[Q]: Dividends are currently taxed at ordinary income tax rates of as much as 38.6 per cent .

Under current law , dividends are taxed at standard income tax rates up to 38.6 percent .

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[A]: yes

Problem: Wwo sentences:
In a televised interview on Wednesday , ECB President Wim Duisenberg said it was too soon to discuss further interest rate cuts in the 12-nation euro zone .
European Central Bank President Wim Duisenberg said in a televised interview that it was too soon to discuss further interest rate cuts in the euro zone .
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Answer: yes

Here are two sentences:

MySQL AB on Tuesday announced that it had ported its open-source database to the HP-UX operating system on the 64-bit Intel Itanium 2 processor .

The company updated the MySQL 4.0 software with the ability to run on the HP-UX 11i Unix operating system and Linux on servers equipped with Intel 's 64-bit Itanium 2 processor .
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yes

Q: The women then had follow-up examinations after five , 12 and 24 years .

The women had follow-up examinations in 1974-75 , 1980-81 and 1992-93 , but were not asked about stress again .

Please tell me if the sentences above mean the same.
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A: no

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Do these sentences have the same meaning?
Prosecutors contended that Mr. Durst had plotted the murder to assume Mr. Black 's identity .
Prosecutors maintained that Durst murdered Black to try to assume Black 's identity .

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yes

QUES: Handset market share for the second quarter , it said , is higher than the first quarter .

Nokia 's market share for the second quarter is estimated to be higher than the first quarter , 2003 . "

The sentences above mean the same or not?
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yes