Hyukkyu/superglue huggingface dataset:
Premise: Two members of the 2000 Kanchenjunga Expedition of South Korea successfully scaled the 8,586m high Mt. Kanchenjunga via the south west face Friday, according to the Nepali Tourism Ministry.
Hypothesis: Kanchenjunga is 8586 meters high.
Premise: The peak is 8,586 meters high.
Hypothesis: Kanchenjunga is 8586 meters high.
Premise: Nearly seven meters in height, Cassini will be carrying 12 separate packages of scientific instruments, as well as a probe, carrying six more bundles of sensors, which is to be dropped on to Titan, Saturn's largest moon.
Hypothesis: The moon Titan has a diameter of 5100 kilometers.
Premise: The diameter of the moon cake is 2.1 meters.
Hypothesis: The terrestrial moon has a diameter of 3,746 kilometers.
Premise: With a diameter of 1,430 miles, Pluto is less than half the size of any other planet and only two-thirds as big as Earth's moon.
Hypothesis: The terrestrial moon has a diameter of 3,746 kilometers.
Premise: With a diameter of 5,230 kilometers, Ganymede is the largest satellite in the solar system - bigger than Mercury and about three-fourths the size of Mars.
Hypothesis: The terrestrial moon has a diameter of 3,746 kilometers.
Premise: On Thursday night they dined with Colombian writer and Nobel laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
Hypothesis: Gabriel Garcia Marquez is a nobel prize winner.
Premise: Assisting Gore are physicist Stephen Hawking, Star Trek actress Nichelle Nichols and Gary Gygax, creator of Dungeons and Dragons.
Hypothesis: Stephen Hawking is a physicist.
Premise: The Yamaguchi-gumi claims a membership of 23,000 gangsters, or "yakuza" as they are called, who engage in businesses, both legal and illegal, including drug-trafficking, gun-smuggling, prostitution, extortion and real-estate swindles.
Hypothesis: The yakuza are the Japanese mafia.
Premise: Last year Jandl was named one of the 10 most important German-language poets of the 20th century by a jury of more than 50 writers, scholars and critics established by the German-language journal Das Gedicht (The Poem).
Hypothesis: Gotthold Ephraim Lessing lived from 1729 to 1781.
Premise: The USOC decided last year not to pursue a 2008 candidacy, saying it had little chance of winning so soon after summer games in Atlanta in 1996 and winter games in Salt Lake City in 2002.
Hypothesis: Before Salt Lake City, Winter Olympic Games took place in Nagano.
Premise: Among the major achievements in physics I was privileged to report were the discovery of the top quark at Fermilab -the last of six quarks predicted by The Standard Model theory- and the discovery in Japan that the elusive neutrino particle probably has some mass, a finding with profound implications for the fate of the universe.
Hypothesis: The Top Quark is the last quark predicted by the Standard Model theory.
Premise: The most conspicuous achievement of the Tevatron in its 14 years of operation was the discovery in 1995 of the "top quark," which filled in the last blank space for six quarks allotted by a table of fundamental particles known as the Standard Model.
Hypothesis: The Top Quark is the last quark predicted by the Standard Model theory.
Premise: We have no idea about a time between roughly 300,000 and 1 billion years after the Big Bang, when the universe was very hazy.
Hypothesis: The Big Bang is the primordial explosion from which the universe was created.
Premise: Garry Norris, a former software director at IBM Corp., was to be questioned today at the federal courthouse in Raleigh, N.C. He negotiated important sales contracts for Windows in 1995 and 1996.
Hypothesis: Windows is Microsoft operating systems.
Premise: Bahrain and Kuwait are members of the Gulf Cooperation Council, GCC, a regional political, economic and military organization which also groups Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar and Oman.
Hypothesis: The members of the Gulf Cooperation Council are: Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Oman, Bahrain.
Premise: And the movie-makers didn't always heed some of the consultants it paid to advise them, including the highly-respected husband-and-wife team of comet and asteroid specialists Carolyn and the late Eugene Shoemaker.
Hypothesis: The Shoemaker-Levy comet was discovered by Shoemaker, his wife, Carolyn, and an astronomer David H. Levy.
Premise: Last month, the 1,700-pound craft was renamed NEAR Shoemaker in honor of the late Dr. Eugene M. Shoemaker, a pioneer in the study of asteroid and comet impacts on the planets.
Hypothesis: The Shoemaker-Levy comet was discovered by Shoemaker, his wife, Carolyn, and an astronomer David H. Levy.
Premise: EVERGLADES NATIONAL PARK, Fla. - On a clear, warm day recently, Dr. Thomas Armentano picked his way through a stand of red mangroves near the southern edge of the Florida peninsula and stepped into a bone dry stretch of marl prairie littered with scores of uprooted, sun-bleached buttonwood trees.
Hypothesis: Everglades National Park is located in Florida.
Premise: South Florida, which had only a half million people when Everglades National Park was created in 1947, now has 6 million people and is expected to have 12 million or more by 2050.
Hypothesis: Everglades National Park is located in Florida.
Premise: The board of the South Florida Water Management District may have to decide as early as next month whether to proceed with buying the community known as the 8 1/2-Square-Mile Area, just east of Everglades National Park.
Hypothesis: Everglades National Park is located in Florida.
Premise: There were 12 original members of NATO at the time of its founding.
Hypothesis: The NATO has 16 members.
