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According to the Washington Post , Steve Forbes and George W. Bush are criticizing Al Gore for naively accepting Russian pledges of economic reform. | George W. Bush and Steve Forbes are critical of Al Gore's economic reform because it pertains to Russian pledges. | entailment |
Intellectual property refers, basically, to nontangible creative product and, like a rising sea, it seems to cover new territory with every passing year. | Intellectual property expands every year. | entailment |
Detractors assailed Robert Kennedy for his 1964 New York Senate bid | Robert Kennedy was accused of being corrupt during his Senate bid. | neutral |
That ought to impress Ellen Barkin. | They could not care less if they impressed Ellen Barkin. | contradiction |
This is certainly not democracy, but it's not totalitarianism either. | This is totalitarianism. | neutral |
These AUs, usually identified by the facial muscles that perform these various tasks, are the tools used in What the Face Reveals . (To look at a few examples, click here and here.) | The facial muscles are used extensively when performing movements in the facial region. | neutral |
She says the future of cars is fuel-cell engines--they use hydrogen, and their only waste is water. | Fuel-cell engines use coal as fuel. | contradiction |
There will be enough for everybody! | They need to spread it to more than 50 people. | neutral |
Maybe you'd better take the motorcycle helmet off. | Somebody is wearing a motorcycle helmet. | entailment |
To get the stationery engraved, the die plate will cost $56, about average. | The more plates you buy, the lower the per-plate price will be. | neutral |
In its recent obituary of a legendary cold war spy, the NYT suggested that he was the conduit via which the U.S. arranged for Vietnamese generals to assassinate South Vietnam's president Ngo Dinh Diem in 1963. | The suggestion was made by the news outlet, the New York Times. | entailment |
At the Naval Academy, McCain was nicknamed Punk, and that's what he is. | the Naval Academy was rated 4th best in the country. | neutral |
Jerry Brown was sworn in as mayor of Oakland, Calif. | The mayor of Oakland, California then became Jerry Brown. | entailment |
While information is comparatively fresh and large numbers of the survivors are still around, why not institute similar reparations to be paid by Russia to victims of the Gulag? | The victims of the Russian Gulag are being considered reparations for the pain and suffering they've experienced. | entailment |
He permits little discussion--he doesn't think it changes anyone's mind--and races through votes. | He allows prolonged deliberation and conversation. | contradiction |
Ultimately, what's most important about Disney's struggle to turn ABC around is how impressive it makes the company's management of its own franchise look. | Disney owns ABC. | entailment |
And revelations about the agency's Cold War malfeasance have damaged its prestige. | The agency had a clean record prior to the revelations. | neutral |
Disk compression and networking into Windows. | Windows can not perform tasks related to disk compression and networking. | contradiction |
What about the children? | I couldn't care less what is going on with the kids. | contradiction |
At the Pentagon, real-world combat requirements come first--except when they don't. | There are no combat requirements at the Pentagon. | contradiction |
Editorialists lamented that Carey's campaign against union corruption now bears the taint of union corruption. | Carey's campaign has received a lot of pushback from people. | neutral |
It is a play with clear imperfections, such as an excessively shrill third act. | People liked the third act of the play. | neutral |
But they conclude that all the choices available to Witztum and Rips created wiggle room, thus permitting the authors' biases to corrupt the results. | The authors bias was not permitted to corrupt the results. | contradiction |
Being loyal Republicans, Lamar's contributors talk about such happenings only obliquely. | Lamar does not solicit contributors. | contradiction |
Was Toobin's own judgment distorted by his presumably large Random House advance? | Random House provided nothing to Toobin. | contradiction |
No wonder, then, that right-wingers think of PBS as liberal and lefties regard it as a corporate/conservative tool. | The political affiliations have mixed feelings about PBS. | entailment |
Unlike Howard Stern and Dave Letterman, Feldman sees to it that his foils have as much fun as he does. | Feldman has a loyal fanbase. | neutral |
Then the electricity hits him again, and the fire rises from his head, from the black leather mask, and he shudders forward and is slammed back against the chair. | A man is hit by electricity. | entailment |
An article explicates curling (shuffleboard on ice with brooms), the one game in all the world wherein the human participants move faster than the object they put in play. | Curling is compared to shuffleboard. | entailment |
And the occasional drink-sodden night of spouse-avoidance--for both sexes--is probably key to enduring marriages. | Going to the bar without one's partner can be healthy for marriage. | entailment |
The distinction between a maid or matron of honor and bridesmaids is usually a different bouquet and walking down the aisle first. | Bridesmaids assist the bride throughout the wedding day. | neutral |
And ads on the Internet, at least so far, lack oomph. | ads on the Internet have so much spirit. | contradiction |
Mavens can discern between makers at a glance. | Makers can easily fool mavens. | contradiction |
Unfortunately, most of today's credibility mongers invoke credibility precisely to avoid such a moral commitment. | The most credible people are the ones who keep talking about credibility. | contradiction |
The situation will be like that in a cabaret, where you cannot sit down at a table and watch the show without paying something. | Payment is required when attempting to attend a cabaret. | entailment |
