Premise: But between water and watt there are fifty-four main entries in Cobuild and 148 in CED . They share such entries as water biscuit and waterworks . But in addition CED alone enters water measurer (a `bug'), Watford (a `town north of London'), etc.

Hypothesis: Cobuild had originally included several of the terms included in CED, but removed them for being too niche.


Premise: At 9:36, the FAA's Boston Center called NEADS and relayed the discovery about an unidentified aircraft closing in on Latest report.

Hypothesis: At 9:36 PM, the FAA's Boston Center called NEADS and related the discovery.


Premise: As you know, major changes in dental education are under way throughout the country.

Hypothesis: The changes mostly involve the integration of new syllabi.


Premise: Consider a study of the relationship of maternal employment to first graders' academic and social competence.

Hypothesis: A study of the relationship between working fathers and high-performing pre schoolers.


Premise: Every Japan veteran has his list of favorite mistakes.

Hypothesis: All former military members have their preferred errors.


Premise: An arresting one occurs in A Passage to India (Chapter XXI) in which Forster describes a small building as  a flimsy and frivolous erection,  while in The Mayor of Casterbridge (Chapter XVI) the Mayor himself  beheld the unattractive exterior of Farfrae's erection.

Hypothesis: Erection can have some dirty connotations that catch the eye.


Premise: If there is something wrong, it behooves us to get at the roots of the problem, not to flail about wildly, for only after the source of a disease has been identified can one properly investigate its cure.

Hypothesis: If something is wrong, we must get to the root of it to decipher a cure.


Premise: He quotes an Andalusian artist, Manuel Torres, as having exclaimed of composer Manuel de Falla's Nocturno del Generalife ,  Todo lo que tiene sonidos negros tiene duende  (`All that has black sounds has duende ').

Hypothesis: Manuel Torres is an Andalusian artist.


Premise: Because of this, most expensive automation equipment is concentrated in preassembly, drawing on multi-shift operations.

Hypothesis: The majority of automation equipment operates during the preassembly phase.


Premise: And I couldn't, well, do anything else.

Hypothesis: There was nothing left to do.


Premise: English-types (like us) thrive in an environment that fosters dialogue.

Hypothesis: Dialogue is important to developing English skills.


Premise: When was the last time you stopped at IUPUI since you graduated?

Hypothesis: I visited last spring.


Premise: However, the excitement and motivation of that goal is often diminished by the difficult financial constraints that students experience.

Hypothesis: Students are motivating and excited and nothing causes that to change.


Premise: America is under attack.

Hypothesis: Someone or something is attacking America.


Premise: I pointed out to him that if they made available a proper manual the number of calls could probably be reduced to 6,000.

Hypothesis: I believe a manual would have helped the situation.


Premise: Garlic is compounded from the Old English gar `spear,' and leac `leek.

Hypothesis: The word "garlic" is of medieval French origin.


Premise: Unfortunately, most American employers do not provide this option, and many parents'especially, single parents'cannot aord it.

Hypothesis: American employers are slowly increasing coverage for their employees.


Premise: Please make checks payable to IU Foundation for the Timothy J. O'Leary Periodontal Endowment Fund.

Hypothesis: Please do not make any of your check payable to IU Foundation.


Hypothesis: One must investigate thoroughly.


Premise: Any of these

Hypothesis: Not a single one of these.


Premise: Tell me about Batman.

Hypothesis: Tell me about Spiderman.


Premise: According to Campbell, the only godlike female figure in the Bible is the Virgin Mary, and she appears, identified as virgin, only in the Gospel according to Luke.

Hypothesis: The only god-like female figure in the bible is the Virgin Mary.


Premise: I am asking for the support of the families of Herron students to help maintain this vital program.

Hypothesis: The program should be supported financially.


Premise: Such information is very likely to be misinterpreted by the average user, who does not approach a dictionary with a critical eye.

Hypothesis: The average user has a critical eye and is unlikely to misinterpret the information.


Premise: Perhaps Aman will sharpen his perspective and techniques and institute such interviews as a regular feature of Maledicta .

Hypothesis: I hope Maledicta has no more interviews.


Premise: Who would have been telling you those stories?

Hypothesis: Who told you those stories?


Premise: And I said to him, I'm not going to be able to go.

Hypothesis: He was trying to hard to get me to go.


Premise: The aircraft's identity or type was unknown.

Hypothesis: The aircraft was clearly identified.


Premise: In a recent provocative study, sociologist Arlie Hochschild spent months getting to know employees at a large Midwestern corporation she called Americo.

Hypothesis: Arlie Hochschild spent a single week at Americo and decided not to continue the study.


Premise: The knitting machine produces cloth as the loom does but uses a different method.

Hypothesis: Cloth produced by the knitting machine was of similar quality to cloth from the loom.


Premise: Bottom-up  the young being inducted into school at an early age and proceeding, level by level, to institutions of ever  higher  learning, stopping off for various reasons at various levels, usually marked by tests and the distribution of certificates providing a social grade.

Hypothesis: Young people enter the school system and go level by level through different instutions.


Premise: With over 18 years experience, we have found that many conflicts between young people are rooted in attitudes and prejudices that exclude and target individuals and groups.

Hypothesis: We discovered the causes of conflicts between young people.


Premise: I cannot overemphasize the importance of your support.

Hypothesis: I believe your support is negligible at best.


Premise: One of the flights that received the warning was United 93.

Hypothesis: Flight United 93 received a warning.


Premise: A moment later, the clear, high-pitched sound of the whistle could be heard over the Rabbi's final shofar blast.

Hypothesis: The whistle didn't make any sound.


Premise: We brought them back in the afternoon, when I saw that, behind her there came a big group of, they looked like soldiers, but in street clothes.

Hypothesis: We brought them back in the afternoon after we saw that.


Premise: And to request confirmation, they might well say  You do it exactly this way!

Hypothesis: Customers often send unique confirmation requests.


Premise: It came over the chat.

Hypothesis: They asked if the message could be repeated.


Premise: Two such hints, however, have only a few possible answers in common, so that the solver can concentrate on them and pick the most probable one.

Hypothesis: Without hints, it would be too difficult for the problems to be solved.


Premise: And the Family Studies Project is planning a journal.

Hypothesis: The Family Studies Journal is planning something else, too.


Premise: Another book that I read recently is very interesting books The Journals of Lewis and Clark.

Hypothesis: I read The Journals of Lewis and Clark last week.


Premise: Vivacious, stimulating parental behavior, including frequent questioning, instructing, and pointing out objects, is beneficial for reserved, inactive infants; it helps them become interested in and engaged with novel toys.

Hypothesis: Novel toys can be frightening for young children.


Premise: Your gift to Goodwill will help us do even more this year because your gift will be used to directly support our work.

Hypothesis: Your gift will help support our work by increasing our resources.


Premise: Note that the work in a shirt plant is generally grouped into production lots of 1,500 shirts if the progressive bundle system is used.

Hypothesis: The progressive bundle system means work is generally grouped into production lots of 20,000 shirts or more.


Premise: In the new competitive arena'where demand uncertainty and time to market have become important factors along with price'textile firms are being forced to adapt to information-integrated channels, rather than just drawing on the economies of scale that led to their success in the past.

Hypothesis: There has been a shift, by force, of textile firms adapting to information-integrated channels.


Premise: At that point, the second call was cut off.

Hypothesis: The second call continued for hours.


Premise: Because you are an organization that cares, you are invited to become an integral part of this fabulous event by becoming a corporate sponsor for JCC Auction '99.

Hypothesis: The organization cares.


Premise: The operation was not cost  the United States lost two planes.

Hypothesis: The operation ruined two US planes which crashed in Libya and were destroyed.


Premise: Mitch, in contrast, scores low on fearful distress and high on positive mood.

Hypothesis: Mitch is not fearfully distressed and has a good mood.


Premise: Presumably FAA would have provided such information, but we do not know how long that would have taken, nor how long it would have taken NEADS to locate the target.

Hypothesis: We know exactly how long it would have taken for the FAA to provide such information.


Premise: At last, he has found success in a job that he loves.

Hypothesis: At last, he retired and stopped working a job that he hates.


Premise: Authoritative parenting, whether assessed through direct observation or older children's ratings of their parents' communication, is linked to many aspects of competence.

Hypothesis: Authoritative parenting is not linked to any aspects of competence.


Premise: Did you write this?

Hypothesis: Was it you who jotted this down?


Premise: Thank you for your generosity.

Hypothesis: We truly value your donation.


Premise: Tax dollars that would have been spent on public assistance are saved.

Hypothesis: The public assistance money will still be spent.


Premise: Your Third Prize notwithstanding, Duncan was murdered several pages earlier.

Hypothesis: Duncan has been alive in the whole book


Premise: I urge your consideration of joining the Maennerchor Society by making a gift of $1,000 per year.

Hypothesis: The Marnnerchor society is the most expensive society to join in the history of mankind.


Premise: The Retail Fallout

Hypothesis: The Retail Uprise.


Premise: At 9:57, the passenger assault began.

Hypothesis: The passengers were too scared to fight back.


Premise: ( ) When cancer comes up I'm just pretty, pretty interested in it, to find out what they went through and I can relate to it.

Hypothesis: I am not interested at all in the topic of cancer.


Premise: True, there is an occasional mention in his column of a point raised by a correspondent, and the Letters section of the Magazine prints a comment from time to time, but an important feature of the books is their inclusion of far more writer-reader interaction than one might suspect from reading the column alone.

Hypothesis: The books are superior to the columns because of the vast increase in writer-reader interaction present.


Premise: Being at WBRC learning to cope with the disability was a major feat for Miyares.

Hypothesis: Miyares had no problems adjusting to the disability.


Premise: Well, this story, and I must tell you, I haven't read this in The Bible, so I don't know if it's totally accurate, but I prefer to get it like  There was a huge crowd of people, and, um, Jesus decided that what he wanted to do was to, uh, entertain the little children.

Hypothesis: In this Bible story Jesus asked the parents to keep the children still and quiet while he spoke to the adults.


Premise: Outstanding Herron students are honored on this special evening of recognition with gifts from local companies and individuals.

Hypothesis: Herron students are honoured with gifts from companies and individuals.


Premise: Gifts of $100.00 are more are recognized through various ways by the school.

Hypothesis: The school likes money, so more money means they like you more.


Premise: You know what?

Hypothesis: You do not know very much.