Premise: The 16 NATO members and the 14 countries which used to form the rival Warsaw Pact agreed that there would be significantly less equipment permitted in the area of application in Europe than there was under the original treaty.
Hypothesis: The NATO has 16 members.
Premise: Alluding to Greece's proposal, and other differences within the alliance, Albright said "there are a variety of ideas" among the diverse 19 NATO member nations.
Hypothesis: The NATO has 16 members.
Premise: Coming at a time when the world's two leading auction houses, Sotheby's and Christie's, are embroiled in an embarrassing price-fixing scandal, Phillips, which is based in London, is causing a considerable stir with its conspicuous and costly effort to reinvent itself as an important player in New York.
Hypothesis: Christie's is one of the world's largest auction houses.
Premise: NUCOR has pioneered a giant mini-mill in which steel is poured into continuous casting machines.
Hypothesis: Nucor has pioneered the first mini-mill.
Premise: NUCOR has pioneered a giant mini-mill in which steel is poured into continuous casting machines.
Hypothesis: The NUCOR process casts thin slabs of steel.
Premise: The most common technology in mini-mills, thin steel slab casting was developed by SMS and put into use by NUCOR.
Hypothesis: SMS developed a new steel casting process.
Premise: NUCOR giant mini-mill process is estimated to cut production costs by 10%.
Hypothesis: NUCOR giant mini-mill may cut costs by 10%.
Premise: Electric arc furnaces burn scrap metal into molten steel which is formed into slabs just two inches thick which are immediately compressed into even thinner finished steel.
Hypothesis: Scrap metal is liquefied in electric furnaces.
Premise: Electric arc furnaces burn scrap metal into molten steel which is formed into slabs just two inches thick which are immediately compressed into even thinner finished steel.
Hypothesis: Finished steel is produced by compression.
Premise: The single-run production process is much quicker.
Hypothesis: Single-run production cuts time costs.
Premise: The process is much quicker and less capital intensive than traditional steel-making but depends on an inexpensive supply of scrap metal and electricity.
Hypothesis: The new steel making technology is less capital intensive.
Premise: The mini-mill production is much quicker and less capital intensive than traditional steel-making but depends on an inexpensive supply of scrap metal and electricity.
Hypothesis: The mini-mill production requires high cost of energy and scrap metal.
Premise: Companies considering or planning such plants are: a consortium of TRICO Steel, British Steel and Sumitomo Metal Industries.
Hypothesis: There will be a US-UK-Japanese joint venture (Trico Steel).
Premise: Iran's population growth rate of 3.9 per cent a year in the early 1980s was among the highest in the world.
Hypothesis: Iran's growth rate was once 3.9 percent.
Premise: Iran's family planning programme has been 'an achievement' because of the strength of the government's commitment.
Hypothesis: Iran has set up a government program for population control.
Premise: The 24-year-old forest guard was shot in the head, face and shoulder.
Hypothesis: A shoot-to-kill policy against poachers was instituted in some African countries.
Premise: In 1989, CITES, the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species, banned the trade in ivory.
Hypothesis: Ivory trade was banned during a convention in 1989.
Premise: The world 's population is set to reach a staggering 10bn by the middle of 21st century up from 5.7bn now.
Hypothesis: The world population will probably reach over 10 billion in 2050.
Premise: The world 's population is set to reach a staggering 10bn by the middle of the next century up from 5.7bn now.
Hypothesis: The current world population is 5.7 billion.
Premise: Fourteen European countries with about 5 % of the world 's population have reached zero population growth and Japan, France and Finland are, among others, headed in that direction.
Hypothesis: Japan is headed toward zero population growth.
Premise: The chaotic development gobbling up the Amazon rain forest could finally be reined in with a new plan developed by officials of Amazon countries and leading scientists from around the world.
Hypothesis: A new plan has been developed to rein in the chaotic development in the Amazon forest.
Premise: Features of the plan include the creation of a national fund for environmental protection, suspension of subsidies for cattle ranchers in the Amazon Basin and new controls on pesticides.
Hypothesis: National funds are assigned to the control of pesticides.
Premise: Nucor reckons that the SMS process gives it a Dollars 50 to Dollars 70 a ton production cost advantage over Big Steel.
Hypothesis: Nucor's process has cost advantages.
Premise: US STEEL, the largest integrated steel manufacturer in the US, is considering building a new steel plant to combat America's fast-growing steel mini-mills on their own ground.
Hypothesis: US Steel's mini-mill will be located in Ohio.
Premise: US Steel could even have a technical advantage over Nucor since one new method of steel-making it is considering, thin strip casting, may produce higher quality steel than Nucor's thin-slab technique.
Hypothesis: Strip casting is expected to produce a superior quality of steel.
Premise: Frog would become legendary as one of the nation's first and most effective narcotics-sniffing dogs.
Hypothesis: Dogs are used to sniff out narcotics.
Premise: In the last decade, employment of the dogs has escalated from a novelty to a necessity for most law enforcement agencies.
Hypothesis: Dogs are used in law enforcement.
Premise: Although dogs have been used in police work for years, primarily for patrol duty, their use as narco-noses gained widespread acceptance around 1980.
Hypothesis: Use of dogs in sniffing out narcotics became common around 1980.
Premise: Although dogs have been used in police work for years, primarily for patrol duty, their use as narco-noses didn't gain widespread acceptance until about 10 years ago.
Hypothesis: Dogs are used to sniff out narcotics.
