Premise: Better, perhaps, to sort things out thoroughly in the short run, and to prevent even greater devastation for all concerned down the road--even if that means suffering a few casualties, or opening ourselves up to the charge of imperialism.NomadNet, a page on Somalia, Peacekeeping, Relief & Economic Development Issues run by Michael Maren, has been shut down, but its archives are still open.

Hypothesis: It's better to figure out the issue in a slow approach.
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Answer: no

Premise: um but i uh you know it's uh in fact when uh we pay our check when we when we you know write our checks we even categorize our payments and i mean we even get into that kind of detail um so so

Hypothesis: While writing checks, we determine the category of the payment.
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Answer: yes

Premise: Lobbying outfits roll out a carpet of gold.

Hypothesis: The carpet of gold is very welcoming and a sign of wealth.
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Answer: it is not possible to tell

Premise: right right i i do have some uh retirement modeling that i've done at home that uh tends to crawl uh which on which i've just turned the calculation off in between and a couple of models that i've

Hypothesis: I do have some retirement, which i have been watching.
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Answer: yes