Premise: Well, and I forgot to tell you when the soldiers came, to my house, the guerrillas were there, the guerrillas went back.

Hypothesis: I forgot to mention to you that when the soldiers came to my house, the guerrillas were not there yet.


Premise: By the autumn of 1993, U.S. commanders concluded that the main source of trouble was a warlord, Mohammed Farrah Aidid.

Hypothesis: US commanders decided Aidid was the biggest source help in keeping the soldiers safe.


Premise: The history, culture, and body of beliefs from which Bin Ladin has shaped and spread his message are largely unknown to many Americans.

Hypothesis: Many Americans do not know the history, culture and body of beliefs Bin Ladin has used for his message, however they are more than willing to dissect it and find out.


Premise: Although we associate trench warfare with World War I, trenches were characteristic also of the Civil War.

Hypothesis: Trenches happened in the Civil War, not just World War I.


Premise: By investing in the community through this partnership, you can help more than 220,000 people in central Indiana next year.

Hypothesis: You can help more than 220,000 people in central Indiana next year by investing in the community through this partnership via your generous doantion.


Premise: And so, uh, those things come about through the work of reading rather than through listening to some person on the street corner or, uh, gazing on TV.

Hypothesis: Reading is greater than watching television, it makes you smarter.


Premise: I suspect that that is precisely the song's origin.

Hypothesis: I think that's where the song came from because it sounds Jamaican.


Premise: Additionally, there is a tremendous need to upgrade the technological infrastructure of the school.

Hypothesis: The technological infrastructure of the school needs to be updated.


Premise: J. C. Penney built an internal data communications network well in advance of its use with suppliers.

Hypothesis: J.C. Penney isn't the only company to have had an internal data communications network before its use with suppliers.


Premise: Some over-edge sewing operations common with knit goods actually trim the edges of cloth just in front of the needle; in these cases any fused material from the laser cutting could be trimmed away.

Hypothesis: Some sewing operations for knit goods cut the fabric four inches from the needle.


Premise: Because Ballinger was still responsible for his other flights as well as Flight 175, his warning message was not transmitted to Flight 93 until 9:23.

Hypothesis: Ballinger's message was delayed in being remitted.


Premise: I said, Well you can use paint thinner or turpentine or gasoline.

Hypothesis: You don't need paint thinner or anything like that, don't worry.


Premise: While pretending, Vygotsky explained, children repeatedly face confiicts between the rules of the make-believe situation and what they would do if they could act impulsively, and they usually decide in favor of the rules.

Hypothesis: Children tend to follow the rules when playing pretend because they want rewards from their parents.


Premise: We shall return to this point later.

Hypothesis: We will come back to this in a few minutes.


Premise: This joint attention to objects and events fosters early language development.

Hypothesis: Early language development can be fostered by this joint attention.


Premise: Thank you for your continued financial support, and for remaining alert for neighbors who need a helping hand.

Hypothesis: We would appreciate it if you would mind your own business and stop trying to support your neighbors.


Premise: The hijackers were wearing red bandanas, and they forced the passengers to the back of the aircraft.

Hypothesis: The passengers of the aircraft were forced to the back by the hijackers.


Premise: However you choose to participate, I know you'll enjoy being a part of the Herron School of Art and Gallery.

Hypothesis: You will detest the Herron School of Art and Gallery and have nothing to do with it.


Premise: Please, consider renewing your support of these great kids today.

Hypothesis: These kids need your continued support. Please consider renewing.


Premise: He said, Daddy I have to go poo-poo.

Hypothesis: I think the kid said something about needing to poop or something, but honestly I was trying to block out whatever he was saying.


Premise: These are particularly tricky when short words, like articles or pronouns, are

Hypothesis: Articles should be considered when doing these.


Premise: The word might also have been used for a receptacle near the guns where powder and balls were kept.

Hypothesis: The word may have been used to show where the powder and balls for guns were kept.


Premise: Daddy, Daddy, Daddy send those girls to get those filthy cigarettes.

Hypothesis: Dad, get the cigarettes yourself.


Premise: NORAD officials have maintained that they would have intercepted and shot down United 93.

Hypothesis: NORAD would have sent their fighters to take out the engines of United 93.


Premise: Elbert, I just want to ask you uh, some questions about your experience with uh, stories.

Hypothesis: We need to know about whether you can write short stories.


Premise: The center also contacted the West Virginia State Police and asked whether any reports of a downed aircraft had been received.

Hypothesis: The State Police in West Virginia were contacted regarding reports of fallen aircrafts.


Premise: new and creative research.

Hypothesis: Groundbreaking and state-of-the-art scientific research.


Premise: But I'm also trying to teach them that they have to earn what they get, and to be part of making sure their lives are better.

Hypothesis: I try to teach them to earn what they get and to be active in making their lives better.


Premise: I want to thank you for your past support of the Visiting Nurse Service Foundation, Inc.

Hypothesis: The Visiting Nurse Service Foundation thanks you for your very large contribution.


Premise: If approval was given, the orders would be transmitted down NORAD's chain of command.

Hypothesis: The would never be approved no matter what.


Premise: That's good, though, you need to, I guess.

Hypothesis: I'm a bit bummed but it's cool, I guess you really have to.


Premise: They're making trincheras, they call them trincheras, where they're putting mounds of stones near the houses, so that the bullets there.

Hypothesis: They're making trenches for the upcoming battle with the French.


Premise: These dialogues occur frequently and spontaneously as adults and children spend time together'in everyday situations such as household chores, mealtimes, play, storybook reading, outings in the community, and children's eorts to acquire all sorts of skills.

Hypothesis: These dialogues happen often because kids and adults never spend time together.


Premise: A number of developments, many linked to issues we have discussed, indicate both the potential and limitations of electronic retailing.

Hypothesis: Retailing electronically has both potential applications as well as things that it's not able to do.


Premise: And your age?

Hypothesis: What's your age?


Premise: The aircraft was a Boeing 757 piloted by Captain Charles F. Burlingame and First Officer David Charlebois.

Hypothesis: This was only the second time Charles Burlingame and David Charlebois flew together.


Premise: Bin Ladin was also willing to explore possibilities for cooperation with Iraq, even though Iraq's dictator, Saddam Hussein, had never had an Islamist agenda-save for his opportunistic pose as a defender of the faithful against Crusaders during the Gulf War of 1991.

Hypothesis: The terrorist was willing to work with the country of Iraq.


Premise: 24,000 community volunteers pick up 2 million pounds of litter, plant 1,200 trees and paint 50 homes for the poor and elderly.

Hypothesis: Only 1 million pounds of litter are picked up by the volunteers.


Premise: Please RSVP to Tammy Jackson by Tuesday, November 2, 1999 at 264-7555, ext.

Hypothesis: Call Tammy Jackson at 264-7555 ext. to RSVP by Tuesday, November 2nd.


Premise: Junn Quechua children have diculty with false-belief tasks for years after children in industrialized nations have mastered them.

Hypothesis: Junn Quechua children have more trouble with false-belief tasks than industrialized nation's children.


Premise: J. C. Penney built an internal data communications network well in advance of its use with suppliers.

Hypothesis: J.C. Penney uses an internal data communications network to work with its suppliers.


Premise: The vocabulary-building argument is a potent one for proponents of Latin education.

Hypothesis: Proponents of Latin education find the vocabulary-building argument a potent one.


Premise: Do you enjoy--?

Hypothesis: Do you like being with me?


Premise: That's why it's such like a big thing, because my uncle, he went, he went into the military and then came out.

Hypothesis: None of my family members have ever served in the military.


Premise: Because they're going to set up a committee, he said to me, so that when those big battalions, he said to me, of guerrillas arrive, these people attend, for example, the president is going to talk to the rest so that they all get food together for them.

Hypothesis: There is no committee for the event.


Premise: Because you are an organization that cares, you are invited to become an integral part of this fabulous event by becoming a corporate sponsor for JCC Auction '99.

Hypothesis: The organization didn't get invited.


Premise: I just kept reading until I finally had read almost every one of them.

Hypothesis: I read most of the fiction books we had.


Premise: Um, reading is fundamental as they say and it truly is.

Hypothesis: Reading truly is fundamental.


Premise: Your support will help them go to work.

Hypothesis: Giving your support will help to find people gainful employment with better pay.


Premise: Let us start with the three groups of clues encountered in the classical crossword  synonyms, superordinates, and definitions.

Hypothesis: We will end with definitions and synonyms.


Premise: You'd better do it right!

Hypothesis: You need to do it right


Premise: Here the answer is a definite yes.

Hypothesis: The answer is no.


Premise: This letter is to ask for your support in remembering your fellow classmate.

Hypothesis: The letter is to denounce your classmate and his life.


Premise: But not all fantasy qualifies as wish fulfillment.

Hypothesis: Not all fantasy is for wish fulfillment among small children.


Premise: Some maintained collaborative relationships with al Qaeda, but many disengaged entirely.

Hypothesis: Many disengaged from al Qaeda because they were afraid of retribution.


Premise: I just really didn't ever love poetry for some reason.

Hypothesis: I dislike poetry because it is boring.


Premise: Everybody's family is different.

Hypothesis: However, everybody's family is good in their own way.


Premise: One gets the impression that the editors of L used the good stuff from the W and substituted their own, much better material when they encountered some of the bad stuff.

Hypothesis: it appears that good aspects of W were taken and added to other excellent material by the editors.


Premise: Yet the train trip across the country she will take at age 3 1/2 and her first day of kindergarten at age 5 may still be memorable when she is 80.

Hypothesis: She isn't going to remember the train trip across the country.


Premise: There are sharp differences in the United States between organized labor and business and in the political arena as well.

Hypothesis: Labor, business, and politics have many differences in the United States.


Premise: Are you going to get gifts for anyone this year?

Hypothesis: Will you get gifts for people this year?


Premise: All of this is possible because we are a statewide member network.

Hypothesis: Since we operate across the state, we can do all of this.


Premise: Finally, turning to her toilet, she rested her face in her hands, and gave a sort of groan.

Hypothesis: Finally, she slapped her face with her hands and started talking gibberish.


Premise: Lean retailing has also changed the way the textile industry relates to both apparel producers and retailers.

Hypothesis: There are no relationships between the apparel producers and retailers.


Premise: Uh, it's interesting how, uh, stories become so impressionable the younger the hearer.

