Premise: Oreskes declined to tell him, of course, who the Times ' sources were.

Hypothesis: Oreskes decided to tell him who the sources were.
Answer: no

Premise: Tennessee has a surcharge on speeding tickets, Ohio assesses an annual lawyer registration fee, and Texas uses dollars from its Crime Victims Compensation Fund for such programs.

Hypothesis: This program is federally paid for.
Answer: no

Premise: This approach also assures that at least about 83 percent of the plant capacity is available at any given time (only one boiler is shut down), and during most of the time there is no impact to the plant availability at all.

Hypothesis: Only one of the three boilers is shut down.
Answer: it is not possible to tell

Premise: And very good reasons too, replied Poirot.

Hypothesis: There was no bad reason.
Answer: it is not possible to tell