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Sentence 1: Glover spoke at a news conference that included about 20 relatives of the victims.
Sentence 2: About 20 family members of the victims were invited to the news conference.
Similarity score (0-5): 3.2 |
Sentence 1: Four other men who were also charged in June have already pleaded guilty.
Sentence 2: Four of the defendants have pleaded guilty to weapons charges and other counts.
Similarity score (0-5): 3.2 |
Sentence 1: The federal and local governments remained largely shut down in the aftermath of Hurricane Isabel, as were schools, and much of the region's transportation network was slowed.
Sentence 2: In the aftermath of Hurricane Isabel, federal and local governments remained shut down, as did schools and many businesses.
Similarity score (0-5): 3.2 |
Sentence 1: He gave a surprisingly impassioned speech to the United Steelworkers of America, who announced their endorsement yesterday.
Sentence 2: On Tuesday, he picked up the endorsement of the United Steelworkers of America.
Similarity score (0-5): 2.2 |
Sentence 1: Some 50 million phone numbers are registered on the list, which was to take effect Oct. 1.
Sentence 2: The FTC signed up 50 million phone numbers for the list, which was due to go into effect October 1.
Similarity score (0-5): 3.5 |
Sentence 1: "And about eight to 10 seconds down, I hit.
Sentence 2: "I was in the water for about eight seconds.
Similarity score (0-5): 2.2 |
Sentence 1: But Adora Obi Nweze, the NAACP state president, said the state only tried to prove its conclusion of suicide, rather than consider the possibility of murder.
Sentence 2: Adora Obi Nweze, the NAACP state president, said the state has refused to consider the possibility of murder.
Similarity score (0-5): 3.4 |
Sentence 1: Activists say they fear the gathering is an attempt by corporate farming to push bio-engineered crops on starving countries.
Sentence 2: Instead, they fear the conference is an attempt by corporate farming and biotech interests to push into new markets.
Similarity score (0-5): 3.0 |
Sentence 1: Their contract will expire at 12:01 a.m. Wednesday instead of 12:01 a.m. Sunday, said Rian Wathen, organizing director for United Food and Commercial Workers Local 700.
Sentence 2: "It has outraged the membership," said Rian Wathen, organizing director of United Food and Commercial Workers Local 700.
Similarity score (0-5): 2.5 |
Sentence 1: The technology-laced Nasdaq Composite Index .IXIC rose 39.39 points, or 2.2 percent, to 1,826.33, after losing more than 2 percent on Tuesday.
Sentence 2: The blue-chip Dow Jones industrial average .DJI jumped 194.14 points, or 2.09 percent, to 9,469.20 after sinking more than 1 percent a day earlier.
Similarity score (0-5): 1.8 |
Sentence 1: Some 14,000 customers were without power in the area, Oklahoma Gas and Electric said.
Sentence 2: About 38,000 OGE Energy Corp. customers are without power, the company said on its Web site.
Similarity score (0-5): 2.8 |
Sentence 1: Now, Blanca's American husband, 63-year-old Roger Lawrence Strunk, faces a murder indictment issued in February by the Philippine government, which says he's the leading suspect.
Sentence 2: Now, Blanca's husband, 63-year-old Roger Lawrence Strunk of Tracy, faces a murder indictment issued by the Philippine government in February.
Similarity score (0-5): 4.2 |
Sentence 1: Prince is replacing Sanford "Sandy" Weill, who will remain Citigroup's chairman.
Sentence 2: Prince, who heads Citigroup's global corporate and investment bank, is replacing Sanford Weill as CEO.
Similarity score (0-5): 3.0 |
Sentence 1: The operating revenues were $1.45 billion, an increase over last year's result of $1.38 billion.
Sentence 2: Operating revenues rose to $1.45 billion from $1.38 billion last year.
Similarity score (0-5): 5.0 |
Sentence 1: Spot gold was quoted at $367.90/368.60 an ounce at 1000 GMT, having marched up to $369.50 -- a level not seen since February 10.
Sentence 2: Spot gold was quoted at $358.65/359.15 an ounce at 0500 GMT, having darted as high as $359.25 -- a level not seen since February 25.
Similarity score (0-5): 3.2 |
Sentence 1: In Canada, the booming dollar will be in focus again as it tries to stay above the 75 cent (U.S.) mark.
Sentence 2: In Canada, the surging dollar was in focus again as it struggled and just failed to stay above the 75 cent (U.S.) mark.
