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Instead of equalizing things by scrapping the New York payment scheme, Congress decided to equalize things by nationalizing it. | Congress took the NYC payment scheme and made it national. | entailment |
Negotiations with the powerful postal unions begin in August, with contracts due to expire in November. | The postal unions contracts were renewed without negotiations. | contradiction |
The decline in the won would not immediately raise exports or limit imports. | Exports won't be increased, and imports won't be restricted. | entailment |
Any sure thing attracts too many hackneyed ideas, like Wolff's, and too much foolish money. | Wolff's ideas ended up costing a company a lot of money. | neutral |
It is hard to believe that people who have spent years, even decades, writing about economics are really so fuzzy-minded that they cannot see the difference between protecting consumers from tainted produce and protecting workers from competing products. | People who understand economics should be able to see the difference. | entailment |
Newsweek claims 2 p.m. to 8 p.m. has become crime time for American teen-agers. | Newsweek claims American teens are committing no crime. | contradiction |
Unless you can go back in time, cutting the tax rate on existing capital gains cannot possibly increase investment in productive resources. | Most investors see productive resources as being poor returns on investment. | neutral |
I'm about as big a media hound as anyone, McCain told one newspaper, but I've turned down at least 500--maybe 600 or 700--requests to go on talk shows on this issue. | The author consumes a lot of media. | entailment |
Nero was emperor until 70 A.D. | Nero was not the emperor after 70 A.D. | entailment |
As usual, Washington Week doesn't get around to the week's real thing (Flytrap) until the closer. | Washington Week always saves top stories for the end. | neutral |
According to Newsweek , Clinton attorney David Kendall is gathering dirt about Lewinsky's mendacity and presidential obsession. | David Kendall is digging up dirt on Lewinsky because Clinton told him to do so. | neutral |
By making a tax dispute the putative reason for invading a planet, Lucas merely transposed historical events that Americans ought to be familiar with. | Lucas used themes that can be understood by many modern people. | entailment |
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. | The problems at ABC were easily solved. | contradiction |
And has the following point been made on the Op-Ed that Arianna Huffington and Warren Beatty have chosen to attack centrist Democrats as cynical sellouts who ignore American poverty just when, according to the Census Bureau, those cynical centrists are making the greatest strides against poverty that have been made in... | In an article, Arianna Huffington and Warren Beatty are attacking a political affiliation on their stance on poverty. | entailment |
I was greatly encouraged to see Michael Goff's proposal of a Microsoft fashion-upgrade strategy, titled Dressing Up the Nerds. | Microsoft does not like the work of Michael Goff. | contradiction |
Government-mandated integration is wrong, he writes, because any endorsement of racial preferences is immoral. | The government should force integration and the endorsement of races, he writes. | contradiction |
Praising President Clinton for his federal transportation law to upgrade U.S. highways, the paper said that without a similar effort on our part, American superhighway traffic will come grinding to a halt at the Canadian border. | The U.S. is already working on the highway upgrades. | neutral |
Re Paste Test: I'll have to put the hex on Colgate Total. | He needs to put a hex on Colgate Total. | entailment |
Is it Christmas in Tel Aviv or New Year's Eve in Manhattan? | It is Christmas tonight. | neutral |
But why should Bradley shut up about the Clinton-Gore fund-raising scandal? | Bradley doesn't believe there was a scandal in the Clinton-Gore fund-raiser. | contradiction |
This path has been smoothed by the nihilism of those Arab intellectuals--including Said--who prefer utopian dreams to a view of politics as the art of compromise. | Said's opinions are becoming more mainstream. | neutral |
The Slate 60 list still serves to encourage and acknowledge extraordinary generosity by people who, after all, don't have to give the money away, however painless that might be. | For some giving away money is painless. | entailment |
I believe the public wants solutions that work, not attacks that divide, says Bradley. | Bradley makes derogatory comments and remarks against his opponent. | contradiction |
As soon as I announced a uniform price of $5, my neighbor would announce a price of $4. | This pricing war devolved into a physical conflict between the neighbors. | neutral |
If you want to know what a real myth is, don't bother with synergy. | The author promotes synergy as a business goal. | contradiction |
It's silly that this is all such a guessing game. | I love to play guessing games. | contradiction |
But, hey, where is the millennium? | It is problematic that the location of the millennium is unclear. | neutral |
It seems no one can stand this, and whenever we encounter friends or relatives, they invariably ask personal questions to try to get each of us to speak ill of the other. | We always speak ill of each other. | neutral |
In any case, if I had actually been interested in buying the print, with the help of the Web, I would have been in a far better position to negotiate a favorable price. | In other situations I could have been in a better position to negotiate. | entailment |
The rice was light and cooked to perfection, and the vegetables were nicely steamed in a complex sauce that blended the subtle flavors of curry, coconut milk, and basil. | The food was made with more than two ingredients. | entailment |
There's a sore on his right pinky finger, a raw spot, flesh rubbed off to blood against the oak, from where he was clawing the chair. | The man is not hurt anywhere on his body. | contradiction |
Now it stands to monopolize it, thanks to its ad dollars and its friends in the media. | It is successful due to the ad money and media. | entailment |