Premise: Although dogs have been used in police work for years, primarily for patrol duty, their use as narco-noses didn't gain widespread acceptance until about 10 years ago.
Hypothesis: Police departments use dogs.
Premise: The British government has indicated its readiness to allow Argentine companies to take part in the development of oilfields in the Falkland islands' territorial waters.
Hypothesis: The development of oilfields in the Falkland islands' waters requires cooperation with Argentina.
Premise: It emerged yesterday that the Ministry of Defence has turned down a request from Argentina to allow a limited supply of UK-manufactured spare parts to the Argentine navy, begun during the Gulf war.
Hypothesis: The UK Ministry of Defence has turned down a request for supplies from Argentina.
Premise: Argentina and Britain announced an agreement Thursday to restore full diplomatic ties nearly eight years after they fought a 74 day war over the Falkland Islands a sparsely populated archipelago off Argentina coast in the South Atlantic Ocean.
Hypothesis: Full diplomatic relations between Argentina and Britain were re-established after 74 days.
Premise: Today Argentina gets out the red carpet for the UK Duke of York, the first official royal visitor since the end of the Anglo-Argentine Falklands war in 1982.
Hypothesis: The Duke of York became the first official royal visitor to Argentina since 1982.
Premise: However, talks are planned later this year to resume training courses for Argentine officers at British military academies.
Hypothesis: Argentine officers may be trained in UK military academies.
Premise: Slovakia has attracted a mere 4% of the estimated Dollars 800m of foreign investment which has flowed into Czechoslovakia in the past two years.
Hypothesis: Slovakia has recently attracted large foreign investments.
Premise: Czech and Slovak leaders announced early today that they had agreed to prepare the splitting up of Czechoslovakia into two separate states.
Hypothesis: Czech and Slovak will be split into two separate states.
Premise: Czech and Slovak leaders said the regional parliaments would decide on how best to divide Czechoslovakia into two states.
Hypothesis: Regional parliaments of Czech and Slovak will decide how to divide Czechoslovakia into two states.
Premise: Agreement on the break-up of the state has been one of the few points of consensus between the winners of June's general elections in Czechoslovakia -the Civic Democratic party in the Czech republic and the Slovak Movement for a Democratic Slovakia.
Hypothesis: Czech and Slovak leaders approved a law which ensures the legal break-up of the federation.
Premise: An estimated 100,000 ethnic Slovaks, most of them living in the Czech Republic, have applied to relinquish their citizenship since Czechoslovakia broke into separate states.
Hypothesis: 100,000 Slovaks have applied to change citizenship.
Premise: On New Year's day, 1993, Slovaks sloughed off a thousand year subservience to Hungary and seven decades as the junior partner in Czechoslovakia and celebrated the birth of a sovereign, independent, internationally recognised republic.
Hypothesis: On January 1, 1993, Czechoslovakia became an independent republic.
Premise: The government's plans for reorganising local government in Wales and Scotland should be withdrawn.
Hypothesis: The government intends to reorganize Welsh local government.
Premise: Self-containing flats will be provided to enable hostel residents to move into long-term accommodation, while Salvation Army social workers and volunteers have been trained in outreach work to make contact with homeless people on the streets.
Hypothesis: The Salvation Army is working to make contact with homeless people.
Premise: Self-containing flats will be provided to enable hostel residents to move into long-term accommodation, while Salvation Army social workers and volunteers have been trained in outreach work to make contact with homeless people on the streets.
Hypothesis: The Salvation Army provides apartments as long-term accommodation for needy hostel residents.
Premise: Revenue from the thrift store funded the Salvation Army's drug- and alcohol-rehabilitation service.
Hypothesis: Proceeds from thrift stores fund drug and alcohol rehabilitation services.
Premise: The Tory dream of challenging Labour superiority in its south Wales heartland lay in tatters yesterday - while Plaid Cymru, the Welsh nationalist party, was celebrating the fact that it now has more MPs than the higher-profile Scottish National party.
Hypothesis: Plaid Cymru is the Welsh nationalist party.
Premise: The government will delay the implementation of local government reform in Wales for a year in what could be an embarrassment for Mr John Redwood, the Welsh secretary.
Hypothesis: The Welsh government has delayed the implementation of the reform for a year.
Premise: Indonesia's tin industry is expected to return to profit in 1992 with the dominant state-owned tin mine, Tambang Timah, having cut production costs by 25 per cent since 1990.
Hypothesis: Indonesia cut tin production costs by 25%.
Premise: Indonesia is the world's third largest tin producer after Brazil and Malaysia and had an export quota at the end of last year of 28,376 tonnes a year.
Hypothesis: Indonesia is one of the world's largest tin producers.
Premise: Malaysia's tin industry, suffering its worst production slump since the second world war, has been dealt a body blow with the announcement that Malaysia mining corporation, one of the country's biggest tin producers, is pulling out of tin mining.
Hypothesis: The Malaysia Mining Corp. was one of the world's biggest tin producers.
Premise: Drugs must go through expensive licensing procedures in individual countries at the same time.
Hypothesis: Drugs must go through the licensing processes.
Premise: The other is a growing sentiment among judges that white-collar criminals should be treated the same as others.
Hypothesis: White-collar criminals are treated the same as others.
Premise: These new molecular design methods will become increasingly significant for the industry and in 10 to 30 years will account for many of the new drugs on the market.
Hypothesis: Molecular design methods are used for drug development.
