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There are many things that are permitted to adults--e.g.
Adults are very restricted in their activity.
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So much for the cruel stereotype of the pea-brained dinosaur.
The pea-brained dinosaur was a mean stereotype.
entailment
I could have sworn I had my 10-foot pole right here ...
I have my 10-foot pole right here!
contradiction
A quick recap.
there was no reiteration.
contradiction
Who's winning the war over the draft?
There might be a draft for a war.
neutral
The race was notable for the last several laps, in which Earnhardt rode Gordon's bumper at 190 mph.
The incident regarding Gordon's bumper occurred towards the end of the race.
entailment
1) The script leaves out crucial parts of Winchell's story.
Winchell's story is complicated.
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With negotiations at a stalemate and summer vacations removing the motivation for an immediate solution, both sides appear to be settling in.
Both sides are desperately waiting for an immediate solution.
contradiction
I find the paper by the critics more than extremely unfair.
They think the paper is unfair because it is riddled with false statements.
neutral
Finally, a sister is getting to go to the ball, says Newsweek 's Veronica Chambers.
A sister has never gotten to go to the ball.
neutral
Are we backing the Kosovo Liberation Army?
There is not a Liberation Army for Kosovo.
contradiction
Even in the suburbs, where dogs run free, no poodle comes home with a hammer and sickle spray-painted on his side.
There are plenty of poodles in the suburbs.
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And, as SurfWatch's promotional literature is happy to point out, filters can help protect management from liability for permitting sexually explicit material in the workplace.
SurfWatch does not guard against employee's ability to access sexually explicit material in the workplace.
contradiction
It can be a bit like a claustrophobic small town, where your private life is part of the public dialogue.
There's not much privacy in the small town.
entailment
For two earners each making $23,350, Alterman is serendipitously close to the mark when he asserts a marriage penalty of $1,001 a year.
Alterman should try to avoid incurring the marriage penalty.
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If the first lady's job description no longer includes being first, then let's lobby to create a new post, the last lady--or the latest lady.
There is only one first lady.
contradiction
You also can double-click the plus sign for any one listing or hit one of the higher numbers on the Outline toolbar to affect the whole file and expose various sub-levels of headline, posted date, etc.
You need to click on different spots depending upon whether you want to affect just one listing or the entire file.
entailment
The piece features what is sure to be a major element of any Bradley a surfeit of tired sports metaphors.
People don't like Bradley because he uses to many metaphors.
neutral
Why, if Isikoff's so bad?
Isikoff is a very corrupt politician.
neutral
(The Yankees have a 12-year, $486-million cable deal.)
The terms of the deal last for just under a decade.
contradiction
Even with television and the Web, the Times ' news judgment is still the final word for many outlets.
The New York Times is highly regarded by many outlets.
entailment
And so when I gather up my soil samples and Ms.
I will never gather soil samples.
contradiction
LeTourneau was the boy's teacher in both second and sixth grades, and he describes their relationship When I was six or seven, she encouraged me in my drawing.
The boy's education continued to at least the sixth grade.
entailment
With crime down and the economy up, New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani is finally able to turn to the really big issues--like keeping the original Winnie-the-Pooh doll in a Manhattan museum against the claims of a member of the British Parliament that it belongs back in England.
A British Parliament member believes the original Winnie-the-Pooh doll belongs in England.
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Such cultural tourism has become the specialty of a new breed of insta-museum, built solely to imbue foreign masterpieces with glitz and mystique.
Cultural tourism makes up a large portion of GDP for many nations.
neutral
Consider Only 13 nations participated in 1896, but there were 172 in 1992.
The number of nations participating has increased dramatically.
entailment
The only reason to release it now is political, and national security officials shouldn't play politics.
The national security officials are of European descent.
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My wife went to Florida with her mother once.
His wife went to Disney World with her mother.
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Those standards didn't keep Ellison from writing, merely from calling it quits.
Ellison was discouraged.
neutral
(He also turns into a hyena and an armadillo, species that are similarly not native to Transylvania.)
It is unique that he turns into animals not native to Transylvania.
neutral
At the other extreme, if we discover that Bill Gates murdered Vince Foster, or a similar megascoop, journalistic bravado will easily triumph over corporate loyalty.
Bill Gates has hearing loss.
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The proposed HearSLATE could then offer discriminating commuters and professional drivers some intellectual refuge from the endless tirade of mindless drivel currently broadcast by the common carriers.
HearSLATE is a change from the usual broadcast by common carriers.
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Entering Final Four weekend, I rank no higher than 12,277 th place in any of them.
The Final Four weekend is a tournament for tennis players.
neutral
They think the big boys knew the risks but believed that if LTCM came to grief its creditors would be protected from loss by the government.
There were no risks.
contradiction
Then every share of Daimler-Benz stock sold between 1950 and 1980 sells at a discount reflecting that expectation.
