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But there are only a few of us who possess a stout enough psychological profile to allow ourselves or even imagine ourselves purchasing a big cushy wonder boy or girl reclining chair. | One must have enough self-confidence in their image in order to purchase a large reclinining chair. | neutral |
The only standard by which news organizations feel comfortable evaluating a policy is success or failure, not right or wrong. | News organizations are confident in delivering judgments of right or wrong in regards to policy. | contradiction |
I >n cases labeled as serious physical abuse, the reported injury could be mental or emotional. | Emotional harm is not considered abuse. | contradiction |
I don't believe in group thinking--pitting one group of people against another. | People can think in groups. | entailment |
Alright, Van Zandt is one of my heroes, and I think his portrayal of a low-wattage Soprano soldier is a rip, so I'm prejudiced, but there was a kind of joy in that one scene that is missing from the rest of the episode. | Van zandt appeared in a multi episode show. | entailment |
The computer is currently composing a new Mahler I'm so tired of the 10 symphonies, Cope said. | Cope would prefer listening to jazz. | neutral |
If it really wants to balance the budget it should just do so, rather than passing feel-good laws that say the budget should be balanced. | It has successfully balanced the budget. | contradiction |
I don't envy next year's teen-sex filmmaker the challenge of topping the pie scene or the cloudy glass of beer bit. | There was a pie scene in one of this year's films. | entailment |
But it won't do this because of some ancestral memory in the genes. | Ancestral memories stop the action from occuring. | entailment |
With this retrospective, the newspaper photographer Arthur Fellig a k a Weegee (1899-1968) is judged a technical virtuoso, a great artist, and an inspiration to his followers. | If not for the retrospective, few would have recognized Arthur Fellig's achievements. | neutral |
On other questions as well, U.S. officials use fatalism and objective language to minimize American responsibility and rule out options. | The reporters asked pointed questions in response to the stories told by U.S. officials. | neutral |
An item skewers Donald Trump's Scrooge-like philanthropic record. | No one has kept any sort of record of Donald Trump's philanthropy. | contradiction |
Oh, and let's cut out all this huffing and puffing about Saddam Hussein. | People are worried about Bin Laden more than Saddam Hussein. | neutral |
I have it on good authority that the main reason that Monica hasn't taken a job or even done volunteer work during her ordeal is that she is rightfully fearful that her co-workers would immediately sell her out to the tabloids. | Monica's ordeal involves a secret lover. | neutral |
Since the film ends with Schultz's death, it leaves little indication as to what became of Johnson. | We don't know what happened to Johnson. | entailment |
He prods fellow justices to turn in draft decisions promptly and penalizes tardy colleagues by withholding new assignments. | He is lax on colleagues who come late. | contradiction |
But what if times get tough and caps start to pinch? | Caps will never start to pinch. | contradiction |
Your wanderings on the Web leave more footprints than you may realize. | The web is mostly used at night. | neutral |
to be such excellent quiz wranglers. | They enjoy taking quizzes. | neutral |
These holes now mark a generation of which the parents cannot confidently say, They'll grow out of it. | No harm has been done to the generation. | contradiction |
But Disney Pooh reaches the world. | Only Americans are familiar with Disney Pooh. | contradiction |
How do Mary Matalin and James Carville do it? | Matalin and Carville do it by having clear communication avenues. | neutral |
ATandT's plan, announced in February, to use wireless systems to offer local phone service has been widely dismissed as unconvincing. | ATandT hasn't convinced critics that their wireless-local phone-service plan will work. | entailment |
They're regular old spending that Republicans happen not to like, such as support for the International Monetary Fund and highway demonstration projects in Democratic districts. | This kind of spending was disliked by many Republicans because they thought it was antithetical to their policy positions. | neutral |
Shuman's Second Law of Computational Dynamics suggests so. | Shuman's First Law of Computational Dynamics suggests that is correct. | contradiction |
The paper declared, A smile costs nothing, but it brightens up the moment for the one who flashes it, and the one who watches. | A smile is free but makes people happy. | entailment |
