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Rebuffing these lower classes when they could have beguiled them, the Whigs made potential friends into enemies. | It was part of the reason why the Whigs begin to decline. | neutral |
Good economic news, as the man once said, always comes bundled with bad. | A man stated that there is usually a mix of good and bad economic news. | entailment |
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. | Ironically enough, if you believe your neighbor has no right to a comfortable life at your grandchildren's expense, then you probably believe they are perfectly within their right to live well because of Bill Gates. | contradiction |
Maybe Wachtler writes cliches because prison has become cliche. | The author writes about prison a lot. | entailment |
In the name of Yugoslav unity, Tito suppressed most assertions of ethnic identity. | Tito sought unity in Yugoslavia. | entailment |
They are great respecters of private property. | They do not care about the boundaries of private property. | contradiction |
If I fill in my name and cash it, I pay tax. | No matter what, it's exempt from any taxes. | contradiction |
(Or at least, we hope to make this a tradition, and have got away with it for two summers so far.) | The tradition has been spanning decades. | contradiction |
The report also cites China's transparent intentions to abolish Hong Kong's civil liberties when it assumes control of the territory in July. | China seeks to abolish Hong Kong's civil liberties in July. | neutral |
In the 1994 Disney film, the actor Nathan Lane supplied the voice of Timon in much the same style as his flamboyantly gay character in The Birdcage . When I saw the Broadway version of the musical, the audience roared at Timon's even more exaggerated gay mannerisms. | Every audience took Lane's vocal choice well. | neutral |
I would encourage a reinterpretation of the exclusionary principle to keep criminals in jail where they belong, but only if the cops and prosecutors are severely punished for their crimes as well. | The proposal highlights crimes by criminals and the criminal justice system. | entailment |
Considering how hard it was for the extraordinary Frank McCourt to learn how to teach, one has to wonder whether individual teachers can really measure their own progress. | Frank McCourt was a terrible writer and was even less successful as a teacher. | contradiction |
The jewels would be delivered in exquisite gold-tooled leather boxes with compartments containing the relevant alternative mounts and fastenings, and a tiny screwdriver in its own velvet nest. | The screwdriver compartment was lined in fur. | contradiction |
Pro-choicers have muddled the debate over late-term abortions, and the Fitzsimmons affair is their disingenuous strategy coming back to bite them. | Pro-choice people have always acted honestly and in good faith. | contradiction |
Some of my songs are about four minutes, some are about five minutes and some, believe it or not, are about 11 or 12. | I don't have a single song that goes on for more than three minutes, I think that's just too tedious. | contradiction |
But there is a more fruitful way to look at He is the first high-profile newspaper man in a long time who actually believes in newspapers. | Changing perspective can be more fruitful. | entailment |
USA Snapshots and other regular graphs abound. | There are not many USA Snapshots to be seen. | contradiction |
But others praise it as a minor-league farm team for potential NATO members, and celebrate its civilizing influence (some PFP members have settled long-standing border disputes). | Members cannot join NATO. | contradiction |
Israelis sided with the Serbs against the Croats, who had been truly monstrous toward Jews during the war. | Isreal took the Serbs' side because Serbia's enemies had been brutal towards Israel in the past. | entailment |
The new health scare is a staph germ that is becoming immune to the antibiotic of last resort. | The human body will become more resilient as a result of the staph germ. | neutral |
Close banks for one day to allow them to reorganize | A brief closure will be beneficial to banks in some way. | entailment |
But we also may have missed a couple of more fundamental truths about the Web. | There may be some fundamental truths about the Web that they possibly missed. | entailment |
Phil Knight, CEO of Nike, forced by inclement weather to abandon his attempt to become the first man to circumnavigate the globe riding on the back of an 11-year-old Indonesian girl. | Phil Knight was the CEO of Nike. | entailment |
I throw rocks through the window of a different McDonald's every week. | I have never engaged in any activity which could damage property or be seen as antisocial in nature. | contradiction |