Similarity score (0-5): 4.0 |
Sentence 1: But the justices ruled that the police supervisor who repeatedly questioned Martinez did not violate his Fifth Amendment rights in doing so.
Sentence 2: But the justices ruled that the police supervisor who repeatedly questioned Mr Martinez as he screamed in pain did not violate his Fifth Amendment rights.
Similarity score (0-5): 3.8 |
Sentence 1: The blue-chip Dow Jones industrial average eased 44 points, or 0.47 percent, to 9,543, after scoring five consecutive up sessions.
Sentence 2: The Dow Jones industrial average .DJI rose 18.25 points, or 0.19 percent, to 9,586.71.
Similarity score (0-5): 2.0 |
Sentence 1: The center's president, Joseph Torsella, was struck on the head but was able to walk to an ambulance.
Sentence 2: National Constitution Center President Joseph Torsella was hit in the head and knocked to his knees.
Similarity score (0-5): 3.3 |
Sentence 1: The report ranked 45 large companies based on employment, marketing, procurement, community reinvestment and charitable donations.
Sentence 2: Of those three, only Dillard's responded to the survey that ranked 45 large companies on employment, marketing, procurement, community reinvestment and charitable donations.
Similarity score (0-5): 3.0 |
Sentence 1: "I don't know if the person I'm talking to now may end up being someone else at another time that may not follow the rules," Parrish said.
Sentence 2: "I don't know whether the person I'm talking to now may end up being someone else," Parrish said.
Similarity score (0-5): 3.4 |
Sentence 1: Ruffner, 45, doesn't yet have an attorney in the murder charge, authorities said.
Sentence 2: Ruffner, 45, does not have a lawyer on the murder charge, authorities said.
Similarity score (0-5): 5.0 |
Sentence 1: Passed in 1999 but never put into effect, the law would have made it illegal for bar and restaurant patrons to light up.
Sentence 2: Passed in 1999 but never put into effect, the smoking law would have prevented bar and restaurant patrons from lighting up, but exempted private clubs from the regulation.
Similarity score (0-5): 3.4 |
Sentence 1: The first trial of a suspect in last year's Bali nightclub bombings that killed more than 200 people opened in Indonesia today, Sky News reported.
Sentence 2: One of the key suspects in the October nightclub bombings that killed more than 200 people in Bali went on trial Monday amid tight security.
Similarity score (0-5): 3.8 |
Sentence 1: French retirees will increase from one fifth to a third of the population by 2040.
Sentence 2: By 2040, retirees will account for a third of the population, up from a fifth today.
Similarity score (0-5): 4.0 |
Sentence 1: Iraqi police opened fire in downtown Baghdad today after demonstrators stormed a police station demanding they be given jobs they claimed to have paid bribes for.
Sentence 2: Iraqi police opened fire in downtown Baghdad Wednesday after demonstrators demanding jobs stormed a police station and threw stones at officers, police said.
Similarity score (0-5): 3.2 |
Sentence 1: The Dow Jones industrial average <.DJI> added 28 points, or 0.27 percent, at 10,557, hitting its highest level in 21 months.
Sentence 2: The Dow Jones industrial average <.DJI> rose 49 points, or 0.47 percent, to 10,578.
Similarity score (0-5): 2.2 |
Sentence 1: During the same quarter last year, EDS declared a profit of $354 million, or 72 cents per share.
Sentence 2: EDS reported a first-quarter loss of $126 million, or 26 cents per share.
Similarity score (0-5): 1.5 |
Sentence 1: Microsoft fell 5 percent before the open to $27.45 from Thursday's close of $28.91.
Sentence 2: Shares in Microsoft slipped 4.7 percent in after-hours trade to $27.54 from a Nasdaq close of $28.91.
Similarity score (0-5): 3.0 |
Sentence 1: "This is extraordinarily fast," said Matt Geller, an analyst at CIBC World Markets.
Sentence 2: They are actually going to record sales for Velcade this year," said Matt Geller, an analyst at CIBC World Markets.
Similarity score (0-5): 2.2 |
Sentence 1: Both rebels and government forces have been accused of pillaging villages in Liberia's countryside despite the peace agreement.
Sentence 2: Both rebels and government forces, including those loyald to Taylor, have been accused of pillaging villages in Liberia's countryside despite a peace deal.
Similarity score (0-5): 4.0 |
Sentence 1: Microsoft has been awarded a patent for a feature in instant messaging that alerts a user when the person they are communicating with is inputting a message.
Sentence 2: Microsoft has been awarded a patent on a popular instant-messaging feature that shows users when the person on the other end of the conversation is typing a message.
