Detailed Instructions: In this task, you're given a pair of sentences, sentence 1 and sentence 2. Your job is to determine if the two sentences clearly agree/disagree with each other, or if this can't be determined. Indicate your answer as yes or no respectively.
Problem:Sentence 1: Growing economic decline brought record corporate bankruptcies and the end of lifetime employment, as companies were forced to improve efficiency in order to survive. Sentence 2: Corporate bankruptcies actually declined as the economy suffered.
Solution:
yes