Premise: As illustrated in the following graphic, congressional requests and mandates for GAO services have increased in recent years.

Hypothesis: Congressional requests for GAO services have spiked at the end of this year.


Premise: The range of estimates associated with the different technology scenarios highlights the importance of the technology assumptions.

Hypothesis: The different technology scenarios had dozens of estimates.


Premise: It is still better for a woman to be a branca (light skin, hair without tight curls, thin lips, narrow nose) than a morena (tan skin, wavy hair, thicker lips, broader nose); and better to be a morena than a mulata (darker skin, tightly curled hair).

Hypothesis: A branca has albino skin.


Premise: um we've got a couple of portable lap top PCs at the office that i end up bringing one of them home a lot

Hypothesis: We have 3 laptops at work.


Premise: Around a.d. 141, the three Maccabee brothers overthrew the Seleucids and established their own Hasmonean dynasty and an extensive empire which dominated Palestine as far as the Golan in the north and Gaza in the south.

Hypothesis: The Seleucids were overthrown by the Maccabee brothers in the 2nd centry a.d.


Premise: These risks would be acceptably mitigated if the statistical sampling plan provided for (1) the scope or extent of invoice examination to be commensurate with the risk to the government,14 (2) sampling from the universe of all invoices under $2,500 not subject to complete examination, (3) effective monitoring to ensure that the plan is effectively implemented and the risks to the government remain within tolerable limits, and (4) a continuing relationship with the vendor so that the risk of loss is minimized.

Hypothesis: There are at least four accepted risks with the plan.


Premise: You'll see messages on the walls of the vaults carved by French prisoners during their captivity.

Hypothesis: French prisoners spent the rest of their lives in the vaults.


Premise: uh are you big into lawn and garden work

Hypothesis: And you spend at least two hours a day in your garden.


Premise: Right now, I'm waiting for Avis to announce that huge new investment that Bill Gates has made in its future.

Hypothesis: Bill Gates is going to donate billions to charities and corporations.


Premise: The US declared war on Japan.

Hypothesis: The US started a war against Japan that went on for seven years.


Premise: A National Enquirer story, probably based on a White House leak, quotes Clinton saying that Monica is dangerous and that she hallucinates.

Hypothesis: The National Enquirer story was published in 2012.


Premise: has been uh broadcasting all of the James Bond movies

Hypothesis: the James Bond movies have all been showing this week


Premise: well the problem we're having down here in public schools is is financing for one thing

Hypothesis: Public school funding is down by 24% from last year.


Premise: The New York Times catalogs its articles (and requires that you register) and hosts a discussion.

Hypothesis: The NYT saves articles on the website and brings them out again weekly.


Premise: Linked to the Vatican by a thick-walled passage, it served as a hideout for popes in times of danger, notably Pope Clement VII, who holed up here for a month during the sack of Rome by Habsburg troops in 1527 .

Hypothesis: The passage which connects it to the Vatican was added in the 14th century.


Premise: The chapel, dating to the end of the 15th century, is the oldest in Funchal.

Hypothesis: The chapel was built in the fifteenth century.


Premise: This town is most famous for the annual gypsy pilgrimage that ends here with a festival in May.

Hypothesis: The annual gypsy pilgrimage is famous in this town in July.


Premise: 12612, NHTSA determined that the proposed rule would not have sufficient federalism implications to warrant preparation of a Federalism Assessment.

Hypothesis: NHTSA determined that the proposed rule would be beneficial to poor people


Premise: The healing of the Gifford marriage is now complete, and Frank will never cheat again.

Hypothesis: Completion of the marriage healing took many years.


Premise: Here you can see tiger moths clinging to the leaves of trees, sometimes in vast numbers.

Hypothesis: Billions of tiger moths are on the leaves.


Premise: The real focus here is on the methods [and] motives of the independent counsel, said Carville, accusing Starr of wiring women in hotel bars and plying them with whiskey.

Hypothesis: Starr is facing potential jail time for life.


Premise: EPA initially provided for a 60-day comment period but then granted an additional 30 days for comments from interested parties.

Hypothesis: The comment period was extended by the EPA from 60 days to 90 days.


Premise: The gross cost of the entity is understated in such cases; and to recognize an exchange revenue is to recognize a revenue without some or all of the related costs, and hence to understate the entity's net cost of operations.

Hypothesis: The total cost of the entity was understated by a million dollars.


Premise: In addition, there are an extensive collection of D??gas sculptures as well as works by Rodin.

Hypothesis: Rodin was an architect.


Premise: Early in 1650 Oliver Cromwell stationed his garrison here while attempting to subdue the rebellious Scottish monarchists; he was victorious at the Battle of Dunbar.

