[Q]: The company must either pay NTP the $ 53.7-million or post a bond with the court pending the appeal , Mr. Wallace said .
RIM must either pay NTP the $ 53.7 million or post a bond with the court pending the appeal .
(See options at the end). If the first sentence is true, is the second one also true?
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[A]: yes

Question:
S1: At first blush , then , the distinction drawn by the creators of the do-not-call registry would seem to draw the line in precisely the right place .
S2: At first blush , then , the creators of the registry would seem to have drawn the line between exempted and banned calls in the right place .
Are S1 and S2 the same?
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Answer:
yes

QUES: Milberg Weiss Bershad Hynes & Lerach LLP said it filed suit in a New York court on Monday on behalf of the Southern Alaska Carpenters Pension Fund .

Milberg Weiss Bershad Hynes & Lerach filed the lawsuit , which seeks class-action status , on behalf of the Southern Alaska Carpenters Pension Fund in federal court in Manhattan .

The sentences above mean the same or not?
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ANS: yes

[Q]: Air Transport Association spokeswoman Diana Cronan said that travel was down in May through July and that she also expected it to be off over Labor Day .

ATA spokeswoman Diana Cronan said travel was down in May through July , and she also expects it to be down some over Labor Day .

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[A]: yes

Problem: Wwo sentences:
Similar bills passed the House twice but died in the Senate .
Two years ago , the House passed a similar version that floundered in the Senate .
Do they have the same meaning? OPTIONS:
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Answer: yes

Here are two sentences:

Axelrod died in his sleep of heart failure , said his daughter , Nina Axelrod .

Axelrod died of heart failure while asleep at his Los Angeles home , said his daughter , Nina Axelrod .
OPTIONS:
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yes