TASK DEFINITION: In this task, you're given a pair of sentences, sentence 1 and sentence 2. Your job is to write a single word that describes the genre that the two sentences belong to, such as face-to-face, government, letters, 9/11, slate, telephone, travel, verbatim, oup, fiction.
PROBLEM: Sentence 1: Chris Hoiles, starting catcher for the Orioles, told me one day in the locker room, We're usually the dirtiest guys on the field and the sweatiest guys on the field. Sentence 2: Chris Hoiles never talks to people in the locker room.

SOLUTION: slate

PROBLEM: Sentence 1: After all, it's not till the discovery that the stock price falls. Sentence 2: The discovery spreads so quickly that the stock price falls within the first five minutes after it's published.

SOLUTION: slate

PROBLEM: Sentence 1: The volume of mail shifting is 2.493 billion leaving basic and 2.507 arriving at the workshare category. Sentence 2: The volume of mail shifting is 7.777 billion leaving basic and 1.111 arriving at the workshare category.

SOLUTION:
government