Gunman who held suburban Atlanta firefighters hostage now dead, police say
The Lede: Video: Gunman Takes Firefighters Hostage in Georgia

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Answer: 1

my final word: ignoring has the effect of normalizing.
taking advantage has the effect of reinforcing.

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Excluding the charges, analysts, on average, expected a loss of 11 cents a share.
Analysts polled by Thomson Financial First Call had been expected to see a loss of about 11 cents a share from continuing operations.

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Answer: 4

Fern I think stories like this are stupid.
- wolf I think stories like this are stupid.

Rate the textual similarity of these two sentences on a scale from 0 to 5, where 0 is "no meaning overlap" and 5 is "means the same thing".

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4