Premise: Or even longer!

Hypothesis: It was longer.
Answer: yes

Premise: Although value-enhancement to the membership is clearly a legitimate role for the AICPA, as a professional association it also has a responsibility to aggressively address a range of professional risk management issues.

Hypothesis: Professional risk management issues must also be addressed.
Answer: yes

Premise: because it was published as a final rule before the effective date of those provisions.

Hypothesis: The effective date of the provisions was after it was published as a final rule.
Answer: yes

Premise: The soon to be ex-husband of a makeup woman for Oprah Winfrey also says he couldn't compete with the trips and gifts the generous talk show host lavished on his wife, according to the Globe . Any time I tried to talk to her, she would cut me short and say she was being elevated to a higher level, the husband says.

Hypothesis: Oprah cut her off every time she tried to talk to her.
Answer: yes