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These groups give workers a selection of plans and reduce paperwork hassles for employers. | There is little paperwork involved. | entailment |
Most shops closed at 6 p.m. weekdays and on Saturday were not open or were open only until noon. | Some shops had hours past 6 p.m. on weekdays. | neutral |
Inflation, however, would turn that into a 9 percent cut in annual purchasing power. | Inflation has no effect on people's purchasing power. | contradiction |
After the return to Colgate Gel--because of its positive characteristics when used with the Sonicare cordless brush--my mouth was just about back to normal. | The brush is a new addition to my routine. | neutral |
At the hang gliding site, click Links ... | At the hang gliding site, don't click anything ... | contradiction |
In his Feb. 3 from the Clinton trial, he writes, History and the American people have already rendered their verdict. | Clinton never went to trial. | contradiction |
Am I supposed to look at the ceiling the entire meeting, steal the occasional glance, or just assume it's a '90s thing? | In the 90s, there was an aura of tight meetings with no discussion. | neutral |
By 1968, that annus horribilis when Johnson cracked from the pressure of mediating an increasingly centripetal Democratic Party and Kennedy fell to an assassin's bullet, two political ideal-types had a silent majority who supported Johnson's war on Vietnam and voted in Richard Nixon, and a new class of liberal profess... | The liberal professionals and youth dested Johnson but supported Richard Nixon in everything he represented. | contradiction |
In the early stages of her career, Evita was fleshier and raunchier and blended better with Madonna's present persona. | Evita is successful working in her career. | neutral |
Editorialists conducted the usual food-scare calming the public and explaining that risk can never be eliminated, while decrying ad hoc government responses and demanding stricter laws. | Editorialists tried to calm the public. | entailment |
For those who look into the future and are concerned, there are some fundamental What can be done? | worrying too much about the future gives rise to unneeded anxiety. | neutral |
To return to the discussion, my favorite response is I'm told I'm great! | The author never tries to get back into a discussion. | contradiction |
I admit a good deal of my concern is self-motivated. | I am concerned about something. | entailment |
More importantly, it reminds us that racial identity is utterly malleable--and that racial essence is utterly artificial. | Racial identity can be changed because race is in a sense man-made. | entailment |
Reno opposed some of these policies internally but had too little influence to stop them. | Reno wasn't the final decision maker on these policies. | entailment |
And there--in no small part as a result of that history--it has found itself with very little leverage. | There is little leeway due to the history. | entailment |
If it hits, there's a big syndication upside. | It is likely to hit. | neutral |
Submitting a decision to the U.S. | A decision was approved by the US. | neutral |
Lower down in the verbiage, Amazon concedes, Though we have tried hard to make this form easy to use, we know that it can be quite confusing the first time. | Amazon thinks everyone should be able to understand the forms easily. | contradiction |
This path has been smoothed by the nihilism of those Arab intellectuals--including Said--who prefer utopian dreams to a view of politics as the art of compromise. | Said is known for being intelligent. | entailment |
But a small item in the WP 's TV column makes you wonder even about It seems that UPN has ordered up a full season of episodes for the virtually all-black Moesha, which as of last Sunday, the paper reports, ranked 124th among the 139 series on the air. | Moesha was popular on the UPN. | neutral |
Framing the election around the desirability of tax cuts is risky business for Clinton; since the age of Reagan, the public assumes that the Republicans are the anti-tax party. | The Republicans always try to raise taxes. | contradiction |
When Dorothy Parker lamented that I hate writing, but I love having written, she was expressing the sort of routine tradeoff between current costs and future benefits that fits right into the traditional economic framework. | Dorothy Parker mourned that I dislike writing. | entailment |
An item skewers Donald Trump's Scrooge-like philanthropic record. | One thing stands out when it comes to the record of Donald Trump's philanthropy. | entailment |
If the jocks don't know why Bradley should be president, why are they endorsing him? | Bradley was not endorsed by the jocks. | contradiction |
I think neglecting to mention this shows that the Journal 's editorial page lacks intellectual integrity. | the fact that the Journal remembered to state this shows they actually put forth effort. | contradiction |
