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Boris shot up his hand and Kerensky did not make the February revolution.
The revolution was harmed as a result of Kerensky's absence.
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Early diagnosis, new teaching techniques (emphasis on the arts, thematic programs), and new research into the brains of LD kids are starting to rectify a neglected problem.
There is no problem, therefore there doesn't need to be a fix.
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She made a great number of friends, from village women to guerrilla leaders, multiplying the number of foreign contacts she faithfully reported on the security form required of all CIA applicants.
Her ability to make useful contacts led to her quick promotion at the agency.
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Naturally, European governments want to tax call-back services out of existence.
European governments do not wish to tax any businesses.
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Of these, or the many other similar examples I've collected, there is no mention in the book . The reason that I didn't mention them was that to do so seemed to me a cheap shot--concentrating on the ephemeral and the inconsequential--the scummy froth atop the waves of any discourse.
The author would have made a stronger point by explicitly making a reference to the aforementioned examples.
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I'm no economist, but I believe this is the point President Clinton intends to make in Tokyo tomorrow.
President Clinton is making a good point.
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I also hope that the oxymoron will remind me to include applause as well as condemnation in my dispatches.
No one sends dispatches.
contradiction
Just two weeks ago, I watched him on Rivera Live spin the nation on the subject of the president and Monica Lewinsky's relationship.
Rivera Live never had a segment on the president.
contradiction
It would take only one-tenth of one second to download a Slate article via ADSL.
Slate articles cannot be accessed online.
contradiction
Critics just don't matter as much as they used to, and Maslin--though she's still at the top of the heap, influence-wise--is no exception.
Critics dont have as much of an impact as they used to.
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You are nice to weigh in as a Prudie.
Being consider a Prudie is a positive characteristic.
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Once flight capabilities are established and demonstrated in a motion picture, they must be used consistently and logically throughout, without regard to the convenience of the filmmakers.
Flight capabilities are used by filmmakers in motion pictures.
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This is the resentful perception so many mainstream feminists seem stuck in today.
Many are resentful toward mainstream feminists.
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It's true that many, many Jews will be killed.
Many people are aware that many Jews will be killed.
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One possibility is that these ads will develop into a new form of micro-pandering, but the process will be interesting no matter where it leads.
This process will be very dull unless one specific outcome is achieved.
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) Tinsley credited God for his abilities, while Lafferty reacted to the tie with the same sort of aplomb that, it's safe to say, he would have displayed if he'd lost.
Tinsley is a devout Christian.
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He set up a national e-mail tree designed to get people to send their friends in Iowa to Ames as Forbes supporters.
The contact network was designed in order to contact people across the country.
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The other example is Chaconne , starring Suzanne Farrell and Peter Martins.
Suzanne Farrel and Peter Martins take part in the work of Chaconne.
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Alternatively, the fuel and communications networks they will build can be used to support an invasion.
Although it's possible an invasion is highly unlikely.
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But the answer is noooo . I mean, why should I agree now?
I might agree if you can give me a good reason.
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Yet in almost any diaspora--whether black, yellow, brown, or white --the dispersed are far better off, at least materially, than those back home.
Diaspora are typically a benefit to those forced to disperse.
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Latin American gangs routinely kidnap rich foreign executives and demand multimillion-dollar ransoms.
Latin American gangs demand multimillion-dolar ransoms when they kidnap rich, important executives.
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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.
The subject is regarding the merits of crony capitalism.
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The cover shows Johnson, a bland-looking man in full business attire, on the porch of an all-American home that looks a tad too small to be his.
Johnson appears on the cover.
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Like my real name couldn't be Pierre LeCluck.
No one is named Pierre LeCluck
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He calls his artists No Limit Soldiers.
He could not think of a name for the artists.
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(The magazine's own take is more There will be minor glitches but not wholesale societal collapse.)
How minor the glitches are will determine if there really is collapse or not.
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Last June, the Supreme Court ruled that political parties (as well as PACs, interest groups, and individuals) can make unlimited independent expenditures on behalf of candidates.
the Supreme Court ruling was 30-7.
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The writers had to make their points in terms that people of the time would understand.
The writers wrote using simple terminolgy.
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Then comes the CNN/ Time sarin story to prove the professionals deserve all the scrutiny anyone else can muster.
The CNN story is a good example of professionals overstepping their bounds and submitting poor quality work.
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Even his admirers admit he's dour and humorless.
He does not care what others think of him.
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But it won't do this because of some ancestral memory in the genes.
It will do this because it has no fears in its genes.
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(I'll buy a fax machine only when enough other people have them to make it worthwhile.)
They are also willing to buy a fax machine if they find one with a good discount.
neutral
The objective fact is that whatever you think of Mahathir, Malaysia has gotten away with its economic apostasy.
