Problem: Here is a premise:
The Council document also noted that inexplicably 18-B lawyers are handling 50 percent of the indigent criminal cases in New York City, even though their mandate is to handle only multi-defendant cases where the Legal Aid Society had a conflict.

Here is a hypothesis:
Chronic shortages of funding for the Legal Air Society has to misapplication of other resources.

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Answer: it is not possible to tell

Problem: Here is a premise:
performance objectives that senior executives work to achieve during the year.

Here is a hypothesis:
Senior executives have performance objectives that they try to achieve.

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Answer: yes

Problem: Here is a premise:
Thus, analysis and referral of a case to another legal services provider cannot be counted, nor can service where the client is accepted and work is done, but the client withdraws or loses contact with the program before any actual legal assistance is provided.

Here is a hypothesis:
There are cases in which clients do not get any legal assistance.

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Answer: yes

Problem: Here is a premise:
It was the biggest decline in 10 years.

Here is a hypothesis:
There hadn't been a larger decline in a decade.

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Answer:
yes