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Well, there has been an excruciatingly technical argument about this, mysteriously known as the double dividend debate; the general consensus seems to be no, and that on balance pollution taxes would be more likely to reduce GDP slightly than to increase it. | Everyone agrees that double dividend is great. | contradiction |
Am I supposed to look at the ceiling the entire meeting, steal the occasional glance, or just assume it's a '90s thing? | The meeting allowed a lot of freeflow ideas to come out. | contradiction |
Instead, they have been reduced to discussion about whether he is prone to tirades. | We had been discussing the new Family Guy episode. | contradiction |
Apparently it's easier to make a mouse talk than to come up with something interesting for him to say (Kenneth Turan, the Los Angeles Times ). | Kenneth Turan does not work for the Los Angeles Times. | contradiction |
It depends on such questions as 1) how effectively the industrialized nations can monitor the average rogue state once they start synergistically pooling their intelligence, and 2) how tough economic sanctions have to be before even the Syrias of the world fall into line. | To fall in line with the international community, these rogue states also have to meet high human rights standards. | neutral |
Even the title of Cohen's book and its cover art--a brass-knuckled fist--are lifted directly from a book published eight years ago, Paul Breines' Tough Political Fantasies and the Moral Dilemma of American Jewry , which analyzes the psychological underpinnings of the cult of Jewish toughness born after Israel's victor... | Cohen acknowledges the similarity to Breines' book. | neutral |
Not only do thousands of economists agree on something, but what they agree on is the warm and cuddly idea that we should do more to protect the environment. | Environmental causes get a lot of funding from economists. | neutral |
He fights movie monsters, sings in a musical Western, and celebrates Thanksgiving ( Thanksgiving? | The man does not celebrate holidays. | contradiction |
The girls who believe the scarves mean freedom may in fact be blinded by them. | It is because of social media that the girls came to this conclusion. | neutral |
Consumers can quite reasonably argue that history can't be changed and so is best forgotten. | You should forget about the past. | entailment |
So the first choice should be read as being between the certainty of being rich and a possibility of being rich. | The first choice can be interpreted in different ways. | neutral |
The bones proved to be those of a male who was tall for his time (5 feet 9 inches). | The bones proved the man was short for his time. | contradiction |
Alas, no new episodes of Murder, She Wrote have been made for several years. | There are new episodes of Murder, She Wrote coming out each week. | contradiction |
Lovers of certain breeds readily acknowledge the positive genetic tendencies of their favorite dogs. | Lovers of certain breeds usually do not know any positive genetic tendencies of their favorite dogs. | contradiction |
But if his campaign really prospers and he has to explain what he believes, he'll have a hard time holding that coalition together. | He won't be able to hold the coalition together if he has to explain his beliefs. | entailment |
The decline in the won, by making imports more expensive and exports more competitive, would help bring about the decline in the current-account deficit, or the generation of a surplus. | A decline in the won would reduce the deficit. | entailment |
It was actually a luxurious 20/80 cotton-poly blend. | The piece was 100% cotton. | contradiction |
NAAG meets four times a year so its various committees can hash out ideas for litigation, like the billing fraud case now being developed against the hospital chains. | NAAG meets seven times a year. | contradiction |
Salinger wrote similar letters to other young female writers. | Salinger was attracted to young women. | neutral |
The cover story clucks over the dismal state of Sino-U.S. relations. | The cover story made their disapproval public regarding how Sino-U.S. relations are in disrepair | entailment |
This is the amount on the check the new owner writes. | The new owner refuses to use checks for monetary transactions. | contradiction |
Most people Prudie has observed tipping taxi drivers tack on a couple of bucks, no matter what the meter. | People give tips to taxi drivers. | entailment |
But this letter is long enough, possibly too long for the format, so I will leave discussion of Lemann's attempt to sum up to the next letter. | Someone is composing a letter. | entailment |
Carlson says he has had calls from the conservative Politburo, including one from Michael Ledeen, a former Reagan National Security aide, who told him, No one who believes what we believe should be attacking Grover. | Michael Ledeen had an amiable relationship with Reagan. | neutral |