Premise: A federal judge sentenced an apparently stunned Michael Milken to 10 years in prison Wednesday after ruling that the crimes he pleaded guilty to were neither minor nor isolated.
Hypothesis: Milken was given a 10-year sentence.
Premise: A federal judge sentenced an apparently stunned Michael Milken to 10 years in prison Wednesday after ruling that the crimes he pleaded guilty to were neither minor nor isolated.
Hypothesis: Milken was sentenced to prison for minor crimes.
Premise: But the planned trip by an aircraft which is normally used by the Argentine navy to transport military equipment would have almost certainly fuelled stiff opposition from the Falkland islanders.
Hypothesis: The Falkland islanders blocked the trip of an Argentine navy's military aircraft.
Premise: Argentina is tying any long-term agreement to British concessions to share oil development and lift the arms embargo.
Hypothesis: Argentina lifts arms embargo.
Premise: The ECGD decision follows the successful bid by Babcock International of the UK to supply computer-controlled inspection equipment to the Atucha II nuclear power station being built 70 miles north-west of Buenos Aires.
Hypothesis: Babcock International supplied nuclear expertise to Argentina.
Premise: On the domestic tobacco front, operating income rose by 12 per cent to Dollars 914m, with "slightly higher unit volume".
Hypothesis: US tobacco income has risen.
Premise: In terms of operating profits, the sharpest advance was seen in Philip Morris' international tobacco division.
Hypothesis: Philip Morris gains on the international market.
Premise: He was a particular nuisance to Amazon cattle ranchers, who clear-cut vast tracts of trees to graze cattle for beef to be exported, mostly to developed countries.
Hypothesis: Ranchers clear-cut vast tracts of the Amazon forest to graze cattle.
Premise: The next useful step against poaching would be to increase pressure on those governments which have so far taken a relaxed attitude towards import of banned products.
Hypothesis: Controls on poaching include pressuring governments who allow imports of banned products.
Premise: A common variety of mercy killing is when a permanently incapacitated or terminally ill patient is removed from a life support system upon his/her request or the request of a spouse, close relative or guardian or simply by medical authorities with legal approval.
Hypothesis: A variety of mercy killing is when a patient is removed from a life support system with legal approval.
Premise: Leakey believed Kenya's wildlife, which underpins a tourist industry worth Dollars 450m a year, could be managed in a profitable and sustainable manner.
Hypothesis: Kenya's wildlife is managed in a profitable manner.
Premise: Hunted down and stripped of tusks and hide by poachers, the number of African elephants slumped from 1.2m to 600,000 in a decade until Cites banned the trade in ivory.
Hypothesis: The African elephant population was decimated by poachers.
Premise: They cite scholarly research showing that young women at co-ed schools tend to defer to men in intellectual debate.
Hypothesis: Young women at co-ed colleges tend to defer to men.
Premise: Women at single-sex colleges are more likely to graduate and to obtain advanced degrees.
Hypothesis: Women are more likely to obtain advanced degrees.
Premise: The rankings of independent schools' A-level results have been analyzed by the Financial Times today.
Hypothesis: The Financial Times has analyzed the rankings of UK schools.
Premise: Boys and girls will be segregated during sex education in junior high school.
Hypothesis: Boys and girls will be segregated in junior high school.
Premise: A German nurse, Michaela Roeder, 31, was found guilty of six counts of manslaughter and mercy killing.
Hypothesis: A German nurse was convicted of manslaughter and mercy killing.
Premise: A new survey shows that all segments of the public support right-to-die policies.
Hypothesis: The public supports the right to die.
Premise: A majority of "born-again" Christians and the very religious think acts of so-called "mercy killing" by spouses are sometimes justified.
Hypothesis: Christians justify mercy killing.
Premise: It tried to buy the Berlin biscuit company from RJR Nabisco two years ago, but was outbid by the French food giant, BSN.
Hypothesis: BSN bought RJR Nabisco.
Premise: BAT would not confirm the story, but did confirm that the three tobacco majors - BAT, RJ Reynolds and Philip Morris - are 'head to head in investment terms' in the former Soviet Union.
Hypothesis: Three tobacco majors have entered the former Soviet Union market.
Premise: Philip Morris cited strong volume gains in Germany, Italy, France, Spain, central and eastern Europe, the Far East, Japan, Korea, Argentina and Brazil.
Hypothesis: Philip Morris makes strong profits also in Europe.
Premise: A year after Noriega's capture, the court was still hearing arguments on whether Bush could be subpoenaed and the World Court was in preliminary hearings on Panama's complaint.
Hypothesis: The World court subpoenaed Bush.
Premise: The World Court can condemn this action and then the Soviets can defy that body, just as the United States defied the court's condemnation of its embargo of Nicaragua.
Hypothesis: The World court condemned the US embargo against Nicaragua.
Premise: Col. Gadaffi has separately opened an action against the US and Britain at the World Court accusing them of breaking international law.
Hypothesis: Gadaffi has accused the USA and Britain of breaking international law.
Premise: Libya had been the target of US air raids in 1986, when the US had linked Libya to the bombing of a Berlin disco frequented by US servicemen.
Hypothesis: The US has raided Libya.
Premise: The World Court yesterday rejected Libya's plea that it should bar the US and Britain from taking punitive measures to oblige Tripoli to hand over two men suspected of the 1988 bombing of a Pan Am airliner over Lockerbie in Scotland.
Hypothesis: Libya requested an injunction against Britain and the U.S.
