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In the '60s and '70s, rumors of Sinatra's Mob ties were family entertainment. | Sinatra did not make news in the '60s and '70s. | contradiction |
It discourages close scrutiny and too many questions. | People are encouraged to look into the facts and determine for themselves what is the truth. | contradiction |
Nearing the end of my trip, I realize that my observations have been largely about race. | The author became aware of his own observations. | entailment |
During the Asia, Russia, and Brazil crises, Rubin constructed bailout deals that benefited outside creditors above all. | Rubin's deals were very effective. | neutral |
Twenty-five years ago, Pennsylvania pinball machines displayed this for entertainment purposes only. | The pinball machines were displayed for entertainment purposes. | entailment |
According to psychologist David Keirsey, you are one of Plato's four types, you were born that way, you will always be that way, and you can find out which one you are by taking the temperament sorter quiz on his Web site. | You may not be one of Plato's four types. | contradiction |
I have bitten my tongue all week, but I finally said something to the brat. | The brat was speaking their mind all week long. | neutral |
As Chatterbox pointed out in his earlier item, movie tickets are fundamentally inexpensive , so you aren't going to lure many more people into seeing, say, Eyes Wide Shut by slashing the already low price of first-run admission. | Chatterbox thinks that genre plays no part in luring more people into seeing movies. | neutral |
Bush was asked no questions about education and only one about welfare. | Bush received more questions on foreign policy than welfare. | neutral |
Get rid of all guns? | No one ever questioned whether to get rid of all the guns. | contradiction |
The wet wool smell of your uncles in their Eaton's sweaters and army surplus peacoats and shredded wheat for breakfast and thin ice on the tide pools and diesel as the engines kick in. | Your uncles smell like wet wool. | entailment |
After a great Moyers show, viewers nod in agreement. | The viewers watched the show live. | 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 is free of charge. | entailment |
If you missed the demonstration that either diGenova or Toensing was the original source for the Dallas Morning News report about a Secret Service agent who witnessed Clinton and Lewinsky in a compromising situation, click here. | Hillary Clinton loved reading this report. | contradiction |
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 has been under way for the past two years. | neutral |
The difference is that whereas campaign finance is an immensely complicated problem that can only be fixed with changes in the law, the Augean stables of K Street could be cleaned up pretty easily if anyone cared. | The American public has taken a keen interest in the behavior of K Street firms. | contradiction |
If one thinks Ken Starr is out of control, the other, ideally, should argue that Bill Clinton knifes people and buries their bodies in the White House basement. | Someone might think Ken Starr is out of control. | entailment |
One Because they're cyber sages. | The author argues only one is needed because they are virtual sages. | entailment |
Bending over backward to show how sensitive they can be, they forget that violence--even if it's just emotional violence--belongs in ordinary dramas, too. | Dramas lack any feeling except violent ones. | contradiction |
In her memoir, Stranger at the Party (1975), she quotes the New York Daily Mirror on the news that he was sentenced to six-to-10 in Sing Harlem is in a state of rejoicing that his reign of terror is over. | Stranger at the Party was a best seller book. | neutral |
For example, I've heard many agents complain of having to revoke the parole of guys who failed a drug test but who were not, in the agent's best judgment, doing anything more than getting high. | Agents have never revoked parole due to dug test results. | contradiction |
Restore national controls over global capital. | Control of global capital needs to be done on a national level. | neutral |
Staying on that show is like staying in an abusive marriage. | It is miserable being on the show. | entailment |
Slate as easily in Rwanda as in Redmond, so perhaps the rule should be that every Web site must follow the laws of its home country, and no other. | Websites are not bound by any laws. | contradiction |
As it happens, right now the deal isn't looking as great for Lucasfilm as it originally did. | The deal for Lucasfilm is better than people thought. | contradiction |
In the end, Mayakovsky is stuck in a kind of zoo, where curious people come to watch him do unhealthy things. | Mayakovsky is seen by people. | entailment |
The rest of the night was no better. | It was also raining. | neutral |