Hypothesis: Stories make ten times the impression on a young person.


Premise: Are you going to buy any gifts for people or make anything?

Hypothesis: It's easier to buy presents for people than to make them.


Premise: At a time when many dental schools are closing or cutting back on programs, Indiana University is investing in and enhancing its own future.

Hypothesis: Many dental schools are closing or cutting back on programs.


Premise: Historians have often discussed the  three estates  of the Western world'nobility, church, and commons.

Hypothesis: Historians have often discussed the one estate of the Western world, religion.


Premise: Your contribution helped make it possible for us to provide our students with a quality education.

Hypothesis: Your financial donations helped us build facilities for students.


Premise: Recently in Chambers I came across the adjective perjink , a Scots word given also in Collins , but not in any of the other desk dictionaries I  it means   finical.

Hypothesis: The adjective perjink is a Scottish word found in Chambers.


Premise: Coming to Goodwill was the first step toward my becoming totally independent.

Hypothesis: Goodwill teaches employees life skills to help them out.


Premise: One recipient of a call from the aircraft recounted specifically asking her caller whether the hijackers had guns.

Hypothesis: Somebody who received a call from the plane asked her caller if the hijackers had guns or other weapons.


Premise: I can't remember much family togetherness when I was a kid,  Hannah remarked.

Hypothesis: Hannah commented on how she couldn't remember much family togetherness as a kid.


Premise: A guy with a bottle-shaped brown paper bag, damp and wrinkled at its upper end, has almost certainly been slugging down a sweet wine of high proof, and the odds are pretty good you would find it is a muscadoodle .  After the guy finishes his Napa Valley smoke and has slept it off, he is looking for the means to get another muscat fix.

Hypothesis: A guy has nothing in his hands.


Premise: He had a pillow, one of those big pillows, and it looked red, all of it with blood and swollen like this . So he said, from the running down from several places, but the one that, this one [indicates eyebrow], was, was too much.

Hypothesis: His pillow was immaculately white and clean despite the multiple injuries he sustained.


Premise: You did a really good job.

Hypothesis: Your work was absolutely great.


Premise: The child's mind, then, is a profoundly social organ.

Hypothesis: The mind of a child is a complex place.


Premise: Many business firms have  casual days  for office attire.

Hypothesis: No business firm has ever allowed a casual day for office attire.


Premise: Through the year, we also offer a number of different programs -- including scouting, basketball and after-school activities -- to help children develop talents, character and self-esteem.

Hypothesis: The sports activities are all coeducational.


Premise: The measurements must still be transmitted to a CAD system that will automatically alter the pattern to conform to specific body measurements.

Hypothesis: The measurements must be moved to a specific CAD system.


Premise: I might have been influenced by the preceding double is in tadashii .  But I find that tadachi ni is frequently written and printed in two words, ni meaning `in,' so that tadachi ni just might be equivalent to something like `in the immediate.

Hypothesis: I find that tadachi ni is frequently written in two words.


Premise: It had been publicly declared years earlier, most notably in a declaration faxed early in 1998 to an Arabic-language newspaper in London.

Hypothesis: It was brought up before in a newspaper in London.


Premise: Be that as it may, a later Australian visitor to English drizzle might feel nostalgic when thinking of the parched and thirsty but water-obsessed vocabulary developed in the drier areas of our sunburnt land.

Hypothesis: The vocabulary is obsessed with water because they have none of it.


Premise: The President and the Vice President indicated to us they had not been aware that fighters had been scrambled out of Andrews, at the request of the Secret Service and outside the military chain of command.

Hypothesis: The President was lying about not being aware of the fighters.


Premise: In 1971, he opened is first business, a small New Jersey construction firm.

Hypothesis: In 1971, he tried and failed to open a construction firm, and so he gave up his dream of owning a business.


Premise: These undergo a natural course of development through direct contact with the environment during the first two years of life, similar to the process of exploration and discovery described by Piaget.

Hypothesis: These go through a course of development which produces the smartest children.


Premise: I shamelessly and freely borrowed the concept, making adaptations to fit our needs and used it as a direct mail appeal last fall...samples enclosed.

Hypothesis: I created this concept on my own from scratch.


Premise: At 8:34, the Boston Center controller received a third transmission from American 11:

Hypothesis: The Boston Center controller never got a third transmission from American 11 because it had crashed.


Premise: As the explorer Ernest Giles put it, the explorer's experience is a  baptism worse than that of fire'the baptism of no water.

Hypothesis: Giles said an explorer's experience is like a baptism.


Premise: Yiddish never apologizes for what it is'the earthy, wise soul of an expressive people learning that life is but a mingled yarn, good and ill together.

Hypothesis: Yiddish is the soul of a people living out the good and bad of life.


Premise: And your age?

Hypothesis: Are you old enough?


Premise: So what has changed the prognosis for American apparel and textiles and provided new opportunities for these industries?

Hypothesis: What took away opportunities in the American apparel and textile industries?


Premise: Did you identify with any of these characters?

Hypothesis: Did you enjoy performing with the other characters?


Premise: That war, like others, produced disgruntled veterans and those more adventurous or more restless after military service.

Hypothesis: That war of 1812 produced disgruntled veterans just like other wars.


Premise: The Hadith, which recount Mohammed's sayings and deeds as recorded by his contemporaries, are another fundamental source.

Hypothesis: The Hadith has a lot of Mohammed's sayings and deeds recorded.


Premise: Your contribution--large or small-- through the Annual Fund will carry us one more step toward realizing the Purdue dream for the 21st century.

Hypothesis: Such a small donation is really of no value to us.


Premise: Then a unique marker must be created that combines different orders using the same fabric.

Hypothesis: It might be helpful to create a marker that combines the different orders using the same fabrics.


Premise: By 8:00 A.M. on the morning of Tuesday, September 11,2001, they had defeated all the security layers that America's civil aviation security system then had in place to prevent a hijacking.

Hypothesis: They failed in defeating the security system and no hijacking took place.


Premise: The airlines bore responsibility, too.

Hypothesis: The airlines were responsible because they'd let passengers on that looked suspicious.


Premise: We believe there is no more appropriate time to have a coordinated and collaborative effort to financially support the services MCCOY offers to the community as a whole.

Hypothesis: We need to collaborate as quickly as possible for the benefit of everyone.


Premise: Parents, as I noted earlier, often complain that they have too little time for children'indeed, too little time to sleep, read, cook, exercise, and socialize as well!

Hypothesis: Parents needs to spend more time cooking and reading.


Premise: Let me emphasize  by further extending,  in the quote above.

Hypothesis: The quote above will show the emphasis.


Premise: We lived between, between the border of Honduras and El Salvador.

Hypothesis: We lived thousands of miles from Honduras and El salvador.


Premise: Yet a few years ago, it almost closed its doors due to a lack of applicants.

Hypothesis: A few years ago there were hardly any applicants.


Premise: In addition, the full donation of $1,000 can be itemized as a federal income tax deduction.

Hypothesis: The full donation of $1,000, in addition, can be itemized as a federal income tax deduction.


Premise: Um, my mom has because she knows how important it is to me and everything like that and my dad actually two weeks ago when I went home, I don't even remember why I went home, but I went home for something and he's like, he's still trying to convince me to double major.

Hypothesis: My mother does not want me to have two majors.


Premise: I know about that!

Hypothesis: I never knew that!


Premise: At 8:44, Gonzalez reported losing phone contact with Ong.

Hypothesis: Gonzalez did not report anything.


Premise: If I wasn't working here.

Hypothesis: If I was working elsewhere than here.


Premise: The book just tied right into it.

Hypothesis: The book was completely irrelevant.


Premise: Our programs are provided to schools at a price far below our actual cost.

Hypothesis: Schools do are not exempt from paying the full price for our programs.


Premise: Well, because it was really interesting stuff.

Hypothesis: That stuff was utterly boring for me.


Premise: Mass customization, however, has the potential to make  tailor fit  at least somewhat less expensive, as new systems combine features of the efficient factory system with attention to at least a few critical customer measurements.

Hypothesis: Mass customization is akin to Satan worship, and should never be used as a system in any factory.


Premise: They make up the class of Semantic Clue Elements.

Hypothesis: They comprise the category of Semantic Clue Elements.


Premise: Um, not too many stories about my dad's childhood.

Hypothesis: There aren't that many stories of my dad's childhood.


Premise: It is a pivotal time in the life of a young girl-when small changes in her behavior, or the choices she makes, can affect her future.

Hypothesis: If young girls get on the wrong track, only 10% return to a stable life style.


Premise: The costs associated with demand uncertainty, which were previously connected primarily with fashion products'that is, the problem of selling a highly perishable item'have grown enormously for apparel retailers.

Hypothesis: This is because what consumers deem to be fashionable can change very rapidly.


Premise: It was not too bad early on, when, according to Miles, the seven Maccabean martyrs who  saved Judaism  did so only at the instigation of their mother.

Hypothesis: Their mother was controlling.


Hypothesis: Demand uncertainty costs have increased for retailers of apparel.


Premise: I guess I want to say that it's been a real positive experience living here, because my, my mother really wants to move back up north because that's where she's from.

Hypothesis: Residing here has been a good overall experience for me though my mother being from the north wants to move back there.


Premise: Rosy, too, had seen the tune as Muskrat, Muskat , and Muscat .  I asked him what he thought the original title was.

Hypothesis: Rosy had seen the tune with just one name.


Premise: Presumably FAA would have provided such information, but we do not know how long that would have taken, nor how long it would have taken NEADS to locate the target.

Hypothesis: The time it would have taken for NEADS to locate the target is unknown.


Premise: Unlike PBS, however, SLS uses the single garment rather than the bundle as the unit of production.

Hypothesis: Using a single garment is much more efficient than using bundles.


Premise: I read a lot of other authors that weren't, weren't as good writers but also had interesting ideas.

Hypothesis: I've never read any books.


Premise: And then, like now that I'm in college, like I call her, like all the time and it won't occur that I should talk to my dad, too!

Hypothesis: I talk to my mom on the phone a lot more than my dad.


Premise: A small capital in Czechoslovakia

Hypothesis: A large town in Czechoslovakia.


Premise: Moreover, significant increases in state financial support for public higher education are extremely unlikely during the remainder of this decade.

Hypothesis: Reductions in state funding has no impact on higher education.


Premise: Ooh, one of my three older sisters.

