QUES: The Commerce Commission would have been a significant hurdle for such a deal .

The New Zealand Commerce Commission had given Westpac no indication whether it would have approved its deal .

The sentences above mean the same or not?
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QUES: The effort is the Bush administration 's latest effort to expand the role of religious organizations in government services .

July 10 - The Bush administration 's latest effort to expand the role of religious organizations in government services enlists church-based youth groups in anti-drug programs .

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ANS: no

QUES: The state 's population was 6,080,485 in 2000 , according to the U.S. census .

Between 1960 and 2000 , however , the state 's population grew by 30.4 percent to 6,080,485 .

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no