Were they in there? | They might be in another place now. | neutral |
They're deceased! | They are no longer alive. | entailment |
And if there was a bit of buggery and whatnot going on up in the balcony, what of it? | No one was concerned with what was happening on the balcony. | contradiction |
That about marked the end of Nash's career as a mathematical genius. | Some considered Nash a genius when it came to math. | entailment |
How else can people understand tragedies such as Littleton, in which normal middle-class kids are not playing baseball or flirting with girls or even duking out their differences after school on the playground; they are nursing monstrous visions of murder and mayhem, while building bombs in their clueless parents' gara... | The bombs were used to blow up the school playground. | neutral |
If CNN executives crashed frequently, they'd be dead and hence unable to demand such boring programs. | The CNN executives demand very entertaining programs. | contradiction |
Ah, it's always the big but. | Everything went smoothly without a hitch. | contradiction |
Hersh's information may be damning, they say, but it is unverifiable and irrefutable. | The info provided by Hersh is unverified. | entailment |
But equally strange was Doris Day, whose many movie outfits were conceived as musical-comedy costumes--bright, smooth, and jaunty, every blue and yellow clear and true, every neat hat perfectly matching, and every outline eternally crisp--even if she was supposed to be working in an office or teaching in a journalism s... | Doris Day appeared in movies. | entailment |
There is little doubt about the pro-choice media's unquestioning acceptance of the faulty pro-choice statistics. | The media never supports faulty statistics. | contradiction |
According to the actress, they couldn't. | The actress knows what happens. | entailment |
As Redgrave moves from person to person--worrying about what each is really thinking, and about the young man whose tragic fate she heard tell of from one of her guests--the movie floods with feeling. | The young man had a happy ending. | contradiction |
But aside from a few exceptions, the supply of genuinely offensive language has dwindled almost to nothing as the 20th century comes to an end; the currency of swearing has been inflated to the brink of worthlessness. | swearing is getting popular and becoming very valuable. | contradiction |
( explains what Greenspan really said.) | Greenspan spoke on the topic of abortion. | neutral |
Toward the end of the book, Mintz tells a story about offhandedly mentioning in a lecture that America has no cuisine. | Mintz knew his comments on American cuisine would appear in print. | neutral |
Pleasure, for Klein, is the opposite of It's all about gratification and excess. | Gratification and excess are not important to Klein. | entailment |
It also helps if you can send your husband on Larry King Live to grovel before the nation, as Frank did. | Frank was on Larry King Live. | entailment |
But that only raises more questions--such as how tides are supposed to make women menstruate. | There are questions regarding women's menstruation. | entailment |
Don Michael Randel, currently provost at Cornell University, has been selected to succeed Hugo Sonnenschein, who stepped down in June. | Don Michael Randel holds a position of leadership at Cornell University. | entailment |
Which has a curious--and perhaps salutary--effect. | It has a very known an explained affect leading to causing cancer. | contradiction |
They were spending obscene amounts of money on litigation--as much as $750 million a year, by one account--and the strain of wondering if this case would be the one that broke the bank couldn't have made working at these companies much fun. | As much as $750 million a year is spent on litigation for companies | entailment |
But when Indonesians started running from their banks a few months ago, what they wanted was dollars--and neither the Indonesian government nor the IMF can give them enough of what they want. | No one in Indonesia wanted dollars or IMF assistance. | contradiction |
While four other witnesses criticized the duplicity of pro-drug forces and the naivete of the voters, Romley bluntly identified the central choices facing law go after doctors, federalize marijuana enforcement, go to court, and get a strategy. | The four other witnesses' criticsms of the voters and pro-drug forces fell on deaf ears concerning Romley. | neutral |
Administration officials confirmed that Clinton was deliberately 1) rolling out the carpet to enhance Arafat's prestige and 2) sending Israel a warning not to screw up the peace process by provoking further conflict. | Clinton made Arafat look good. | entailment |
Best wishes until we meet again--perhaps over Volume 9 of some future 14-volume biography of Rosalynn Carter. | At least one person hopes there will be a future 14-volume biography of Rosalynn Carter. | entailment |
Ambrose--in the very next sentence! | Ambrose's appearance in the next sentence is something of importance. | neutral |
Kenny needs to come back home to Texas. | The author pleads for Kenny to come back home to Texas. | entailment |
Italian has poverino . The fact that nebbish made it into English owes much to Jewish Borscht Belt comedians becoming '50s TV stars. | There was a path for comedians to become TV stars in the 1950's. | entailment |
How they do so may be within our control. | We will definitely not have any control over their actions. | contradiction |
Henry liked flowers that could make a lady squeal. | Henry liked making women squeal. | entailment |
The differences among the three publications are probably best illustrated by their varying explanations for the mysterious cast that recently appeared on JFK Jr.'s arm. | All three publications were in unanimous agreement about why JFK Jr. had a cast on his arm. | contradiction |
Doctorow's Ragtime , is set in 1910. | The show Doctorow's Ragtime has a setting which takes place in the year 1910. | entailment |
