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You may not believe that such intervention will work in practice, but that's a judgment about the rules of politics, not economics.
Everyone believes the intervention will work.
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When they watched these films in the presence of an authority figure, however, the Americans' facial expressions were essentially the same as when they watched the films alone, whereas the Japanese showed much less negative affect, smiled sometimes, and actually masked negative emotion with smiling behavior.
The Americans' facial expressions changed a great deal watching the film in a group and alone.
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The Torah's text has varied over the centuries, and when dealing with ELS, tiny variations can be ruinous.
The Torah is very old
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(After all, Scheck earns a pittance compared with what he could if he were a full-time criminal defense attorney.)
Scheck could someday be a full-time criminal defense attorney.
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We should lead by example and suasion.
They want to use violence to run things
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I'm not sure whether to invite him to mine.
I'd rather not invite him to my wedding.
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In the old days, nobody paid much attention, and the artists on NEA panels were free to make meritorious decisions.
The artists had to follow strict guidelines.
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Does this mean that you will be happier when the information comes out?
When the information comes out, will you be happier?
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Will her job description be done by then?
She currently has a job description.
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Strong genetic differences among dog breeds are not just the result of natural selection.
Evolution is a mayor factor of the strong genetic differences.
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3) The study is flawed because it assumes the participants correctly recalled their dietary habits.
The people in the study were forgetful and could not remember how they ate.
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In the affidavits, Cole lists several components he associates with Internet Explorer, including Wininet.dll, Urlmon.dll, and Mshtml.dll.
Cole associates with the Internet
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He Moves in Mysterious Proving himself as adept with a parable as with a football, Rep.
He will write an amazing autobiography.
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The West prevailed because it was rich, rather than because it was good.
The West succeeded
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But as Asians become America's new Jews, Jews are becoming ...
Jews and Asians are in America.
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You are nice to weigh in as a Prudie.
You can weigh in as something other than a Prudie.
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Microsoft's critics point out that Windows has 90 percent of the OS market.
There are those that are critical of Microsoft.
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His career took the shape of a palindrome.
His career was long.
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A 1993 General Accounting Office report showed the breadth of incompetence in financial-aid administration--between 1982 and 1992, 43,519 ineligible students received subsidized loans.
Those who receive loans incorrectly spend the funds on investments.
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When Chechens raided the Russian territory of Dagestan, and bombs wrecked Moscow apartment buildings, the army seized the opportunity.
The size of the army was substantial.
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Which somehow doesn't seem to be the best way to prepare for the next decade.
It is the greatest way to prepare for the next 10 years
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5) The real outrage is that the fight was boring.
The fight was a boxing match.
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Having fractured the international coalition, Saddam no longer fears the prospect of invasion from the Nations like France, Russia, and China have sworn to veto any U.N. military action because they want to protect the post-sanctions oil deals they've penned with Iraq.
Saddam is now fearless from invasion from other countries.
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Videotape of her answers will be shown to the Arkansas Whitewater grand jury, which will disband May 7. Pundits played up the tension between Starr and the first lady (since she recently called him a politically motivated prosecutor who is allied with the right-wing opponents of my husband) and debated whether he will ...
The Arkansas Whitewater grand jury will be shown videotape of her running naked through the forest.
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Schumer immediately countered by running the D'Amato commercial in New York City, labeling it the ad Al D'Amato doesn't want you to see.
Schumer's counter improved his ratings in public opinion polls.
neutral
The former POV might be thought of as Democratic, the latter Republican.
The two POVs are identical
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Then, I suppose those of us who support income redistribution wouldn't look so hypocritical and our grandchildren would have big debts, higher taxes, no trees--and be poor.
Debt will be passed on to subsequent generations.
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Dissenters congratulate Quindlen for having moved beyond veiled autobiography.
Quindlen was criticized for his obvious writing.
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In hindsight, should you have stopped all private law practice?
The question is about public law practices.
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But they showed what true love is when Bo took over John's medical care and for seven weeks forced him to drink gallons of water to flush out stubborn kidney stones.
Bo told John that his kidney stones would fix themselves and to just wait it out.
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Someone has to absorb the loss.
A loss incurred.
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The July 16 Today's Papers asks what it says about Hillary Clinton that she refused to comment for a USA Today story on her partnership with Madeleine Albright.
USA Today got together with Hilary Clinton to do an interview about her parnership with Albright.
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I'm afraid to step out of the car.
To leave this vehicle is a fearsome proposition.
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And that's when Italian-Americans will really have something to bitch about (by the way, where do you stand on the The Sopranos isn't good for Italians question?)
Italian-Americans will be upset about something.
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Get With It, Ye of Little Faith
some people have little faith
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He likes to cite Kerouac's I am not anti-anything (except racists and certain big corporations).
He supports racists
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Now it appears that he may have been simply assuring himself she really was dead, at least according to three of Wynette's daughters, who have filed a $50 million wrongful death suit against Richey and a doctor.
The Wynettes have 3 daughters
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It is also, needless to say, free of any taint of bias or corruption.
