Premise:
"well uh we have to cut into the savings uh at this point to uh to buffer that"
Hypothesis: At least we will not have to touch any of our savings.

no

Premise:
"Have you no friends of whom I should disapprove?" John fell back a pace. "
Hypothesis: You do not have any bad guys as friends.

it is not possible to tell

Premise:
"* Chatterbox was himself at the time a Wall Street Journal reporter on the tobacco beat, and could gripe about how The Insider didn't even trouble itself to mis pronounce his own name."
Hypothesis: Chatterbox had a stint as a Wall Street Journal reporter.
yes