Question: This has led scientists to believe that the population escaped before the disaster took place.
The population escaped because they recognized the signs of an impending disaster.
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Answer: it is not possible to tell

Problem: Here is a premise:
Last October there was a congressional hearing at which the General Accounting Office presented unverified Postal Service estimates of the impact of the diversion of First--Class mail---bills and payments---to new technologies.

Here is a hypothesis:
There was a congressional hearing last October.

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- it is not possible to tell
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Answer: yes

Sentence 1: It is the way reporters We threaten, we cajole, we feign sympathy.

Sentence 2: The hardest thing for a reporter to do is to pretend to have something or interest in an issue you disagree with.
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Is this second sentence entailed by the first?

Answer: it is not possible to tell

Question:
He says the company might use the Internet at some point, if the penetration gets up to where it is with the telephone or television.

Does it follow that "He believed that the company would never use the internet and he refused to even speak about it. "?
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- it is not possible to tell
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Answer:
no

Q: If It was unpredictable magic, but apparently bore some vague relationship to what he was wishing for., can we say that "The magic was very precise and worked exactly the way he expected."?
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A: no

Question: According to a program official, the inability to demonstrate system reliability contributed to a production delay of about 1 year.
The system was known to fail regularly, incinerating any workers who happened to be nearby.
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- it is not possible to tell
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Answer:
it is not possible to tell