Premise: A cascading set of resultsoriented performance agreements is one mechanism in a performance management system that creates a line of sight showing how individual employees can contribute to overall organizational goals.

Hypothesis: A cascading set of resultsoriented performance agreements is not a mechanism.
Answer: no

Premise: We generated emissions estimates for the baseline by projecting changes in emissions under the baseline case for 2010 and 2020.

Hypothesis: Emissions estimates were based on projected changes in 2010 and 2020.
Answer: yes

Premise: Indeed, increasing returns have traditionally been used as arguments against free markets, for government intervention.

Hypothesis: Increasing returns were never used as arguments against free markets.
Answer: no

Premise: that's why they can say you know there's no layoff policy

Hypothesis: They can talk about the bad performance because the company doesn't have a layoff policy.
Answer: it is not possible to tell