Hypothesis: The eldest of my older sisters.


Premise: I write to ask you to become a supporter of the Moving Company.

Hypothesis: I'm writing because I would like you to support the Moving Company.


Premise: History and Political Context Few fundamentalist movements in the Islamic world gained lasting political power.

Hypothesis: There is no correlation between the fundamentalist movements and politics.


Premise: It is true that textiles firms still sell to apparel-makers, which in turn sell to retailers, which ultimately sell to consumers.

Hypothesis: Consumers attain textiles direct from the apparel-makers.


Premise: Many skills and life patterns, which are key components for self-sufficiency, are formed during this period.

Hypothesis: Self sufficiency are usually formed during the teenage years of a person's life.


Premise: Tacitly, Daly, like most feminists, invokes an earlier, quieter voice, that of Virginia Woolf.

Hypothesis: Daly was a friend of Virginia Woolf.


Premise: Take a step toward making a difference in the lives of our young woman and recommit to the Girl Scout vision.

Hypothesis: Just a simple response with the form attached indicating your preferences you can begin to support the girls.


Premise: Our close neighbour.

Hypothesis: Our neighbor nearby.


Premise: The most important lesson we can take from Miller's provocative findings is that when parents and teachers take time to construct narratives with and about the young child, they create a  zone  that spurs children to weave moral and social rules into their self-definitions and to behave accordingly.

Hypothesis: Constructing narratives has no impact on how a child behaves.


Premise: His generous contribution to dentistry in 1971 has helped twenty-five orthodontic students so far to meet educational expenses; and more students will receive scholarships this year.

Hypothesis: He didn't make any contributions to help orthodontic students.


Premise: The changes now going on have their analog in the last century, when technological innovations of the day like railroads, telegraph, and steam power'developed for purposes far afield of retail, apparel, or textiles'helped transform the mass distri-bution of goods and information.

Hypothesis: Mass distribution of goods and information was affected by technological innovations such the steam power.


Premise: And what's your major?

Hypothesis: What are you currently majoring in?


Premise: As one witness recalled, [It] was almost like there were parallel decisionmaking processes going on; one was a voice conference orchestrated by the NMCC . . . and then there was the [White House video teleconference].

Hypothesis: A witness remembered that there were two simultaneous decisionmaking processes going on at once that morning, a voice conference by the NMCC and the White House video teleconference.


Premise: The controller checked his radio equipment and contacted another controller at 8:53, saying that we may have a hijack and that he could not find the aircraft.

Hypothesis: The controller was unhappy about the contact from the other controller.


Premise: What we are able to accomplish each year is a direct result of your generosity and your understanding of what it takes to provide the best legal education we possibly can.

Hypothesis: We have been able to accomplish more this year than last year.


Premise: The baby has learned that only when he is distraught will the parent reliably come to his aid.

Hypothesis: The baby has learned that the AR-15 is only a semi automatic rifle.


Premise: Bin Ladin went initially to Jalalabad, probably because it was in an area controlled by a provincial council of Islamic leaders who were not major contenders for national power.

Hypothesis: Bin Ladin initially settled in Baghdad.


Premise: Because of rapid brain growth and gradual decline in brain plasticity, the first 5 to 8 years of life are regarded as a sensitive phase of development in which appropriate stimulation is necessary for children to reach their full genetic potential.

Hypothesis: The first 5 to 8 years of life are regarded as the least sensitive phase of development.


Premise: Bin Ladin, whose efforts in Afghanistan had earned him celebrity and respect, proposed to the Saudi monarchy that he summon mujahideen for a jihad to retake Kuwait.

Hypothesis: Bin Ladin was extremely weathy due to his fame.


Premise: naches the `glow of pleasure-plus-pride that only a child can give to its parents':  This is my son, the Doctor!

Hypothesis: The man's son was the  doctor in the hospital.


Premise: But another aircraft was heading toward Washington, an aircraft about which NORAD had heard  United 93.

Hypothesis: There was another plane going toward Washington at that time.


Premise: With all the activity, these facilities will be used more than ever!

Hypothesis: This facility will be busier than anyone could have ever imagined.


Premise: Daisy is a combination of the Old English words, durges `day's' + eage `eye'.

Hypothesis: The name Daisy has been around for hundreds of years.


Premise: Today, in addition to one-on-one tutoring, we offer small group and English as a Second Language tutoring and video-based instruction for adults with learning disabilities.

Hypothesis: We assess students to determine which type of tutoring is best for them.


Premise: Oh well, the cultural differences would come through in the writing, yeah, sure.

Hypothesis: Cultural differences can not come through via writing.


Premise: This method helps children move beyond concrete objects by looking for higher-order relationships'in Sydney's case, categorizing puzzle pieces by color and shape.

Hypothesis: Sydney's case is categorized by puzzle pieces consist of more rectangles than circles.


Premise: That is the basis of modern sewing operations in manufacturing facilities.

Hypothesis: This is the core of sewing operations these days.


Premise: Thank, thank you for your stories.

Hypothesis: Thanks for your stories.


Premise: They make up the class of Semantic Clue Elements.

Hypothesis: They are unrelated to Semantic Clue Elements.


Premise: We believe such statements do not reflect an adequate appreciation of the FAA's responsibility for the safety and security of civil aviation.

Hypothesis: FAA's role in aviation safety is not appropriately shown in the statements.


Premise: ' The atom was named before it was split.

Hypothesis: There was a name for the atom before it became possible to split it.


Premise: Granddad had seen something one night.

Hypothesis: One night, Grandfather saw something.


Premise: However, despite exhaustive research, I am reluctantly forced to resort to the familiar lexical locution, `Source unknown.

Hypothesis: I have spent three days trying to find the original source.


Premise: Mass customization, however, has the potential to make  tailor fit  at least somewhat less expensive, as new systems combine features of the efficient factory system with attention to at least a few critical customer measurements.

Hypothesis: Tailor fit can become less expensive with the use of mass customization.


Premise: At 8:21, American 11 turned off its transponder, immediately degrading the information available about the aircraft.

Hypothesis: American 11 turned off its transponder at 8:21 AM immediately degrading any available information about the location or wellbeing of the aircraft which may have been done by the terrorists in an effort to make it harder for the military to track the airplane.


Premise: The operator must first select the work to be done, put aside the tickets that indicate she performed the sewing appropriate for those bundles and should be paid at the specified rate for the job, open the appropriate bundles, and position the pieces to be joined on the sewing table in preparation for sewing.

Hypothesis: Operators are required to pick out the work that will be completed.


Premise: But if we didn't want to work with them, we shouldn't get them into anything with the mil, military, such as, informing on them, or something like that.

Hypothesis: The military is a messy business, just look at the cadets' boots if you don't believe me.


Premise: Yes, I understand.

Hypothesis: I understand what you are saying about that.


Premise: The air defense of America began with this call.

Hypothesis: The call was made to ensure America's airspace would be safe.


Premise: He returned to Afghanistan.

Hypothesis: He never went back to Afghanistan.


Premise: What about Piaget's belief that through make-believe, young children solidify their new symbolic capacity?

Hypothesis: Piaget's theories on childhood fantasies has been documented in many books.


Premise: Through repetition of the task and coaching by experts, the operator would become very productive.

Hypothesis: The operator would become productive only by studying written guides.


Premise: Cultures, and adults within them responsible for socialization, select dierent tasks for children's learning.

Hypothesis: Adults are not responsible people and should never be in charge of children.


Premise: Finally, I would remind Mr. Henn that the point of the Vietnam war has nothing to do with whether we called the country 'Nam or Vietnam .  It is that today Russian military personnel operate their ships and planes out of our former base complex at Cam Ranh Bay while the political language Ho Chi Minh imported from Moscow is now current through all of Indo-China .

Hypothesis: At last, I would mention again to Mr. Henn the goal of the war is irrelevant to what we call the country.


Premise: Please note that on your calendar.

Hypothesis: Do you have a calendar to note that in?


Premise: Subcontractors who might do cutting as well as sewing are provided with enough fabric to make the order.

Hypothesis: The orders generally take a lot of time for subcontractors to complete.


Premise: Salem al Hazmi cleared the metal detector and was permitted through; Nawaf al Hazmi set off the alarms for both the first and second metal detectors and was then hand-wanded before being passed.

Hypothesis: The hand-wand didn't detect metal on Nawaf al Hazmi even though the first and second metal detectors did.


Premise: In the hands of an already successful scholar, the extras that endowments provide ensure continued success - for the scholar and the school.

Hypothesis: The endowment doesn't provide any extras and hinders the school.


Premise: Coming to Goodwill was the first step toward my becoming totally independent.

Hypothesis: Goodwill keeps people from being independent.


Premise: A successful U.S. apparel-maker, for instance, may assemble basic men's khaki pants in average sizes in Mexico, taking advantage of low labor costs as well as Mexico's proximity to the maker's Texas distribution centers; at the same time, this company can choose to manufacture products with more variable demand, like khaki pants with narrow waists and long inseams, in the United States, providing fast turnaround for retailers and lower exposure to inventory risk.

Hypothesis: The United States prefers outsourcing its labor to Mexico.


Premise: SPEA's enviable reputation benefits everyone connected to the school -students, faculty, and most importantly, alumni.

Hypothesis: SPEA has a horrible reputation.


Premise: Inside the NMCC, the deputy director for operations called for an allpurpose significant event conference.

Hypothesis: The recently out of retirement deputy director called for an event conference.


Premise: She has a cut, see?

Hypothesis: I cannot see any cuts.


Premise: They are thus a ready audience for calls to Muslims to purify their society, reject unwelcome modernization, and adhere strictly to the Sharia.

Hypothesis: Muslims should indeed purify their society.


Premise: Thanks to our Big Sisters volunteers, these young people are self-confident, believe in themselves and are beginning to realize their full potential.

Hypothesis: Mentoring helps young people gain self-confidence.


Premise: In all the ways just mentioned, parents and other adults are vital conveyers of culture, through direct teaching of attitudes and values and through the pervasive imprint of culture on the settings and activities they provide for children.

Hypothesis: Parents convey the culture to the children.


Premise: Um, I guess the only story that they ever say a lot about my grandmother was the fact that she did not like my mom when uh my father and she first got together.

Hypothesis: My grandmother didn't like my mom at one time.


Premise: Please send your check today.

Hypothesis: Don't give us any money.