Daimler-Benz remains an unlisted, privately held company to this day.
contradiction
It would be very interesting to perform the same experiment with, say, medical journals instead of economics journals.
There are journals that document both economics research and medical research.
entailment
I don't mind a girl who thinks,
A girl who thinks is unbearable to be around.
contradiction
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.
There are no blacks in the Army.
contradiction
The winner of the Hackathlon will be determined by an online vote of Slate 's readers.
Slate readers will mail in their vote.
contradiction
Nero was emperor until 70 A.D.
Nero was never emperor.
contradiction
That culture and those values, however, are not intrinsic to people of Chinese descent; they are transmitted--or not.
Chinese people value other cultures.
neutral
(Russia, for example, consistently undercounts its war dead.)
The true numbers could be more than double what is reported.
neutral
The preceding images are not from Beyond Impressionism (online reproduction of art from the Degas exhibit at the Art Institute of Chicago is forbidden.
All the images contain work by Degas.
neutral
Since the talking heads agree with Bush's competitors that it's a non-story, Round 1 goes to Bush.
Someone gives an edge to Bush.
entailment
Rolling Stone 's cover story traces Stern's history from mediocre rock DJ to king of shock jocks.
The Rolling Stone tells stories of Stern's history.
entailment
Woodward's 1996 campaign finance pieces struck a chord that still rings, and I predict a similar impact for Barton Gellman's two-part series last week about how the United States and China nearly went to war in 1996 (click here and here).
Both Woodward and Gellman have written pieces.
entailment
Hillary is a prude, forcing Clinton to satisfy his sexual needs elsewhere.
Due to Hilary, Clinton needed to get sex somewhere else.
entailment
(She'd better get cracking.)
She needs to start soon.
entailment
I just wanted to thank you for allowing Mark Alan Stamaty a forum for his hilarious--and often insightful--cartoon about a (slightly) warped world.
Mark Alan Stamaty's world in his cartoons benefits because it is, according to the author, slightly warped.
neutral
I'm prepared to say what is desirable, he tells him.
He's not prepared to say desirable things.
contradiction
Yes, we're all suffering from scandal fatigue, but rape?
Nobody is suffering from scandal fatigue.
contradiction
President Clinton, comparing the negotiations to those over the 1996 welfare bill, signaled that he will accept a compromise plan.
Clinton did not compare negotiations over the 1996 welfare bill, instead he had to meet with Monica Lewinski.
contradiction
I must, however, give you kudos for being the first writer I've ever seen limn Beck's Godley Creme influence.
Beck's music was influenced by Godley Creme.
neutral
Disney's Tarzan is not only post-imperial, post-racist, and post-classist but also post-masculine.
The way that Tarzan is portrayed is hurtful to others.
neutral
The commander in chief has made a commitment on behalf of the United States, and the United States must honor that commitment.
The commander in chief is a leader of Russia.
contradiction
Other companies, such as Cognisoft, take this same approach to corporate intranets (internal networks), hoping that push technology will be even more useful in distributing the right information to the right employees.
The same corporate intranets approach is taken by Cognisoft, hoping push technology will work effectively for the company.
entailment
The formula doesn't exist.
The formula is not available at this time.
entailment
Very much to her credit, she hasn't become bitter about her shrinking influence; she's not stuck in whiny nostalgia for the way things were.
She isn't resentful in regards to her situation.
entailment
The rest of the new UPN lineup--debuting a month before other networks' fall programs--consists mostly of sitcoms that are generally condemned for mindlessness and tastelessness.
UPN is showing mostly sitcoms this coming fall.
entailment
At that Flytrap moment, Ken Starr had won 11 legal victories and lost none.
Ken Starr had 11 legal losses and no victories.
contradiction
They seem to represent a third way, a healthy distrust of government and the market, levelheadedness leavened by a kind heart.
Many people agreed with their politics.
neutral
Newsweek also lets Martha Stewart describe her successful foray into Web marketing.
Martha Stewart has never talked to Newsweek.
contradiction
I take my 15 cents and head for the liquor store.
They went to the general store with 15 cents.
contradiction
And the name of that guy?
The man's name was Jones.
neutral
It is quite likely that you are suffering from the Grass-Is-Greener Syndrome.
The speaker believes that there is a condition that can be called Grass-Is-Greener Syndrome.
entailment
Smith's decision this year to push a measure in the House that would spend as much birth-control money as the president asked might seem like progress.
Smith proposal would spend over 100 million dollars.
neutral
That is, these things--transportation policy, lubrication policy--are decided not by what is most needed but by who is in need.
Lubrication policy is dictated by those in need.
entailment
All I missed was something more than winks and hints about the nature of the triangle among Cahill, his wife, and her sister (the lush Angeline Ball), with whom he fathered several children.
Cahill has 3 brothers.
neutral
If I fill in my name and cash it, I pay tax.
The tax is higher this year than it was last year.
neutral
Oh, to get an invitation to that bris!
