QUES: Tech stocks were hurt by a sour forecast from Sun Microsystems , which was viewed as a bad omen for the upcoming quarterly earnings season .

A sour forecast from Sun Microsystems Inc . SUNW.O put more pressure on Wall Street before the quarterly earnings season .

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

QUES: Nonetheless , the open-source guru insisted , " This attack was wrong , and it was dangerous to our goals . "

" This attack was wrong , and it was dangerous to our goals , " Raymond said .

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

QUES: But Nelson claims he did it because he was drunk on beer , not because Rosenbaum was jewish .

Those two witnesses say that Nelson confessed to killing Rosenbaum , but claimed he did it because he was drunk on beer .

The sentences above mean the same or not?
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no