After all, if an American publication like Slate finds itself subject to Britain's Official Secrets Act, this turns the Internet's promise of freedom on its head. | Slate finding itself having Britain's Official Secrets Act invoked against it makes the Internet's promise of freedom seem like an illusion. | entailment |
Critics say expansion could be another Yalta (the 1945 meeting at which Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin agreed on spheres of influence in postwar Europe)--imposing a line between East and West, and leaving nonmembers subject to Russian bullying. | Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin never agreed on anything. | contradiction |
Paul Samuelson had good reasons for beginning his textbook with Keynesian analysis. | Paul Samuelson has never considered a Keynesian analysis before. | contradiction |
But he never makes clear that buying on margin means that you stand to lose a lot more when you make a mistake. | There is no risk to buying on margin. | contradiction |
Starr's goal--as Bruce Shapiro, in a perceptive anti-Starr Salon essay , recognizes--is most likely not to vindicate Willey but to unravel a presidential cover-up conspiracy. | The essay is sure to support and exonerate Willey. | contradiction |
The Chechen Russia is trying to take us over again. | Russia would be a more prosperous country if the Chechens are able to annex the land they want. | neutral |
Hannah was recently spotted in New York wearing a hat with a star on it, while Kennedy was photographed elsewhere in the Big Apple wearing a T-shirt with--are you sitting down? | Hannah and Kennedy were both seen walking around New York City. | entailment |
I don't see any reason to postpone the vote. | The author wants to push back the vote in order to make sure it's properly administrated. | contradiction |
The flames are nearly a foot high, they arc out from underneath the black leather hood; there is smoke, the huge buzzing sound of the electricity, there are white walls and Venetian blinds and linoleum underfoot. | Whatever is causing the flames is not working as intended. | neutral |
George Custer's left pinkie has, over the years, been traded for a horse and sold for its weight in gold. | George Custer's pinkie has been traded over the years. | entailment |
More Did Kaufman himself consider some of his experiments failures, or had his aesthetic finally become so punk/pro-wrestling that he thought driving people crazy was enough? | Kaufman's performances were widely accepted and enjoyed without any criticism. | contradiction |
She claims the Air Force treated her unfairly and that her commanding officers gave her no guidance. | She says she received a lot of tips from her officers. | contradiction |
Campaigns do not come much more ruinous than Saddam's 1980 invasion of Iran or his occupation of Kuwait a decade later. | Saddam had his troops stay within Iraq. | contradiction |
I started as a fan of great popularizers like Richard Dawkins and Steven Pinker, and I have since graduated not only to hero worship of the leading evolutionary theorists but also to reading textbooks and even journal articles. | Richard Dawkins is a great popularizer. | entailment |
Diabetes, cardiovascular problems, and penile injuries (more than 100,000 whacked in bike accidents have been permanently deflated, according to the medical literature) all prevent men from mustering a swelling. | Few men, if any, have had penile injuries while riding their bike. | contradiction |
the tester meows as he drops the vermin on the developer's doorstep. | The developer was testing how quickly a cat can catch a mouse. | neutral |
The message confused some of Red Eye's subscribers, and Red Herring rapidly began a damage control campaign. | Red Herring wanted Red Eye to lose subscribers. | contradiction |
Morris is more of an idiot savant. | Morris could be effective but was not considered a genius by any means. | entailment |
He doesn't really want to run, but perhaps he can use the threat of a candidacy to make himself a behind-the-scenes player, the guy who delivers the left to Al Gore or Bill Bradley. | Even the threat of him running can benefit Al Gore. | entailment |
Jeb Bush's wife lied to customs agents. | Jeb Bush's wife would never lie to a government employee. | contradiction |
The basic premise of this line is that the findings of faith and reason are not at odds--only their methods are. | The premise argues that faith and reason can never cooperate together. | contradiction |
Microsoft is reaching out to computer novices , says a piece. | Computer novices are hearing from Microsoft. | entailment |
A tightly wrapped head, with encapsulated eyes, nose, and mouth, doubtless suited the publicly shrouded female of antiquity, whose intelligence flowered wholly unseen. | This shrouded female had intelligence that flowered so that everyone could see. | contradiction |
One answer is to try to change the incentives of politicians, by making it more difficult for special interests to buy influence. | the politicians in question refuse to make public comments on the matter. | neutral |
