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Another favorite Republican cause is the Small Business Administration, which exists to make loans to companies that banks deem nonviable. | Banks will often deny loans to companies they deem nonviable. | entailment |
This, he contends, is a symbol of the decline of community spirit and the rise of atomistic individualism. | There is no contention that individualism is rising while collectivism falls. | contradiction |
They cite AFL-CIO officials who claim the organization spent $35 million on a radio-and-television ad campaign alone. | The officials claim to spend $35 million on an ad campaign. | entailment |
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. | McCain always agrees to go on every talk show who asks for his time. | contradiction |
The Old 97's take their name from The Wreck of the Old 97, a song popularized by Vernon Dalhart in 1924. | The Old 97's derive their name from an old war movie. | contradiction |
PointCast responded with a piece of software for companies' central computers designed to minimize its own impact. | PointCast produces software. | entailment |
What makes the exhibition truly dreary, however, is the pretense that it's daring, when really it's an exercise in intellectual conformity. | Being daring makes the exhibition truly dreary. | contradiction |
Museum of Jewish A Living Memorial to the Holocaust (New York City). | There's Jewish museum in New York City | neutral |
Storr makes large claims for these paintings, seeing them as the first successful attempt to systematize the 'allover' painting invented by Pollock and Rothko. | Storr systematized impressionist paintings. | contradiction |
The pictures' precariousness, their de Kooningness, has unmistakably begun to leak away. | The pictures were slowly no longer viewed as precarious. | entailment |
The healing of the Gifford marriage is now complete, and Frank will never cheat again. | Frank will cheat as soon as he gets the chance because his marriage is failed. | contradiction |
(And, incidentally, sneering comparisons are a big part of the next round of SATs. | Each round of the SATs is more difficult than the previous round. | neutral |
I would take an expression in the Oval Office of 'Dear God, Help Me,' Bush responded. | Bush responded to a question. | entailment |
I don't know, but I'll bet Joan Didion does. | Joan Didion might have the information we seek. | entailment |
The fully cynical The joke is on us, because the building faithfully reflects Reagan's continuation of big government, despite his rhetoric. | Many people agreed with Reagan's rhetoric. | neutral |
Like Mark Twain, who said that suicide is the only sane thing the young or old ever do in this life, we imagine that the elderly and the ill desire death rationally. | Mark Twain had many thought provoking quotes. | neutral |
The Wall Street Journal noted that liquor-industry executives are disgruntled with the ban because it prevents them from competing on the tube with beer companies. | Executives in the liquor industry are angry because the ban means they can't compete with beer companies. | entailment |
An article says that if you were alive in 1000, you probably would have been a miserable peasant. | The main reason the peasants were miserable is that they had to work long hours tending crops. | neutral |
But a small item in the WP 's TV column makes you wonder even about It seems that UPN has ordered up a full season of episodes for the virtually all-black Moesha, which as of last Sunday, the paper reports, ranked 124th among the 139 series on the air. | Moesha was canceled after half a season. | contradiction |
Perhaps so, but in that case somebody should tell this to Joel Klein, the assistant attorney general in charge of the antitrust division. | No one should tell Joel Klein about this. | contradiction |
That culture and those values, however, are not intrinsic to people of Chinese descent; they are transmitted--or not. | Culture and values mean nothing to people from China. | contradiction |
God how I love this country. | He loves this country. | entailment |
The little identifying cards psychologist Gordon sets beside each item display an impressive mastery of the manipulative arts. | the psychologist fails to impress. | contradiction |
Hammerschmidt-Hummel, working with a team of scientists using advanced photographic techniques, found close similarities between the mask and a famous bust of Shakespeare, which she believes was copied from it. | Hammerschmidt-Hummel worked in cooperation with a group of scientists. | entailment |
Every computer Apple makes costs a lot to make. | The computers made by Apple cost a lot to make. | entailment |
It's an odd maxim for a man whose work is dedicated to the idea that the way to amass wealth is to take it, not create it. | The man dedicated his work to the concept of taking wealth. | entailment |
A Time story says the electric-car movement is running out of juice. | The EV sector's bubble is about to burst. | neutral |
But Rodgers did tell Lewis that he despises Amelio because Amelio supported Clinton, so it is Rodgers' mistake, not our author's, that we are correcting. | Amelio supports Clinton because it angers Rodgers. | neutral |
Don Michael Randel, currently provost at Cornell University, has been selected to succeed Hugo Sonnenschein, who stepped down in June. | Hugo Sonnenschein is retiring due to health concerns. | neutral |
So given sufficient foresight, the prospect of a 1980 punishment hurts the 1950 owners, even if they sell in the interim. | There are no 1950 owners. | contradiction |
After they're caught, they disappear for awhile, then re-emerge, apologize for their venality (usually to Larry King), and retake their place in the pantheon. | Avoiding the public eye for a while and a subsequent public apology seems enough to placate the masses. | entailment |
Maybe then you won't be too good to ride in an exploding Chevy. | You will be so good to ride in an exploding Chevy. | contradiction |