Phil Knight, CEO of Nike, forced by inclement weather to abandon his attempt to become the first man to circumnavigate the globe riding on the back of an 11-year-old Indonesian girl. | Phil Knight successfully traveled around the globe while riding an old Indonesian man. | contradiction |
It might be desirable for me to say nothing. | The person is able to reflect on their current situation for a course of action. | entailment |
So by selling out for a mere $700,000--if he really did--Brown revealed his expectation that competitors (presumably other high-ranking officials with the means to influence trade policy) were prepared to undercut him. | Brown might have paid $700,000 for something. | entailment |
A year ago, the wife of the Oxford don noticed that the pattern on Kleenex quilted tissue uncannily resembled the Penrose Arrowed Rhombi tilings pattern, which Sir Roger had invented--and copyrighted--in 1974. | Legal action was taken against Kleenex to change the pattern. | neutral |
And according to the WP TV column, the two talk when they're in the exercise yard together--about old-time flicks they've enjoyed on Turner Classic Movies, which they see via the prison's free cable hook-up. | Prisoners have access to Classic Movies. | entailment |
It would be very interesting to perform the same experiment with, say, medical journals instead of economics journals. | There is academic value to performing the experiment again for a medical journal. | neutral |
The formula was most directly a gift to the options traders around the world, which is not a group that usually inspires charitable acts. | Options traders are seen as kind, charitable and selfless. | contradiction |
Halfway through the film, Tarzan, a Victorian-era Enkidu, lured by Jane, is prepared to follow her back to England. | Tarzan will miss his home. | neutral |
We must only hope that our Pakistani friend does not get to sound too much like the aforementioned Mr. Russert--or any of the other Sabbath gasbags, to use the phrase that the wonderful Frank Rich has popularized. | The author has no concerns about how the person from Pakistan will end up sounding. | contradiction |
The race was notable for the last several laps, in which Earnhardt rode Gordon's bumper at 190 mph. | The best racing play for Earnhardt was to ride Gordon's bumper at extremely high speeds. | neutral |
Coming after Don't Look Back , the superb cinema verite documentary D.A. | The documentary that D.A. created is coming after "Don't Look Back" | entailment |
And it gives a package of free collectibles to any Webmaster who picks up its banner. | They sell a package of $100 collectibles. | contradiction |
And good afternoon to you, too, President Reagan. | The sun has only just risen a few minutes ago. | contradiction |
The movie made me remember why I like Holly Hunter. | I thought the movie portrayed a really compelling romantic relationship. | neutral |
This is kind of a different problem from what I've seen in your column, but here I am not yet 30 and continue to move up in my rather buttoned-up company, where most of the male executives are married to, shall we say, plain women. | Most of the male executives are married for monetary reasons. | neutral |
That's why he resisted the temptation to bomb Iraq Nov. 14, when the political case for it was open and shut, but the moral case was dubious. | He was tempted to bomb Iraq on November 14th but he put it off until he had better reason. | neutral |
In that sense, the stock market boom is founded firmly on the steadier achievements to which Kazin refers. | The stock market boom was founded on steady achievements. | entailment |
They can result from ordinary events happening to people who are receptive, appreciative, attuned to what is happening around them. | It's impossible to be receptive and appreciative. | contradiction |
Consumers can quite reasonably argue that history can't be changed and so is best forgotten. | History is depressing and not useful. | neutral |
I suppose it is aging that has changed my attitude. | time has affected my outlook on many things. | entailment |
We don't know, for example, if Earthlike planets are common. | It is possible to study this. | neutral |
There is an obvious opportunity here for a bonanza of international conferences to study the need for worldwide treaties to set up global commissions to come up with transnational standards for ... | There is no opportunity here for any International interference, be it treaties, commissions, or others' standards. | contradiction |
By continuing to appease Buchanan, several of our candidates appear to have put politics ahead of our party's principles. | Most of the candidates don't care much about the party's principles. | neutral |
