Premise: The annual performance plan is to provide the direct linkage between the strategic goals outlined in the agency's strategic plan and what managers and employees do day-to-day.

Hypothesis: The performance plan occurs once every other year.
Answer: no

Premise: You might advertise for the nurse who accompanied the girl.

Hypothesis: You could approach this from another direction: seek the nurse who was with the girl.
Answer: yes

Premise: I can't remember a movie with more style and less motivation.

Hypothesis: This movie is not motivational at all.
Answer: no

Premise: Performance artist Karen Finley reprises her 1990 show--she spread chocolate over her naked body--which made her the poster girl for right-wing denunciations of the National Endowment for the Arts.

Hypothesis: Karen Finley had a performance show in the 1990s.
Answer: yes