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Meanwhile, Israeli closure of the PA's borders further punishes the Palestinian economy.
Relationships in the Middle East are just wonderful
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These decisions are made by middle management, who are free to indulge their prejudices, regardless of a calculation of what's best for the corporate bottom line.
Middle management makes all of the decisions.
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That argument which holds that the attempt to raise saving will end up lowering national income, because consumption will fall, and with it profits, output, and employment.
The national income increases when saving increases.
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And those few who've not yet plummeted to a fiery death possess so vivid a sense of their own mortality, that they'd instantly cancel Larry King. OK, look at it this If more congressmen and CNN executives rode the New York City subway, then trains, not planes, would suffer from unrelenting crowding, lack of privacy, i...
There are congressmen who have ridden the New York City subway.
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Geoff Ward, goateed sophomore, chides each of the Canterbury Tales, for being written during that Great Vowel Thing and for being 'boring and stupid.
The Cantebury Tales is Geoff's least favorite book
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Again the question is asked, again Burton feigns.
A person in authority is asking questions.
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The tobacco industry suffered a potentially catastrophic defection.
A harmful defection occurred in the tobacco industry
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The principal and persuasive Democratic The only new thing Starr said was that he has exonerated Clinton in Filegate and Travelgate.
The public believed that Clinton should be exonerated in Filegate and Travelgate.
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For example, we asked Jeeves, Where can I find information about Bill Bradley and Medicaid?
The author looked up information about private insurance.
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The Liberal Humanitarians are a product of the post-Cold War peace.
Liberal Humanitarians grew out of post-Cold War peace.
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I doubt you could find a single example of my ever having used it myself.
It’s something I use every day
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No More Teachers, No More Books ...
A new focus is on no more teachers and no more books.
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In Other Magazines sizes up the Time , Newsweek , and other major periodicals--usually before they hit your mailbox or local newsstand.
Each of the publications are delivered to mailboxes or local newsstands.
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An article says that if you were alive in 1000, you probably would have been a miserable peasant.
The article specifically refers to life in England in the year 1000
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Instead, you're still leading with Jacob Weisberg on Clinton's African apology (Sorry Excuse) and Cullen Murphy's discourse on lying (The Lie of the Land).
Many believe Clinton's African apology to be sincere.
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And it was Morris' ideas that kept Clinton on track even after his--Morris'--downfall.
Because Morris was associated with Clinton he had a downfall.
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Parents find themselves intervening to stop their kids from making bad deals with unscrupulous classmates.
Parents feel they need to protect their children from big mistakes.
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Now that the background material he sent to Congress has been released, the press has become interested in whether Linda Tripp doctored her tapes and whether Starr's agents and prosecutors improperly detained Lewinsky or misrepresented their treatment of her in the Jan.
Lewinsky had sexual relations with Hillary Clinton.
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Microsoft's position is that Jackson did not actually remove Internet Explorer from his computer because the add/remove procedure leaves components of Internet Explorer on the machine.
You can never rid your computer of Internet Explorer completely.
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Some houses--big and small--have trimmed their lists, consulting closely with the chains to determine what is commercial, and have seen their profits and sales rise.
Some houses are selling for more money than others.
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Here's the way one investment industry correspondent--who prefers to be nameless--put it to me.
The financial guru had his identity on full display.
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ABC's problems, one suspects, will be much harder to solve, if only because they have much to do with network television as a whole and not just ABC in particular.
ABC is the broadcaster having the most problems.
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To refrain from purchasing one would insult the working class and dishonor the labor of our fathers' fathers!
Refrain from purchasing would praise the working class.
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It happened in the late 1960s, when state and local officials embarked on a campaign to encourage welfare and food-stamp use--to remove stigma and boost participation rates.
State and local officials embarked on a campaign to encourage welfare and food-stamp use in the late 1960's.
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People were chuckling about the Rome of the Decadence effect of the big lawn bolster recliners.
No one thought that the idea of a Rome of the Decadence effect was funny.
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In the age of possibility that beckons, one thing that apparently will not be possible is a policy that imposes a fiscal burden on this group.
A policy that imposes a fiscal burden on this group is entirely possible.
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Academia's most popular one-year fellowship, the Guggenheim, has been awarded to dozens of academics, including the University of Chicago's Neil Harris, who will research the history of the American urban newspaper building, and Williams College's Richard Stamelman, who will study the literature and culture of perfume.
The Guggenheim has been awarded to a student of Yale.
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It is hard to imagine, though, why any government would embargo such a product, unless the plastic surgeons' lobby has already got to them.
The author is confused by the embargo.
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An essay mourns feminists' sellout to Bill Clinton.
Feminists sold out
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As in their Ed Wood (1994) and The People vs.
There was a court case in 1994 involving Ed Wood
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He has since criticized Buchanan directly and encouraged Weicker to run for the Reform Party's nomination.
Buchanan is the candidate that is favored to win the nomination.
