QUES: OS ANGELES , Oct. 24 Will Walt Disney Concert Hall , the new home of the Los Angeles Philharmonic , bring urban vitality to the city 's uninviting downtown area ?

OS ANGELES Walt Disney Concert Hall , the new home of the Los Angeles Philharmonic , is a French curve in a city of T squares .

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

QUES: The FBI later learned that two of the hijackers had lived near Awadallah in San Diego .

The government charged that Awadallah knew both hijackers when they lived in the San Diego area .

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ANS: no

QUES: She estimated it would take three months and would require cancellation of a sub-audit of the Department of Environmental Quality .

She said it would take an estimated three months to conduct and require the cancellation of a sub-audit of the Department of Environmental Quality .

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yes