This brings soft money and other much criticized practices under scrutiny. | There is a concept referred to as soft money. | entailment |
But in fact the money quickly disappeared, as speculators--certainly including the oligarchs themselves--converted rubles into dollars as fast as the dollars became available. | The speculators converted their rubles into dollars. | entailment |
I am generally a fan of Michael Kinsley's, but I must take issue with his recent article, Social From Ponzi Scheme to Shell Game. | Michael Kinsley recently wrote an article discussing financial malfeasance. | entailment |
Although critics find Cities of the Plain less inventive than All the Pretty Horses and The Crossing , they still celebrate McCarthy's Faulkneresque use of flowing, punctuationless sentences and arcane language. | McCarthy was thankful the critics didn't thoroughly trash her product. | neutral |
The critics are dying to Is the 5-month old girl adopted or not? | The girl is, in fact, adopted. | neutral |
Some evidence from public records is suggestive. | Some evidence from public records suggests nothing special. | contradiction |
Publishers regularly write bonuses into contracts to factor in the possibility that a book will makes the Times list. | No book has ever made the Times list. | contradiction |
Ian Fleming's James Bond was a snob and a lightweight. | There were many critics of Ian Fleming's James Bond from the very start. | neutral |
Paying homage to the great war photographer's courage and talent, he nonetheless notes the conflicting stories of the photo's origins, Capa's own silence about the image in his writings, and other writers' questions. | The war photographer had a lot of courage and talent. | entailment |
Weegee's Life, Death, and the Human Drama (International Center of Photography Midtown, New York City). | Although having passed away, Weegee's life contained its share of drama. | entailment |
He and Els were on the 17 th green, tied at 4 under. | Els had just a short putt left for par on the 17th green. | neutral |
I'm from a small country [New Zealand], but I don't see what we are doing here as a threat to our sovereignty. | New Zealand is a small country. | entailment |
The motivation of adventurers everywhere is to achieve something no one else has achieved and to derive the pleasure that arises from that--and, not incidentally, to get famous by writing books about it. | Fame motivates all adventurers. | neutral |
Time has fresh shots of an anguished Ethel and a plaintive Rory Kennedy. | Time published these photos recently. | neutral |
Professional storytellers find this particularly vexing. | This is the second most troublesome thing that storytellers have to deal with. | neutral |
The most commonly stolen models are Honda Accords and Toyota Camrys. | Smaller, more numerous cars are more likely to be stolen. | neutral |
The Globe reports that both singer Tom Jones and actor Hugh O'Brian have unacknowledged sons. | Tom Jones and High O'Brian have unacknowledged sons. | entailment |
Thanks to computers, however, investment banks now offer a vast array of financial instruments, and hedging has become much easier. | Investment banks are not allowed by the SEC to hedge on investments. | contradiction |
This is the resentful perception so many mainstream feminists seem stuck in today. | Many mainstream feminists seem to be resentful. | entailment |
One profession's sophistry foils the other's cowardice. | The professions are very shady. | neutral |
The cover story attributes teen-agers' mercurial behavior to underdeveloped brains. | Teenagers aren't smart. | neutral |
But what does it mean? | It has been forgotten. | contradiction |
By the way, the LAT story cannot just refer to the World Wide Web--oh no, it has to explain that this is a popular Internet graphical network, encompassing some 62 million Americans, that is revolutionizing business and education. | The LAT story is extremely important for the fields of business and education. | entailment |
Second, with each of those lost sales, it loses a potential user of Internet Explorer. | They were not successful in getting every customer. | entailment |
In response to one of the proposed symptoms, Spitzer's wife protested, I do that sometimes, and Spitzer responded, OK, take it out. | Spitzer always listens to his wife. | neutral |
Furthermore, the filmed sequence closes out the event, and gives viewers an opportunity to shrug it off. | The filmed sequence gives the viewers a chance to shrug off the event. | entailment |
I put $75 on the New England Patriots as a 2.5-point underdog and $50 on a Boston Red Sox playoff game against the Cleveland Indians. | A bet of $500 was placed. | contradiction |
Even if they use the meat. | They would use the meat to make a stew. | neutral |
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. | Another This Week panelist picked Alexander Graham Bell. | neutral |
The assumption is that private investors who buy and sell won are depressing its value below its equilibrium rate. | Private investors helped boost the value above it's usual rate. | contradiction |
The mere thought of farming dogs for fur nauseates you. | the dog fur trading business is big in Australia. | neutral |
The Di news continues as both mags chronicle the life and final drunken hours of Di driver Henri Paul. | Henry Paul wasn't a driver from Di. | contradiction |
So the argument is that putting some of the money in stocks will make the trust fund more profitable and avoid, or at least put off, the day it runs out of money. | Many advisers will tell you to put money into stocks. | neutral |
The Times can't very well send reporters snooping around after colleagues in the same newsroom. | The Times employs a group of reporters. | entailment |
But aren't education, family leave, and the breakdown of community economic issues? | Education, family leave and community breakdowns are not connected to economics. | contradiction |
The rules we've always had is that politics stop at the shore, one senior White House official said, speaking on the condition of anonymity. | No officials provided comment for the article. | contradiction |