Premise: Yet the income gap in free time is not large; financially well-o individuals average only 2 to 4 hours a week less free time than do their less economically advantaged counterparts.

Hypothesis: The free time is the same regardless of income.


Premise: Establishing the target customer base is therefore a critical first step in any merchandising strategy.

Hypothesis: The target customers are often brought to focus groups or surveys to gather information.


Premise: How can parents beat the  time bind ?

Hypothesis: How can parents find more fun?


Premise: I guess I lay there unconscious awhile.

Hypothesis: I was knocked unconcious.


Premise: Islam is divided into two main branches, Sunni and Shia.

Hypothesis: Islam is divided into two main parts.


Premise: The NEADS technician who took this call from the FAA immediately passed the word to the mission crew commander, who reported to the NEADS battle  Mission Crew Commander,  Okay, uh, American Airlines is still airborne.

Hypothesis: The technician didn't notify anyone about the airplane.


Premise: They would then take their body measurements to any of several participating retailers, who pass the information on to their apparel suppliers and have the clothing custom-made.

Hypothesis: Participating retailers are always happy to pass the information on to apparel suppliers.


Premise: However, we recognize that gifts at the Maennerchor Society level are not possible for all.

Hypothesis: We know that not everyone can donate to the maennerchor society.


Premise: The looking-glass image of utopia--dystopia--has provided more numerous additions to the English lexicon.

Hypothesis: The looking glass provided no new additions to the Lexicon.


Premise: American 11 struck the NorthTower at 8:46.

Hypothesis: The first plane hit the tower at 8:46


Premise: As explained in previous chapters, variation in weekly demand can be characterized by a standardized measure, the coefficient of variation, or Cv.

Hypothesis: Cv is the coefficient of variation that represents variation in weekly demand.


Premise: What happened?

Hypothesis: What happened last night?


Premise: It's kind of a, which is the cause and which is the effect, question.

Hypothesis: The question is which is the cause and which is the effect.


Premise: The other aircraft referred to by New York Center was United 175.

Hypothesis: New York Center did not refer to any Aircrafts by name.


Premise: She waits tables like one night a week at another job to help put me through and everything like that.

Hypothesis: She doesn't want to help me.


Premise: Finally, measurement, fit, color, and texture remain central components of apparel sales.

Hypothesis: Apparel sales require color, texture, and fit.


Premise: And do you read a lot?

Hypothesis: I know you can't read.


Premise: While most of the group's key figures had accompanied Bin Ladin to Afghanistan, Banshiri had remained in Kenya to oversee the training and weapons shipments of the cell set up some four years earlier.

Hypothesis: Banshiri was never in Kenya.


Premise: Big Sisters are mentors and friends who empower girls to more fully reach their potential, experience life's opportunities and perhaps begin to dream.

Hypothesis: We want to help girls start to dream.


Premise: Here we will show how a decision tool can be used to make the transition from general intuition to specific decisions about (1) which products to make in each plant and (2) how to schedule the time and quantity of production for each product.

Hypothesis: Decision tools are logical constructs used often by businesses.


Premise: Yeah I had to take it, as children?

Hypothesis: As a child, I had to take it.


Premise: It is similar with members low on the ladder of rank.

Hypothesis: The SAG members often pay high monetary dues.


Premise: He also showed me the newspaper clipping.

Hypothesis: He never showed me the clipping.


Premise: Say again, slowly.

Hypothesis: Repeat that slower.


Premise: On the whole, readers can draw their own conclusions about the breadth of coverage; as for me, I should (regrettably) sacrifice Montrachet to gain others.

Hypothesis: On the whole, readers of the New York Times can decide for themselves.


Premise: In 1989, the law school received $38,912 in matching gifts from 55 companies.

Hypothesis: In 1989, the medical school received $50,000 in matching gifts from 99 companies.


Premise: People like 74-year-old Margaret, who keeps active by playing bridge and taking classes in Spanish, aerobics and sewing at Heritage Place.

Hypothesis: Margaret keeps active by taking classes, exercising and playing games at Heritage Place, she is 74 and sharp as a tack.


Premise: Manufacturers suddenly have much more to do than just make clothing'they are being asked to do work previously done by the retailer, such as picking and packing the order for each store from the retailer's warehouse.

Hypothesis: In the past manufacturers only had to be worried about making their products.


Premise: Men say that, too, of course.

Hypothesis: Men say that with a lot more confidence.


Premise: Do you think that's what it was?

Hypothesis: Do you think it was the freedom that got you in trouble?


Premise: Gifts to United Way helped provide shelter, medical care, counseling and job placement to end his homelessness.

Hypothesis: He was homeless until the United Way helped to provide shelter, medical care, counseling and job placement, gifts made this possible.


Premise: .. Defication of humankind as supreme.

Hypothesis: Humankind is not supreme.


Premise: Some remain profoundly impaired by inadequate adult investment in their childhoods.

Hypothesis: There isn't anyone who is impaired by inadequate adult investment in their childhoods.


Premise: Please join in this help with your gift today.

Hypothesis: Please offer us assistance with a present.


Premise: Creating and expanding opportunities for neighborhood businesses.

Hypothesis: Neighborhood businesses will have new opportunities.


Premise: Well, one day, I sai, I was going from San Miguel, uh, to Carolina, my brother lived, my brother was the principal of that, of that school there, in Carolina.

Hypothesis: Sometime I'm going to visit my brother in Carolina. He's the principal of a school out there.


Premise: When a baseball player is removed by the manager, the organist plays  Auld Lang Syne.

Hypothesis: There is no organ music when the manager has to remove a baseball player.


Premise: The long, disjointed document condemned the Saudi monarchy for allowing the presence of an army of infidels in a land with the sites most sacred to Islam, and celebrated recent suicide bombings of American military facilities in the Kingdom.

Hypothesis: The Saudi monarchy has worked respectfully and carefully with the western countries.


Premise: The connotation of gifted artistic performance, however, might stem from the gypsy culture in Andalusia whose dialect, cal?? , has words like duquende (possibly from the Russian dook ) meaning `spirit or ghost,' and duquendio , meaning `maestro.

Hypothesis: The connotation of gifted artistic performance in no way stems from the gypsy culture in Andalusia.


Premise: We'll welcome their call and do our best to help them through the difficult time, so they can get on with their lives.

Hypothesis: We will do our best to assist them through hardships.


Premise: As Figure 6.6 shows, the safety stock needed to achieve a given customer service level is proportional to the standard deviation of the demand forecast.

Hypothesis: Figure 6.6 shows the safety stock needed to achieve a given customer service level.


Premise: Human Resources and Productivity Growth

Hypothesis: Productivity is not impacted by human resources.


Premise: Then the next day I don't know if you weren't there.

Hypothesis: I tried to figure out if you were going to show up the next day, but it didn't seem like you did, so I figured you just didn't care anymore.


Premise: I haven't tried opium, but cannot imagine that Opium smells much like an opium den; and it is impossible to guess at what the millennium will smell like.

Hypothesis: It's possible that Opium perfume smells like rabbits.


Premise: It is not clear how the shootdown order was communicated within NORAD.

Hypothesis: The shootdown order was communicated inside of NORAD.


Premise: The music industry, well, you want more of the juicy, sordid details.

Hypothesis: The music industry is filled with gossip.


Premise: What about high school into college into adulthood what are some of the books that you read?

Hypothesis: What did you read while transitioning from high school to adulthood?


Premise: I would just scream and scream you know that, No, no, don't do that.

Hypothesis: That's nothing, I wouldn't even flinch.


Premise: We continue to assume that this SKU has the weekly demand distribution shown in Figure 6.1 (page 92).

Hypothesis: The demand distribution is assumed to follow figure 6.1.


Premise: When bar codes and EDI are combined with advanced shipping practices, the benefit of each practice is enhanced; order processing occurs more rapidly, accurately, and with less paper.

Hypothesis: Order processing occurs more rapidly, accurately, and with less paper, and customers leave better reviews.


Premise: When somebody orders custom-made clothing, his or her measurements are taken by a fitter in a store and, three to six weeks later, the garment appears.

Hypothesis: When you order custom clothing, it shows up three to six weeks later.


Premise: These advancements simply would not have been available without contributions from alumni and friends of the school.

Hypothesis: These advancements were available without any contributions.


Premise: My cousin's.

Hypothesis: That is my cousin's.


Premise: Gradually, spike one's guns came to mean `frustrate the enemy by blocking his intended plan of action.

Hypothesis: "Frustrate the enemy by blocking his intended plan of action" was known as spiking one's guns.


Premise: Hold it as long as you can.

Hypothesis: Just let go.


Premise: Increased rates of product introduction, product proliferation, and shortened product cycles mean that companies have to respond much faster to rapidly changing markets.

Hypothesis: Companies have never had to respond this fast in the history of the industry.


Premise: You can help make this valuable program available to many persons who are not currently benefiting from dental care.

Hypothesis: You can help expose people who are not benefiting from dental care to this program.


Premise: Putting another ply on top the same way creates an additional problem.

Hypothesis: There are no extra problems created by placing another ply on top in the same manner.


Premise: As a result, they do not have to be preoccupied with those needs and, instead, can turn their attention outward, toward acquiring physical, cognitive, and social skills.

Hypothesis: They never turn their attention towards acquiring cognitive skills.


Premise: In the absence of information that the crash was anything other than an accident, the White House staff monitored the news as they went ahead with their regular schedules.

Hypothesis: The staff at the White House monitored the news via emergency radio channels..


Premise: Islam is a faith that brings comfort to a billion people around the world.

Hypothesis: Islam brings peace of mind to many through the practice of charity.


Premise: This chapter also describes a new approach to production and sourcing strategies, one that balances traditional and short-cycle production lines.

Hypothesis: This is the longest chapter in the entire book.


Premise: Two minutes later the transponder was turned off and even primary radar contact with the aircraft was lost.

Hypothesis: Primary radar contact with the aircraft was lost.


Premise: If you believe that balderdash, you'll believe anything.

Hypothesis: You only believe that because you dropped out of school.


Premise: And I think that brings a smile to God's face.

Hypothesis: I think helping the poor brings a smile to God.


Premise: More likely, they read wants as meaning `desires' rather than `lacks,' but that might well be a deliberate, facetious ambiguity.

Hypothesis: Everybody always reads that wants means lacks, rather than meaning desires.


