Premise:
"Not a pleasant prospect and not one easily avoided---not even by any reform package or proposal that I've seen."
Hypothesis: The prospect is quite depressing, but with some hard work, we can avoid it.
OPTIONS:
- yes
- it is not possible to tell
- no

it is not possible to tell

Premise:
"1 The term competitors stands for private firms that compete for portions of postal work, possibly as contractors or agents of mailers or mailing organizations."
Hypothesis: Competitors are firms that do o postal work.
OPTIONS:
- yes
- it is not possible to tell
- no

no

Premise:
"As far as I was aware."
Hypothesis: I didn't know
OPTIONS:
- yes
- it is not possible to tell
- no
no