Premise: Bosnian claims of Serbian annexation attempts in 1993 were brought to the World Court.
Hypothesis: The World Court heard Bosnia's case against Serbia.
Premise: The International Court of Justice ruled in Chad's favour in a 20-year border dispute with Libya which has caused two wars.
Hypothesis: The border dispute between Chad and Libya was ruled in Chad's favour.
Premise: They refused to appear in the World Court 10 years ago when Washington sought the release of American hostages in Tehran.
Hypothesis: American hostages were released in Tehran.
Premise: They refused to appear in the World Court 10 years ago when Washington sought the release of American hostages in Tehran.
Hypothesis: The court heard US appeals for the release of hostages held by Iran.
Premise: The World Court, or International Court of Justice (ICJ), located in The Hague, is made up of fifteen permanent judges plus two judges nominated by the parties involved in the dispute under consideration.
Hypothesis: There may be up to 15 judges in the ICJ.
Premise: The World Court, or International Court of Justice (ICJ), located in The Hague, is made up of fifteen permanent judges plus two judges nominated by the parties involved in the dispute under consideration.
Hypothesis: Two judges of the ICJ are nominated by the parties involved.
Premise: The World Court has no power to enforce its orders but its decisions have traditionally carried some diplomatic weight.
Hypothesis: The decisions of the World Court carry diplomatic weight.
Premise: One of the earliest and longest standing decisions of the ICJ involved the Corfu Channel incident in 1946 when two British destroyers struck Albanian-laid mines while exercising their right of passage through Corfu Channel.
Hypothesis: The dispute between Albania and the UK about the Corfu incident lasted a long time.
Premise: The ICJ ruled in 1948 that Albania should pay Britain 843,947 pounds.
Hypothesis: In 1948 the ICJ ruled in favour of Albania.
Premise: A dispute between Honduras and El Salvador over their borders was settled by a compromise devised by the ICJ in 1992.
Hypothesis: Honduras and El Salvador were in dispute over their borders.
Premise: Experts estimate that only 5% to 10% of stolen artworks ever finds its way back to the owners.
Hypothesis: Only 5% to 10% of stolen art ever gets returned to the owners.
Premise: Twenty-eight French masterpieces seized by the Nazis during World War II, including paintings by Monet, Renoir and Gauguin, have been found in a cupboard at a Berlin museum, a news magazine reported today.
Hypothesis: Masterpieces seized by Nazis were found in Berlin.
Premise: The ALR was founded by a consortium of leading auction houses (Sotheby's, Christie's, Phillips).
Hypothesis: Sotheby's, Christie's and Phillips founded the ALR.
Premise: The City Council recently budgeted $7,300 to pay for training Officer Ron Inman and his dog Waldo.
Hypothesis: The City Council paid $7,300 to train a dog.
Premise: The international Human Genome Project is stimulating rapid advances in laboratory automation.
Hypothesis: The Human Genome Project benefits from advances in laboratory automation.
Premise: The three partners have developed a robotic system to help scientists produce cloned cells required for genetics research.
Hypothesis: Robots help scientists clone cells.
Premise: The ICRF system then 'picks' healthy-looking colonies with a block of 96 spring-loaded pins and moves the cells to dishes for further growth and analysis.
Hypothesis: The ICRF system picks cells for further growth and analysis.
Premise: The biggest user of automation technology is the electronics industry, especially for making factory laptop computers.
Hypothesis: Automation technology is used in making laptop computers.
Premise: Robots are now available for loading and unloading memory tapes and schedulers for pre-arranging the flow of work through a computer over a period of time.
Hypothesis: Corporate IT departments use robots for loading and unloading memory tapes.
Premise: Robots are being used in automobile final assembly work and paint spraying and suppliers hope to be able to develop these markets now that the technology has been proven.
Hypothesis: Robots are used in assembly work.
Premise: One of the most innovative features of the Thamesport's system is the control of remote peripherals.
Hypothesis: Thamesport's system cannot control remote peripherals.
Premise: The system supervises the movement of all machinery within the port, including the five monster ship-to-shore 'robot' cranes and the 14 gantry cranes, which unload the containers from the ships.
Hypothesis: Robots are used at sea terminals to move containers from ships.
Premise: The government will delay the implementation of local government reform in Wales for a year in what could be an embarrassment for Mr. John Redwood, the Welsh secretary.
Hypothesis: The Welsh government has delayed any legislation regarding proposed changes.
Premise: The Labour leader plans to use a long-planned interview on BBC radio to mount a strong defence of his plans to set up a Scottish parliament and a Welsh assembly.
Hypothesis: The British Labour party had long supported demands by Scotland and Wales for independent assemblies.
Premise: The government is pressing ahead with plans to reform the structure of local government in Wales by holding shadow elections to new unitary authorities as early as next year.
Hypothesis: Shadow elections will be held next year.
Premise: It is expected that a Welsh parliament would be set up in the first year of an incoming Labour government.
Hypothesis: A Welsh parliament will be set up within one year.
Premise: Many British schools experimented with coeducation but returned to its former status as a boys' school.
Hypothesis: Some British schools experimented with single-sex education.
Premise: The Salvation Army operates the shelter under a contract with the county.
Hypothesis: The Salvation Army collaborates with the county.
Premise: Every night of the year a minimum of 140 men who would otherwise be homeless, and who are homeless when they come to us are sleeping in clean beds in the Salvation Army's two Adult Rehabilitation Centers here in the Valley.