Truly, I believe the country is in the best of hands, but how do I rid myself of these impure thoughts? | I am concerned about the future of the country. | neutral |
But the value of Japanese manufacturing practices was, if anything, understated. | The numbers regarding Japanese manufacturing practices were inflated. | contradiction |
In biotechnology, as in telecommunications, intellectual-property law remains at an embryonic stage. | Biotechnology is a burgeoning sector and lawmakers will need to regulate eventually. | neutral |
Personal pronouns anchor the headlines as they drive home an idea James and Dewey would have welcomed--the USA as one big first-person-plural community. | James and Dewey would have appreciated the USA as a community based on personal pronouns. | entailment |
Consilience is, in any case, an excellent book. | The book Consilience is an amazing book. | entailment |
Before long, however, many of these projects went bust, and Nelson had to turn to his family for financial assistance to ward off bankruptcy. | Nelson was fortunate that only one of his projects was a failure. | contradiction |
Or, to the extent that it really means keep the government out, it sounds like an attempt by the earlier settlers of the new domain to monopolize its structure at the expense of later comers who wish to play by a different set of rules in some portion of that space. | Everybody came to the new domain at the same time. | contradiction |
Apparently the Globe subscribes to the theory that incessant posthumous prying (They hadn't slept together for 12 months screamed one recent John-and-Carolyn cover) is just the thing for those trying to rest in peace. | The Globe put a story about a dead person on their front of their newspaper. | neutral |
The Dayton Accord separates the country into two the Muslim-dominated Bosnian Federation and the Serbian Republika Srpska. | The Dayton Accord is a special car. | contradiction |
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). | It is okay for fundrasied monies to be placed into the wrong accounts for political fundraisers. | neutral |
( Post defectors include Celestine Bohlen, Gwen Ifill, Julia Preston, Michael Specter, Patrick Tyler, Patti Cohen, and David Richards--who defected back. | While rumors swirled, it turns out there were no walkouts at The Post after all. | contradiction |
A better explanation is that males' reproductive fate depends more strongly than females' on competing when they are young. | Females don't compete to reproduce. | neutral |
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. | Whites composed the largest racial group in the Army. | neutral |
Investigators are examining whether mobsters diverted funds--including foreign aid--out of the country through an offshore network built by a former International Monetary Fund official. | Mobsters diverted these funds in order to avoid paying taxes. | neutral |
Why hasn't natural selection corrected the immune system's misguided response? | Immune system responses tend to be misguided against certain diseases. | neutral |
Of course, with airstrikes on Iraq, U.S. embassies on alert for terrorist attacks, and an impeachment vote looming on the Hill, you may just want to keep the set tuned to CNN. | CNN is the best news station. | neutral |
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 often inconvenient to filmmakers in their movies. | neutral |
In either case, stripped to its essentials, a left-of-center program seeks to help the less prosperous at the expense of everybody else (i.e. | The program helps to aid those less fortunate. | entailment |
In that same year, it sold American Re, a reinsurer, to a German company for a profit of $1. | One company sold a business to another for a tiny profit. | entailment |
Maybe it's been a while since Bode has partied till 4 a.m., but to Pundit Central 's eyes the models look like nothing more sinister than extremely tired and slender party trash, not emaciated junkies. | Pundit Central does not believe that the models have serious drug problems. | entailment |
The distinction blurs a bit in Fantastic Voyage, the movie where Raquel Welch was part of a medical team shrunk to microscopic size and injected into the body of some guy with a brain tumor. | Raquel Welch was the star of the movie Fantastic Voyage. | neutral |
But if you look at the international monetary literature when Mundell was in his glory days, you get the impression that he was 15 or 20 years ahead of his contemporaries. | Mundell was way above his peers. | entailment |
Prudie, too, has lived through this a few times. | Prudie has experienced the same situation several times in the past. | entailment |
Meanwhile, if you believe in the domestication of animals as pets, that's a personal choice. | No person has ever even considered keeping a domesticated animal without a specific job, as some sort of pet. | contradiction |