Clinton's partisans have linked Starr to Jesse Helms, Jerry Falwell, and other bogeymen. | Partisans on Clinton's behalf haven't been able to link Starr to anyone of noteworthiness. | contradiction |
Carter, the family's patriarch, was certifiably rural; he grew up in southwestern Virginia's Poor Valley. | Carter also milked cows in his free time. | neutral |
, and appeared here in 1977. | The object of interest came into view in the year | entailment |
The leading example of such an auction is the stock market. | Stocks of companies are sold on the stock market. | entailment |
Newsweek lambastes the president for diplomatic errors and missed opportunities: Security advisers originally told the administration to offer President Slobodan Milosevic a face-saving compromise; when action became inevitable, they recommended strengthening NATO's military threat; finally, as airstrikes began, they u... | The airstrikes did not happened they were postponed due to hazard weather conditions. | contradiction |
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... | People make decisions primarily due to their sense of mortality. | neutral |
I'm no economist, but I believe this is the point President Clinton intends to make in Tokyo tomorrow. | Coming from someone that isn't an economist, President Clinton is trying to make a point in Tokyo tomorrow. | entailment |
Costly error or painful recriminations lie on either side of my position. | The errors are the result of others' actions, not the authors. | neutral |
But on all these, the basic principle is the same. | The basic principle does not apply to these. | contradiction |
I waiteduntil I heard the outside door clank shutbefore I followed. | There is an outside door which can shut. | entailment |
Gibson chronicles his long degradation but can't begin to explain it. | Gibson explained the minute details of his descent. | contradiction |
The idea that Italy and Greece object to ground troops and therefore we shouldn't do what is necessary to win this war, is, in my view, ridiculous, protested Bill Kristol on This Week . But what's the definition of winning? | Bill Kristol characterized Italy and Greece's objection to ground troops as ridiculous. | entailment |
Get With It, Ye of Little Faith | Those that get with it will drastically increase their faith. | neutral |
In fact, it may well be that News Corp., which is building a national competitor to ESPN by stringing together a series of local sports networks, is more likely to work for the best interests of the game as a whole. | It's likely that News Corp will work for the best interests as a whole. | entailment |
In the Washington Post , Archer accuses Democrats of supporting big government on autopilot and argues that the cuts epitomize compassionate conservatism. | Archer is a member of the Republican Party. | entailment |
I also know of one man who waited until Statistical Science agreed to publish the article before circumcising his son. | The man benefited from allowing the article to get published. | neutral |
There isn't really anything on the other side. | The other side has a lot. | contradiction |
Anything, she concluded as long as I am not a Washington journalist in the era of Clinton and Gingrich and Starr, covering this horrible grudge match between the right and the left that has been building since Watergate. | Being a journalist in Washington is an easy job. | contradiction |
Issue 3, the viability of the long-suffering tobacco bill, confounds everyone. | Everyone is confused by the viability tobacco bill. | neutral |
Rebuffing these lower classes when they could have beguiled them, the Whigs made potential friends into enemies. | The Whigs treated the lower class with the utmost respect. | contradiction |
Then Lehman hit into the rough by the 16 th green and lost a stroke. | A golfball entered the rough. | entailment |
The Globe quotes a Kathie Lee interview in USA Today in which she explains We stayed home. | There is an Kathie Lee quote in The Globe. | entailment |
When we're there, however, she spends a large part of the evening on the phone or on the computer. | Facebook is her favorite app on the phone. | neutral |
It works, maybe to a fault. | It failed at it's task. | contradiction |
Among the most fierce hatreds of teens (probably right after public humiliation and rejection) is of hypocrisy | Teen girls hate public humiliation more than teen boys. | neutral |
An entire six pack. | An entire six pack of Bud Light. | neutral |
He would take notes on his yellow pad and sum up the sense of our meetings in an orderly manner, as he had always done. | His pad was the same color as the sky on cloudy day. | contradiction |
Regarding Onward, Christian Clothiers: I often wonder if the peddlers of religious schlock have actually read any Scripture beyond the gory here's hell in your face passages. | Onward is a movie in the drama genre. | neutral |
If so, it seems to have worked. | It seems like the action in question worked. | entailment |
And, of course, hospitals have squeezed as much profit as possible out of insurers, billing for everything they can. | Hospitals are justified in the amounts they try to recoup from insurers. | neutral |
Whites who never practiced discrimination are nonetheless beneficiaries of it. | If a white person doesn't discriminate then discrimination doesn't benefit them at all. | entailment |
The private quarters, a k a the residence, occupy the second and third floors of the White House. | The private quarters of the White House take up a single floor. | contradiction |
Sometimes it's because there are nonmarket goods involved--the high value people place on personal safety, national security, a clean environment, or social welfare. | People value personal safety, national security, and a clean environment. | entailment |
And manufactured exports, initially based on low wages, are the only route we know for rapid economic development. | There is only one known route for rapid economic development. | entailment |
The site is actually no longer at the address that Direct Hit found to be most visited (a common problem with search engines). | Direct Hit is a reliable and trustworthy source of information. | neutral |
