input question: " Three Weeks in October " goes on sale Monday , nearly a year after the Washington , D.C.-area sniper shootings started .
Moose 's book goes on sale Monday , nearly a year after the sniper shootings started in the Washington area .

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output answer: yes

input question: PeopleSoft also said it expects the acquisition to close in the third calendar quarter of 2003 .
PeopleSoft said the JD Edwards acquisition would close in the third quarter .

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output answer: yes

input question: " It 's hard to believe that we live in a society where parents wouldn 't be notified of an abortion , which is a very profound decision . "
" It 's hard to imagine we live in a society where parents wouldn 't be notified of an abortion , " Bush said .

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output answer: no

input question: It was the 23-9 Yankees ' third straight defeat - their longest skid of the season .
The Yankees are in their first team-wide slump of the season .

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output answer:
no