Premise: In addition, NOx and SO2 reductions are also needed to reduce continuing damage from acid rain and nitrogen deposition.

Hypothesis: NOx and SO2 reductions need to be reduced by 40%.
Answer: it is not possible to tell

Premise: To take only the most extreme Outright bribes do not, as far as we can tell, play a big role in determining federal policies--and who doubts that they would if they were legal?

Hypothesis: If bribery were legal, our federal policies would look much different than they are.
Answer: it is not possible to tell

Premise: By the Corps' estimate, the savings created amounted to about $6 million annually and a reduction of 175 full-time equivalent staff years.

Hypothesis: The savings was about $12 billion each year.
Answer: no

Premise: In an odd way, the more similar products become, the more telling the little differences among them end up being.

Hypothesis: Now that products are virtually identical, prices have coalesced across the board.
Answer: it is not possible to tell