Inflation is at a 23-year low of 7 percent. | Inflation is as high as its ever been. | contradiction |
If such evidence is present, return Kennewick Man to his rightful tribal reservation. | Under certain circumstances the speaker advocates for the return of Kennewick Man to his reservation. | entailment |
More immediately important, it puts the market's recent, quickly overturned correction in quite a different light. | Everyone was surprised by the recent market trends. | neutral |
Polls show most people aren't willing to impeach Clinton over the Lewinsky affair, but they do think he's been exposed as a liar and cover-up artist. | Clinton is universally viewed as honest and honorable. | contradiction |
We're having debates. | Everyone has the same exact point of view on this matter. | contradiction |
As local lore goes, it doesn't match the all-time classic (Headless Body Found in Topless Bar). | No one has ever heard of the Headless Body Found in Topless Bar story. | contradiction |
If the jocks don't know why Bradley should be president, why are they endorsing him? | The jocks are endorsing someone without reason. | 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 and Gephardt are running for the same position in office. | contradiction |
When Pixar went public, the money raised from that very first sale of its shares was what it used to run its business in the future. | The sale of company stocks has benefited Pixar. | entailment |
The computer, now much faster and smarter, may triumph, but humans shouldn't fret. | Humans should be very afraid of computers. | contradiction |
Not only do people appreciate my respect for their preferences, but I also don't have to choose to whom to cater in mixed situations. | Respecting preferences made it difficulty to decide to whom to cater. | contradiction |
These groups give workers a selection of plans and reduce paperwork hassles for employers. | There is only one plan available. | contradiction |
Barr, who's a champion publicity hound, has national ambitions. | Barr is loved by many people. | neutral |
Still, the solution Schor proposes seems almost as forced and obsessive as overspending itself. | Schor's aggressive solution is an effective plan. | neutral |
And these are things that, in this day and age, are rarely said at all. | These days those types of things are rarely said. | entailment |
Newsweek 's ninth health cover of the year warns that E. coli food contamination is more common than is reported and won't be eradicated with simple beef recalls like the one at Hudson Foods. | Hudson Foods had a beef recall. | entailment |
The contributors repeat this figure as though it had talismanic power. | The figure was only done once. | contradiction |
Critics praise her eclectic style--funk, blues, soul, and dance--and dwell on her racy lyrics. | She sings songs based on blues, funk, soul, and dance music. | entailment |
The Louis XV story reminds me of one of Ronald Reagan's favorites--about the Muslim philosopher who said that the king came to the throne with high taxes and departed with low revenue. | Ronald Reagan enjoyed an allegory about the role of taxes in governing. | entailment |
The precedent-setting risk would be greater if the president were convicted by a strictly party-line vote. | It makes a difference whether or not the conviction is by a strictly party-line vote. | entailment |
I think I can read your story between the lines. | There's another meaning to the story. | entailment |
A classicist, Arendt saw the public arena as a version of the Athenian agora--a world of political theater, where the harsh light of publicity shines upon fierce debate. | Arendt saw no connection between contemporary politics and past political events. | contradiction |
The biography exposes the pioneer sexologist as a gay masochist who organized and filmed orgies. | The pioneer was exposed by the biography. | entailment |
The winner's curse also doesn't apply when there are many identical items being auctioned off. | The winner's curse definitely factors in when there are lots of similar items being auctioned. | contradiction |
Asahi Shimbun added that if Japan had tried to resolve these problems a little at a time, those who felt themselves victimized by Japan might have felt at least somewhat mollified; but that with the passing of time while we do nothing, however, discontent and ill will can coalesce into bitter enmity. | Shimbun believes inaction is the best path. | contradiction |
Today, such a book--not that Wachtler has written one--would be greeted with a shrug. | Even if such a book was written, Wachtler would have readers confused. | entailment |
In the end, Mayakovsky is stuck in a kind of zoo, where curious people come to watch him do unhealthy things. | People avoid Mayakovsky. | contradiction |
