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How to reduce arguments between your kids<br>Stay calm. Try not to get upset or angry at your kids when they fight. Displaying anger can end up causing the situation to escalate and make your kids even more upset.
Hypothesis: Escalation, in this context, makes matters worse.
Yes
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"The Herald is now pleased that Kennedy can vigorously pursue a re-examination of the Iraq war and how to extricate our nation from it. Speaking seriously, I'll take this change of heart as a sobering indication that all of us, wherever we stand on the liberal-conservative continuum, are deeply concerned about the damaging impacts of the Iraq war and are looking for ways to work together to resolve it as soon as possible."
Hypothesis: It does matter whether you are liberal or conservative because this shows how you believe issues regarding the Iraq war should be resolved.
It's impossible to say
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The AIDS epidemic has taught us a great deal about what it means for an individual to have been abandoned by his family, then become a prominent artist, then be nursed to his death by his partner, or as the language has changed, his significant other, his long time companion, his partner, his spouse.
Hypothesis: Language does not change.
No