Premise: Instead, Gore cut him off--and now Bradley can't connect his campaign-finance crusade, under the rubric of reform, to his challenges to existing welfare-state policies on health and education.

Hypothesis: Bradley will no longer be able to make connections between his welfare policy challenges and his campaign finances.
Answer: yes

Premise: There! said Tuppence at last.

Hypothesis: Tuppence didn't speak.
Answer: no

Premise: Time 's City Boosters pays tribute to big-city mayors who've privatized services, challenged employee unions, and supported school vouchers.

Hypothesis: The mayor works extremely hard to do a good job.
Answer: it is not possible to tell

Premise: I've screwed and saved and pinched!

Hypothesis: He has screwed and saved.
Answer: yes