Sentence 1: If the latter has drawn on the riches of the seas, Milan and Turin, in close contact with France and Germany just across the Alps, have had the added underpinning of a flourishing agriculture in their Po valley hinterland.

Sentence 2: The Po valley grows a lot of grapes.
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Answer: it is not possible to tell

Sentence 1: The Normans, following the pattern of earlier invaders, became rapidly assimilated.

Sentence 2: The Normans were deeply reluctant to assimilate.
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Answer: no

Sentence 1: As a result, Flowers and the troopers (and Zercher and McGrath) have a much greater incentive to spice up the truth or to invent a story out of whole cloth.

Sentence 2: This caused Zercher and McGrath to stick rigidly to the truth.
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no