Premise: Although currently limited to this one rule, the program manager said that AMS plans to use these electronic rulemaking features in other potentially controversial rulemakings.

Hypothesis: They plan on using these electronic rulemaking features in the next year.
Answer: it is not possible to tell

Premise: But if you do, may you be blessed with the wiliness of a fox, the agility of a cat, and the creepy ingenuity of a defense secretary in concocting a dazzling non- It was nobody's fault.

Hypothesis: May you be blessed with wiliness, agility, and ingenuity.
Answer: yes

Premise: The health science literature on air pollution indicates that several human characteristics affect the degree to which mortality risk affects an individual.

Hypothesis: The individual is affected by air pollution based on human qualities.
Answer: yes

Premise: large if not too large

Hypothesis: There is a step higher than "large."
Answer: yes