeachment looms as the operative a case of men who despised and battled their president--perhaps with good reason--but whose zeal in pursuing flimsy impeachment charges turned the judgment of history against them. | Pursuing flimsy impeachment charges turned the judgment of history in their favor | contradiction |
The Turkish newspaper Hurriyet in effect charged construction authorities with , and international papers roundly condemned their shoddy building standards. | Turkey is Known for high building standards. | contradiction |
60-per-minute Belgacom charge, and make it cheaper to call Antwerp--just 40 miles away--via California than directly. | Belgacom charges 60 per minute for the call. | entailment |
Anything to keep from turning into one of those people. | They want to transform into one of those people | contradiction |
The only standard by which news organizations feel comfortable evaluating a policy is success or failure, not right or wrong. | News organizations assess policies | entailment |
I bought two large tubes after your super review. | the review went unnoticed | contradiction |
You can't teach common bonds of history to teens while the school and the community stress athletics as the most honored achievement. | Sports are at the bottom of the barrel in communities. | contradiction |
Winesburg, Ohio, like cyberspace, was a perfectly efficient information market. | People were surprised when the information market at Winesburg, OH wasn't inefficient. | neutral |
The last national gambling commission was in the mid-1970s. | The National Gambling Commission has not been around for awhile. | entailment |
And the editor heard Jacob's plea. | The editor ignores Jacob words. | contradiction |
Morris is more of an idiot savant. | He was practically brain-dead. | contradiction |
When she was editor of British Vogue , Wintour commuted between London and New York--on the Concorde. | Wintour used the Concorde as her commuter train. | entailment |
But the solution is not to give up on special prosecutors. | Don’t give up | entailment |
Behind these explanations lies a coldly realistic assessment of America's If our soldiers are killed, the public will turn against the war; and if the public turns against the war, Clinton will have to withdraw our forces. | There are more than 100,000 troops deployed | neutral |
Gloria Steinem announced that in the new incarnation of Ms. , fat is no longer a feminist issue. | Ms fat has been brought up in numerous debates. | neutral |
Graves hid out in the deep woods. | The graves are not hidden at all. | contradiction |
The split seemed to come in 1969, when Julian Bond was elected to the Georgia state Legislature and became the darling of the American left's radical chic set. | Julian Bond lost the election. | contradiction |
I liked Michael Kinsley's article . Here's a political glossary that might be helpful in interpreting future lies. | You could possibly find it helpful to interpret future lies with this political glossary. | entailment |
He would take notes on his yellow pad and sum up the sense of our meetings in an orderly manner, as he had always done. | He liked to write on a yellow pad. | entailment |
The point of the rape charge is that it's different. | The charge is for first degree rape | neutral |
I will involve them in after-school programs, maternity group homes, prison fellowships, and drug treatment programs. | I plan to involve them in incarceration facility fellowships because I believe they have good souls | neutral |
Upstairs are a couple of rooms of Socialist Realism, with ubiquitous Maos--first, youthfully slender in front of a traditionally rendered mountain, then putting on weight just like those Buddhas. | Maos is not happy with his weight | neutral |
The American left has gone international to win a phony treaty that curbs greenhouse gases, Kristol alleged, because they can't accomplish their goal domestically. | Kriston believes that the American left has achieved their domestic goals aroung the curbing of greenhouse gases. | contradiction |
Cagney's charisma launched what looks, decades later, like the most enduring film style of all. | Few movie stars today veer far from the style invented by Cagney. | neutral |
Besides, to indulge specific grievances once they've become terrorist causes is to encourage terrorism. | The author has stuidied terrorrism before. | neutral |
(Just ask New Kids on the Block. | You should ask New Kids on the Block. | entailment |
It is certainly not because he failed to get most of his policy proposals adopted. | He got all his policies passed. | contradiction |
When some of his Giants players had drug problems, Parcells spent a week at a rehab center, scouting if it was good enough for his men. | Parcells went to the same rehab center as his players. | neutral |
Second, the Newsweek online story stated that the tapes offer no clear evidence to support or undermine Tripp's allegations. | Newsweek houses stories on the internet. | entailment |
Who is the chairman of the Microsoft Corp.? | One is asking who the chairman of Microsoft is. | entailment |
Regarding Onward, Christian Clothiers: I often wonder if the peddlers of religious schlock have actually read any Scripture beyond the gory here's hell in your face passages. | Onward has only read Scripture that refers to hell. | neutral |
So when you hear all this business about cuts, let me caution you that that is not what is going on. | Cuts will be made in the distant future. | neutral |
