QUES: The company also earned 14 cents a share a year earlier .

A year ago , the company posted a profit of 12 cents a share .

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

[Q]: Bond also voiced his disappointment that neither President Bush nor his brother attended this conference in Florida or last year 's in Texas .

Bond voiced disappointment that neither President Bush nor his brother attended the 2002 conference in Texas or the 2003 meeting in Florida .

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[A]: yes

Problem: Wwo sentences:
It is almost certain to exacerbate the bitter divisions between Washington and Europe that have not abated since the end of the war in Iraq .
It is almost certain to exacerbate the divisions between Washington and Europe that emerged before the war in Iraq .
Do they have the same meaning? OPTIONS:
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- yes

Answer: yes

Here are two sentences:

" I 'm disgusted , physically sick in the stomach , " said Brent Newbury , president of the Rockland County Patrolmen 's Benevolent Association .

" The whole thing is a travesty , " fumed Brent Newbury , president of the Rockland County Patrolmen 's Benevolent Association .
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no

Q: They were not supplied or given to us but unearthed by our reporter , David Blair , in the Foreign Ministry in Baghdad . "

They were not supplied or given to us , but unearthed by our reporter " in Iraq 's foreign ministry , he said .

Please tell me if the sentences above mean the same.
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A: yes

[Q]: That failure to act contributed to September the 11th and the failure to act today continues ( to put ) Americans in a vulnerable circumstance , " Graham said .
" That failure to act contributed to September 11 and the failure to act today continues [ to put ] Americans in a vulnerable circumstance , " said Graham .
(See options at the end). If the first sentence is true, is the second one also true?
OPTIONS:
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[A]:
yes