Hypothesis: Cromwell tried for seven months to subdue the Scottish monarchists.


Premise: It is a popular place for picnicking, jogging, and resting beneath the trees, and it features an artificial lake for boating, providing a lovely escape from the city's tensions.

Hypothesis: It attracts thousands of people from all walks of life.


Premise: Allowance Allocation

Hypothesis: Granting a stipend.


Premise: Using a pun on Red Herring 's name, Perkins' note appeared to imply that a Bush donation would enhance readers' relationship to the publication.

Hypothesis: The note Perkins' wrote resulted in thousands of dollars in donations for Bush.


Premise: If you want more information about the canals, you can visit the Waterways Visitor Ceter, on Grand Canal Quay .

Hypothesis: The Waterways Visitor Center is open seven days a week.


Premise: In Florence, where his family had to fight tooth and nail to hold on to their supremacy, Lorenzo  il Magnifico  de' Medici (1449 1492) found time to encourage the art of Perugino, Ghirlandaio, Botticelli, the young Leonardo, and tempestuous Michelangelo.

Hypothesis: His family of 12 people had to fight hard.


Premise: The White Rajahs of Borneo

Hypothesis: The White princes of Northern Borneo


Premise: We have adjusted mail processing costs for La Poste and Posti Finland.

Hypothesis: We increased the mail processing costs for Posti Finland.


Premise: (Financial Accounting Standards Board, Statement of Financial Accounting Standard No.

Hypothesis: The board is appointed annually.


Premise: LSC will receive additional information on the ability of grantees to leverage federal dollars using an estimate of cases funded exclusively with federal resources, through this methodology, although it is a less than perfect method of analysis.

Hypothesis: LSC will receive information such as how often you like to go and smoke marijuana


Premise: It's awfully decent of you."

Hypothesis: He was being provided a monthly allowance of $4000.


Premise: The Inspector General is appointed by, reports to and serves under the general supervision of LSC's Board of Directors.

Hypothesis: The process for appointing an Inspector General can take months.


Premise: Upper Egypt was the heartland of the Kingdom at the peak of its power and influence, and the remains of its ancient cities form one of the most important and breathtaking archaeological collections in the world.

Hypothesis: Lower Egypt was the heartland when the kingdom was declining.


Premise: Brought a telephone message to the man Whittington, did he?

Hypothesis: Whittington was expecting that message for days now.


Premise: Shiva is said to have poured the river down on the plains from the Himalayas; this mythical story leads Hindus to believe that Varanasi is the oldest city in the world.

Hypothesis: The Hindu faith holds that Delhi is the second oldest city.


Premise: Register that brand of yours with Don Lorenzo to be on the safe side.

Hypothesis: Don Lorenzo has been in business for over 20 years.


Premise: To the south and east is St. Stephen's Green and Georgian Dublin where the national museums are located.

Hypothesis: To the south and east 500 feet there are national museums.


Premise: oh that's neat they both work in Sherman yeah i work in TI in Dallas here how many calls have you been in on this year

Hypothesis: I've been on over 100 calls so far this year.


Premise: In the mountains of Tochigi Prefecture, about 150 km (93 miles) north of Tokyo by train, Nikko is the final resting place of Ieyasu, founder of the Tokugawa shogunate, who died in 1616.

Hypothesis: You can get to the Tochigi Prefecture by foot in a day, you have to use the train or a car.


Premise: As we have reported, labor-management relations at the Postal Service have been characterized by disagreements that have, among other things, hampered efforts to automate some postal systems that could have resulted in savings and helped the Service reach its performance goals.

Hypothesis: labor-management relations at the Postal Service have been characterized by flying squirrels.


Premise: If the payment of terminal dividends is probable and the amount can be reasonably estimated, the liability should be recognized.

Hypothesis: There is some liability for the payment of terminal dividends, up to $100,000.


Premise: The proceeds are an exchange revenue.

Hypothesis: The earnings are a type of exchange revenue.


Premise: The Gardens are also home to a deer park and a vast expanse of netting marking the aviary of the bird park, within which are over 5,000 birds.

Hypothesis: The Gardens are also a deer and bird park, as well as a home to many endangered species.


Premise: These models are good only for small to moderate movements from the current position.

Hypothesis: The models are only good for small movements, like less than 4 degrees.


Premise: Waterstone's and Hodges Figgis (of Ulysses fame), are across the street from each other in Dawson Street.

Hypothesis: Waterstone's and Hodges Figgis are about fifty yards away from each other.


Premise: Two painted lions mark the entrance.

Hypothesis: The entrance leads to a crypt.


Premise: no not by a long shot well well you know we're not sending back as many i mean people think we're sending back a lot we're not sending back that many yet there's still a lot of them over there a lot of them a lot of airplanes a lot of ground forces

Hypothesis: We do not intend to send back more than five people.