Similarity score (0-5): 4.8 |
Sentence 1: The arrests revealed new details about the four-month investigation at Selenski's Mount Olivet Road home.
Sentence 2: Kerkowski and Fassett's bodies were unearthed at Selenski's Mount Olivet Road home on June 5.
Similarity score (0-5): 1.5 |
Sentence 1: We intend to appeal vigorously and still expect to be vindicated ultimately.
Sentence 2: We think this was bad law, and we still expect to be vindicated ultimately.
Similarity score (0-5): 3.1 |
Sentence 1: Under Kansas law, it is illegal for children under the age of 16 to have sexual relations.
Sentence 2: In the opinion, Kline noted that it is illegal for children that young to have sexual relations.
Similarity score (0-5): 2.8 |
Sentence 1: The transaction will expand Callebaut's sales revenues from its consumer products business to 45 percent from 23 percent.
Sentence 2: The transaction will expand Callebaut's sales revenues from its consumer products business by around 45 percent to some one-third of total sales.
Similarity score (0-5): 3.5 |
Sentence 1: Indonesia's army has often been accused of human rights abuses during GAM's battle for independence, charges it has generally denied while accusing the separatists of committing rights violations.
Sentence 2: Indonesia's army has been accused of human rights abuses during its earlier battles with GAM, charges it has generally denied.
Similarity score (0-5): 3.2 |
Sentence 1: Iraq's economy was ravaged during years of U.N. sanctions over ex-president Saddam Hussein's 1990 occupation of Kuwait and by the U.S.-led war to oust him which ended in April.
Sentence 2: Iraq's economy was shattered under former president Saddam Hussein and by the U.S.-led war to oust him which ended in April.
Similarity score (0-5): 3.8 |
Sentence 1: One had also pointed to the word refugee in an English/Turkish dictionary.
Sentence 2: One man had brandished an English-Turkish dictionary and pointed to the word "refugee".
Similarity score (0-5): 3.8 |
Sentence 1: The bulk of the funds, some $65 billion, will go for military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Sentence 2: The bulk of the bill - $64.7 billion - goes for military operations primarily in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Similarity score (0-5): 4.0 |
Sentence 1: Dolores Mahoy, 68, of Colorado Springs, Colo., is someone who might be helped by the legislation pending in Congress.
Sentence 2: Dolores E. Mahoy, 68, of Colorado Springs is just the type of person who might be helped by the legislation pending in Congress.
Similarity score (0-5): 4.8 |
Sentence 1: Advancing issues outnumbered decliners about 8 to 5 on the New York Stock Exchange.
Sentence 2: Declining issues outnumbered advancers slightly more than 3 to 1 on the New York Stock Exchange.
Similarity score (0-5): 2.2 |
Sentence 1: A beauty contest to be held in Italy next week may be the first for pixel-perfect pin-ups.
Sentence 2: A new beauty contest kicking off in Italy next week will give pixel-perfect pin-ups the chance to steal sultry Sophia's sex-symbol status.
Similarity score (0-5): 3.2 |
Sentence 1: Analysts' consensus estimate from Thomson First Call was for a loss of $2.08 a share, excluding one-time items.
Sentence 2: The estimate of analysts surveyed by Thomson First Call was for a loss of $2.75 a share.
Similarity score (0-5): 2.5 |
Sentence 1: Boeing's board is also expected to decide at its December meeting whether to offer the airplane for sale to airlines.
Sentence 2: It is widely expected to give Bair formal approval to offer the plane for sale to airlines.
Similarity score (0-5): 2.2 |
Sentence 1: Bush said resistance forces hostile to the U.S. presence "feel like ... the conditions are such that they can attack us there.
Sentence 2: There are some who feel like the conditions are such that they can attack us there.
Similarity score (0-5): 2.8 |
Sentence 1: Defense lawyers had said a change of venue was needed because massive pretrial publicity had tainted the jury pool against their client.
Sentence 2: Defense lawyers had requested a change of venue for two reasons: They argued that massive pretrial publicity had tainted the jury pool against their client.
Similarity score (0-5): 4.8 |
Sentence 1: Founded in 1996, the LendingTree exchange consists of more than 200 banks, lenders, and brokers.
Sentence 2: LendingTree matches borrowers via the Internet with more than 200 mortgage brokers, banks and other lenders.
Similarity score (0-5): 3.5 |
Sentence 1: Most taxpayers will get surprise tax cuts of between $4 and $11 a week from July 1.
