Premise: Resources are maximized when strategically aimed at the areas that need the most improvement.

Hypothesis: All of the areas have been improved greatly.
Answer: no

Premise: if they started billing people by the pound things might change drastically

Hypothesis: Billing people by the pound would only keep things just as they have been.
Answer: no

Premise: Some day he might meet her again.

Hypothesis: They would never meet again.
Answer: no

Premise: He stood his ground and waited.

Hypothesis: The waited.
Answer: yes