Premise: The new program, headquartered in Oakland, was the result of a merger between San Francisco Neighborhood Legal Assistance (SFNLAF), Community Legal Services in San Jose, and Legal Foundation of Contra Costa.

Hypothesis: The merger resulted in a number of layoffs for management positions.
Answer: it is not possible to tell

Premise: Sex sometimes includes a heartening oration, but usually toward the end, urging you on to mutual victory; such remarks are rarely delivered at halftime, when you're lurking in the locker room, glum and battered.

Hypothesis: There is a goal of mutual victory in sex.
Answer: yes

Premise: OIRA approved the final rule as complying with the order on November 7, 1997.

Hypothesis: The final rule was marked as complied with on November 7, 1997.
Answer: yes

Premise: Of course, it's hard not to also see the glass as half--or, more precisely, 55 percent--empty.

Hypothesis: It's difficult to not see that the glass is clearly more empty than full.
Answer: yes