The sixth version of the classic cookbook occasions nostalgia for the 1931 original. | There will be more versions of this cookbook. | neutral |
Information technology also makes it easier for businesses to deal with the risks associated with fluctuating currencies. | Information technology makes dealing with fluctuating currencies even more difficult. | contradiction |
Clinton claims to have known nothing about the Chinese plans. | Clinton has made a statement regarding the Chinese plans. | entailment |
(A great continental nation--I love that phrase, but what the hell does it mean?) | They cannot determine the meaning behind the phrase: A great continental nation. | entailment |
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 observed the fact that the demographic profile on the net was not theirs. | entailment |
She and her colleagues could trust him to win peace without appeasement. | He had proven his negotiation skills many times in the past. | neutral |
Late in his prize-winning series, Gerth wrote some harsh things about Hughes, and Hughes' lobbying of Clinton, but he scarcely mentioned Hughes' Republican connections. | Gerth was not knowledgeable in regards to the connections Hughes had with republicans. | neutral |
Most of all, it was a competition in truth-telling (or falsifying), a Cold War duel in credibility occurring amid a mounting pileup of classified information, exposes, and oxymoronic jargon that would eventually donate euphemistic doublespeak terms like dual hegemony, limited nuclear war, and the slogan win the peace t... | To prevent ambiguity, only clear and direct language was used. | contradiction |
And so, as I said, the co-op's story helps me to resist the pull of fatalism and pessimism. | I didn't fall into the pull of fatalism and pessimism | entailment |
That is not a Medicare or Medicaid cut, he reassured seniors. | The cut has to do with social security. | neutral |
That is, we're paralyzed by the repeated idea that his election is inevitable. | He is a polarizing figure. | entailment |
But Ved Mehta was always the butt of the worst abuse. | No one made derogatory comments about Mehta. | contradiction |
If you use a computer to merge a lot of faces together, the result tends to look as fetching as Leonardo DiCaprio. | The end result of a computer face merging program looks as attractive as Leonardo DiCaprio. | entailment |
Today, such a book--not that Wachtler has written one--would be greeted with a shrug. | If a novel like this was written today, it would be rejected by critics. | neutral |
After clicking your purchases into a shopping cart, you are directed to a secure Netscape server that will encrypt your credit-card information. | Netscape is the most secure browser. | neutral |
Among experts who treat and study compulsive behaviors and chemical dependencies, there is controversy over the meaning of the term addiction and the efficacy of the disease model for a range of supposed addictions, from alcoholism to compulsive gambling. | There are different kinds of addictions. | entailment |
The Republican platform advocated that citizenship be denied to children born in the United States to illegal immigrants. | Republicans advocate for granting citizenship to illegal immigrants. | contradiction |
What makes a late abortion disturbing is that the fetus is big now--like a fully formed child. | The fetus grows larger as the pregnancy progresses from early term to late term. | entailment |
Few people these days believe that evil spirits cause illness, that the rain god causes rain, or that electric-light bulbs are mystical. | Technology and the erosion of the family unit have caused beliefs to waiver. | neutral |
The cover story says pro sports are in trouble. | Professional sports should be revamped from their current configuration. | neutral |
Jeb Bush's wife lied to customs agents. | Jeb Bush's wife was trying to avoid paying customs duties on a jewelry collection she had purchased in Europe. | neutral |
There he would stand, his back turned to us like the contemplative artist figure in a painting by Caspar David Friedrich, and reflect on the glory and folly of mankind. | Caspar David Friedrich was an artist. | entailment |
Initiatives like community policing and expanding the Earned Income Tax Credit appeal to all parties in the debate. | Everyone wants Earned Income Tax Credit to be raised. | neutral |
The Hackathlete who polls the greatest total will be declared the winner and will return next year to face three new challengers. | The competitors in the contest are all computer science majors. | neutral |
Anglicans are particularly aggrieved by the no-Protestants policy. | The no-Protestants policy upsets Anglicans. | entailment |
Schor's right--it is depressing when people get into the grip of an all-engulfing need to establish their identity by buying stuff, especially if it's stuff they can't afford. | Schor was wrong in his assessment of the human indentity. | contradiction |