Premise: It is unlike Dr. Aman to cloak his subject'dirty language'under the euphemism  verbal aggression : he and most of the authors of the articles appearing in Maledicta let it all hang out; some, however, tuck it away neatly and write under a pseudonym.

Hypothesis: Those who write under a pseudonym are cowardly people.


Premise: Do you think that's what she wants?

Hypothesis: You and I are questioning whether it is what she wants or not.


Premise: In sociocultural theory, this joint, mutual focus is called intersubjectivity, or shared understanding.

Hypothesis: Shared understanding is the bond between a dog and its butt.


Premise: Those who are not familiar with feminist writings may find it useful and interesting to consider a book, recently published in Britain, that is typical of the harsher brand of such works.

Hypothesis: Those who don't read feminist writings might want read anything by Naomi Wolf.


Premise: Well, my brother had a, cow, tied out, and a goat, the cow's offspring.

Hypothesis: My brother owned a few animals.


Premise: I kept them in good shape until my last 78-rpm turntable died.

Hypothesis: I kept them in good shape until the turntable broke.


Premise: But between water and watt there are fifty-four main entries in Cobuild and 148 in CED . They share such entries as water biscuit and waterworks . But in addition CED alone enters water measurer (a `bug'), Watford (a `town north of London'), etc.

Hypothesis: Cobuild and CED both contain water biscuit and waterworks, but only CED has water measurer.


Premise: And did you like living in Charlotte all your life?

Hypothesis: Was Charlotte a your first choice to live your whole life?


Hypothesis: I kept them in good shape until the turntable broke and then they all got trashed.


Premise: He views either of them as the instrument, the bond, of his not being able to pass on the crown to a successor of his choosing (or of his subsequent begetting).

Hypothesis: He really doesn't want to be king.


Premise: Many controllers work at the FAA's 22 Air Route Traffic Control Centers.

Hypothesis: Many controllers work in the control centers.


Premise: In Bleak House (Chapter XXVII) Grandfather Smallweed, referring to Mr. George, warns Mr. Tulkinghorn that  I have him periodically in a vice.

Hypothesis: Smallweed warns Tulkinghorn that I have him on a long leash.


Premise: When I first began to study German it took a while to learn that Gift was not something one wanted for Christmas, and that Mist was not cool and dewy, but warm and smelly.

Hypothesis: Studying German is easy for everyone.


Premise: Adjust the task to an appropriately challenging level, and tailor teaching and assistance to the child's changing needs.

Hypothesis: Kids become discouraged easily when the level is inappropriately challenging.


Premise: The jagged heavy line in Figure 6.5 (page 100) depicts a typical inventory pattern for a replenishable product like our blue jeans in size 8. Note that the inventory level drops gradually as consumers purchase the item.

Hypothesis: Figure 6.5 has a heavy and jagged line featured in it.


Premise: The threat of Soviet bombers diminished significantly as the Cold War ended, and the number of NORAD alert sites was reduced from its Cold War high of 26.

Hypothesis: The reduced number of Soviet bombers had no effect on NORAD alert sites.


Premise: I had my second chance to change my life.

Hypothesis: I had another change to change my life because I was dying but then didn't die.


Premise: From Fiber to Cloth to Finished Product

Hypothesis: The cloth is the important part of the product.


Premise: The optimal policy is one for which marginal increases or decreases in chosen inventory levels will not confer additional profits.

Hypothesis: The best policy is one in which small changes in inventory levels will not affect profits.


Premise: It is only from an article about CED that we learn it has  171,000 entries,  which suggests that Collins means by references what Merriam-Webster means by entries .  But CED and Cobuild certainly do not say so!

Hypothesis: Collins means by "references" something completely different that Merriam Webster means by "entries."


Premise: As of this date, we have received commitments for approximately forty percent of our goal to the Timothy J. O'Leary Periodontal Endowment Fund.

Hypothesis: The commitments have been given in writing.


Hypothesis: This is the most accurate means of illustrating the patterns of replenishment with products.


Premise: They have already transformed channel relations in such industries as food and grocery, home-building products, personal computers, and office products.

Hypothesis: They transformed the relations in food and grocery industries.


Premise: We have provided an invoice to facilitate your gift.

Hypothesis: We've given you an invoice to aid your gift.


Premise: I still read history.

Hypothesis: I don't read history.


Premise: This means that half of your contribution will be returned to you through State tax savings, while the entire donation amount will remain deductible on your Federal taxes.

Hypothesis: None of your donation is returned through State tax savings.


Premise: Which is really a story from beginning to end, I suppose.

Hypothesis: The ending of the story is most significant, I think.


Premise: At 10:00:03, Jarrah stabilized the airplane.

Hypothesis: Jarrah was never able to stabilize the plane.


Premise: Because Ballinger was still responsible for his other flights as well as Flight 175, his warning message was not transmitted to Flight 93 until 9:23.

Hypothesis: Someone was trying to warn the plane about a highjacking.


Premise: The most up-to-date versions of automatic-cutting equipment, including the GERBERcutter, are even more effective.

Hypothesis: The GERBERcutter is an example of automatic-cutting equipment.


Premise: It's such a handicap not to read.

Hypothesis: Not reading it would be a handicap.


Premise: words = terms (synonym) perverse = flag for anagram anagram of `terms' = MSTER the first person = ADAM without = outside (!) ADAM outside MSTER = AMSTERDAM

Hypothesis: Words are a synonym for terms, and perverse is a flag for anagram.


Premise: There is conflicting evidence about when the Vice President arrived in the shelter conference room.

Hypothesis: The Vice President was the last to arrive at the shelter's conference room.


Premise: We first turn to the problem of forecasting sales in retail stores.

Hypothesis: Sales forecasting is the most important aspect and should be addressed first.


Premise: That's the way, way it was, they're big, plenty, if I were to tell you all the stories of what we went through, I tell you, that I'd keep you all night . That's how it was, it was said, but thank God in the family hardly-- The guerrillas also took out a man from the outskirts near the, the place where we lived, who was called Juan.

Hypothesis: The guerrillas never took out a man from the outskirts that were nearby.


Premise: The hijacking began between 8:51 and 8:54.

Hypothesis: Sometime between 8:51 and 8:54 the hijacking started.


Premise: But after September 1996, when first Jalalabad and then Kabul fell to the Taliban, Bin Ladin cemented his ties with them.

Hypothesis: Bin Ladin knew what he was doing in Jalalabad.


Premise: Can sort shapes into categories.

Hypothesis: Able to organize numbers and colors as well.


Premise: Why wouldn't you want to stay on Charlotte?

Hypothesis: Charlotte sucks, why won't you leave it?


Premise: They said the hijackers wielded knives and claimed to have a bomb.

Hypothesis: The highjackers held no weapons at all.


Hypothesis: The commitments we currently have, stand at seventy percent of our goal.


Premise: All of the above techniques rest, in one way or another, on the meanings of words.

Hypothesis: The definition of several of the terminology is highly subjective.


Premise: Even after controlling for the independent effects of firm size, product mix, and distribution channel on performance, we found that the most innovative firms were significantly more profitable than those that had adopted fewer of the key practices.

Hypothesis: Firms track a number of control variables to measure performance.


Premise: Saudi Arabia and the United States supplied billions of dollars worth of secret assistance to rebel groups in Afghanistan fighting the Soviet occupation.

Hypothesis: Saudi Arabia and United States had no involved in the Afghanistan war.


Premise: They were, um, they were best-seller type fiction from the um, 40's and 50's and 60's and on, just, they were members of a book club and they got a lot of books that way.

Hypothesis: They hardly had any books.


Premise: That's a good attitude!

Hypothesis: That is quite a fine stance!


Premise: As you review the gifts you've made this year I please consider a year-end gift to Herron School of Art.

Hypothesis: Please give a gift to Herron School of Art for the end of the year.


Premise: Nostalgia for Islam's past glory remains a powerful force.

Hypothesis: The nostalgia for Islam's past prestige is nonexistent.


Premise: You will find attached this survey plus our directional statement (goals) for 1993 that is a direct result of the survey.

Hypothesis: There is no survey available to you.


Premise: This could be a third aircraft.

Hypothesis: The airplane could be the third or fourth.


Premise: It may help a family stay together.

Hypothesis: A family's chances of staying together are increased with our help.


Premise: Inside the National Military Command Center, the deputy director of operations and his assistant began notifying senior Pentagon officials of the incident.

Hypothesis: Senior Pentagon officials were informed about the incident.


Premise: Six weeks of learning and exploring, sports, arts, and fellowship.

Hypothesis: The most important part is the exploration of a camper.


Premise: The emergency call lasted approximately 25 minutes, as Ong calmly and professionally relayed information about events taking place aboard the airplane to authorities on the ground.

Hypothesis: Ong relayed information about the hijackers events to authorities on the ground in PA for around 25 minutes.


Premise: They lived across the street from us in PA.

Hypothesis: The just moved in to the house across the street.


Premise: Thus we now have the big A as well as the A-word and the M-question as well as the M-word .  Perhaps we shall see such forms as the little A , the new A , or the A-option . If these variants prove productive, the lexicon of one-letter words could  spread like wild flowers,  as Sam Goldwyn once said.

Hypothesis: The lexicon of one-letter words is enticing for people


Premise: A response card is enclosed for your convenience.

Hypothesis: Enclosed is a card to record your response.


Premise: I guarantee you'll feel good knowing you've helped us touch a heart.

Hypothesis: I lie, you won't feel anything touching someones heart.


Premise: Earlier, on page 49, we learnt about Agnodice,  who lived to become the world's first known woman gynaecologist,  in the fourth century BC.

Hypothesis: We read that Agnodice's entire family were known as healers in the 4th century.


Premise: Enclosed is information that describes this program, as well as our community education initiatives in over 20 American Indian Nation.

Hypothesis: Enclosed are pamphlets and documents that describe our program.


Premise: Oh, can you think of any other stories?

Hypothesis: Are there any other stories you can remember?


Premise: Did you ever see the ghost?

Hypothesis: Where you able to see the spirit?


Premise: Increased profit came from missing fewer sales by being in stock a higher percentage of the time.

Hypothesis: More sales were made and profits went up.


Premise: Take a step toward making a difference in the lives of our young woman and recommit to the Girl Scout vision.

Hypothesis: Please refrain from trying any method to help and commit to the girl scouts.


Premise: The forecasting and inventory models presented in this chapter are not new; they have been recommended for years by statisticians and operations researchers.

