Question: Context: Most of the mines are in arid areas and animals searching for water are attracted to the cyanide-laced holding ponds that are an integral part of the mining operations.

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Answer: Hypothesis: Animals have died by the thousands from drinking at cyanide-laced holding ponds.

Question: Context: The average cabby works nine and a half hours a day. A cab's busiest hours are 6 to 8 p.m. And even as the economy has fallen deeper into recession, the number of cab rides each day in New York has remained relatively steady. Those are among the most vivid bits of information about the yellow cab industry to emerge from a trove of new data collected by the Taxi and Limousine Commission from cabs equipped with new computerized systems that record each trip and fare.

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Answer: Hypothesis: The busiest hour for a cab is 9 p.m.

Question: Context: The recent 14% hike in third class postage rates, accompanied by simultaneous double-digit paper price increases, has hit smaller catalogers especially hard.

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Answer: Hypothesis: The cost of paper is rising.

Question: Context: More than 6,400 migratory birds and other animals were killed in Nevada by drinking water in the cyanide-laced ponds produced by gold mining operations.

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Answer:
Hypothesis: Animals have died by the thousands from drinking at cyanide-laced holding ponds.