QUES: The $ 19.50-a-share bid , comes two days after PeopleSoft revised its bid for smaller rival J.D. Edwards & Co . JDEC.O to include cash as well as stock .

Oracle 's $ 19.50-a-share bid comes two days after PeopleSoft added cash to its original all-share deal with smaller rival J.D. Edwards & Co . JDEC.O .

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

[Q]: Justice Anthony M. Kennedy dissented in an opinion joined by Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist and Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas .

He was joined by Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist and Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas .

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[A]: yes

Problem: Wwo sentences:
Based on having at least one of the symptoms , most students had been hung over between three and 11 times in the previous year .
On average the students suffered at least one of the 13 symptoms between three and 11 times in the last year .
Do they have the same meaning? OPTIONS:
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Answer: yes

Here are two sentences:

Shares in Tellabs were up 16 cents , or 2.2 percent , at $ 7.34 in morning trading on Nasdaq .

Shares in Tellabs , after initially rising , were unchanged at $ 7.18 on Nasdaq shortly after midday .
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no

Q: Many compensation experts had predicted Carty would get a generous severance deal because his voluntary resignation helped keep the concessions deals in place .

Many compensation experts had predicted that Carty would get a generous severance package because his voluntary resignation helped preserve the concessions , the Fort Worth Star-Telegram reported .

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

[Q]: Overall , students are most likely to be taught by a 15-year veteran with a growing workload and slightly eroding interest in staying in teaching , the work-force portrait shows .
The average teacher is a 15-year veteran with a growing workload and slightly eroding interest in staying in teaching , the work force portrait shows .
(See options at the end). If the first sentence is true, is the second one also true?
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[A]:
yes