Hypothesis: Homeless men may sleep in the Salvation Army's rehabilitation centers in the Valley.
Premise: In England Salvation Army social workers and volunteers have been trained in outreach work to make contact with homeless people on the streets.
Hypothesis: The Salvation Army has trained homeless people as social workers.
Premise: Revenue from the thrift store funded the Salvation Army's drug- and alcohol-rehabilitation service.
Hypothesis: Thrift stores fund rehabilitation services.
Premise: Food pantries are operated directly in various cities such as Los Angeles, California.
Hypothesis: The Army operates food pantries in California.
Premise: In the US the Salvation Army offers shelters for the homeless in most areas of the country.
Hypothesis: The US Army provides shelters for the homeless.
Premise: The Salvation Army paid for the transportation; it often provides an incentive contribution to charitable fundraisers to urge others to reach a stated goal.
Hypothesis: The Salvation Army arranges transportation for donated materials.
Premise: At times of hurricanes in Florida the Salvation Army raises and forwards funds to other relief agencies as well as providing clothing, blankets and food to the afflicted on its own.
Hypothesis: The Salvation Army provides aid to victims of hurricanes.
Premise: A second round of talks between the newly elected Czech and Slovak leaders on the future of the Czechoslovak federation ended in deadlock last night.
Hypothesis: A series of negotiations between Czech and Slovak were unsuccessful.
Premise: After nine hours of talks, Mr. Vaclav Klaus admitted no agreement had been reached with Mr. Vladimir Meciar.
Hypothesis: Vaclav Klaus and Vladimir Meciar reached an agreement.
Premise: Already hard hit by the collapse of Comecon markets and the end of the Cold War, the disintegration of the highly integrated Czechoslovak economy has led to a sharp drop in trade with the Czech republic.
Hypothesis: Czech markets have collapsed.
Premise: The Czech and Slovak republics have been unable to agree a political basis for their future coexistence in one country.
Hypothesis: The Czech and Slovak republics do not agree to coexist in one country.
Premise: A new interim federal government, to be made up of Czechs and Slovaks in equal measure will oversee the separation of the state.
Hypothesis: Interim federal government will be equally made up by Czechs and Slovaks.
Premise: The newly-elected leaders of the Czech and Slovak republics have agreed to try to form quickly an interim federal government despite deep differences over the future federal state revealed at their first meeting.
Hypothesis: The Czech and Slovak republics agreed to form an interim federal government.
Premise: In Slovakia, Mr. Vladimir Meciar whose nationalist Movement for a Democratic Slovakia (HZDS) just failed to win an overall majority in the Slovak National Council, has to choose between Mr. Jozef Prokes or the Democratic Left Party.
Hypothesis: Vladimir Meciar must choose between Prokes and the Democratic Left Party.
Premise: Slovakia's economic difficulties during the reforms fueled an emerging nationalism.
Hypothesis: Slovak nationalism was fueled by economic difficulties.
Premise: In the fall of 1992 the leaders worked on the law for dividing Czechoslovakia.
Hypothesis: The law for the division of Czechoslovakia was discussed in 1992.
Premise: In November, the Czech and Slovak parliaments voted to split into two independent republics in January 1993.
Hypothesis: Czech and Slovak parliaments agreed to become independent republics in January 1993.
Premise: The split left the Czech Republic free to pursue its drive towards a free-market economy.
Hypothesis: The Czech Republic pursues a free market economy.
Premise: Slovakia was saddled with a high concentration of heavy industry geared to the Soviet market.
Hypothesis: Slovakia's heavy industries were geared to the Soviet market.
Premise: After years of battling between oil companies, the Ecuadorian government decided to collaborate with indigenous groups.
Hypothesis: The Ecuadorian government collaborated with indigenous groups.
Premise: In Brazil, the Amazon basin covers 2 million square miles, a region 12 times as large as California.
Hypothesis: The Amazon basin is as large as California.
Premise: Plant manioc in combination with nitrogen-fixing legumes will protect weak soils.
Hypothesis: Soil replenishment technologies have been developed.
Premise: Agroforestry has proved to be one of the most productive uses of cleared Amazon land.
Hypothesis: Agroforestry represents a productive use of cleared Amazon land.
Premise: By giving this land an economic function we are preventing further incursion into the Amazon.
Hypothesis: Incursions in the Amazon have an economic function.
Premise: Brazil's annual losses are between 10 and 20 million acres within the Amazon and 2.5 million acres outside the Amazon.
Hypothesis: Millions of acres within the Amazon are destroyed each year.
Premise: Loggers clear cut large tracts of rain forest to sell wood without replacing trees.
Hypothesis: Trees in the rain forest are cut without being replaced.
Premise: Experiments with establishing fast growing eucalyptus tree farms to supply wood pulp were developed.
Hypothesis: Fast growing eucalyptus trees were planted to supply wood pulp.
Premise: A former executive of Digital Equipment Corp. and two others pleaded guilty Tuesday to siphoning nearly $300,000 from the computer company.
Hypothesis: A former executive of Digital Equipment Corp. siphoned nearly $300,000 from the company.
Premise: Leona Helmsley, the self-proclaimed queen of a luxury hotel chain, was sentenced Tuesday to four years in federal prison.
Hypothesis: Leona Helmsley was given a four year sentence.
Premise: Leona Helmsley, the self-proclaimed queen of a luxury hotel chain, was sentenced Tuesday to four years in federal prison.
