Premise: You don't have to be a mountaineer to climb the rock

Hypothesis: It is possible to climb the rock without being a mountaineer.
Answer: yes

Premise: (Quayle--that tax-and-spend liberal--would set it at a whopping 19 percent.)

Hypothesis: Quayle would do away with an charge and set at 0%.
Answer: no

Premise: So you're golden.

Hypothesis: You are golden because of this.
Answer: yes

Premise: Time criticizes Seymour Hersh's controversial JFK book, The Dark Side of Camelot . Hersh's juicy stories are recycled from other books, the magazine says, and sources for damaging accusations are dubious or misquoted.

Hypothesis: Hersh wrote a book about Nixon.
Answer: no