Sentence 1: Indeed, in Japan's consensus-based management system, the response of politicians, bureaucrats, and business leaders seemed to be to look the other way and hope bad news would disappear.

Sentence 2: Japan didn't have a consensus-based management system.
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Answer: no

Sentence 1: Others point to Waas' supposedly shoddy reporting of a Pulitzer Prize-nominated article on arms sales to Iraq that he co-wrote for the Los Angeles Times . There is no evidence that the pair repeated any of these alleged sins in their reporting on Hale.

Sentence 2: The evidence towards these sins is incontrovertible.
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Answer: no

Sentence 1: But more recently, the bloom has gone from the ESOP rose, and last year Avis was sold to HFS, which also owns Howard Johnson, Days Inn, and Century 21.

Sentence 2: ESOP are not attractive anymore.
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yes