Don't let the philosophy of Gingrich ... | The author wants Gingrich to influence you. | contradiction |
Monica moves to the Pentagon, but the relationship intermittently continues. | Monica transfers to the Pentagon and the relationship continues with irregularity. | entailment |
There is no pretense that this is about tourism or about a nice night out or this is entertainment. | While it's not about entertainment, it is entertaining. | neutral |
When you wanted to shop, you went to the mall and confined your search to the stores you found there. | you stayed at the mall so long, it closed before you finished shopping. | neutral |
But Weld blew this moral advantage by attacking Helms July 15. | Weld wants to be considered for an ambassador position. | neutral |
Chief among Will China preserve the rule of law and free speech, which are essential for business prosperity? | China has been questioned if they would preserve the rule of law and free speech. | entailment |
Kill 'em with kindness, and they don't know where to look. | Kindness solves all problems. | neutral |
Let me send it back over to you to address some of them. | The item was perfect and needs no revision. | contradiction |
In the spirit of the ongoing pile-on on journalists, I have to argue that journalists are to blame for rock pomposity. | I find that journalists are always selfless and tell the true story. | contradiction |
If Chernomyrdin succeeds in convincing Milosevic to accept enough of NATO's demands to guarantee some sort of deal, he will go down in domestic political history as the man who sold out Serbia. | if Chernomyrdin is believable, and Milosevic accepts, he's gonna be labelled a traitor. | entailment |
Vice President Gore is on the hot seat in the campaign-finance investigation . The Washington Post reported that some of the money Gore raised in phone calls from the White House went to the Clinton-Gore campaign (hard money) instead of the Democratic National Committee (soft money). | The Chicago Tribune is the newspaper that made the report. | contradiction |
Even his admirers admit he's dour and humorless. | His sense of humor is his biggest strength. | contradiction |
But the racism charge isn't quirky or wacky--it's demagogy. | This is the third of these racism charges that have been made this year. | neutral |
Appealing as that position might sound, it's also suspiciously incoherent. | The position was described incoherently because upper management is making up their own positions in the company now. | neutral |
Rain will fall from Idaho to Georgia. | The rain that is going to fall within the United States is predicted to be acid rain. | contradiction |
The tide has turned so much that one might wonder whether Wilson needs to make such a fuss about the unity of knowledge. | Wilson was not pleased with what was happening regarding the unity of knowledge. | entailment |
But at crucial moments in these movies the vampire always seems to forget he has these powers and ends up wrestling around on the floor of a dusty convent or abandoned factory with the earth-bound hero. | The strange decision to have the vampire fight the hero physically is a well-loved trope among fans of these movies. | neutral |
American companies have claimed that the launches helped the United States more than China. | No country benefits when launches occur. | contradiction |
Hispanics, Asians, even African and Caribbean blacks, are by and large following the classic patterns of immigrant and ethnic assimilation. | Hispanics, Asians, even African and Caribbean blacks have remained firm in maintaining their cultural customs. | contradiction |
(If you want to see the original of the pose, you can cross the Mall to the National Gallery, where Jacques-Louis David's 1812 Napoleon in His Study hangs.) | Art is located in the National Gallery. | entailment |
He retaliated by filing one against her. | He lacked the means to file anything himself. | contradiction |
And while we allow people to give a kidney to their child, we do not allow them to donate their heart. | You cannot donate a piece of your heart to a child. | neutral |
Also, studies showed that, at the lower, pasteurization doses, radiation does not degrade nutrients. | When used in lower amounts, the nutrients become lower quality. | contradiction |
I suppose you could argue that a best-dressed list encourages women to dress more beautifully or that a list of the greatest works of journalism of the 20 th century will motivate those who didn't make it to try a bit harder during the next 100 years. | A local columnist has criticized best-dressed lists saying that they encourage shallowness. | neutral |
The rules are very clear. | The rules are easy to understand. | entailment |
The Washington Post says that Republicans will encourage unity by allowing Smith to retain his committee chairmanship and caucus membership. | Smith is leading a financial committee. | neutral |
Ironically, there's a certain Blame America First quality to their argument. | their argument also seems to blame China. | neutral |
If he vetoes that, the president will have shut down the government. | There is no chance that the president utilizes his veto power. | contradiction |
Suppose Shepard is right that we are understating productivity growth by, say, 1 percent. | Shepard claims we are understating productivity growth by 1 percent. | neutral |
And while Lewis believes Said to be motivated by a crude anti-Western leftist animus, Ahmad finds him altogether too enamored of the canons of European literature and avers that Said possesses a very conservative mind, essentially Tory in its structure. | Lewis and Ahmad agree on Said's political views. | contradiction |
A story says that there is still virtually no evidence linking the Sudanese pharmaceutical plant bombed by the United States last year to chemical weapons production or terrorist Osama Bin Laden. | Everybody universally blames Osama bin Laden for the attack. | contradiction |
You know, it's not a bad idea to close the windows when it rains. | Closing the window is a bad idea when it rains. | contradiction |
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