Hypothesis: Leona Helmsley is the owner of a luxury hotel chain.
Premise: In a security fraud case, Michael Milken was sentenced to 10 years in prison.
Hypothesis: Milken was imprisoned for security fraud.
Premise: Prosecutions tended to be more aggressive and sentences tended to be longer for financial crimes with many victims and massive losses of money, as in the Minkow case.
Hypothesis: Sentences for financial crimes tend to be longer.
Premise: Prosecutions tended to be more aggressive and sentences tended to be longer for financial crimes with many victims and massive losses of money, as in the Minkow case.
Hypothesis: Bilking a large number of people out of millions of dollars can lead to sentences that vary from ten to twenty years.
Premise: The judge in the Milken case said that the 10-year sentence she imposed on Milken was intended to make an example of him.
Hypothesis: Prison term for Michael Milken was intended to make him an example.
Premise: Only firm evidence of the link between conservation and economic development can maintain people's commitment to Campfire, says Cherry Bird, wildlife coordinator for Hurungwe district.
Hypothesis: Campfire helps rural communities make money from animals which had been poached as pests.
Premise: Villagers involved are actively discouraging wildlife poaching, confiscating snares, reporting poaching incidents and guarding against bush fires which are used to flush out animals but also destroy vegetation.
Hypothesis: Zambian villagers set up security committees to prevent poachers entering their area.
Premise: The government's plans for reorganising local government in Wales and Scotland should be withdrawn, leaders of the Assembly of Welsh Counties and Convention of Scottish Local Authorities said yesterday.
Hypothesis: Welsh associations want a directly elected Welsh assembly rather than the unitary reorganization.
Premise: Even though there is some evidence that support for an assembly - a centrepiece of nationalist demands - is gaining ground in Wales, it is doubtful if even half the population would.
Hypothesis: It is predicted that as of 1994, a referendum on independence in Wales would probably receive less than 50% support from its people.
Premise: A specialist firm on the New York stock Exchange was fined $480,350 for securities fraud by a judge who said he imposed the sentence as a deterrent.
Hypothesis: One judge said that the nearly half million dollar fine he levied on a specialist firm on the New York Stock Exchange was done as a deterrent.
Premise: A Los Angeles federal court judge Monday imposed a 15-year prison sentence on David A. Feldman of Palos Verdes.
Hypothesis: A Los Angeles federal judge imposed a 15-year prison sentence on David A. Feldman.
Premise: It emerged yesterday that the Ministry of Defence has turned down a request from Argentina to allow a limited supply of UK-manufactured spare parts to the Argentine navy, begun during the Gulf war.
Hypothesis: Military cooperation during gulf war stopped.
Premise: Military ties between the two countries have been governed officially by an arms embargo imposed by Britain on Argentina following the outbreak of the Falklands war in 1982.
Hypothesis: The British Arms embargo began in 1982 and continued through 1994.
Premise: Argentine President Carlos Menem has ordered an 'immediate' investigation into war crimes allegedly committed by British troops during the 1982 Falklands War.
Hypothesis: Argentina demanded an investigation of alleged war crimes during the Falklands War.
Premise: Mr Guido di Tella, Argentine foreign minister, met representatives of British companies and financial institutions.
Hypothesis: Foreign Minister Guido De Tella went to the UK.
Premise: The British government has indicated its readiness to allow Argentine companies to take part in the development of oilfields in the Falkland islands' territorial waters.
Hypothesis: The British government is ready to allow Argentine companies to participate in the development of oilfields.
Premise: Bush and Clinton, who ran against each other in 1992, have worked together since leaving office. They helped raise funds for recovery from 2004's Asian tsunami and 2005's Hurricane Katrina.
Hypothesis: Both Bush and Clinton helped raise funds for the recovery from Hurricane Katrina.
Premise: Unwrapping a new version of Microsoft's now-standard Windows operating system is generally an event of major proportions.
Hypothesis: A new version of Microsoft's now-standard Windows operating system has been unwrapped.
Premise: Here's what the new Microsoft operating system has and why you may want to wait Flip screens: among the additions to Windows Vista are new ways to look at what windows are open.
Hypothesis: The new Microsoft operating system is called Windows Vista.
Premise: Vista comes not only with improved security, but also with easier ways for parents to decide how they want their children to use the computer. With more people using digital cameras than ever, Microsoft has built photo management software into Vista, making it easier to share and fix photos, burn them to CDs, and give them "tags" or labels that make them easier to find later on.
Hypothesis: Vista is provided with photo management software.
Premise: If yet another conflict were to develop before the force can be bolstered, it would take longer to fight and cost more American casualties than otherwise might be expected.
Hypothesis: America is strained by two ongoing wars.
Premise: Defense Secretary Robert Gates earlier this month recommended that the Army's troop strength be increased by 65,000 soldiers, to a total of 547,000 worldwide and the Marines be increased by 27,000 to 202,000.
Hypothesis: The Defense Secretary suggested that the Army's troop should be increased to 547,000 soldiers.
Premise: Almost half of the Army increase already has been achieved under a temporary program that Gates said would be made permanent; the full increase is to be achieved within five years.
Hypothesis: The Army increase will be achieved within 5 years.
Premise: The Army's preliminary estimate is that it would cost 70 billion to increase its size and the funds would be spread over budget years 2009 through 2013.
Hypothesis: The Army's increase will probably cost 70 billion.
