Q:
Do these sentences have the same meaning?
After their arrests , the men told investigators they paid to be smuggled into the United States from Canada last month .
After their arrests , sources said the men admitted they were smuggled into Washington state from Canada in July .

OPTIONS:
- no
- yes
A:
yes

input question: Excluding the impact of accounting changes , Ford would have earned 13 cents a share .
Excluding the $ 56 million charge and the accounting change , Ford 's third-quarter earnings amounted to 15 cents a share .

OPTIONS:
- no
- yes
output answer: no

[Q]: Shares of GE were slipping 17 cents , or 0.6 % , to $ 28.02 in Instinet premarket trading .
Shares in GE were down 7 cents to $ 28.12 by the close of trading in New York .
(See options at the end). If the first sentence is true, is the second one also true?
OPTIONS:
- no
- yes

[A]: no

Question:
S1: Diane Lade of the South Florida Sun-Sentinel , a Tribune Publishing newspaper , contributed to this report .
S2: Staff Writer Diane Lade and The Associated Press contributed to this report .
Are S1 and S2 the same?
OPTIONS:
- no
- yes
Answer:
no

QUES: The jump in tobacco shares was led by New York-based Altria , whose shares rose almost 10 percent to $ 38.28 .

Shares of the cigarette makers jumped on the news , led by New York-based Altria , whose shares rose almost 10 percent to $ 38.30 .

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

Question:
S1: Iraqi police opened fire in downtown Baghdad today after demonstrators stormed a police station demanding they be given jobs they claimed to have paid bribes for .
S2: Iraqi police opened fire in downtown Baghdad Wednesday after demonstrators demanding jobs stormed a police station and threw stones at officers , police said .
Are S1 and S2 the same?
OPTIONS:
- no
- yes
Answer:
no