Hypothesis: The forecasting and inventory models shown in this chapter are brand new.


Premise: A picture-restorer is  one who cleans and restores and sometimes ruins old pictures.

Hypothesis: It is difficult to determine if a picture can be restored.


Premise: I'm told I'm a lot like him.

Hypothesis: People say I look a lot like my brother.


Premise: He next spoke to Vice President Cheney, Dr. Rice, New York Governor George Pataki, and FBI Director Robert Mueller.

Hypothesis: He spoke next to the highest members of the government.


Premise: I also encourage you to seek additional support through your company, church, or service organization.

Hypothesis: Do not ask the church for help please


Premise: She had a washing machine but not, not a dryer so all the laundry get, got put hung out on the clothesline.

Hypothesis: She had a dryer, so a clothesline wasn't needed.


Premise: Please make checks payable to IU Foundation for the Timothy J. O'Leary Periodontal Endowment Fund.

Hypothesis: Please make your check towards IU Foundation.


Premise: My friend, a punster, spotted the fact that the plate nicely violated the no  offensive  plates rule.

Hypothesis: The plate contained racist cartoons and slurs.


Premise: I guess I read a lot of classic comics.

Hypothesis: I read a lot of classic comics.


Premise: Um, do you remember everything that your mom, like when she's telling the story, do you remember everything she tells or is some of it you remember and some of it you don't?

Hypothesis: When your mom is telling a story, do you remember it all or just parts of it?


Premise: The Command Center's national operations manager, Ben Sliney, ordered all FAA facilities to instruct all aircraft to land at the nearest airport.

Hypothesis: 5,000 planes performed emergency landings across the country.


Premise: And now as a trustee for our local Chapter, I'm seeing first hand how our volunteer efforts are paying off for kids like Nicholas.

Hypothesis: Volunteering with children is a difficult but rewarding job.


Premise: Please consider joining the Chairman's Roundtable with a gift of $1,000.

Hypothesis: A gift of $5,000 or more gives you lifetime membership benefits.


Premise: But because the iron balls and the brass holders had markedly different coefficients of expansion, the pyramids of cannonballs had a tendency to collapse during cold snaps'weather that was cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey.

Hypothesis: Cold weather causes the cannonballs to collapse.


Premise: You went treating!

Hypothesis: You stayed at home alone.


Premise: Beginning at 8:52, the controller made repeated attempts to reach the crew of United 175.

Hypothesis: The controller didn't want to contact the crew of United 175.


Premise: Wal-Mart is the most well known of the early lean retailers.

Hypothesis: Wal-mart is one of the best lean retailers.


Premise: 33 By 1994, the Saudi government would freeze his financial assets and revoke his citizenship.

Hypothesis: He went to another country after having his citizenship revoked.


Premise: As a result, some of the fashion-oriented products that had been sourced offshore can then return to the United States.

Hypothesis: Some fashion products that had been outsourced then returned to the US.


Premise: In Bleak House (Chapter XXVII) Grandfather Smallweed, referring to Mr. George, warns Mr. Tulkinghorn that  I have him periodically in a vice.

Hypothesis: Smallweed warns Tulkinghorn that I have him in a vice because I am so strict.


Premise: Our work on apparel supplier adjustments to lean retailing suggests that an economy characterized by an increasing level of modern manufacturing and retailing practices should experience lower levels of inventories relative to sales.

Hypothesis: There are lower levels of inventory, relative to sales in an economy characterized by modern manufacturing.


Premise: The Hazmi brothers, sitting in 5E and 5F, joined Hanjour in the first-class cabin.

Hypothesis: The men had a considerable amount of money, as they were able to afford first class seats.


Premise: She knew I was going to do it, but Dad was pretty irate.

Hypothesis: Mom knew what I was up to, however Dad was caught off guard.


Premise: Markets certainly have not disappeared, but these relationships have been transformed.

Hypothesis: Market relationships have gotten better.


Premise: Chapters 13 through 15 examine the channel as a whole, from global, private-performance, and public-policy perspectives.

Hypothesis: Chapter 15 examines marketshare effect.


Premise: Sophie turned toward the teddy bear, lifted his paw, and exclaimed,  She wants a lollipop to hold in her hand!

Hypothesis: The teddy bear was holding a lollipop so Sophie asked for one too.


Premise: She asked her mother to alert American Airlines.

Hypothesis: She asked her mom to call United Airlines.


Premise: I just really didn't ever love poetry for some reason.

Hypothesis: Poetry is something that I absolutely adore.


Premise: Indeed, efforts to use public concern, and at times outrage, to tackle the sweatshop problem go back to the early part of this century.

Hypothesis: Efforts to curb sweat shop problems go back to the early century.


Premise: Historians have often discussed the  three estates  of the Western world'nobility, church, and commons.

Hypothesis: The nobility of the Western world often have inherited wealth.


Premise: If you're not from Charlotte, you're not going to know where that's at, but, um, it was really far away from everybody and behind the airport and stuff like that.

Hypothesis: You are likely not from Charlotte because you are not going to know where that is.


Premise: Take a few moments to list five or six competencies of a child you know well.

Hypothesis: We recommended listing out at least five competencies of a child who is familiar to you.


Premise: Quiet now.

Hypothesis: Now not quiet.


Premise: Because they were living in a, in an apartment basically.

Hypothesis: They're in better housing now.


Premise: I just loved Cinderella . I also saw my sisters as the wicked stepsisters sometimes , and I was Cinderella, running around waiting on them.

Hypothesis: I was really fond of Cinderella and sometimes imagined myself to be similar to her.


Premise: I am happy to report that we have reached our 50 person minimum and the Class of '58 will be celebrating, as planned, at the Holiday Inn on Saturday, September 18 at 6:30.

Hypothesis: Unfortunately we can not set the Holiday Inn as the place as we haven't got the required number of attendees.


Premise: Oh well that was Rosemary, her mother was gone.

Hypothesis: Rosemary's mother is with her.


Premise: I was on this earth you know, I've lived on this earth for some reason, I just don't know what it is yet.

Hypothesis: I am fairly certain that I will discover the reason why I live on this earth.


Premise: Command  Uh, that's a decision somebody's gonna have to make probably in the next ten minutes.

Hypothesis: The decision was a very hard one to make.


Premise: I hope this correspondence finds you and your family doing well.

Hypothesis: Last I wrote the family was in a bit of a downward spiral.


Premise: I liked that part.

Hypothesis: I did not enjoy that part at all.


Premise: And what can be done to ameliorate sweatshop conditions in developing countries that produce and export half of the apparel purchased in this country?

Hypothesis: Can we close the sweatshops in this country?


Premise: I guess I read a lot of classic comics.

Hypothesis: I really do not read any classic comics.


Premise: Other extremists had, and have, followings of their own.

Hypothesis: Other extremists had similar ideas and easily had a following.


Premise: I said, If you, if you would lend me your boys tomorrow.

Hypothesis: I don't want your children over here ever.


Premise: Are you going to get gifts for anyone this year?

Hypothesis: Are you getting gifts for Christmas this year?


Premise: Yeah, but I've done it for so long, I'm used to like lifeguard and like everything like that.

Hypothesis: I've done lifeguard for so long that I'm used to it.


Premise: Also at 8:25, and again at 8:29, Amy Sweeney got through to the American Flight Services Office in Boston but was cut off after she reported someone was hurt aboard the flight.

Hypothesis: Amy Sweeney got through to the American Flight Services Office in Boston at 8:25 and again at 8:29 but was disconnected after she claimed someone was hurt during the flight.


Premise: In practical terms, this means that a retailer carrying a broader array of goods faces increased costs both for carrying goods in inventory that will not sell (overstocks) and running out of a good that sells beyond expectations (stock-outs).

Hypothesis: This means a retailer that carries a broad array of goods has increased costs by 40%


Premise: I have nothing particularly adverse to say about the book.

Hypothesis: I have quite a lot of adversities when it comes to the book.


Premise: We noted earlier that a retailer's decision about how much to stock depends on the demand forecast for the product, the level of product availability it wishes to provide to customers, the frequency with which it will place replenishment orders, and the lead time to acquire replenishment units.

Hypothesis: Customer demand does not matter when making stock decisions, they will just by something else.


Premise: The Herndon Command Center immediately established a teleconference between Boston, New York, and Cleveland Centers so that Boston Center could help the others understand what was happening.

Hypothesis: The Herndon Command Center failed to connect the different centers, so no one was in contact with each other.


Premise: For instance, in 1995, the Labor Department sponsored the Apparel Industry Partnership, in which a number of U.S. apparel manufacturers, UNITE!, the National Consumers League, the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility and others agreed to monitor compliance with labor standards of contractors.

Hypothesis: The Apparel Industry Partnership changed the way apparel businesses are run.


Premise: The Lord helped me for a reason.

Hypothesis: The Lord helped me because I prayed several times a day and lived as a good Christian.


Premise: To be fair, M and S also criticize identifications (mainly from news stories) of women as  mother of five  and other gratuitous characterizations that are not only irrelevant to the item's newsworthiness but are rarely offered about men.

Hypothesis: M and S criticize gratuitous characterizations that are irrelevant.


Premise: Let me assure you that we would appreciate receiving one million dollars from you.

Hypothesis: If you give us less than a million dollars we will be incredibly pissed off.


Premise: Thank you for your continued financial support, and for remaining alert for neighbors who need a helping hand.

Hypothesis: Thank you for keeping an eye out for neighbor's who need a helping hand and for your continued support.


Premise: Perhaps the Proximity people thought that they had got round that little problem by giving the same definition for each of the items in the list; but we know that only very rarely are two synonyms bi-unique (which is another way of saying that if A = B, B does not necessarily always equal A), an ineluctable fact of language.

Hypothesis: Synonyms are very common in English.


Premise: These are in turn surrounded and supported by holders of school certificates and other qualifications.

Hypothesis: Holders of school certificates provide a vital support structure.


Premise: When parents do make an eort, preschoolers watch less TV, find educational programs more appealing, and more often view shows with their parents.

Hypothesis: Preschoolers hoped they could view more shows with their parents.


Premise: Genes and peers do not supplant adult agents, including parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, family friends, and teachers.

Hypothesis: Genes and peers always supplant adult agents including parents.


Premise: Uh, let's see.

Hypothesis: Let's not find out.