Sentence 2: Australia's 9 million income taxpayers received surprise tax cuts of between $3 and $11 a week from Treasurer Peter Costello last night.
Similarity score (0-5): 3.2 |
Sentence 1: Gyorgy Heizler, head of the local disaster unit, said the coach was carrying 38 passengers.
Sentence 2: The head of the local disaster unit, Gyorgy Heizler, said the coach driver had failed to heed red stop lights.
Similarity score (0-5): 3.0 |
Sentence 1: Tuition at four-year private colleges averaged $19,710 this year, up 6 percent from 2002.
Sentence 2: For the current academic year, tuition at public colleges averaged $4,694, up almost $600 from the year before.
Similarity score (0-5): 1.5 |
Sentence 1: The statewide unemployment rate fell to 6.4 percent, down from a revised 6.7 percent in August.
Sentence 2: The unemployment rate in San Joaquin County dipped last month to 8.5 percent, down nearly a full percentage point from August.
Similarity score (0-5): 2.0 |
Sentence 1: Security lights have also been installed and police have swept the grounds for booby traps.
Sentence 2: Security lights have also been installed on a barn near the front gate.
Similarity score (0-5): 3.0 |
Sentence 1: But U.S. troops will not shrink from mounting raids and attacking their foes when their locations can be pinpointed.
Sentence 2: But American troops will not shrink from mounting raids in the locations of their foes that can be pinpointed.
Similarity score (0-5): 4.8 |
Sentence 1: Moore had no immediate comment Tuesday.
Sentence 2: Moore did not have an immediate response Tuesday.
Similarity score (0-5): 4.8 |
Sentence 1: A judge ordered the child placed in state custody Aug. 8.
Sentence 2: On Aug. 8, Juvenile Court Judge Robert Yeates ordered that Parker be placed in protective custody.
Similarity score (0-5): 3.2 |
Sentence 1: But White House spokesman Ari Fleischer said yesterday: "The steps the Iranians claim to have taken in terms of capturing al-Qa'ida are insufficient."
Sentence 2: "The steps that the Iranians claim to have taken in terms of capturing al-Qaida are insufficient.
Similarity score (0-5): 3.2 |
Sentence 1: The results were released at Tuesday's meeting in Seattle of the American Thoracic Society and will be published in Thursday's New England Journal of Medicine.
Sentence 2: The study results were released at a meeting in Seattle of the American Thoracic Society and also will be published in tomorrow's issue of The New England Journal of Medicine.
Similarity score (0-5): 4.4 |
Sentence 1: His dissent was joined by Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist and Justice Clarence Thomas.
Sentence 2: Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist and Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas dissented.
Similarity score (0-5): 3.8 |
Sentence 1: United already has paid the city $34 million in penalties for not meeting the first round of employment targets.
Sentence 2: United has paid $34 million in penalties for failing to meet employment targets.
Similarity score (0-5): 4.4 |
Sentence 1: Shelley's office reported Friday that 575,926 signatures have been reported to him.
Sentence 2: Shelley's office released signature counts late Friday and said counties had reported counting 575,926 signatures so far.
Similarity score (0-5): 4.5 |
Sentence 1: Bush wanted "to see an aircraft landing the same way that the pilots saw an aircraft landing," White House press secretary Ari Fleischer said yesterday.
Sentence 2: On Tuesday, before Byrd's speech, Fleischer said Bush wanted ''to see an aircraft landing the same way that the pilots saw an aircraft landing.
Similarity score (0-5): 4.0 |
Sentence 1: Standing with reporters and photographers about 150 yards from the prison gates was Brent Newbury, president of the Rockland County Patrolmen's Benevolent Association.
Sentence 2: "The whole thing is a travesty," fumed Brent Newbury, president of the Rockland County Patrolmen's Benevolent Association.
Similarity score (0-5): 1.5 |
Sentence 1: "They were brutally beaten, and it's really a wonder that Porchia is the only deceased in this case."
Sentence 2: "It's a wonder that Porchia was the only deceased in this case," Sax added.
Similarity score (0-5): 3.0 |
Sentence 1: "The gloves are off," said UNIFI official Rob O'Neill.
Sentence 2: Unifi official Rob O'Neill said: "The gloves are off.
Similarity score (0-5): 5.0 |
Sentence 1: Pratt &Whitney had said that 75 per cent of the engine equipment would be outsourced to Europe, with final assembly in Germany.
