Here are two sentences:

" We don 't have new places to check , " said Steve Anderson , a Waco public-information officer .

" We don 't have new places to check , " Waco public information officer Steve Anderson said .
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yes

Q: His protest led to a 47-hour standoff with police that caused huge traffic jams in downtown Washington and northern Virginia .

His protest triggered a 47-hour standoff with police that led to huge traffic jams as commuters backed up in downtown Washington and Northern Virginia .

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?
Dan Powers , vice president of grid computing strategy at IBM Corp. , says he 's not worried about such off-the-shelf PC clusters threatening sales of traditional supercomputers .
Dan Powers , IBM vice president of grid-computing strategy , says he 's not worried about off-the-shelf PC clusters threatening traditional supercomputer sales .

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yes

input question: Belcher said the airport 's conference room became a shelter for several area families who had hiked up wooded hillsides in advance of rising water .
Belcher said the airport 's conference room was serving as a makeshift shelter for several area families who hiked up the wooded hillside in advance of rising water .

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output answer: yes

[Q]: Jim Guest , president of Consumers Union , said they stand by their reporting .
Jim Guest , president of Consumers Union , said the Supreme Court did not address the merits of the case .
(See options at the end). If the first sentence is true, is the second one also true?
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[A]: no

Q: In afternoon trading in Europe , France 's CAC-40 rose 1.5 percent , Britain 's FTSE 100 gained 0.3 percent and Germany 's DAX index advanced 1.2 percent .

In afternoon trading in Europe , France 's CAC-40 advanced and Britain 's FTSE 100 each gained 0.7 percent , while Germany 's DAX index rose 0.6 percent .

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