Here are two sentences:

Board Chancellor Robert Bennett declined to comment on personnel matters Tuesday , as did Mills .

Mr. Mills declined to comment yesterday , saying that he never discussed personnel matters .
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yes

Q: Police said they believe Cruz knew of the girl through one of her former schoolmates - though neither the girl nor her family knew him .

Police said on Monday they believed Cruz knew of the fourth-grade girl through one of her former schoolmates , although neither the girl nor her family knew him .

Please tell me if the sentences above mean the same.
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A: yes

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Do these sentences have the same meaning?
RT Jones analyst Juli Niemann said Grant was " the one we were all pulling for .
He has a very good reputation , " RT Jones analyst Juli Niemann said of Grant .

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no

input question: While it was being called mandatory , Dupont said authorities were not forcing people from their homes .
It was called mandatory , but Dupont said authorities did not force people to leave .

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output answer: yes

[Q]: The dollar was also helped by concerns about possible yen- selling intervention by Japanese authorities .
The dollar was helped on Friday by talk of yen-selling intervention by Japanese authorities on Thursday and Friday .
(See options at the end). If the first sentence is true, is the second one also true?
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[A]: yes

Q: Power5 , like Power4 , includes two processor cores in a single slice of silicon .

Like the Power4 , the Power5 contains two processor cores on one chip .

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yes