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The decline in the won would not immediately raise exports or limit imports.
The won is a form of currency.
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This is so great because I haven't been getting any of this lately.
This is so positive, I got 100% on my homework.
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Mambo Italiano, and my personal favorite, Oooh, Bang, Jiggily Jang.
I love ooh
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On the sex front, nonpresidential illicit encounters are all the tabs can muster this month.
This month, the tabs muster illicit sexual encounters.
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But from Aumann and Maschler's work, we know that if you've found one consistent solution, you've found them all.
Aumann wrote articles later refuting his earlier work.
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This same egalitarianism fuels the feeling that the Secret Service shouldn't serve, in the mot du jour , as the president's Praetorian Guard--that it shouldn't take metaphorical bullets to protect his dalliances.
The Secret Service should protect the president's dalliances at regardless of the cost..
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The new deterring nuclear, biological, or chemical warfare by lesser powers (formalizing President Bush's implicit warning to Saddam Hussein during the Gulf War).
A number of nations considered formal regulations regulating the use of dangerous weapons during the Gulf War.
neutral
I missed the last couple of days because of a computer crash.
My computer is not working optimally.
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Oil prices jumped this week, due to cold weather in the Northeast . That's certainly sensible.
Oil prices surged this week because of cold weather in Arizona
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Smoking will offer a reliable indoor pleasure that I can enjoy seated, much to be desired in my decrepitude.
Smoking is bad for your health.
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Schor's right--it is depressing when people get into the grip of an all-engulfing need to establish their identity by buying stuff, especially if it's stuff they can't afford.
People buy things to make themselves feel better about the situation they're in.
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Kinsley fails to address the main point of the privatization Social Security changes people's behavior.
Kinsey discussed casinos and gambling.
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Domestic manufacturers of chemicals are pushing hard for the treaty.
The country's chemical manufacturers have a strong interest in the treaty.
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The movie made me remember why I like Holly Hunter.
The author enjoyed the movie
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Shops may be open later, they may be open all of Saturday.
The shop is closed today so we cannot go shopping.
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Like my real name couldn't be Pierre LeCluck.
Nobody could ever name their child Pierre LeCluck.
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There will be no Revenge of the Nebbishes , no nebbish liberation.
In the future people will be wise not to act revenge.
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They inhabit the near-boiling water of geysers in Yellowstone, and the even hotter water in volcanic vents on the ocean floor.
These organisms inhabit the frozen reaches of the south pole.
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and she was talking gibberish.
She could not be understood
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Reno opposed some of these policies internally but had too little influence to stop them.
They lacked the power necessary to block the protocols
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Starr has been especially squirmy about this.
Starr doesn't mind what is happening.
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Wells and Sidney and Beatrice Webb, until in 1989, the mantra stopped.
The slogan was used sparingly in 1988.
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In 1984 Charles Murray wrote, in Losing Ground , that government programs sap the initiative of the black population, creating feelings of dependency and entitlement.
Murray was born in 2000.
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Others, though, bash Pfitzner's work as a pale imitation of Wagner, massively bloated [and] endlessly meandering, and say its American performance would have been [b]etter never, perhaps, than late (Martin Bernheimer, the Los Angeles Times ).
Wagner's work is more imaginative and original than Pfitzner's work
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His proposal introduces prescription drug coverage and eliminates payment for preventive services but aims to cut costs by stoking price competition among HMOs and requiring patients to chip in for some services.
His proposal that aims to slash costs has bipartisan support
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The piece finds the Supreme Court justice bitter at his lot and deeply suspicious of the white world.
Unsatisfactory feelings are coming from the Supreme Court justice.
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Brazilians, for instance, with their mestizo consciousness and their many gradations of tipo , or type, behold with disdain our crude bifurcation of race.
In Brazil, citizens don't see eye to eye with our Trumpian racist American attitudes.
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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.
Seems like a sure thing, Willey and Clinton were only friends, nothing happened.
contradiction
Reciting Bradley's votes for the Reagan budget cuts, against welfare reform, and against the use force in the Persian Gulf, Gore asks, Would you vote differently on any of those three votes if you had it to do over again?
Bradley voted for the Reagan budget cuts, and is currently being asked about the vote by Gore.
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Paul's statement that this is simple and reasonable does not make it right.
Paul said that its fine
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Most people Prudie has observed tipping taxi drivers tack on a couple of bucks, no matter what the meter.
It is normal to tip a taxi driver.
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Cagney's charisma launched what looks, decades later, like the most enduring film style of all.
Cagney left little influence on today's cinema.
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The House Judiciary Committee is making plans to hire 18 new lawyers for a possible impeachment inquiry.
Eighteen additional lawyers will be hired by the House Judiciary Committee for a potential inquiry.
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You mentioned yesterday that today you were going to take on his concluding section.
you talked about the conclusion yesterday.
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The Heartbeats, a decent R&B cover band in cowboy hats.
The crowd loved the hats worn by the cover band.