An invitation to the bris would mean we are well liked by the family.
neutral
Lovers of certain breeds readily acknowledge the positive genetic tendencies of their favorite dogs.
Most dog lovers own a dog.
neutral
Please ask Jonah Goldberg (Linda Victimized or Vicious) to explain why he thinks, if all Tripp wanted to do was to protect her good name, she continued to tape Lewinsky long after she would have had enough evidence for this purpose.
Lewinsky admitted to criminal behavior.
neutral
This counterattack has only helped Bush achieve the distance he sought in the first place.
Bush had a plan that did not work out.
contradiction
A generation ago, dentists filled teeth and cast dentures because that's all they knew.
Many dentists these days think that casting dentures should be an obsolete method.
neutral
Perhaps this was a subversive act, the urinal-drain-guard manufacturer inviting us to piss on the United States' failed drug policy.
There is something about the urinal-drain-guard that relates drugs.
entailment
The one-day crash of '87, for example, reduced people's net worth by billions without directly reducing by as much as a single doughnut the amount of goods and services or the economy's ability to produce more of them.
the crash was the largest of '87.
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And they don't need to--the 13 missiles they supposedly have aimed at the United States have always been judged capable of hitting U.S. cities by the Pentagon (though China's difficulty in commercial launches casts doubt on the Pentagon's assessment).
China currently has 200 missiles pointed toward America.
contradiction
House Majority Whip Tom DeLay has a plaque in his office that reads, This could be the day.
Tom DeLay has a sign in his office.
entailment
Time excerpts its own 1979 article about cult leaders Marshall Applewhite and Bonnie Lu Nettles (then Bo and Peep).
Marshall Applewhite recruited Bonnie Lu Nettles to help him build his cult.
neutral
If Darth Vader had built C-3PO as a young man, how come he never paid much attention to him in the other movies--and vice versa?
Every time they were together, Darth Vader tried speaking with C-3PO.
contradiction
There will be no Revenge of the Nebbishes , no nebbish liberation.
Revenge will definitely happen.
contradiction
At least you know they're not reading a book or anything.
They are reading magazine articles.
neutral
In the '70s, the Left-Behind White appeared in the form of the unmeltable ethnic, that long-assimilated Italian- or Irish- or Polish-American who, in the wake of the Black Power movement, felt it necessary to dust off and revive the ways of the Old Country.
There are people in the US who come from European backgrounds.
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However, they should not be punished without due process in the name of 'national security' or 'protection of citizens' lives.
It's okay to not to use due process if it's a national security issue.
contradiction
(Thank you.)
Someone is thankful for some reason.
entailment
This alleged societal dynamic becomes her methodological justification for using the stories of the underemployed, contracted-out, and laid-off men of Southern California to illuminate more general male losses.
There are no laid-off men in Southern California.
contradiction
And when GS asks, who is to stop congress from spending too much money.
Nobody is concerned with how congress spends money.
contradiction
So World War II is avoided, millions of lives--you know, the right sort of lives--are saved, and history is transformed in ways so utopian, you'd never recognize the present.
Millions of people would still die if World War II never occured.
contradiction
So, to pose the obvious Is there something inherently Jewish about the nebbish?
No one cares whether nebbish nature is inherently Jewish.
contradiction
As a result of your conversation with her and subsequent reports that showed that she had tried to enlist the help of someone else in her lie that the President sexually harassed her, you now do not believe that what she claimed happened really happened.
The person she tried to enlist to lie with her is a young woman.
neutral
Nash pioneered game theory, became schizophrenic, recovered, then won a Nobel Prize late in life.
Nash had longed to win a Nobel Prize since childhood.
neutral
Remember, the last guy to argue for a distinction between ideology and competence was Michael Dukakis.
The author asserts that the last person to make this argument was Michael Dukakis.
entailment
Out of her stillness she suddenly shrieks, not as an appeal but as a demand, I'm a human being!
She felt the need to assert her humanity against a threat.
neutral
Otherwise you will not get a good table or will have crumbs brushed into your laptop, even though, strictly speaking, you are abiding by the rules.
All of the servers are rude.
neutral
For instance, Colorado school administrators like to brag that their state's average SAT score is the highest in the country.
School administrators benefit professionally when their students score higher than average SAT scores.
neutral
And by following up his serious accusation (i.e.
And by not following up any accusations we present Thursday Night Football.
contradiction
The seductive and corrupting film noir downtowns featured in so many admired cheap second features might as well all have been demolished, along with the long-gone Bijous and Palaces where these films first played.
The downtowns featured in cheap films should be demolished.
entailment
Morris is more of an idiot savant.
Morris is more effective now than he used to be.
neutral
There's something about [Corgan's] whole grandiosity that is very four years ago.
Corgan is a rich individual.
neutral
The problem, Keynes wrote, was that people desire the moon--a perfectly safe place to store their wealth.
Keynes was writing about human psychology.
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