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.

Q: Sentence 1: And if official productivity statistics understate the real rate of progress by 1 percent, official price statistics also overstate inflation by exactly the same amount. Sentence 2: And if official productivity statisticts understate the real rate of progress by 1 percent, official price statistics also understate inflation by exactly the same amount.

A: slate
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Q: Sentence 1: The South that is triumphant now, concludes Applebome, is one that both Grizzard and neo-Confederates would celebrate, a place of feel-good nostalgia, easy answers, and painless solutions, forever looking backward through a pale mist and seeing only the soft focus outlines of what it wants to see. Sentence 2: Some neo-Confederates see the larger picture of what the past outlines and its implications on modern-day society.

A: slate
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Q: Sentence 1: Zhukov rallied the indomitable men and women of that mighty force to stop the German army outside the gates of Moscow and left them to die by the thousands in the snow. Sentence 2: Zhukov left men and women to die in the snow because he was ruthless.

A:
slate
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