As she leaned over the counter to hand me my purchase, it became clear that her lingerie preference was none at all. | I could see the color of her underwear. | contradiction |
In a market of 10,000 stocks, short-term prices will rise and fall for an infinite variety of reasons, very few of which have anything to do with a company's real productivity or value. | There are many variables at play when you consider the stock market. | entailment |
But none of these revelations improves the case that Hollywood Communism was a significant threat to democracy. | Hollywood has produced many movies about communism. | neutral |
Tobey sketched spinach hawkers and bums at the downtown Pike Place Public Market and was sometimes mistaken for one. | Tobey made a profit from selling his sketches. | neutral |
Lost in the managed-care rumble is this Why do employers provide health insurance in the first place? | A lot of people are wondering why employers provide health insurance. | neutral |
Pols spend their dotage as think tank scholars or consultants or part-time lobbyists ( Bob Dole) and are trotted out periodically for sage commentary. | Once politicians are no longer in office they are put out to pasture and no longer offer anything to the next generation. | contradiction |
Critics applaud rookie Belgian director Alan Berliner's film, about a 7-year-old boy who yearns to be a girl, for giving an inside report ... | Alan Berliner's film about a 7-year-old boy was well received by the critics. | entailment |
Its language pointedly avoids accusing him of perjury or obstruction of justice. | the language steers clear of blaming him of perjury. | entailment |
Of course, the extreme in men's dress is the dinner jacket. | Nothing is more extreme than a polkadot men's dinner jacket. | neutral |
Check out our newest feature, Ask Bill Barnes. | There is now a feature which is associated with Bill Barnes. | entailment |
The last national gambling commission was in the mid-1970s. | The national gambling commission has been running strong since the 1870s. | contradiction |
Since the 1991 cease-fire, U.N. inspectors have largely disarmed Saddam's nuclear, chemical, and biological arsenal, using random inspections and surveillance cameras to do their work. | Saddam has been losing his nuclear, chemical, and biological arsenal. | entailment |
Or go the other way and revive Al Gore's sagging fortunes with a time-honored sitcom helper--big campaign closer--a wedding! | Al Gore is having a wedding. | contradiction |
Politicians get away with advertising bogus family bliss | Politicians never produce ads about family life. | contradiction |
It is distressing that in this time of AIDS it could still be said that Kinsey's passionate interest in human sexuality could only be the product of perversion. | .Kinsey's is passionate about human sexuality. | entailment |
How do we tell them to get out of our house without causing family problems? | Everyone knows how to tell them to leave without causing family problems. | contradiction |
He gropes female guests, watches porn, drinks monstrously, smokes more, and uses drugs. | he's decided to stay sober, keep his nose clean, and stay away from women. | contradiction |
Maybe he is a feel-good optimist or maybe the answers are really simpler than our unnecessarily complex world would like to believe, but either way, the Dalai Lama is one of the few people in the world whom I can legitimately not feel cynical about. | The Dalai Lama is an symbol of peace and harmony. | entailment |
There was evidence that life was present just as soon as the planet cooled and solidified. | The planet has always been a ball of hot gas. | contradiction |
As a result of these huge authorial efforts, Big Trouble is bigger than it had to be. | Big Trouble will only get bigger. | neutral |
One is The old neighborhoods are breaking up, and it's the old neighborhoods that produced the mob farm teams. | The old neighborhoods are coming together. | contradiction |
If you are worried about that story, it means one of two things. | Not being worried has its own implications. | neutral |
The Company Man has been replaced by a fiercely independent gang of free agents, new nomads, and globalists, who write their own job descriptions, schedules, and rules. | It was the Company Man's inability to adapt that cost him his job. | neutral |
At that Flytrap moment, Ken Starr had won 11 legal victories and lost none. | Ken Starr had no defeats at the time. | entailment |
News remains wary, doubting the chances for a continuing, multidecade boom. | The news has always had doubts of their success. | neutral |
In this context, it's hard to know what makes a kaffeeklatsch odd. | Kaffeeklatsch are strange. | entailment |
Moral indignation over the incident was almost overshadowed by disbelief that nobody had noticed her condition. | Everybody had observed her condition. | contradiction |
As we know from the Oscars, it's the sanctimonious stuff that gets rewarded. | The Oscars teach us that it's the well-grounded things that get rewarded. | contradiction |
Romantics will warm to further Enquirer disclosures. | Enquirer disclosures attracts romantics. | entailment |
Jane Friedman, Katrina van den Heuvel (her dress had literally no back; she looked fabbelus !), Salman (you must say Salman, I have heard, and how many writers have achieved first-name status in our time? | Katrina van den Heuvel looked fabulous in her dress. | entailment |
If you take a closer look, though, you notice that instead of Klimt's erotic glamour, which hints at dangerous passions unleashed by the unconscious, Close's doodles depict doughnuts, hot dogs, and lozenges. | Close was known to draw images of common foods. | entailment |
We will continue to consider it, says Jack Ludwig, vice president and research director at Gallup. | Jack Ludwig doesn't take any advice. | contradiction |
(Nine-tenths of a second, unfortunately, was how long his name remained in my memory.) | His name started with the letter J. | neutral |
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