It is highly biased =
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Our loyal opposition on the right used to tell us that a man can do anything with his property.
I am a member of the left.
neutral
We must have unselfish, far-seeing leadership or we fail.
Unselfish leaders are the best for future generations.
neutral
What if they just don't have feelings?
They might not have feelings
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After all, it's only a movie.
The movie received good reviews from the critics.
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Ataterk was the founder of modern Turkey, which is no mean accomplishment (what have you done with your life?)
Ancient Turkey had a founder.
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Vocation began here--the story of two frogs,
These were the only frogs in the story.
neutral
The second reference to bumfuzzled was in History of the Life of Rev.
History of the Life of Rev. is a physics paper.
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In some countries, they'd be the dinner.
They would be subjected to cannibalism in few places.
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Ever since Seymour Hersh's book came out detailing the raw side of Jack Kennedy and the dark side of Camelot, I've been wondering what JFK did in today's context that warrants an eternal flame at Arlington National Cemetery.
JFK has an eternal flame burning for him at the cemetery.
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8) The common currency will help global corporations while stripping each European nation of its power to make its own destiny.
The common currency will remove the power of each European nation.
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Food irradiators do produce radioactive waste that must be stored under nuclear regulatory guidelines, but the current regulations governing hospitals and sterilization companies seem to work, and the amount of radwaste generated is far too small to cause Three Mile Island-like effects.
The processes of food irradiation and the sterilization of hospital equipment produce radioactive waste.
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DOJ says the linkage is a marketing ploy, not a technical necessity.
The linkage is not a technical necessity
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People who gorged themselves survived winter famines and reproduced more than others.
Food was plentiful all year.
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During his father's primary campaign, George W. Bush watched Pat Buchanan go from 1992 to 1938, the heyday of Father Coughlin, dragging the Republican Party with him.
George W. Bush met Pat Buchanan
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Henceforth, as Tucker sees it, Monet searched for a more private and less jingoistic tie to the French landscape and discovered it in the multiple layers of his own water garden.
Monet retreated to his garden for inspiration.
entailment
The tough cities that such women and their fugitive men once haunted are nowhere to be found.
After women and their fugitive men haunted tough cities, the cities vanished
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The article's author, Smithsonian curator Paul Forman, accused Gross and Levitt of trying to place science back on its pre-postmodern pedestal.
Paul Forman has been curator for 20 years
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At the time, only Canada, thanks to its giant neighbor, lived in anything like the world he envisaged; today we all do.
Canada should continue to prosper.
neutral
Josh Pons did not like this.
This statement is about Josh Pons.
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Shareholder value, which is shorthand for executives' obsession with their companies' stock prices, has become the prism through which most of corporate America now sees business.
Corporate America is focused mostly on shareholder value.
neutral
That was Joyce's age when J.D. summoned her to his hilltop aerie in Cornish, N.H.
New Hampshire is a flat state lacking mountains.
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But a real predator I know is using, selling, and almost certainly doing other crimes.
The predator is known to keep to only one type of crime.
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It depends on such questions as 1) how effectively the industrialized nations can monitor the average rogue state once they start synergistically pooling their intelligence, and 2) how tough economic sanctions have to be before even the Syrias of the world fall into line.
Industrialized countries would benefit from collaborating on certain issues.
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Limbaugh countered that Clinton had, in fact, snarfed at Mickey D's in Hawaii.
Limbaugh stated that Clinton had visited Hawaii
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This passage could easily belong to a piece of nonfiction--to one of the witty old Letters from Europe that used to run in The New Yorker . And in fact, in the best of these character studies, a vivid picture of Cold War Europe--infected with mediocre rhetoric, imprisoned by fake boundaries, inhabited by numb and ambiv...
The plot line starts to gel, finally making sense, tying loose ends together.
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In a celebrated case, Abraham Lincoln biographer Stephen Oates was said to have ripped off a widely read 1952 Lincoln biography by Benjamin Thomas.
Abe Lincoln was born in the 1940s.
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In the new mall, like the old one, there is no escape.
There is no escape from the mall.
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Nemesis Hunt refutes the slack-jawed Novak, with the computation that 5 + 4 = 9 and therefore half of Starr's deputies are not current DOJ employees.
Slack-jawed describes Novak.
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Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., has tried to focus scrutiny on McCain's tobacco and campaign-finance crusades.
Mitch Mconnel looks like a wrinkly turtle.
neutral
Once upon a time both he--and the audience--would be trying to peek up her short skirt.
The audience is blind.
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The spot is aimed at the woman, the secondary consumer of condoms, reminding her that an alternative to no is wait a minute, followed by a quick dip into her nightstand drawer for a rubber.
women purchase a lot of condoms and keep them in nightstands.
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(The American convention is not quite what it American journalists are permitted to act on their prejudices--the news columns and air time devoted to Flytrap wouldn't make sense unless reporters and editors believed the accusations.
Flytrap has been covered in the media
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Is it the right-wing commissar Norquist, who defied subpoenas from the Thompson Committee about his role laundering campaign contributions for the Republican National Committee (he is contemptuous of the law)?