Sentence 2: Pratt & Whitney had said that if it won the contract 75 per cent of the engine equipment would be outsourced to European suppliers, with final assembly in Germany.
Similarity score (0-5): 3.6 |
Sentence 1: Staff writers Selwyn Crawford and Colleen McCain Nelson and Brian Anderson of DallasNews.com contributed to this report.
Sentence 2: Staff writers Brandon Formby and Colleen McCain Nelson contributed to this report.
Similarity score (0-5): 2.8 |
Sentence 1: The Commerce Commission would have been a significant hurdle for such a deal.
Sentence 2: The New Zealand Commerce Commission had given Westpac no indication whether it would have approved its deal.
Similarity score (0-5): 1.8 |
Sentence 1: Prosecutors filed a motion informing Lee they intend to seek the death penalty.
Sentence 2: He added that prosecutors will seek the death penalty.
Similarity score (0-5): 3.4 |
Sentence 1: American Masters: Arthur Miller, Elia Kazan and the Blacklist: None Without Sin (Wed.
Sentence 2: Note the subheading of this terrible parable in the "American Masters" series, "Arthur Miller, Elia Kazan and the Blacklist: None Without Sin."
Similarity score (0-5): 3.0 |
Sentence 1: That package included increases to both the city's sales and income taxes.
Sentence 2: He also objects to the sales and personal income tax increases in the package.
Similarity score (0-5): 2.0 |
Sentence 1: The songs are on offer for 99 cents each, or $9.99 for an album.
Sentence 2: The company will offer songs for 99 cents and albums for $9.95.
Similarity score (0-5): 3.3 |
Sentence 1: "Certainly what we know suggests that we should take what they're saying very seriously," he added.
Sentence 2: "We don't know everything [but] what we know suggests that we should take what they're saying seriously," he said.
Similarity score (0-5): 4.2 |
Sentence 1: Gillette shares rose $1.45, or 4.5 percent, to $33.95 in afternoon New York Stock Exchange trading.
Sentence 2: Shares of Gillette closed down 45 cents at $33.70 in trading Wednesday on the New York Stock Exchange.
Similarity score (0-5): 2.0 |
Sentence 1: Shares of San Diego-based Jack In The Box closed at $21.49, up 78 cents, or 3.8 percent, on the New York Stock Exchange.
Sentence 2: Shares of Tampa-based Outback Steakhouse Inc. closed at $44.50, up $1.78, or 4.2 percent, on the New York Stock Exchange.
Similarity score (0-5): 1.6 |
Sentence 1: The Dow Jones industrials climbed more than 140 points to above the 9,000 mark, the first time since December.
Sentence 2: The Dow Jones industrials briefly surpassed the 9,000 mark for the first time since December."
Similarity score (0-5): 3.6 |
Sentence 1: The government has chosen three companies to develop plans to protect commercial aircraft from shoulder-fired missile attacks, homeland security officials announced Tuesday.
Sentence 2: The Department of Homeland Security announced Tuesday that it has selected three companies to continue research into ways to thwart shoulder-fired missile attacks on U.S. commercial aircraft.
Similarity score (0-5): 4.8 |
Sentence 1: Tamil parties blame the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) for these killings.
Sentence 2: The government wanted to revive talks with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) to discuss the interim structure.
Similarity score (0-5): 1.8 |
Sentence 1: Two of the Britons, Sandy Mitchell from Glasgow and Glasgow-born William Sampson, face the death penalty.
Sentence 2: Sandy Mitchell, 44, from Kirkintilloch, Glasgow, and William Sampson, a British citizen born in Glasgow, face beheading in public.
Similarity score (0-5): 3.2 |
Sentence 1: He urged patience from Americans eager for the service, which is intended to block about 80 percent of telemarketing calls.
Sentence 2: The free service was originally intended to block about 80 percent of telemarketer calls.
Similarity score (0-5): 3.0 |
Sentence 1: Jordan Green, the prelate's private lawyer, said he had no comment.
Sentence 2: O'Brien's attorney, Jordan Green, declined to comment.
Similarity score (0-5): 3.6 |
Sentence 1: Mr Hadley, who has a new partner and child, said: "I am absolutely delighted.
Sentence 2: In a statement issued by his solicitors, Mr Hadley said: "I am absolutely delighted with the outcome of proceedings.
Similarity score (0-5): 3.4 |
Sentence 1: The losses occurred overnight in Willow Canyon, one of three areas in the Santa Catalina Mountains threatened by the 2-week-old fire that already had blackened 70,000 acres.