Novak cut Hunt off only twice. | Novak let Hunt speak completely uninterrupted. | contradiction |
Clinton is said to be concerned with shaping a historical legacy, but as may be noted from his failed medical care program, his unpopular anti-Iraq saber rattling, and his largely ignored dialogue on race, the care of business is pretty much all that's wanted of Clinton, too. | Clinton's medical care program failed. | entailment |
Ginsburg attempts to build sympathy for his client, though he refuses to discuss his client's account of events, specifics of her proffer, her legal strategy, her future plans, her definition of a sexual relationship, or anything else of interest. | Ginsburg's strategy was to paint the woman as a menace to society. | contradiction |
Washington can't erase jurisdictional frontiers, but it can encourage metropolitan government via tax incentives and cheerleading. | Washington focuses financial incentives on small town officials. | contradiction |
Thanks to misinformation unrivaled since the pre-FDA patent-medicine era, however, alternative therapies have become a $14 billion market, which is growing by as much as 30 percent annually. | Alternative therapies are a major market. | entailment |
This is the mutual contempt, hinted at but not developed in this valuable book, that haunts us today. | This book is important to many people. | neutral |
If my dog is reading this, he'd better run now. | The dog should perform an action if he reads this. | entailment |
Time says Dolly the cloned sheep could be a fake. | No one doubted that Dolly was really cloned. | contradiction |
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. | The policy to impose a fiscal burden on this group is in place. | contradiction |
They called it the suicide package. | They called it the want to stay alive package. | contradiction |
Today, Thompson is part Beavis, part whore. | Thompson is more than 1 percent part Beavis. | neutral |
Asking political candidates to quantify their stands may seem unrealistic because they don't want to pin themselves down and because the audience will tune out. | Quick political position one-liners cause the audience to stay attentive. | neutral |
Scholes and Merton reportedly are applauded when they appear on the floor of the options exchange, which shows that options traders are at least appreciative, if not deserving, of the rare charities that they receive. | Options traders have Scholes and Merton to thank for countless bailouts and loans that did not appear wise on the surface. | neutral |
He wanted a sound bite--something pithy to take out of context. | He was looking for a long, extended sound bite to take out of context. | contradiction |
Maybe if I were gay, but I'm not. | I'm definitely gay. | contradiction |
Which brings us to the third side of Rockefeller's personality and the main theme of the book, that of empire-building. | Rockefeller's personality was completely one-dimensional. | contradiction |
After writing a polemical 1996 essay attacking Huckleberry Finn as immoral, Pulitzer Prize winner Smiley sets out to improve on Twain with a novel about an abolitionist woman in antebellum Kansas Territory. | Smiley's novel went on to receive acclaim among literary critics. | neutral |
The pessimistic one will lead to the other. | One can used to find the other. | entailment |
I now have my own literary oeuvre . This entitles me to certain privileges, such as employing foreign words in my writings (see previous sentence) and living on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. | Owning a literary oeuvre entitles you to certain benefits in the literary sphere. | entailment |
A writer recounts his experience as a phone psychic. | The writer's time as a phone psychic increased their belief in psychic phenomenon. | neutral |
While this may have been true for a good many (Beatles, Dylan), the requirements of publishing every two weeks meant others, like the Moodies, Vanilla Fudge, Jefferson Airplane (Son of Jesus, anyone?) | The name Vanilla Fudge has been used for something which isn't food. | entailment |
Any blood sport can be barbaric, whether it's boxing or wrestling or ultimate fighting. | Blood sports are the most popular sports. | neutral |
The military's officer corps, especially the Army's, has been successfully transformed from a clubby elite, where promotions depended on golfing partners, into a more integrated meritocracy. | The Army was unable to transform into an integrated meritocracy. | contradiction |
In exchange for losing a few compulsive gamblers, the casinos will (falsely) appear more concerned with the health of their customers than with profits. | The casinos are genuinely concerned about the health of the gamblers. | contradiction |