We laugh and have great fun together and share many of the same interests. | we also happen to love the same restaurant. | neutral |
It'd be nice to know more about that trend. | The new trend involves around wearing athletic clothing. | neutral |
Of course the governors and the president managed to turn deficits into surpluses. | The President and governors are able to manipulate accounting practices. | entailment |
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. | An investigation involving the former International Monetary Fund is ongoing. | entailment |
What a country should not apologize for is a basically sound foreign policy. | Having a sound foreign policy is reprehensible. | contradiction |
A piece describes how women in their 20s donate eggs to infertile couples for thousands of dollars. | The money to pay for donated eggs is often covered by insurance. | neutral |
Have the threats to our security doubled since then? | The threats to our security has unexpectedly doubled. | neutral |
But the most affecting act is the kaddish , the statement of mourning that a son says on the death of his father. | The author considers kaddish as a poignant event. | entailment |
How was Sun Ra able to command this kind of sacrifice? | Sun Ra was able to command a sacrifice. | entailment |
4) Court records indicate that a jewelry-fraud ring used illegal third-party campaign donations to get President Clinton to pose in photos with its principals. | President Clinton was in some photos. | entailment |
As the plucky challenger, Bradley can campaign both to the left and right of Gore, picking up support from anti-Gore, pro-labor activists on one day and boosting his pro-business, pro-free-trade agenda to Wall Streeters a few days later. | Bradley can't get any support from anyone. | contradiction |
Man on the Moon does not indicate, for example, that Kaufman came up with the idea for the Saturday Night Live call-in vote, nor that he had numerous chances to nix the whole thing. | Kaufman may or may not have thought of call-in voting for SNL. | entailment |
Mark Shields looks directly at Robert Novak on Capital Gang and calls him Al Hunt, much to the amusement of the other panelists. | Mark Shields never appeared on Capital Gang. | contradiction |
This was 1892, remember, when 25,000 bucks was still 25,000 bucks, and you didn't have to split it with accountants, managers, coke dealers, and any traumatized ex-catamite whose father has a smart lawyer. | In 1892, life was simpler and how you spent money was simpler too. | neutral |
The White House says there's no such system. | The White House has made a statement regarding this kind of system. | entailment |
This bold guess about the solutions to a certain complex-valued infinite series (made by the incomparable Bernhard Riemann in 1859) would, if true, have far-reaching implications for the structure of the most basic of entities, the natural numbers. | Bernhard Riemann was alive during the 1800s. | entailment |
Figgis' camera is probing and alive, so that even when his meanings are laughable, his images remain allusive and mysterious. | The images that Figgis' camera takes are rather plain and easily found. | contradiction |
The Indonesian movement was a rather spontaneous resistance led by ordinary students, workers, the unemployed, and the lower-middle classes. | The wealthy led the well planned Indonesian movement. | contradiction |
Science reporting in the United States is hampered by the deep-seated conviction that the press knows even better than the people that it's just a bunch of pinheads nattering about nothing. | Science reporting is not very respected in the United States. | entailment |
process one out of every four checks in the country. | Process one out of every sixteen checks in the country. | contradiction |
Kenny needs to come back home to Texas. | Nobody is interested in having Kenny come back to where he grew up. | contradiction |
She bummed around the beaches of western India with a husband (some say a lover) before settling down in Delhi's comfy Press Enclave, where all the newsies live (one review claims a cottage ... | She prefers a quiet life. | contradiction |
I am a nonsmoker and allergic to cigarette smoke. | I smoke over a pack of cigarettes a day and enjoy the habit. | contradiction |
Martha's Web readers are younger and richer than her magazine subscribers. | Martha has published many magazines. | neutral |
From home, I call my office three or four times a day. | They know when to expect my calls. | neutral |
But it is probably true that the quality of politics in America has suffered from the erosion of public trust in institutions that used to act, to at least some degree, as watchdogs. | the quality of American politics has dramatically improved. | contradiction |
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