*The scalpers-and-brokers point was brought to Chatterbox's attention by Randolph Cohen's brother Andrew, who is an assistant professor of history at Syracuse. | No Cohen brother is a professor. | contradiction |
Another AP item in the Post reports that at her weekly news conference, Janet Reno admitted she has become so confused over the computer system in her office that she has forsaken it for paper and pencil. | Janet Reno is performing her job inefficiently because she refuses to use the computer. | neutral |
We do this not out of philanthropy but out of enlightened self-interest. | We are completely enlightened. | neutral |
Hammerschmidt-Hummel, working with a team of scientists using advanced photographic techniques, found close similarities between the mask and a famous bust of Shakespeare, which she believes was copied from it. | The scientists were well known for their eccentric yet effective methods. | neutral |
The Supreme Court has never ruled on FISA, and it did not overturn a McCarthy-era statute which, like the removal court, was used to deport noncriminal aliens based on their political affiliations. | Non-citizens have been deported for reasons other than breaking the law. | entailment |
promises one month of free e-mail support. | There is no promise of a free month of e-mail support. | contradiction |
Little of Leonardo's weirdness is conveyed by the Codex Leicester exhibit--though Isabella Rosellini's blue-velveteen voice narrating the exhibit's eight-minute biographical video helps somewhat. | A smooth voice was the right decision for the purpose of a biographical video. | neutral |
And when it comes from the white right, it's narcissism in the service of hypocrisy. | The white right cares a lot about other people and they practice what they preach | contradiction |
As for me, I wrote my book about Reagan because I'd like to see him get at least some of the recognition he deserves during his lifetime. | Someone would like to see Reagan get the recognition he deserves. | entailment |
There is no good way to measure the gap between women's earnings and their productivity, but it is reasonable to say that their earnings have risen pretty much in line with their productivity. | There is a clear way to measure women's earnings versus their productivity. | contradiction |
A rancid little nothing of a movie (Stephen Holden, the New York Times ) that's a grim, gross wannabe Farrelly brothers flick. | an awesome motion picture for the ages. | contradiction |
He is preaching to the kinds of middle Americans that liberal activists long ago gave up for dead. | It was the wrong decision for liberal activists to give up their fight. | neutral |
If you use a computer to merge a lot of faces together, the result tends to look as fetching as Leonardo DiCaprio. | If you use a computer to merge many faces together, the result tends to look as hideous as Danny DeVito. | contradiction |
How do we know when the president had done a good job? | Rating how the president has done is a question. | entailment |
And it implies that the Harlem racket reverted to local control. | the local control are always aggressive. | neutral |
There is an increased sense of desperation in China about Taiwan. | For years, China has sought to expand its economic influence via Taiwanese markets. | neutral |
Others continue to dismiss his work as sappy and say he can't paint very well (Mark Stevens, New York ). Time 's Robert Hughes says Burne-Jones has become popular because confrontational Modernism is losing its mandate in our fin de siacle . (Click here for Christopher Benfey's review of the show in Slate .) | Everybody universally believes that the man's work is brilliant and acceptable. | contradiction |
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 issues brought about by campaign financing and K Street has had a detrimental effect on the US political process. | neutral |
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. | None of the work created by Mark Alan Stamaty is funny. | contradiction |
But it was only Eisner's recognition that a brand has to be updated and nurtured if it's to flourish that made those decisions so obvious. | The decisious that were made became obvious thanks to Eisner's strategy on letting a brand's age and unchanging reputation speak for itself. | contradiction |
But what it isn't is a rational way to run an industry. | Not all ways of running an industry make sense. | entailment |
The editors Slate is here for the duration. | It's here for the time being. | entailment |
Another Fan Page has a set of good links about the affair and a message board, too, though on last visit, it was no longer available. | There was no fan page discussing the affair. | contradiction |
The precedent-setting risk would be greater if the president were convicted by a strictly party-line vote. | There is a significant risk either way. | neutral |
The most devastating rebuttal is from the chemist in charge of the Auschwitz analysis, who explains that the gas wouldn't have penetrated more than 10 microns into the wall (a human hair is 100 microns thick), so by crushing the samples (standard procedure), he had effectively diluted the cyanide 100,000 times. | There is a chemist in charge of the Auschwitz analysis. | entailment |