Sentence 2: The losses occurred overnight in Willow Canyon, one of three areas in the Santa Catalina Mountains threatened by the resurgent Aspen fire.
Similarity score (0-5): 3.2 |
Sentence 1: "We do not want to stand by and let a credit card lynching take place," declared Rep. Major Owens (D-Brooklyn).
Sentence 2: "We don't want to stand by and see a credit card lynching take place," he said.
Similarity score (0-5): 3.5 |
Sentence 1: However, commercial use of the 2.6.0 kernel is still months off for most customers.
Sentence 2: Commercial releases of the 2.6 kernel by major Linux distributors still remain months away.
Similarity score (0-5): 3.8 |
Sentence 1: The broader Standard & Poor's 500 Index .SPX advanced 2 points, or 0.24 percent, to 977.
Sentence 2: The Nasdaq Composite Index .IXIC was off 6.52 points, or 0.39 percent, at 1,645.66.
Similarity score (0-5): 0.8 |
Sentence 1: Two officials initially said about 300 workers had been arrested at 61 stores in 21 states.
Sentence 2: But the officials later revised the numbers and said about 250 had been arrested at some 60 stores.
Similarity score (0-5): 2.4 |
Sentence 1: "This deal makes sense for both companies," Halla said in a prepared statement.
Sentence 2: Brian Halla, CEO of NatSemi, claimed the deal made sense for both companies.
Similarity score (0-5): 3.2 |
Sentence 1: Fifty-seven senators, including 24 Republicans, have signed the letter.
Sentence 2: Of those who signed the letter, 57 are senators, including 24 Republicans.
Similarity score (0-5): 4.9 |
Sentence 1: Five more human cases of West Nile virus, were reported by the Mesa County Health Department on Wednesday.
Sentence 2: As of this week, 103 human West Nile cases in 45 counties had been reported to the health department.
Similarity score (0-5): 2.6 |
Sentence 1: Mr. Manuel and his group entered the United States by walking across the bridge linking Matamoros and Brownsville.
Sentence 2: Manuel and his group entered the US the same way thousands of people do every day, by walking across the bridge between Matamoros and Brownsville.
Similarity score (0-5): 4.0 |
Sentence 1: Under NASD regulations, Mr. Young can file a response and request a hearing before an NASD panel.
Sentence 2: The analyst, already let go by Merrill, can request a hearing before a NASD panel.
Similarity score (0-5): 3.0 |
Sentence 1: The president began his speech by acknowledging the terrorist attacks in Saudi Arabia that killed at least 29 people, including seven Americans.
Sentence 2: Bush, however, also lashed out at the terrorist bombings in Saudi Arabia that killed at least 29 people -- including a number of Americans.
Similarity score (0-5): 3.2 |
Sentence 1: "I´m very proud of the citizens of this state," Gov. John Baldacci said after votes from Tuesday´s referendum were counted.
Sentence 2: "I'm very proud of the citizens of this state," said Gov. John Baldacci, a casino foe.
Similarity score (0-5): 3.2 |
Sentence 1: Among three major candidates, Schwarzenegger is wining the battle for independents and crossover voters.
Sentence 2: Schwarzenegger picks up more independents and crossover voters than Bustamante.
Similarity score (0-5): 3.4 |
Sentence 1: He will replace Ron Dittemore, who announced his resignation April 23.
Sentence 2: Dittemore announced his plans to resign on April 23.
Similarity score (0-5): 2.6 |
Sentence 1: Selenski had previously spent seven years in prison on a bank robbery conviction.
Sentence 2: Selenski had served about seven years in prison for bank robbery.
Similarity score (0-5): 4.6 |
Sentence 1: Maddox, 87, cracked two ribs when he fell about 10 days ago at an assisted living home where he was recovering from intestinal surgery, Virginia Carnes said.
Sentence 2: Maddox, who had battled cancer since 1983, cracked two ribs earlier this month when he fell at an assisted living home where he was recovering from surgery.
Similarity score (0-5): 3.4 |
Sentence 1: Graham, a presidential candidate, was criticized by several Republicans as ''politicizing'' the report.
Sentence 2: Graham, who co-chaired the inquiry, is a presidential candidate.
Similarity score (0-5): 2.2 |
Sentence 1: In 2002, Linksys overtook Cisco Systems as the leading wireless equipment vendor, accounting for 14.1 percent of revenue.
Sentence 2: Rolfe said Linksys overtook Cisco Systems last year as the leading supplier of WLAN equipment.
Similarity score (0-5): 3.5 |
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