If you want to look like a propaganda organ of Microsoft, about the best thing you could do would be to publish an article about a very hotly contested industry issue, take Microsoft's side, and support your point with misinformation and untruths. | should you decide to speak out against Microsoft, make sure you're armed with unmistakable truths and information. | contradiction |
Among the black agents courting rookies are Puffy Combs, Master P, and Johnnie Cochran. | Johnnie Cochran is trying to pursuing rookies. | entailment |
The WP points out that the scandal has been good media business, with USAT distributing an extra 500,000 copies of its weekend edition, the WP printing about 15,000 copies of its daily run, Time adding 100,000 copies to its usual newsstand run of 250,000, CNN's viewership up about 40 percent, and ABC's Nightline and Th... | The scandal has increased viewership for networks. | entailment |
PBS's Nova is offering lots of bang-'em-up footage in its two-part series , ESCAPE! | If you want to watch Nova, you can do so on the PBS channel. | entailment |
Not all Republicans think this way. | Republicans have different views on the matter. | entailment |
One free-lancer tells of building much of a summer traveling with her husband in the West and Europe around a couple of Conde Nast assignments. | The free-lancer did not travel internationally for her work. | contradiction |
Dll stands for dynamic-link library, and .dll files are small chunks of computer code that are intended to be shared by more than one application. | It is easy to create a .dll computer code. | neutral |
He makes TV commercials in London. | He makes TV commercials in England. | entailment |
But I made a grave error, just a bad mistake on my part. | I can change the error. | contradiction |
(Formerly the state sport was catching and returning runaway slaves.) | The state sport resulted in many deaths. | neutral |
But skeptics suggest a darker that the Lippo fee was a payoff to Hubbell to keep quiet about Whitewater. | Hubbell made a statement about Whitewater. | contradiction |
He set up a national e-mail tree designed to get people to send their friends in Iowa to Ames as Forbes supporters. | E-mail trees are the most effective means of obtaining supporters. | neutral |
As usual, Washington Week doesn't get around to the week's real thing (Flytrap) until the closer. | Washington Week did not discuss Flytrap. | contradiction |
As the hearing ended, Harkin expressed alarm that biotech companies were claiming licenses and patents to human stem cells. | Harken was relieved to hear stem cells could neither be licensed nor patented. | contradiction |
The idea, Leger claimed, was to prove that machines and fragments of them, that ordinary manufactured objects, have plastic possibilities. | Leger's idea was that regularly manufactured objects have plastic possibilities. | entailment |
Everyone knows these troops are trained for combat and can be quickly converted into an invading force. | The troops were thrown on the battlefield without any training. | contradiction |
And second, in fact, there is no obligation to disclose anything. | Firstly, this is a responsibility to divulge everything. | contradiction |
But a few chapters later, Ann overhears her mother talking on the phone to Dr. Spritzer, and | Ann is deaf, she has been since birth. | contradiction |
Virtually every church in the state, the top strategists from both parties, the state chamber of commerce, and thousands of grassroots organizers banded together to defeat poker. | Poker was universally despised by groups from all different fields. | entailment |
Somewhere in the Maryland panhandle, E and I were for some reason discussing Wendy Shalit's book, The Return of Modesty , which makes the case for chastity, patience, courtship, etc. | I hear Wendy Shalit's new book is sold out all over the country. | neutral |
European national leaders know they've got to tackle their deficits, but none of them wants the heat for cutting featherbedding or generous social-payment systems. | European national leaders want to increase their spending. | contradiction |
But it is probably true that the quality of politics in America has suffered from the erosion of public trust in institutions that used to act, to at least some degree, as watchdogs. | America swore to uphold non-biased politics. | neutral |
No inside-the-beltway PR victory is worth that kind of demoralization. | PR victory isn't worth it | neutral |
The Washington Post and Los Angeles Times withhold the story from their first editions but include it on Page One of the home-delivery editions. | There are different editions delivered to homes. | entailment |
From the podium, Dunn and Rice, two of the committee's three front women, implored Bush's wife and daughters to endure the campaign's trial by fire. | The committee had 7 front women. | contradiction |