Furthermore she wrote, scathingly, about class, and Americans have never liked to hear about class. | People from the United States are bothered by the implications made during the discussion of class. | neutral |
The USAT lead states that leaks indicate that in his deposition last Saturday, Clinton was asked detailed questions about his sexual history with at least four women, including one woman escorted by a state trooper to a rendezvous just days before he became president. | Clinton had a deposition last Saturday. | entailment |
Or maybe only 30 are true, in which case three should be confirmed overwhelmingly. | it is possible more than 3 could be confirmed | neutral |
Well, did her tune ever change. | Her tune changed to be much more agreeable | neutral |
Nero was emperor until 70 A.D. | Nero was a common slave. | contradiction |
Such an affair is improbable, but--take heart, Clinton-haters--it's not impossible. | The affair is not likely. | entailment |
T. Temple Tuttle, an ethnomusicologist at Cleveland State University, feels the holes conform to a number of scales, including the South Indian system. | T. Temple Tuttle studied music before associating with Cleveland State University. | entailment |
Reading this book helped me see that I am a minimal realist. | This book was very expensive but also very helpful to me. | neutral |
The Di news continues as both mags chronicle the life and final drunken hours of Di driver Henri Paul. | Henri Paul died while in a bar. | neutral |
They report the makeup artist took another man on a multimillion-dollar, Oprah-hosted cruise. | Oprah and the makeup artist were friends. | neutral |
The Sports Network probably attracts more attention than it deserves. | The Sports Network probably attracts more attention from women than it deserves. | neutral |
Fox President and CEO Rich Cronin called this separate-but-equal programming an effort to superserve children, adding, We will not stereotype in any way. | The Fox network will not stereotype in their programming for children. | entailment |
I observe that 50 years ago Mad magazine observed the popularity of Chinese restaurants with an elegant piece of satire called Two Chinese Guys Go Into an American Restaurant. | Mad Magazine showed how people avoided Chinese restaurants 50 years ago. | contradiction |
Mark Shields looks directly at Robert Novak on Capital Gang and calls him Al Hunt, much to the amusement of the other panelists. | The other critcs were amused. | entailment |
The Kodak-Fuji case was, as innumerable press accounts have pointed out, the most important case to come before the WTO in its two years of existence. | There was a lot of press coverage about the Kodak-Fuji case. | entailment |
Dentists can now make crowns that last forever, bridges that stay anchored, dentures that behave almost like real teeth. | Dentists have innovated in a number of areas as a result of consumer demand. | neutral |
It's bread and circuses without the bread. | Both bread and circuses were present. | contradiction |
And I'll say If all the nations of the world got along as well as do the bagel and mango on my breakfast table every morning, that would be an impressive amount of along-getting. | Nations, would be impressive if only they had breakfast at the same table every day, selling bananas and mangoes to each other, like a yo yo bargaining back and forth. | neutral |
Therapeutic laws become props for rhetoric that might be called demagoguery, except that it disgraces the memories of Joe McCarthy and Huey Long and the ambitions of Pat Buchanan to call Clinton a demagogue. | It would disgrace the memories of Joe McCarthy and Huey Long to call Clinton a demagogue. | entailment |
6) The real outrage is that boxing officials won't be able to raise enough money to pay the exorbitant sums the boxers are demanding for a rematch. | The boxers are asking for $25 million | neutral |
That was the spasm of sex and the drunkenness of drink. | The author feels that it was the result of sex and drink. | entailment |
The bullish Relax, we're already bouncing back. | We're already almost all the way back so the bullish can relax. | neutral |
In a way, I think it has already helped Microsoft's image. | It was a new Ad, put out by Microsoft. | neutral |
I find the paper by the critics more than extremely unfair. | The paper by the critics was more than extremely unjustifiable. | entailment |
So, what kind of Jew am I after 60 years of consciousness-raising? | He will continue consciousness-raising for years to come. | neutral |
Perhaps that's why I feel Plotz's article is the silliest explanation of the logic of adventure I've ever read. | Plotz wrote an article on brickmaking. | contradiction |
The tricky question is what are the core values that really define you and what are the fringe issues on which differences are not crucial. | The differences sometimes are not always crucial. | neutral |
The Globe reports that both singer Tom Jones and actor Hugh O'Brian have unacknowledged sons. | Tom Jones reportedly acknowledges every one of his children. | contradiction |
The question is, said Alice, whether you CAN make words mean so many different things. | Alice thinks words can be defined in several different ways. | entailment |
The game of payback never ends. | When one side gets payback, the other side tries to get their own and the game continues on and on. | neutral |
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