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For instance, Colorado school administrators like to brag that their state's average SAT score is the highest in the country.
Colorado students score well on the SAT
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Insurers would then have to cater to their needs.
Insurers do not care about anyone else
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Other candidates may be sexier at this hour, but once we go through the battering of New Hampshire and Iowa it might be a different story, says Connors.
Nothing will be gleaned from the upcoming primaries.
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If the Senate refuses to hold a confirmation hearing, he will continue in that acting job till the end of Clinton's presidency.
The senator will be confirmed after Clinton's presidency.
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Larry then goes astray in my view when he writes, Threats to liberty change.
Larry is illiterate
contradiction
The most commonly stolen models are Honda Accords and Toyota Camrys.
Honda Accords and Toyota Camrys are the safest vehicles around
contradiction
It does not report whether he has sought the services of Catherine Oxenberg.
It's not known whether he tried to get help from Catherine Oxenberg.
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The unveiling of plans for an annex to MoMA caps a season of architectural extravaganzas.
There are plans to build an annex to MoMA.
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That is, these things--transportation policy, lubrication policy--are decided not by what is most needed but by who is in need.
Lubrication policy is decided by who is in need
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I've always liked John La Care, Le Carrier, or however you pronounce his name.
Some people are confused about the pronunciation of his name
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So maybe the questions he proliferates here (here, unlike in his books, he questions the notion of a surgical strike, and here he wonders, Who has told us that it is OK to kill women and children?
He fully supports the usage of surgical strikes.
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So what's a randy president to do?
The author wonders what a lustful president is capable of doing.
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In Russia, under the headline Reds in the White House?
"Reds in the White House?" was the headline for an interesting article.
neutral
Helgeland has set the film in a metropolis of uncertain period (the '50s?
The film's setting is that of a forest.
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According to the publication, just months after the skiing accident death of her husband, Sonny, she tossed piles of irreplaceable mementos of the late singer-congressman into the dumpster, where they were retrieved by one of his former restaurant employees.
Sonny perished while partaking in a leisurely activity.
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Starr is much more likely to be interested in Steele herself and in why she changed her story.
Starr is interested in the modification to Steele's story
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I think, David, you are being too prickly in responding to it.
David's response will cause an argument
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He Moves in Mysterious Proving himself as adept with a parable as with a football, Rep.
He is more than just a great football player.
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This program should be expanded, perhaps with incentives for police to live in the neighborhoods they patrol full time.
Police do not typically live where they patrol.
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(And where is a percontativus now that I need one?)
It was hard to find that thing when it was needed most.
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A comprehensive international review of 54 studies concluded that the pill doesn't heighten a woman's long-term probability of getting breast cancer.
The pill does that increase the chances of women getting breast cancer, according to studies.
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He kept a personal ledger in which he recorded all the money he spent, even the $118 he paid for his wife's engagement ring, which he listed under Sundry Expenses.
The ring cost $88
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Unless you can go back in time, cutting the tax rate on existing capital gains cannot possibly increase investment in productive resources.
Cutting taxes on capital gains is regularly done by going back in time.
contradiction
It might also be pointed out that Dole supported the political pardons meted out by Gerald Ford, when he served as Ford's running mate in 1976.
Dole's lack of support for the pardoning of people like Richard Nixon by Gerald Ford was common knowledge.
contradiction
A map with holes in it is a mnemonic for the global-warming treaty and its supposedly glaring loopholes.
The global warming treaty is brief and clear, guaranteeing cooling within a year.
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And Rupert Murdoch ( of Fox TV ) recently bid an estimated $350 million for the Los Angeles Dodgers and their stadium.
The Los Angeles Dodgers and their stadium were recently up for bid.
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A woman of my acquaintance recently announced that she has a boyfriend and wants everyone to introduce the fellow by that title.
The fellow is in a relationship
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To take one obscure but critical Life on Earth remained entirely one-celled for 3 billion years.
Life began on Earth just under 2020 years ago.
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Unimpressed with her upstate forays, Rudolph Giuliani, her likely Senate rival, Every time I have gone up there, I have gotten the sense that they like me.
Rudolph Giuliani is her possible Senate rival.
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News Quiz participants scorn not just electronic greeting cards, but all greeting cards as prepackaged expressions of sentiment for the emotionally illiterate.
News Quiz participants prefer to create their own unique greeting cards.
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On Friday's NewsHour , Gigot asks, Is this a Republican Congress?
Gigot was absent for Friday's NewsHour.
contradiction
Plimpton got lost in his list at one point, but despite referring to one of the contributors to the display's soundtrack as Cecille Dion, he brought to the event his patrician sonorities and his fabled familiarity with fireworks.
Plimpton disliked using his sonorities for access.
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Idealists don't like the way it's being fought.
Idealists approve of the way it's being battled.
contradiction
My publishers will kill me if I don't mention my own biography of D.P.
The company would not be pleased if their previous biography of DP was left out.
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