Premise: Following publication of the report of the joint Postal Service-Postal Rate Commission task force on ratemaking, the Postal Service petitioned the Commission to adopt rules to implement some of the report's recommendations.

Hypothesis: The Postal Service opted to disregard the recommendations in the report.
Answer: no

Premise: According to the Major League Baseball system, a high fly will descend at an angle whose cotangent is 0.6.

Hypothesis: A high fly has a consistent angle.
Answer: yes

Premise: I n If a friend tells you you'll love Happy Texas , rethink the friendship.

Hypothesis: He's not a good friend if he tells you you'll love Happy Texas.
Answer: yes

Premise: Japan's biggest daily newspaper, Asahi Shimbun, published an interview Sunday with Woody Allen, who, asked to sum up the 20 th century in a single word, replied, Disappointing.

Hypothesis: He went on to say that he "hopes the future is brighter and filled with peace".
Answer: it is not possible to tell