Business Week 's Amy Cortese calls the book a fascinating cautionary tale of the way money is shoveled at bad, but hyped, projects. | Amy Cortese is self-employed. | contradiction |
So, who's hungry? | Someone is hungry. | neutral |
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 have even more influence now then they did than ever before. | contradiction |
Didion, in other words, has written a fast-paced story, not just her usual series of fractured stories. | Didion uses the same pace in all of her stories. | contradiction |
That's not your demographic profile on the Net, observes consultant Rob Arena, of Presage Internet Consulting, who coordinated Bob Dole's Internet campaign in 1996. | Rob Arena's coordination of Bob Dole's internet campaign in 1996 was thanks to a personal connection. | neutral |
Moreover, tough, mean men enjoy high social status, which attracts women and helps the men get genes into the next generation. | Some women are attracted by men with high social status. | entailment |
Ehrlich's theories lost steam after he lost a famous 1980 bet with economist Julian Simon, who wagered that any basket of resources Ehrlich might name would be cheaper at any date in the future. | Ehrlich became a geologist after the bet made with Julian Simon. | contradiction |
That is a rough description of what Kevin Phillips later called the emerging Republican the crowd whose voting habits were molded by the act of detesting the likes of Bobby Kennedy--politicians who never worked a day in their lives, who were eager (so the perception went) to oppress the plain folk with burdensome taxe... | A young academic wrote a paper arguing against Kevin Phillips depiction of Republicans. | neutral |
The West prevailed because it was rich, rather than because it was good. | It wasn't morality that decided the outcome, but resources available. | entailment |
If you missed the links within this review, click for the of how critics dismissed a whole genre of social novels written by women ... | The sources quoted by the author help support the argument the author was attempting to make. | neutral |
The agonized expression on his face looks like a kind of rapture. | The expression on his face is clearly one of joy. | contradiction |
Our culture now interprets nearly all pleasures as addictions--or potential addictions. | Culturally, we view the topics of addiction and pleasure as inexorably linked. | entailment |
Second, economic theory predicts that some incentives matter more than others, and the data confirm the Executions prevent murders, but convictions prevent even more murders. | Executions do not prevent murders | contradiction |
It is fun to speculate about Tom DeLay's idea of better art. | Tom Delay's idea of better art is already well known. | contradiction |
Last week Israel also ordered the PA to arrest one of its high-ranking police officers for planning an attack on a Jewish settlement. | High-ranking police officers had no plans to attack a Jewish settlement. | contradiction |
She claims the Air Force treated her unfairly and that her commanding officers gave her no guidance. | She says that other were treated better than her at the Air Force. | entailment |
Then again, the tabloids have to give credit when love proves the cynics wrong. | The tabloids elevate cynical thoughts in their articles. | neutral |
He arrived at a convenient time in the tobacco He had no strong feelings about the evil weed, and he became the tobacco scourge only when Republican leaders asked him to shepherd the bill through the Senate. | Laws regarding tobacco have never been considered in the Senate. | contradiction |
But the real hope for ending the AIDS epidemic is not expensive drug therapies. | There is no need for drug therapy because AIDS has been cured. | contradiction |
In the black black-black offspring. | The offspring lives in the forest. | neutral |
This threatens to become a modern version of the McCarran-Walter Act, which was used during the Cold War to exclude lefty writers and intellectuals. | The McCarren-Walter Act never came to fruition. | contradiction |
It seems to me an unnecessary expense to spend many millions of dollars to reduce a few people's travel time by five minutes. | Improving travel time is expensive. | entailment |
I went to high school with Fred Fournier, and believe me there's nothing to admire. | Fred Fournier also played football. | neutral |
The Americans' one-point victory over the European team was the biggest comeback in the tournament's history. | The Americans beat the Europeans in a soccer tournament. | neutral |
Detractors assailed Robert Kennedy for his 1964 New York Senate bid | Robert Kennedy ran as a Republican in the 1964 Senate race. | contradiction |
However, subsequent government supervision of these unions has reduced mob involvement. | Due to the government, the mob has become more entangled with unions than before. | contradiction |
What's to gain? | A situation exists where something could be obtained. | entailment |