Premise: Mr. Thress' complete model includes the price of First-Class cards, the price of Standard A, the workshare discount, three lags on these variables, permanent income, transitory income, user costs, certain dummy variables, and seasonal coefficients.

Hypothesis: Mr. Thress spent two months working on his model.


Premise: but i just i kind of worry about getting a car that's that new with low mileage on it because you wonder why did the person that owned it want to get rid of it is it a lemon or  or is something wrong with it but i guess that's a risk you have to take

Hypothesis: I worry about buying a used car that is quite new with low mileage


Premise: The little bird is what told housewares manufacturers that teakettles could be a hot commercial item and led to the current proliferation.

Hypothesis: Tea kettle sales have increased 700% this year.


Premise: so i i i was uh i was also i was in school at Boston at the time

Hypothesis: I am from Maryland originally.


Premise: Thus, desired or target replacement rates can vary significantly depending on income level and other factors.

Hypothesis: There are at lease seven factors to be considered while calculating replacement rates.


Premise: Former WTO Director-General Renato Ruggiero once called the WTO a new constitution for a single global economy, and protesters have seized on this somewhat presumptuous self-characterization to portray the WTO as a police state designed by rich nations to facilitate the exploitation of poor ones.

Hypothesis: Renato Ruggiero was the WTO Director-General until 2004.


Premise: that yeah yes i love to cook

Hypothesis: I cook every night.


Premise: user questions

Hypothesis: This site contains clients FAQs.


Premise: This executive guide was prepared under the direction of Lisa G. Jacobson, Director, Defense Audits.

Hypothesis: This executive guide is seventeen pages long.


Premise: i wish i did i i hope you're you're a person who does things better than i i don't have a budget that's one of my goals for this year is to try to get myself in a good oh long range planning budget mode um i'm a single mom and i've been just uh trying to get

Hypothesis: I have three kids who depend on me.


Premise: Also, in response to the increase in demand for boilermakers over the last few years, their ranks have increased from 15,444 active members in 1998 to 17,587* members in 2000 - an annualized growth rate of 6.7 percent.

Hypothesis: The boilermakers have saw an increase in their memberships in two years with a rate of almost seven percent.


Premise: we take we take our dog camping she likes to go out and stay in the woods sleep she sleeps in the tent with us

Hypothesis: We take our husky camping with us.


Premise: The choice of the most appropriate fiscal policy path is a policy decision to be made by the Congress and the President.

Hypothesis: The President helps write fiscal policy each year.


Premise: I was absent from the house the entire afternoon."

Hypothesis: I wasn't home since the morning.


Premise: Sales of foreclosed  associated with pre-1992 direct loans and loan guarantees (586)

Hypothesis: Over 20% of pre-1992 direct loans defaulted.


Premise: by arranging for different family reunions and class reunions all over the country yeah i always thought that would be kind of might be kind of fun you know especially with a class reunion where

Hypothesis: I have a family reunion coming up in August.


Premise: I suppose that keeping up with Alan Sinai's daily predictions of Dow movements does give one some authority on this matter; but, it still seems to me, musings on this subject (like those on solid-state physics, for example) should, if they are going to be published, be assigned to individuals who have had more than a little training in the matter.

Hypothesis: Alan Sinai has worked in finance for the past 20 years.


Premise: Those dueling Greek painters return in a new guise, as Mario Merz, in the Zeuxis role, covers a glass table with an array of fresh vegetables and fruit, changed daily by a New York caterer ( Spiral Table , 1982), while Christo, playing Parrhasios, conceals the familiar Cezannesque shapes--wine bottle, vase, etc.--under a drapery of canvas ( Package on a Table , 1961).

Hypothesis: Mario Merz did landscape paintings occasionally.


Premise: dialogue between Andrew Sullivan and Stephen Chapman.

Hypothesis: The dialogue lasted an hour.


Premise: His body, dressed in the green uniform of the Chasseurs de la Garde, is encased in six coffins, one inside the other Chinese-box fashion.

Hypothesis: His body is encased in over five coffins, in a Chinese box fashion.


Premise: We either go get them or we only get paid for the skinny one Telek got.

Hypothesis: We get paid $100 for each person we have.


Premise: For those who find the t raditional sheep's stomach casing a little off-putting, haggis is now produced in a range of outer casings, including heat-resistant plastic.

Hypothesis: Haggis can be cased in paper, but not wood.


Premise: 'I am a publicist.

Hypothesis: They have been a publicist for many years.