Malaysia brazenly disrupted trade between neighboring countries for its benefit.
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This means a housing strategy that shifts more decisively in the direction it has been inching under Clinton.
Clinton was overseeing the housing strategy.
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It is simple, dog-like gratitude for a reason to declare the presidential race more interesting.
There is no interest at all in the presidential race.
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As historian Richard John cleverly points out in Spreading the The American Postal System From Franklin to Morse , Tocqueville traveled by stage coach in the hinterland of Kentucky and Tennessee, remarking on the astonishing circulation of letters and newspapers among these savage woods.
Richard John is the only historian to have written about Tocqueville.
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But mostly there is the spectacle of technique brought to bear on form; and although this is a minimal definition of art, there is nothing minimal about the results.
The results are meaningless and should be disregarded.
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In addition, the unions sponsored voter guides and a get-out-the-vote campaign.
the unions promoted the voting-based campaign.
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Just as it has for New Jersey Nets fans and Whitewater conspiracists and foot fetishists, the Web has also given birth to a community of weather fanatics.
These people are not even scientists.
neutral
Chief among Will China preserve the rule of law and free speech, which are essential for business prosperity?
Many experts are concerned with China.
neutral
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 smarter than your average Joe.
neutral
Any nontechnologist ventures into the browser wars at his peril, but here is how I understand After initially missing the significance of the Internet, Microsoft has gone to the other extreme, designing Windows 95 so that it uses an Internetlike metaphor for everything.
Microsoft still wonders who produced Windows 95.
contradiction
(If that were my name, I might not want to talk about the scandal either.)
I wouldn't want to talk about the scandal if that were my name.
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Yes, the American people have a right to be skeptical.
The American people have been lied to before and that's why they should be skeptical.
neutral
I blame the ambiguous use of ellipses.
The author is pleased that ellipses are always used to mean the same thing.
contradiction
So fascinated that it ran not one, but two stories on the apparently bottomless topic, one in the Money and Business section and one in the Week in Review.
The story in the Money and Business section mentioned the finances of the topic.
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Those children who are struggling, and hence more likely to burden their parents (say, by returning to live with them), get extra help in the hope that they (the children) will become self-sufficient.
It's a burden for parents whose children return to live with them.
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That's why This Week panelist Linda Douglass picked Johann Gutenberg, the inventor of the printing press, as the man of the The written word enables us to preserve our laws.
Johann Gutenberg invented the printing press.
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Sure, the FDA's efforts are done in the name of kids.
the FDA makes no effort for the adolescents.
contradiction
An ecological theory of the kosher laws suggests that they're meant to proscribe animals who'd compete with us for the foods we need.
Many animals compete with us for needed food.
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This is a political as well as military project.
This project has more than one facet.
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That's what the Globe had to do last week for actress Bo Derek and her director husband, John.
Bo Derek is an actress, and her husband is a director.
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Deputy Attorney General Eric Holder, who suggested that the Justice Department, rather than a biased independent counsel, should investigate Baitgate.
Baitgate involves illegal fishing activities throughout the United States.
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When Dexter took over the King Center, the Atlanta-based nonprofit needed help.
The Kind Center is an Atlanta-based nonprofit.
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As long as G.W.'s policies remain ambiguous, every TV ad is a stealth Bush ad.
If G.W.'s policies remain ambiguous, every TV ad is a stealth Kerry ad.
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The general staff, for instance, has essentially forbidden Russia from talking to NATO.
Russia doesn't remember how to contact NATO.
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Rubin's relief for Americans has encouraged a moral hazard--an inducement for people to speculate excessively because they know the United States will rescue them.
Americans receiving financial relief from Rubin has caused people to speculate less, knowing their speculation caused the problem in the first place.
contradiction
Use the Hey, Granny, feeling lucky?
Granny likes to take risks.
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The technology might usefully be applied in local races, in which it's hard to sort out the platform of every potential state senator, judge, school board official, and city council member.
The technology definitely will not be useful in local races.
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Scientists are now convinced that a vast internal ocean is, or was recently, roiling the surface and providing the heat and chemicals necessary to create life.
Scientists thought they knew how the internal ocean system worked.
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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 Whitewater grand jury disbands on May 7, with videotape of her answers being shown to the jury before then.
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Compare Moyers with 60 Minutes , whose rough-and-tumble, ambush journalism is the antithesis of his.
Moyers has a rough-and-tumble approach to journalism.
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In that same year, it sold American Re, a reinsurer, to a German company for a profit of $1.
An american company sold Amreican Re to a german company.
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During the war, hawks who prized human rights and vigilance accused Clinton of going easy on the Serbs.
