Sentence 1: VARIANCE - (1) The amount, rate, extent, or degree of change, or the divergence from a desired characteristic or state.

Sentence 2: Variance can be slowed once identified.
Is this second sentence entailed by the first?

Answer: it is not possible to tell

Sentence 1: (The two dailies don't trace the story back to the Drudge Report .) CNN goes to Defcon1, with constant updates, and so do the wire services.

Sentence 2: Wire services go to Defcon1.
Is this second sentence entailed by the first?

Answer: yes

Sentence 1: yeah we're getting to where straying i guess yeah

Sentence 2: We are not getting to anything.
Is this second sentence entailed by the first?

Answer:
no