Premise: He liked to do little league and soccer with him, and we did all the things families do.

Hypothesis: He has never done sports with him, as families often do.


Premise: With its roots in Taylorism, each PBS task is given a target time or  SAM (Standard Allocated Minutes).

Hypothesis: PBS tasks always take a random number of minutes.


Premise: So this story was read to you by your cousins?

Hypothesis: Did your cousin Melvin read this story to you?


Premise: It has been a busy time, for we have an ambitious agenda for growth and development.

Hypothesis: Our agenda to expand and develop has made it a busy time.


Premise: The story that it comes from the song  Green Grow the Lilacs,  said to have been sung at San Jacinto, is an example of folk etymology.

Hypothesis: Folk etymology is well defined by stories


Premise: What, ah, story in your childhood had the most impact on you?

Hypothesis: No one told you stories as a child, did they?


Premise: From there that was kind of frustrating me a little bit, going into, um, sessions every day or every night and having 15 people around me smoking fat blunts, drinking forties of Old English, and really not getting a whole lot of stuff done that was, it was, it was just depressing.

Hypothesis: I was angry that people were smoking weed.


Premise: Al Qaeda leaders set up a Nairobi cell and used it to send weapons and trainers to the Somali warlords battling U.S. forces, an operation directly supervised by al Qaeda's military leader.

Hypothesis: Al Qaeda and Somali warlords had a mutual relationship


Premise: At the same time or shortly thereafter, Atta-the only terrorist on board trained to fly a jet-would have moved to the cockpit from his business-class seat, possibly accompanied by Omari.

Hypothesis: Atta and Omari were two terrorists who were armed with box cutters.


Premise: To help accomplish these goals we need your support.

Hypothesis: We need your support to fulfill these goals.


Premise: Just how does imaginative play help children distinguish ideas from the enticing stimuli around them and use thought to guide behavior?

Hypothesis: How does imaginative play stop children from distinguishing ideas?


Premise: So you feel like it's a southern thing?

Hypothesis: Is that like some sort of southern thing?


Premise: Wages have risen relative to the average of all manufacturing or nondurable manufacturing.

Hypothesis: The wages have rise by over fifteen percent in the last three years.


Premise: Nevertheless, they constituted a potential resource for al Qaeda.

Hypothesis: Al Qaeda found the unaffiliated anti-Russia mujaheddin a potential recruiting resource.


Premise: Over the last ten years, VNS has delivered over $1 million worth of free services to the citizens of Central Indiana.

Hypothesis: VNS does not serve Central Indiana.


Premise: Lean retailing itself implies a dramatic reduction in the amount of inventory held by retail enterprises.

Hypothesis: Lean retailing calls for an inventory reduction by retail enterprises.


Premise: FAA controllers at Boston Center, which had tracked the first two hijackings, requested at 9:07 that Herndon Command Center get messages to airborne aircraft to increase security for the cockpit.

Hypothesis: FAA controllers told planes there was no reason to worry.


Premise: And I'm like, I'm trying to convince him to, you know, if I don't make it and there's a strong possibility I won't, I know that, I'm not stupid, I'm nor going to go to L.A. and make five million or more than that--

Hypothesis: I wanted them to know I'm going to Broadway not L.A.


Premise: In the fall of 1993, another such delegation went to the Bekaa Valley in Lebanon for further training in explosives as well as in intelligence and security.

Hypothesis: Several kinds of training operations took place in Lebanon.


Premise: skinflint In many parts of early America, necessities such as flint were scarce.

Hypothesis: Flint was a luxury in America.


Premise: It won't bother you, the cold weather and stuff?

Hypothesis: Would the cold climate not bother you?


Premise: Everyone talks nowadays about making dictionaries user-friendlier.

Hypothesis: Dictionaries are only useful for people with plenty of education.


Premise: In early childhood, it predicts positive mood, self-confidence and independence in mastery of new tasks, cooperativeness, and resistance to engaging in disruptive behavior.

Hypothesis: When established in early childhood, it can contribute to more positive moods and a greater sense of self-confidence.


Premise: According to the blurb on the dust jacket of this distinctly unpleasant book, Rosalind Miles is head of the Centre for Women's Studies at Coventry Polytechnic, a lecturer, broadcaster, journalist, and author of several other books, including a  highly acclaimed  biography of Ben Jonson.

Hypothesis: Rosalind Miles is a boring person which is shown through her boring books.


Premise: Bin Ladin began delivering diatribes against the United States before he left Saudi Arabia.

Hypothesis: Bin Laden never lived in Saudi Arabia.


Premise: Retail Replenishment Performance

Hypothesis: All retail stores need to restock.


Premise: Essentially, random fluctuation in demand cannot be explained by trends, seasonality, cyclicality, or other factors like advertising and new product introduction.

Hypothesis: Retailers would like to be able to explain every fluctuation in demand.


Premise: Language appropriate to  a basic ability to read and write, followed by the capacity to handle abstract usage, and, at a higher level, to be at ease with what Philip Gove in Webster's Third called ISV, `international scientific vocabulary.

Hypothesis: A basic language ability means to be able to write backwards.


Premise: Um, when you're talking about your favorite stories, what was your favorite part of the story?

Hypothesis: Can you tell me the part of the story you enjoyed the most?


Premise: Feminists have much to say about men's claim that women talk too much.

Hypothesis: Feminists dispute the claim that women talk too much.


Premise: Why is reading so important?

Hypothesis: The reading is not important.


Premise: So I guess they went that far.

Hypothesis: They went far I guess.


Premise: The law school's 5,900 alumni are a distinguished group.

Hypothesis: The 5,900 alumni of the law school have faded into the woodwork.


Premise: You may remember bumping into me somewhere along your path through college.

Hypothesis: You had a conversation with me during college


Premise: There's, my dad reminds me from time to time.

Hypothesis: I don't have a father.


Premise: Many business firms have  casual days  for office attire.

Hypothesis: There would be a strike if business firms didn't practice casual days.


Premise: I am sure I am not the first to point out Joseph Hynes's,  Do Mistake'Learn Better,  [XV,1] mistakes in Japanizing English words, e.g., sei fu not  safe-o,  nain not  nine-o.

Hypothesis: I am surprised that Joseph Hynes makes no mistakes in his translations despite suggesting do mistakes and learn better.


Premise: Although few retailers have embraced the complete set of forecasting and inventory models described in this chapter, lean retailers are moving in that direction.

Hypothesis: Lean retailers use a crystal ball to forecast and develop inventory models they know will be successful.


Premise: Notice how, for the biological side of brain development to go forward, appropriate stimulation is essential while formation of neural connections is at its peak.

Hypothesis: The biological side of brain development depends on neural connections being formed in utero.


Premise: W lists the  date of the earliest recorded use in English ...of the sense which the date precedes.

Hypothesis: The sense which the date precedes is not the only information listed by W.


Premise: He could have learned of this from messages being sent by United Airlines to the cockpits of its transcontinental flights, including Flight 93, warning of cockpit intrusion and telling of the New York attacks.

Hypothesis: United Airlines sent messages to seventeen different flights.


Premise: As for Macbeth's great bond , this is a crux over which commentators have argued for years.

Hypothesis: The bond has had many scholarly papers written about it,


Premise: to which the other replied,Yes, put it in it, and pull it down.

Hypothesis: The other person told the former to put it in and pull it down.


Premise: However, some recent studies explore the connection between development of linguistic gender and sex/gender, and the question of anatomically determined language is fashionable.)

Hypothesis: Studies have revealed no connection between linguistic gender and anatomy.


Premise: Duende [XV, 1] may be absent in Italian and French, as Mr. Bria assures us, but it is alive and prospering in Portuguese.

Hypothesis: Duende is entirely absent in the Portuguese language.


Premise: The standardized shipping container marker'which is possible only because of the existence of bar codes in the first place'provides a scannable description of a carton that can be electronically associated with data files containing specific information on the individual products shipped to the retailer.

Hypothesis: Bar codes are the best technology created for shipping container markers.


Premise: Today, in addition to one-on-one tutoring, we offer small group and English as a Second Language tutoring and video-based instruction for adults with learning disabilities.

Hypothesis: We offer one-on-one, small group, English as a Second Language tutoring and instruction for adults with learning disabilities.


Premise: A Treasury of the World's Great Letters , Simon and Schuster, N.Y., 1940) in which he relates how he sends his native boy up a palm tree, where he  cuts off a couple of vast nuts.

Hypothesis: A Treasury of the World's Great Letters was published in 1940.


Premise: We're just, we just we don't know who he is.

Hypothesis: We know exactly who he is.


Premise: The First  Apparel Design and Patterns

Hypothesis: The Apparel Design Prototype


Premise: And how old are you?

Hypothesis: How old are you? I'm 21.


Premise: Each narrative focused on a relatively exceptional personal experience.

Hypothesis: The narratives were based on common occurrences.


Premise: There was no hijack to report at 9:16.

Hypothesis: As of 9:16 there wasn't a hijack to report.


Premise: Shootdown authority was first communicated to NEADS at 10:31.

Hypothesis: NEADS shot down a plane at 10:43.


Premise: Bin Ladin began delivering diatribes against the United States before he left Saudi Arabia.

Hypothesis: Bin Laden spoke out against the U.S.


Premise: Cultures, and adults within them responsible for socialization, select dierent tasks for children's learning.

Hypothesis: Many adults have learned from their own children.


Premise: The idea of a domestic command for homeland defense began to be discussed in 1997, and in 1999 the Joint Chiefs developed a concept for the establishment of a domestic Unified Command.

Hypothesis: The Joint Chiefs don't like the idea of a domestic command.


Premise: Retail buyers of old grappled with this problem as they do today.

Hypothesis: The problem is only faced by today's retail buyers.


Premise: One of us will call you to discuss how your company can become an important highly visible partner with the JCC in support of our scholarship programs.

Hypothesis: Response times vary, but we typically are in contact within 12 hours.


Premise: In the course of this chapter, I have had much to say about just how parents and teachers can capitalize on children's natural propensities.

Hypothesis: This chapter has covered many topics including how to capitalize on children's natural propensities.


Premise: We need your participation in our activities and your financial support to help make our goals happen.

Hypothesis: We don't need participation or funding from anyone to make our goals happen.


Premise: How does the YWCA differ from other organizations that provide health, fitness, social and education services?

Hypothesis: What makes the YMCA unique?