Clinton went easy on the Serbs, according to hawks.
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( explains what Greenspan really said.)
What was said by Greenspan was not explained at all and is left in mystery.
contradiction
There was a deeper The new ideas were immensely liberating, but at some point you can get too liberated.
A person can get a sense of being too liberated.
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But such a show would have meant the museum taking a hard look at its own, often controversial part in the art world.
The museum's place within the greater art world is wholly unremarkable.
contradiction
This all happened in real life--although the Rockettes weren't the real Rockettes and neither was the choir.
The Rockettes is a law stating nobody can eat corn on the cob in the state of New York.
contradiction
In other words, I write because I think it is right.
The author feels justified in their writing.
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Quota sampling assumes that the answers of a particular demographic group such as white, 18-to-25-year-old Internet users can be projected to describe the opinions of white 18-to-25-year-olds at large.
Quota sampling has nothing to do with demographics.
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Columnist Robert Novak , supply-side evangelist Jude Wanniski , and Jack Kemp have all praised Farrakhan's self-help program, noting the similarities to their own conservative urban policy.
Judy Wanniski as a religious person and an Evangelist.
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It works, maybe to a fault.
It working is the most important thing.
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We can stumble into a war with China over Taiwan very easily, warns Professor David Shambaugh of George Washington University.
Professor David Shambaugh is very worried about the threat of China.
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COKIE [ Nice try, slick ] : Handguns.
solid attempt, slick.
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(Read for Slate 's take on Jackson's findings.)
View this for Slate's point of view on Jackson's discovery.
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Consider the sex lives of older Americans.
People who are older are incapable of having sex.
contradiction
Critics are as frantic about saving their novel these days as they were about killing it 40 years ago.
Critics have always been frantic about saving their novels.
contradiction
And then there's everyone else in the city.
The city has been abandoned.
contradiction
We've also revamped our e-mail auto-deliveries to give you more choices.
There is a new auto-delivery email system.
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and that the Shopping Avenger would hear about this treatment and seek vengeance.
The Shopping Avenger got his vengenance.
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To protect your privacy, ask your bank to restrict access to your records and beg your member of Congress for legislative protections.
The author recommends trying to participate in the political process.
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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.
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The little bird is what told housewares manufacturers that teakettles could be a hot commercial item and led to the current proliferation.
Housewares manufacturers lost a lot of money when teakettles did not sell.
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After the treaty, they will fall into one of two 1) those that suffer economic sanctions and a clear-cut stigma, and 2) those that have agreed to allow short-notice inspections of any suspicious site in their territory.
The treaty allows the winning country to impose both of the punishments on the losers.
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Consequently, the Army can eliminate its weakest candidates--about one-half of blacks and one-third of whites--and still have a large number of blacks--about one-third of the Army.
A larger proportion of blacks than whites are eliminated by the Army.
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He feels liberated but looks like a man hugging a slot machine.
The man is enjoying himself and whatever is causing his ragged appearance.
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They arrived in the summer of 1996.
they surfaced in 1996.
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It's easy to imagine an election where Clinton is initially ahead of Dole, but a third party entry by, say, Jesse Jackson, pushes Dole ahead of Clinton.
Jesse Jackson is the favorite in the election.
contradiction
They trotted out numerous theories to establish the Kosovo mission's Air power alone had never won a war, the Serbs had proven their invincibility against Hitler, and negotiation backed by gradual military escalation had failed in Vietnam.
Kosovo and Vietnam never saw military action.
contradiction
Friday, we publish the weekend edition at about 11 a.m.
The weekend edition is posted at 11 am on Friday.
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Even liberal economists who are opposing the CPI adjustment understand how good the status quo is for the GOP.
The liberal economists are employed by the New York Times.
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A reporter from a major publication cornered me recently, and Nathan, I only have a couple of minutes.
I have hours of time to spare right now.
contradiction
Less than the cost of a small caliber bullet!
A small caliber bullet cost a fortune.
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This story will be around for the remainder of the Clinton presidency, claims Shields.
Shields is making a prediction about Clinton.
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I take my 15 cents and head for the liquor store.
They expected to have to panhandle a little because 15 cents wasn't enough to buy liquor.
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The race was notable for the last several laps, in which Earnhardt rode Gordon's bumper at 190 mph.
Nobody considered the race as anything of importance.
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And every tournament game receives this treatment.
The same rules apply to each game in the tournament
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By contrast, Mundell's writings since the early '70s have been discursive, one might almost say rambling, and often reveal a sort of hankering for the lost certainties of the gold standard.
The USA never lost the gold standard when it comes to the US dollar.
contradiction
Sexual harrassment isn't unknown among Republicans, either.
Sexual harassment happens in human society.
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