But if so, this was self-delusion on a really impressive scale. | The delusion was not impressive and very small scale. | contradiction |
Restore national controls over global capital. | Global capital cannot be controlled by any entity. | contradiction |
, that Bush showed indifference to the Pakistani coup and ignorance of the region's nuclear importance) with a lighthearted recitation of the leaders of obscure countries, Gore is sugarcoating his indictment of Bush so that listeners will laugh, swallow, and absorb it. | Bush was well-informed of Pakistan's nuclear importance. | contradiction |
It depends, in short, upon what the meaning of the word negotiation is. | It is important to define the word negotiation in order to figure out the meaning of this situation. | entailment |
His signature pictures--of adolescent girls exhibiting their genitalia--contain most of this show's electricity (John Updike, the New York Review of Books ). Several critics observe that Schiele can only do nudes. | Most of the show's excitement stems from Schiele's nude works. | entailment |
The article leaves the impression that Huffington is quite confused and a bit dull. | Huffington stopped writing environmental articles 2 years ago. | neutral |
When you couple that reality with an overly narrow definition of shareholder value, you end up with a corporate world that must privilege the next quarter over the next decade. | The long-term future of businesses always outweighs immediate concerns. | contradiction |
I find the paper by the critics more than extremely unfair. | They think the critic's paper is extremely unfair. | entailment |
Alexander Solzhenitsyn is in the cardiac intensive-care unit of a Moscow hospital. | Solzhenitsyn was poisoned by the KGB. | neutral |
As Horn argues, in most cases there is relatively little that parole agents can do to keep an offender who is determined to commit new crimes from committing them. | Parole officers often arrest offenders for commiting new crimes. | contradiction |
(All gynaecologists are idealists. | Gynaecologists are too stuck in the clouds to be good doctors. | neutral |
As she has become more self-sufficient, she has become more interesting. | Everything she has learned was on her own. | neutral |
We've received thousands of e-mail messages since our launch June 24 (most of them friendly, thanks), and this is a small taste. | Since our launch on June 24 we have received communication online. | entailment |
4. Mr. Bork says that when Microsoft also tried to hire him, he gave the company's lawyer a hearing, with the understanding that if he convinced me, I would simply stay out of the case. | Microsoft wanted to hire Mr. Bork to lead their legal team. | neutral |
Martha is finally being treated as the CEO of a company called Omnimedia, not as a bitchy hausfrau. | Martha is the CEO of Omnimedia. | entailment |
Newsweek 's cover story hails the success of the Hubble Space Telescope. | Newsweek frequently publishes information on science and technology. | neutral |
The critics are dying to Is the 5-month old girl adopted or not? | The critics have some interest in the girl. | entailment |
2) And yet you secretly desire one so you can capture some magical moments from your childhood. | You played with toys in your childhood. | neutral |
Indeed, Banks has written a useful survey of African-American scholars and writers and the ways in which they have worked throughout the history of the republic. | Banks has written a survey about how divided African-American scholars and writers were. | contradiction |
After vowing never to discuss his drug history, he admitted that he had made some mistakes but said he would have passed a 15-year background check in 1989. | He used drugs some time before 1989. | contradiction |
'Cause, like, I want a Miata. | Someone wants a convertible automobile. | entailment |
Degas' very retreat from contemporary life owes something to his disgust with French society as he found it. | Degas had only a positive evaluation of French society. | contradiction |
Please, do you have an answer for these well-wishers that would not require giving them private and personal information? | The personal information is to be avoided most of the time. | neutral |
So--contrary to what we're told by orthodox economic theory--two individuals with exactly the same preferences and exactly the same opportunities can adopt dramatically different attitudes toward saving. | Different attitudes can be adopted toward saving. | entailment |
Democrats complain that given the amount of time they spend with Geraldo, diGenova and Toensing can't possibly be doing their government job. | No one complains about people spending time with Geraldo instead of performing their job. | 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 has quarterly meetings so everyone can talk about their ideas. | entailment |