If the job were held by someone other than Tripp, would it pay any less or involve any more work? | It's clear to anyone that the job would pay less and involve less work if anyone else besides Tripp worked there. | contradiction |
But despite the odds, I find it worthwhile to try to make the connection. | There is no value in making the connection. | contradiction |
This is, admittedly, just a single line from a long-ago interview, but it suggests that the Clintons are locked into a denial. | The Clintons may be in denial. | neutral |
The other puzzle is the incoherence of Clinton's critics, punctuated by DeLay's bizarre complaint that Clinton has 1) hollowed out our forces while he's running around having these adventures all over the world; and 2) fallen short of victory in Kosovo by using excessive rhetoric supported by underwhelming force in a c... | Clinton has had no one criticize his strategic decisions. | contradiction |
Recently amended federal confidentiality laws have prompted such schools as the University of Delaware, Indiana University, and Penn State to notify parents when students under 21 violate campus rules concerning drugs or alcohol. | The confidentiality laws previously prevented such contact from happening. | neutral |
If you missed the links within this review, click for the of how critics dismissed a whole genre of social novels written by women ... | The author included links to outside sources within the review. | entailment |
It's also hard to find anyone who knows Brinkley and doesn't worry about his obsession with fame. | Brinkley has never cared about his fame. | contradiction |
Or, to the extent that it really means keep the government out, it sounds like an attempt by the earlier settlers of the new domain to monopolize its structure at the expense of later comers who wish to play by a different set of rules in some portion of that space. | It's inevitable that in the end the new comers will have their way and change the rules. | neutral |
The face of Europe might look quite a bit different. | Europe has the world's largest population of platypus. | neutral |
Is the problem now more severe? | There is no problem. | contradiction |
Continuous improvement, which compels workers to look for ways to make their jobs more efficient, is de rigueur at companies ranging from Polaroid to GM. | Workers want continuous improvements. | neutral |
In the closing weeks of the presidential campaign, Bob Dole made a big fuss about Clinton's refusal to categorically rule out pardons for former associates caught up in Whitewater. | Bob Dole was upset that Clinton left the possibility of pardons for the former associates. | entailment |
sang Paul Lynde (and recalls Andrew Milner--you know, in his quiz response; he wasn't actually in the movie) in Bye Bye Birdie 's show-stopping musical number, Kids, a look at teen-age life every bit as insightful as anything on the WB (if you can accept Paul Lynde as Ann-Margret's father). | Paul Lynde is Ann-Margaret's biological father. | contradiction |
When reality interfered (Brenda apparently did not go through with a marriage to an immigrant in search of a green card for $10,000, as she does on-screen), Barker brushed the truth aside as immaterial, following her up the steps of City Hall in her wedding dress because it was true to her character. | There was a plan for Brenda to get married to an immigrant but she didn't end up doing it. | entailment |
It works out to about 5 cents per lie. | Lying costs a small amount of money each time. | neutral |
As Jodie T. Allen in Slate in 1997, a primary function of any disaster is to funnel pork to important states. | The writer mentions that some people will try to take advantage of a disaster in order to get more money appropriated to certain states. | entailment |
An article profiles middle-class black homesteaders who are regenerating ghettos. | Middle-class black people are trying to rebuild their community. | neutral |
A woman of my acquaintance recently announced that she has a boyfriend and wants everyone to introduce the fellow by that title. | I haven't known this woman for very long. | neutral |
Chekhov was an ingenious phrase maker, with many of the phrases scattered in his letters. | Chekhov learned to make phrases from his mother who had a sharp wit. | neutral |
A few years later, he developed a fascination with the comely Catherine Oxenberg, then starring in the TV show Dynasty . Salinger traveled to California and had shown up on the set, according to biographer Hamilton. | Oxenberg did not find success in TV. | contradiction |
According to an index of food prices in Bailey's book, food prices in 1996 were up 8 percent since 1990, but down 113 percent since 1975. | Bailey's food index shows that food prices don't change over time. | contradiction |
Today there are more than 300,000. | The number has crossed over a quarter million. | entailment |
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