Question:
S1: " There were , " said board member and Nobel-prize winning Stanford physicist Douglas Osheroff , " some extremely bad decisions .
S2: Board member Douglas Osheroff , a Nobel-prize winning Stanford physicist , said : " There were some extremely bad decisions .
Are S1 and S2 the same?
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yes

QUES: Microsoft has been awarded a patent for a feature in instant messaging that alerts a user when the person they are communicating with is inputting a message .

Microsoft has been awarded a patent on a popular instant-messaging feature that shows users when the person on the other end of the conversation is typing a message .

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

[Q]: The main change , said Jim Walton , CNN 's president , is a fundamental shift in the way CNN collects its news .

The main change , said CNN president Jim Walton , was a fundamental shift in the way the network collected its news .

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[A]: yes

Problem: Wwo sentences:
Washington , however , said more was needed to prevent complaints being filed in the first place .
But the US insisted it wanted more done to prevent complaints being filed in the first place , preferably by repealing the entire law .
Do they have the same meaning? OPTIONS:
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Answer: no

Here are two sentences:

But SCO has hit back , saying : " We view IBM 's counterclaim filing today as an effort to distract attention from its flawed Linux business model .

In a statement , an SCO spokeman said , " We view IBM 's counterclaim filing today as an effort to distract attention from its flawed Linux business model .
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yes

Q:
Do these sentences have the same meaning?
The broader Standard & Poor 's 500 Index < .SPX > was off 4.86 points , or 0.49 percent , at 993.82 .
The technology-laced Nasdaq Composite Index .IXIC gained 1.8 points , or 0.1 percent , at 1,732.50 .

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no