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Kael called Mean Streets a triumph of personal film-making, and even though it may be the single most imitated movie of the past 30 years--cf The Pope of Greenwich Village, State of Grace, Federal Hill, Boyz N the Hood , etc.--it has lost remarkably little of its freshness and power.

Does it follow that "Mean Steets was a terrible film that no one liked."?
Answer:
no

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Also, the government's role both in investing in physical infrastructure and in allocating capital to industrial borrowers at preferential rates also resulted in many low-yielding investments.

Does it follow that "The government has only had excellent high-yielding investments."?
Answer:
no

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Here was a boy growing up in Punjab during the fall of the Raj and the Partition, a boy who had been blinded by meningitis at the age of 3, roller-skating through the back streets of Lahore as Sikhs slaughtered Hindus and Hindus slaughtered Muslims and civilization was collapsing and then, decades later, having made his way from India to an Arkansas school for the blind to Balliol College, Oxford, to The New Yorker , re-creating the whole thing in Proustian detail and better-than-Proustian prose ...

Does it follow that "Here was a boy growing up in a very challenging time."?
Answer:
yes

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For most of this century, U.S. corporations featured rubber-stamp boards of directors handpicked by management and uninterested in rocking the boat.

Does it follow that "Corporate disinterest in doing anything that rocks the boat has lead to a stagnation of growth."?
Answer:
it is not possible to tell