Premise: Fighting the war in Iraq on top of the war in Afghanistan has left ground forces in a weakened state of readiness. That is, some units are below the standard measure used to determine if they are ready to fight a conventional, high-intensity war.
Hypothesis: There is a high-intensity war between Iraq and Afghanistan.
Premise: Belarus will now pay 53 a tonne for oil it imports, instead of the 180 Russia had previously demanded, Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov said.
Hypothesis: Belarus imports 53 tonnes of oil from Russia.
Premise: The agreement came after about 10 hours of negotiations between Mr Fradkov and his Belarussian counterpart, Sergei Sidorsky.
Hypothesis: Mr Fradkov and Sergei Sidorsky found an agreement after 10 hours of negotiations.
Premise: Officials from the two countries reached "a balanced solution, corresponding to the interests of both countries", Mr Fradkov said in televised comments, adding that the talks had been "hard".
Hypothesis: Mr Fradkov reached a balanced solution.
Premise: Supplies sent through the Druzhba pipeline were halted for three days after Minsk increased the transit tax for oil which passed through the country.
Hypothesis: Transit tax for oil was increased by Minsk.
Premise: The dispute between the two former Soviet countries came after Moscow forced Belarus to accept a major increase in the cost of gas supplies to the country in late December.
Hypothesis: Moscow increased the cost of gas supplies to Belarus.
Premise: Russia later imposed a hefty duty on oil exports to Belarus, claiming its neighbour was costing it up to 4bn in lost revenues each year.
Hypothesis: Russia decreased the cost of oil exports to Belarus.
Premise: In retaliation, Belarus slapped a 45-per-tonne transit tax on oil shipments from Russia, but withdrew it earlier on Wednesday after tense top-level government talks between both sides.
Hypothesis: Tense government talks occurred between Belarus and Russia.
Premise: There has been some speculation in the Russian media that enemies of Mr Putin may have had a hand in Mr Litvinenko's death, to put the Kremlin in a bad light. Mr Litvinenko was a vehement critic of Mr Putin.
Hypothesis: Mr Putin is a vehement critic of Mr Litvinenko.
Premise: In a wide-ranging, marathon news conference, Mr Putin said Russia was now one of the world's most powerful economies, with a rapid growth rate - about 6.9 in 2006 - and declining inflation.
Hypothesis: According to Mr Putin, Russia is one of the most powerful economies in the world.
Premise: Under the constitution Mr Putin has to stand down in 2008, after serving two terms. But he has now become so powerful and popular that it is widely assumed whoever he names as the preferred candidate will win the election, the 's Richard Galpin reports from Moscow.
Hypothesis: Putin will win the 2008 elections.
Premise: More than 1,000 members of the Russian and foreign media registered for the news conference, which has become an annual event.
Hypothesis: More than 1,000 members from Russia registered for the news conference.
Premise: Wal-Mart, the world's largest retailer, has reversed its opposition to the morning-after pill and agreed to sell it in 3,700 pharmacies. The decision follows a successful campaign against the retailer in Illinois and Massachusetts, which enacted laws requiring pharmacists to fill prescriptions for the emergency contraceptive.
Hypothesis: Wal-Mart is largest retailer of the world.
Premise: Last week, the attorney general of Connecticut, Richard Blumenthal, turned up the pressure when he said the state would no longer extend its insurance plan for its 188,000 employees to cover prescriptions filled at Wal-Mart unless the chain agreed to stock the pills.
Hypothesis: The attorney general of Connecticut, Richard Blumenthal has 188,000 employees.
Premise: The morning-after pill, which must be taken within 72 hours of having sex, is still not available without a prescription in America despite recommendations from the scientific advisory panel of the Food and Drug Administration, because of opposition from anti-abortion activists.
Hypothesis: The morning-after pill can be obtained by prescription only.
Premise: In Massachusets, three Boston women successfully sued Wal-Mart last month for violating state regulations that require pharmacies to stock all commonly prescribed medications.
Hypothesis: Wal-Mart has violated state regulations.
Premise: Wal-Mart's belated decision is seen as an important victory at a time when women's organisations fear abortion rights are under threat.
Hypothesis: Women's organisations are fighting against abortion rights.
Premise: Last month, South Dakota moved to ban all abortion in the state, even in cases of rape and incest. Mississippi is considering similar legislation.
Hypothesis: In South Dakota abortion is allowed in cases of rape and incest.
Premise: There were no immediate reports of injuries, and authorities said they found no signs of fires at any other church in Greenville, which is about 75 miles east of Raleigh.
Hypothesis: Greenville is located about 75 miles east of Raleigh.
Premise: Firefighters were called to The Memorial Baptist Church shortly after 11 p.m. and found smoke billowing from its educational wing.
Hypothesis: A fire were signaled at The Memorial Baptist Church.
Premise: Dispatchers received a report of a fire at Unity Free Will Baptist Church, about a half-mile away from The Memorial, shortly before 11:30 p.m.
Hypothesis: A fire were signaled at Unity Free Will Baptist Church.
Premise: Police were also investigating a break-in at Oakmont Baptist Church, located less than a quarter-mile from The Memorial, said police Cpl. Kip Gaskins.
Hypothesis: Kip Gaskins wanted to break in at Oakmont Baptist Church.
Premise: Clinton, who tops every national poll of likely 2008 Democratic presidential contenders, has been criticized by many party activists for refusing to recant her 2002 vote authorizing military action in Iraq.
Hypothesis: Clinton receives criticism for his authorization to intervene in Iraq.