Premise: If Social Security reform reduces anticipated retirement income, many analysts expect that workers might, to some degree, want to offset this effect by increasing their saving outside the Social Security system.

Hypothesis: If retirement income decreases, workers are expected to increase their savings.
Answer: yes

Premise: The cords that assembly line workers can pull to stop the line are now ubiquitous, as are Japanese quality control standards.

Hypothesis: The Japanese quality control standards have continued to decline.
Answer: no

Premise: Talk "talk "talk!

Hypothesis: It's so quiet in here!
Answer: no

Premise: A newcomer to Charlotte--Bill Capacchione, who had not witnessed the city's efforts in the '70s to surmount mutual distrust--sued to enroll his daughter into a magnet that officials didn't want to tip all white.

Hypothesis: Magnet schools in Charlotte are active in providing a great education.
Answer: it is not possible to tell