Problem: Scott Stevens, the Idaho meteorologist who claimed that a weather manipulating conspiracy (possibly under the control of Japanese Yakuza mafia) caused Hurricane Katrina, has quit his job at KPVI-TV in Pocatello.

Based on that paragraph can we say the following?
Scott Stevens has connections with the Yakuza.

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Answer: no
Q: The United States Department of Homeland Security has announced the awarding of a $3 million grant to Rutgers University to lead a consortium researching advanced information analysis and computational technologies to protect the United States. Under the agreement, Rutgers will also coordinate a team of four university-based centers at the University of Southern California, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the University of Pittsburgh. Plans call for a total of $10.2 million in funding over three years for Rutgers and these institutions to advance efforts aimed at identifying common patterns from numerous sources of information.
Rutgers University will be awarded a $3 million grant.
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A: yes
Nike Inc. said, Monday, that its first-quarter profit grew 32 percent, as the world's largest sneaker and athletic apparel company posted broad gains in sales and orders.
Can we say the following?
Nike said orders for footwear and apparel for delivery totaled $4.9 billion, including a 12 percent increase in U.S. orders.
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no
Question: Ordonez Reyes accused Jose Jesus Pena, alleged chief of security for the Nicaraguan embassy in Tegucigalpa, of masterminding the January 7th assassination of contra-commander Manuel Antonio Rugama.

Jose Jesus Pena is accused of the assassination of Manuel Antonio Rugama.

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Answer: yes
Determine if the sentence is true based on the text below.
A hydroelectric project is proposed or is under construction.

The commission's order on the proposed hydroelectric development shall describe the Energy Facility Siting Council's recommendations on the need for the power.
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yes
Determine if the sentence is true based on the text below.
Putin is the Prime Minister of Russia.

The beginning of March 2009 marked one year since the election of Dmitry Medvedev as president of Russia. Although he announced from the outset that the fight against corruption would be one of his main priorities, his first year in office has shown that these wordsas in the years of presidents Yeltsin and Putinwere nothing more than propaganda. Medvedev occupies the highest post in a state in which corruption is neither a secondary feature nor an aberration, but rather its essence. From top to bottom, corruption in post-Soviet Russia permeates the bureaucratic apparatus, the security structures and big business. Like a virus in the blood of a diseased organism, it is present in all commercial and government relations. For the "system" it is everythingits foundation and true ideology, which can be summarized with the banal formulas: "Everything is for sale" and "Get rich."
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no