But Robert Pinsky--also poetry editor of | Robert Pinsky has authored over a hundred poems. | neutral |
Before long, we can expect to hear retirement-averse conservatives making the rest of the fine arguments against term limits. | The conservatives have a lot of support. | neutral |
This counterattack has only helped Bush achieve the distance he sought in the first place. | Bush has relished in the separation he's caused. | entailment |
The objective fact is that whatever you think of Mahathir, Malaysia has gotten away with its economic apostasy. | Economically, Malaysia has gotten away with it. | entailment |
The White House packed its millennium party with tech leaders. | People who work for tech companies attended a party in Washington, DC. | entailment |
Not only do thousands of economists agree on something, but what they agree on is the warm and cuddly idea that we should do more to protect the environment. | Thousands of economists do not care about the environment. | contradiction |
I don't see any reason to postpone the vote. | The writer is concerned about the legality of postponing the vote. | neutral |
A firestorm of feminist controversy already surrounds some of these works--one side contends that these are refreshingly de-idealized nudes, the other side responds that the unusual poses and aggressive use of pastel are further degradations of women--but you wouldn't know it from the placid audio tour, or from the pri... | Depictions of naked women can be both degrading and empowering to women. | neutral |
It was in the Yale Law Library, after all, that he first put the moves on Hillary Rodham. | No one ever tried to pick up Hillary. | contradiction |
Leonardo's obsession with swirling water--which found scientific expression in the Codex | Leonardo hated swirling water. | contradiction |
And the bureaucratic approach prevents the section as a whole from taking positions on--or creating--literary issues. | There is a lot of red tape to wade through. | entailment |
But they didn't make that case, at least to me. | They argued that particular case with me fervently and in great detail. | contradiction |
The Wall Street Journal points out that this decision influenced the strike's outcome. | There were many factors that contributed to the outcome of the strike. | neutral |
Pour coffee into Christopher Hitchens until he's sober enough to finish his cover story, 'Friendship. | Christopher Hitchens is not sober enough to finish his cover story, Friendship. | entailment |
And critics who object that human life is sacred won't have a leg to stand on. | There are good reasons to support the idea that human life is sacred. | neutral |
Microsoft isn't preventing anyone from using Netscape or charging Netscape for the right of access; it's providing Internet Explorer free, but then that would be normal practice in this kind of industry even if IE wasn't allegedly an integral part of Windows 95. | Internet Explorer has a lot of bugs. | neutral |
Eleven billion dollars in shareholder value is $11 billion. | 11 billion is a large share of the company. | neutral |
In any event, Gore dropped out of the race shortly after the debate. | Gore felt ashamed when he dropped out. | neutral |
They responded by pushing economic regulation from the state to the federal level. | Regulation was given from the state and up to the federal level as well. | entailment |
His deconstruction of political ads is a weekly feature of Slate during the election season. | He's only been on Slate once for his deconstruction of political ads. | contradiction |
In some countries, they'd be the dinner. | The sentence refers to dogs being eaten elsewhere in the world. | neutral |
(Read for Slate 's take on Jackson's findings.) | Slate also made other shocking revelations in regards to wind power. | neutral |
Chatterbox will grant that some of this crude psychology may be at work. | Chatterbox has not made any statement about the issue. | contradiction |
News this week isn't in the Owner Mort Zuckerman has fired Editor James Fallows. | Mort Zuckerman did not have the authority to fire the editor. | contradiction |
The oral-sex tape starts with well-known sex therapist Diana Wiley, in her poofy hair and broad-shouldered blue power suit, looking like she was about to explain how the sales force could increase its third-quarter productivity. | Everyone lost Diana Wiley the well-known sex therapist. | neutral |
But the racism charge isn't quirky or wacky--it's demagogy. | A charge of racism has been made. | entailment |
Nancy Reagan's Just Say No campaign and the Partnership for a Drug Free America propagandized ceaselessly about the perils of drugs. | Nancy Reagan believed drugs were dangerous. | entailment |
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