Premise: Once the development is taken over, it's very difficult to take them back.

Hypothesis: It is easy to correct a power grab of development.
Answer: no

Premise: one just crawled up in my lap and every time she hears me on the phone she's got to come sit in my lap

Hypothesis: She avoids me when I'm on the phone.
Answer: no

Premise: Under the rider the big stud moved, tossed his head, drawing the young man's attention from the town back to his own immediate concerns.

Hypothesis: The big stud had a 300 pound man on him, but he didn't mind.
Answer: it is not possible to tell

Premise: In an interview with the Post after the Iowa showdown, Bradley again ducked the debate question, declining to lay all the cards out on the table just because Gore suddenly finds it convenient.

Hypothesis: Bradley wouldn't say when he would debate.
Answer: yes