But because the Net gets clogged and packets are waylaid, the sound quality is low and interruptions are common. | This is to be expected of a low quality item. | neutral |
Dentists can now make crowns that last forever, bridges that stay anchored, dentures that behave almost like real teeth. | Dentists owe much to the researchers who developed these modern dental solutions. | neutral |
He frequently quotes Ronald Reagan. | He stopped quoting Reagan when it was clear that the president was suffering from Alzheimer's disease. | neutral |
Sheen recently overdosed on cocaine and methamphetamine, the 32-year-old actor's third overdose, according to the Star . A few months earlier, Sheen's father, actor Martin Sheen, and other family members tried to get Charlie to go to the Promises rehab center (where Brynn Hartman had reportedly been treated), but he re... | Charlie previously overdosed on other drugs. | neutral |
But I hope the British people will see it in the spirit in which it is intended--one of reconciliation and peace and hopes for the future. | Britain's population will judge an act. | entailment |
The substantive issue at stake is hard news vs. soft Each network is accusing the others of going soft in pursuit of ratings. | Some networks have promised to focus on more hard news. | contradiction |
And recent Oscar winner Helen Hunt is determined to have a baby with or without her fiance, actor Hank Azaria, according to the Star . I'm going all-out to get pregnant, the publication reports her confiding to a pal, although it doesn't explain what she plans to do if Azaria refuses to cooperate. | Helen Hunt has won an Oscar. | entailment |
Fashion is as acceptable in France as any imaginative work, and criticism about it has certainly flourished there. | The French don't cirticize works of fashion. | contradiction |
should not guide our activities in cyberspace. | Objections were raised as to whether their cyberspace activities should be guided. | entailment |
Not to imply that the Katz would threaten murder to get published in the Washington Post : To the best of my knowledge, he hasn't maimed or killed anyone except the characters in his Suburban Detective Mystery series-- Death by Station Wagon , The Last Housewife , The Father's Club , and The Family Stalker . But, like ... | Katz has written for the New York Times. | neutral |
In Sulloway's theory, as in life, Daniel is the category-defying, black sheep Baldwin. | It's hard to pinpoint exactly where Daniel Baldwin fits into things. | entailment |
Both the Star and Globe picked up reports from a British newspaper about the germ-free life of Michael Jackson's 1-year-old son, Prince. | Michael Jackson named his son Prince. | entailment |
I think I can read your story between the lines. | The second meaning of the story is very interesting. | neutral |
And The Street Lawyer isn't a novel, exactly. | The only way to describe The Street Lawyer is that it is a novel. | contradiction |
Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., has tried to focus scrutiny on McCain's tobacco and campaign-finance crusades. | McCain's policies focus on tobacco and campaign-finance. | entailment |
Since the talking heads agree with Bush's competitors that it's a non-story, Round 1 goes to Bush. | Bush faces no competition. | contradiction |
Sharp Elbows wasn't living up to his own elevated standard of positive campaigning. | Sharp Elbows was engaging in some negative campaigning. | entailment |
Another option is to blend spandex with fleece to make it stretchier and more form-fitting. | Blending spandex with fleece is an option. | entailment |
To News Quiz participants, investigation is not theological (angels?) | There are people who participate in news quizzes. | entailment |
Scouring each company's Web site could take forever, but Gurnee Mills puts all the information on one page . And while most malls let you click on links to their retailers, the links usually take you not to the national Web sites of those retailers but to dummy pages on the mall's site that tell you only about that ret... | Customers prefer to use Gurnee Mills' site to individual retailer's sites. | neutral |
On one occasion recounted by the author, a woman rented a horse, stripped naked, and arrived at the door, Lady Godiva-style. | The author recounted a woman renting a car and stripping naked. | contradiction |
Gotta run now because the TV news has just started a story about the police apprehending Soccer Guy--this sidewalk bandit who distracted tourists by breaking into a soccer-ball-handling routine, then circling and bumping them until he'd pickpocketed their wallets. | Soccer Guy is a man who loves soccer, and gives money to people on the street as he performs tricks with his soccerball. | contradiction |
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