These people are so power-hungry and so shameless they'll do anything to win, Dole said at a rally in Glendale, Calif., the day after the debate (before leading the audience in the It's Our Money, It's Our Money, It's Our Money). | Dole complimented his adversaries. | contradiction |
Unlike his cold-eyed assistants, he preferred to visit the battlefield after the corpses had been cleared away. | He visited the battlefield after his assistants. | entailment |
Wilson provides superb overviews of Western intellectual history and of the current state of understanding in many academic disciplines. | Students at Yale University are encouraged to study Wilson's work. | neutral |
The overlapping dialogue and squealing Cuban-African music heard over tinny-sounding radios seems meant to induce a migraine to accompany the seasickness. | The author finds the music to be soothing. | contradiction |
Both the Post and ABC claim to have copies of the original TP. | There is no original copy of TP. | contradiction |
I doubt you could find a single example of my ever having used it myself. | You might find other people who have used it. | neutral |
What is worrisome is the failure of pollsters themselves to learn from the history of their profession. | Pollsters sometimes learn things from their history. | neutral |
As Buchanan put it, the boys in the War Room had won a little victory today over this little girl who is going to be denied justice. | There was a victory today in the War Room. | entailment |
b) Did not quit on principle after Clinton admitted lies. | Those around Clinton believed he was innocent. | contradiction |
And in that case, the white candidate at 99 th place today wouldn't get in anyway. | The candidate is of German descent. | neutral |
Speaking of Turkey, in honor of Thanksgiving Slate has published a full week's issue as of today (Wednesday, Nov. 26), two days early. | Slate released their newest issue on November 26. | entailment |
Y'all always do the same, says the white mayor of 60 percent black Selma, Ala., at the end of their interview. | The majority of Selma residents are Native American. | contradiction |
The movie made me remember why I like Holly Hunter. | I have seen, or am at least aware of, a movie. | entailment |
Starr fought off the linkage, telling reporters that his criminal investigation was independent of the civil litigation. | Starr saw no distinction between criminal and civil cases. | contradiction |
Here's a quick review of possible objections, left and | Most of the objections to this will probably come from the left. | neutral |
It's this kind of pathological attention to detail that makes American industry the envy of the more materialistic parts of the world, and News Quiz such a pleasure to work on. | American industry is considered a joke throughout the world. | contradiction |
4) Who cares whether the judges are honest? | The judges are honest. | neutral |
Its lead story touts New Age heart guru Dr. Dean Ornish, who says low-fat diets, meditation, and love are better than surgery for curing heart ailments. | Dean Ornish is an advocate of low-fat diets, meditation and love. | entailment |
' That is said scornfully or dismissively, says historian and Brinkley mentor Ambrose, who tapped Brinkley to succeed him as director of University of New Orleans' Eisenhower Center. | Ambrose preceded Brinkley as directer of the Eisenhower Center. | entailment |
They missed the real The reason why Bush doesn't have to talk about old moral issues that might make him look mean is that he's introducing new moral issues that make him look warm and caring. | Bush made his statements on a saturday. | neutral |
In any event, foolishly excessive trade surpluses are a greater danger than foolishly excessive trade deficits . That's because excessive trade deficits are self- If you run a trade deficit every year, bankruptcy will eventually force you to stop. | The trade surplus was higher this year. | 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. | Two individuals can't have different attitudes toward saving. | contradiction |
We're told of Estella's inner struggle--of the tug of war between the punishing cock-tease that her aunt has engineered her to be and her inherent decency--but the conflict isn't palpable in Paltrow's paltry performance. | Estella's nature is at odds with the manipulations of her aunt. | entailment |
An Englishman who trained as an anthropologist before going to work for BBC Television, Barker clearly made up his mind about his material before his cameras began to roll--so it's no surprise that it feels prechewed and predigested. | Prior to his work with BBC, Barker was a trained anthropologist. | entailment |
Starr told me that, and Bennett confirmed it but would not tell me specifics. | Bennett revealed everything. | contradiction |
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