The former adversaries have formed a pact of mutually assured ambition, with Gore gunning for the presidency and Gephardt angling to retake the House and become its speaker. | Gore currently has a seat in the Senate. | neutral |
South Carolina likes re-electing Between Hollings and Thurmond, South Carolina has, what, 8,000 years of Senate seniority? | South Carolina has three senators. | contradiction |
Dissenting in the New York Times Book Review , Pico Iyer finds Cuba Libre The central moral question raised ... | Pico Iyer offered a different opinion than others in the published book review. | entailment |
Newsweek berates NATO for its obfuscation of civilian casualties. | NATO is facing backlash for complicating issues. | entailment |
There is plenty of evidence that the first gap has been declining--fairly rapidly by historical standards. | The first gap just gets bigger and bigger as time goes by. | contradiction |
Barry McCaffrey, has made it clear he regards the two laws as the work of deceptive and mischievous drug legalizers who have snookered a lot of otherwise right-thinking people. | Barry claims drug legalizers have nothing to do with the situation. | contradiction |
It's dark. | It is just past sunrise. | contradiction |
The Washington Post 's front-page story notes, Gore has gone to great lengths to conceal Wolf's role. | Gore did not do much to cover for Wolf. | contradiction |
Many of the qualities attributed to Clinton's women also describe his mother, Virginia Kelley. | Clinton's mother did not approve of many of Clinton's women. | neutral |
D'Amato's latest strategy--to tar Schumer as a lazy, part-time congressman who skips votes--seems to be backfiring as well. | D'Amato was completely correct in his characterization of Schumer as being lazy. | neutral |
A related piece, based on polls, says that Americans back gay rights in theory but dislike public displays of gay affection. | Americans are for gay rights, but don't like it when gays show affection in public. | entailment |
He'd probably pick it up in his fillings. | The man got headaches from picking up broadcasts from his fillings. | neutral |
The brawny Neeson is a calamity as Wilde, says New York's John Simon. | Neeson is known for being frail and weak. | contradiction |
Is that such a terrible thing? | The thing is clearly wonderful. | contradiction |
Remember that only one generation before my remembered holiday party, most people didn't have health insurance at all. | The holiday party was fun until someone was injured and had to go to the hospital. | neutral |
I realize now that the cameras and microphones were probably installed by [the Globe ] while I was out, she reports. | The cameras and microphones were meant to record secret meetings between her and the foreign minister. | neutral |
You are nice to weigh in as a Prudie. | The author does not appreciate the person who is a Prudie. | contradiction |
Then you are told to allow between three and seven days for delivery after your book leaves Amazon's warehouse. | The book is very popular among children. | neutral |
House Majority Leader Dick Armey, R-Texas, has compared Barr to former Rep. | Dick Armey was elected the House Leader by his fellow party members. | neutral |
The version of Linux that comes in Mastering Linux offers no technical assistance, but Red Hat's version 5.2, which costs $39. | Red Hat's version 5.2 has helped a lot of people. | neutral |
We've collected all of Harry's O.J. Dispatches into one gargantuan Microsoft Word (and Adobe Acrobat) document that will you can dowload by clicking here. | The document can be revised. | neutral |
At last I found a way (since, happily and thanks to Bellow's physical vigor, I wouldn't have to write a deathbed scene): a conversation he'd had with Martin Amis for a BBC documentary on Bellow's life. | The conversation with Martin Amis gave me a clear picture of how to write the rest of the story. | neutral |
The family has also tightened its grip on King's work. | They have recently filed claims regarding King's work. | neutral |
One profession's sophistry foils the other's cowardice. | The professions love each other. | contradiction |
He did so with surety, using the elbow of his bad arm to steady himself at the threshold, then raising both fists in a stretch. | It was difficult for the man to arrange himself in a way that was considered steady. | neutral |
Of course, the magnitude of the threats faced by the United States bears no fixed relation to the size of our economy. | The United States deals with multiple threats. | entailment |
Starr is batting 10 for 10 against presidential legal challenges, note Tim Russert ( Meet the Press ) and Fred Barnes ( Fox News Sunday ), proving that he's not a rogue prosecutor (Susan Page, Late Edition ). The judge was downright scornful of the White House, adds Barnes. | Tim Russert and Fred Barnes do not like each other. | neutral |
If you do know what cookies are and have set your computer not to accept them, our password/sign-in process won't work for you. | You cannot use the site at all without using cookies. | neutral |
The editorial side of Graham's Post has only compliments for the PDFA, while the advertising side has donated ad space to it. | Graham's Post has not devoted any time or space to the PDFA. | contradiction |
An even older source reminds me of an investment for old age at which Cicero only hints. | Cicero hints at possible old age investments. | entailment |
Charles Isherwood in Daily Variety : [M]akes a startling case for the reexamination of this landmark play ... | A piece written in Daily Variety by Charles Isherwood wrote a rather boring case to re-examine an old classic play. | contradiction |
But they showed what true love is when Bo took over John's medical care and for seven weeks forced him to drink gallons of water to flush out stubborn kidney stones. | Bo refused to take care of John. | contradiction |
4) The superstar expects the industry to justify his compensation by finding new revenue streams. | The superstar assumes the industry will search for ways to make money. | entailment |
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