The RNC is a Left Wing organization.
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They're regular old spending that Republicans happen not to like, such as support for the International Monetary Fund and highway demonstration projects in Democratic districts.
Republicans do not support the IMF.
entailment
And for two-income couples, getting married nearly always results in a higher tax bill.
The tax bill increases after a couple gets married.
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He gropes female guests, watches porn, drinks monstrously, smokes more, and uses drugs.
He is a gentleman and treats all women nicely.
contradiction
I loved everything about talking to the folks who schlepped there on a Sunday morning; the comic effect of having a guy dressed like McGruff, the Crime Dog from public service ads, standing behind Dole.
They visited on a Saturday morning
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The Internet has already begun to transform the general advertising industry, and it will soon hold sway over the tens of millions of dollars spent every electoral season on television and radio ads.
The general advertising industry had hopes of a medium such as the internet once ads were placed on radio programs.
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They were spending obscene amounts of money on litigation--as much as $750 million a year, by one account--and the strain of wondering if this case would be the one that broke the bank couldn't have made working at these companies much fun.
The $750 million spent on litigation was thought to be not enough to cover costs.
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IOC President Juan Antonio Samaranch, who was questioned by a congressional committee, said the IOC had solved the corruption problems.
Juan Antonio Samaranch was the IOC president for ten years.
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The result is a vivid picture showing that the strong bonds that developed in those fabled neighborhoods of yore were kindled by conditions that we might find discomforting today--fear of authority, lack of choice, and poverty.
The strong bonds resulted from conditions that would be considered uneasy and worrisome by today's standards.
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Today, we neither have such a group nor the atmosphere for its emergence.
That group just doesn't exist today, but the atmosphere for it is improving.
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The cover story says that megabillionaire and stock-picking legend Warren Buffett has quietly shifted his focus from buying individual stocks to purchasing companies.
Warren Buffett is filthy, stinking rich.
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But to this woman you are not replaceable at any price.
This woman hates you.
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Later, McLaughlin refers to Saddam's Republican Guard as the Red Guard.
Saddam has denounced the Republican Guard
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Even if you handle it right, you still don't want this kind of thing out there, argued Susan Estrich on Fox News Sunday . There's some people who only hear a piece of it and say to themselves, is something wrong with John McCain?
It is important for politicians to control information.
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The other significant story of Clinton's continuing sexual adventuring was Michael Isikoff's account last August of a murky encounter between White House volunteer Kathleen Willey and the president.
Heard through the grapevine, something seems fishy about Clinton and Kathleen Willey.
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If he was sometimes a naive political activist, Spock was always a resourceful pragmatist when it came to child rearing wisdom.
Spock was afraid of children because they confused him.
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largely designed to illustrate how a powerful woman can shatter glass ceilings.
Actual glass ceilings are destroyed by women.
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Unless the name of your house is Ritz-Carlton, bag the subtle approach, and give them a deadline for their departure.
A subtle approach for their exit is acceptable
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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 an Earth Sciences expert who is dubious of self-organized criticality.
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Newspaper reporters increasingly feel themselves irrelevant--marginalized by TV news and the Internet, ignored by a younger generation of nonreaders.
Newspaper subscription rates have fallen with the advent of internet news.
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As a result of your conversation with her and subsequent reports that showed that she had tried to enlist the help of someone else in her lie that the President sexually harassed her, you now do not believe that what she claimed happened really happened.
They believe that she was sexually harassed.
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Well, the big picture looks like Both the number of good jobs and the pay that goes with those jobs are steadily rising.
The jobs pay below minimum wage.
contradiction
You'd have to invoke your own gods for the requisite charm.
Charms will protect you.
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(It's short indeed, going from Mesopotamia to medieval Burgundy to Nicole Simpson in 10 pages.)
It ranges from Mesopotamia to Nicole Simpson.
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I believe the public wants solutions that work, not attacks that divide, says Bradley.
Bradley feels that to be effective he must divide people.
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President Clinton, comparing the negotiations to those over the 1996 welfare bill, signaled that he will accept a compromise plan.
Clinton said he could agree to a deal and compared the talks to the 1996 welfare bill.
entailment
Babies, especially preemies, are more relaxed, have better digestion, and are generally happier when they are massaged.
Babies grow up happier when recieiving better treatment.
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But we wouldn't know about Dowd's failure to muster a response, or about Lewinsky's poise and forthrightness, unless Dowd herself had chosen to tell us.
We would know about Lewinsky's poise and forthrightness even if Dowd herself had forgotten to tell us.
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Whether these habits will change on their own, with the maturation of a more tolerant generation, or whether full social acceptance of black Americans will require a concerted governmental effort, is unknowable.
It is unknowable how the habits will change
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No longer a Nobel Prize waiting to happen (Jeff Giles, Newsweek ), Kundera is said to overindulge in his philosophical musings, which no longer seem fresh.
Kundera missed his opportunity for a Nobel Prize.
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