Premise: GAO also expects that it will receive full and timely access to agency officials who have stewardship over the requested records; to agency employees who are responsible for the programs, issues, events, operations, and other factors covered by such records; and contractor personnel supporting such programs, issues, events, and operations.

Hypothesis: Agency officials must respond to GAO requests within five working days.


Premise: Finally, there is the notion that it is fair to provide nondiscriminatory downstream access to the delivery network.

Hypothesis: Half of the participants feel it is fair to provide different access levels to the delivery network.


Premise: Soon, the spa experienced a flood of clients eager for new sensations.

Hypothesis: The spa had a line going around the block.


Premise: He wore a tan skin tunic with sleeves down to his forearms.

Hypothesis: His whole body was covered in a cotton tunic.


Premise: None of these programs had completed more than 26 percent of their engineering drawings for their critical design reviews, and only the F-22 and PAC-3 programs attempted to track the capability of their critical manufacturing processes prior to production.

Hypothesis: The goal is to have 75 percent of the engineering drawings completed for critical review in the next 5 years.


Premise: While no firm estimate of the number of small entities subject to various provisions of the rule is given, the overall effect of the rule for small entities will be beneficial through a shorter cooling-off period and increased eligibility for passive market making.

Hypothesis: Some researchers guess that there are 5 million small entities in total, but they're not sure.


Premise: due to the overabundance of news we have available to us

Hypothesis: We could spend hours reading and watching about the news every day.


Premise: Obviously, outlet guards and rubber padding for low furniture (the Coffee Tables of Death, with which most parents are familiar) are necessary, but the Wall of Death preys on parental fear.

Hypothesis: Outlet guards are needed on electrical outlets.


Premise: "Was he ridin', Sergeant?"Drew asked, hardly knowing why.

Hypothesis: Was he riding on a horse? Drew asked.


Premise: After considering the results of DWP's review and its evaluation of those results, NAO qualified its fiscal year 1995 through fiscal year 2000 opinions on DWP's financial statements because of the amount of fraud and error in the benefit programs.

Hypothesis: Auditors found dozens of unreported spending cases in DWP's financial books.


Premise: What you've got is poor people with acute legal needs not being able to have those needs met, said Ernie Lewis, head of the state public-defender system and a board member of APPALRED.

Hypothesis: Ernie Lewis had spent over 15 years in private practice before joining the board of APPALRED.


Premise: Responding to Bauer's assertion that he had never violated his wedding vows, another reporter cracked, President Clinton said that too.

Hypothesis: Bauer said he had never been unfaithful to his current wife in 20 years.


Premise: The cover story deplores local television news shows' obsession with titillation and ratings.

Hypothesis: The cover story has images from TV show videos.


Premise: Chatterbox  Like I said, it was Mitchell's idea.

Hypothesis: Micheal created Chatterbox, he worked on it for over a year.


Premise: Leaving the Old City pass through Zion Gate, which is pitted with bullet holes from the 1948 war.

Hypothesis: There was a great war there in the 1940s.


Premise: But Russian Prime Minister Victor Chernomyrdin warned Feb. 3 that unless NATO backs off, ultranationalists will threaten the government and tanks will be rolling out in Moscow.

Hypothesis: Ultranationalists started their campaign order to accomplish their goals in January.


Premise: In addition, TIG staff assist our grantees' staff, when asked; one common request is to review resumes of applicants for technology positions to be sure they have the requisite credentials.

Hypothesis: TIG staff assistance has shortened applicant qualification time by 30%.


Premise: No matter how much information gets loaded into it, the Internet is never going to transform the dynamics of human behavior.

Hypothesis: Even if you upload 10 million gigabytes of data onto the internet, it will never be the same as a human.


Premise: yeah now my roomie on the other hand he is a power user

Hypothesis: My roommate stays up all night on his computer.


Premise: The International Olympic Committee passed reforms.

Hypothesis: They formed the committee years ago.


Premise: To the north is the site of Avdat, a second/third-century b.c.

Hypothesis: Avdat lies to the south of the country.


Premise: Perhaps Zarco knew precisely where he was heading, having learned of the existence of Madeira from a Castilian source.

Hypothesis: Zarco pursued Madeira for the next decade.


Premise: The balance of the funds is granted to small entities that provide legal services and assistance to the indigent.

Hypothesis: The funds are sent to entities with less than ten employees.


Premise: A Wall Street Journal front-page feature points to an interesting reason why established large corporations haven't exactly reaped the Internet's  The large corps are used to insular, if not paranoid, decision-making, and Internet operations force them into all sorts of relations with outsiders they can't really control.

Hypothesis: The authors of the Wall Street Journal article gathered information for the article by speaking with representatives of ten different well-known corporations.


Premise: It works like  Mr. Knight's clients, some of whom are old friends and contributors to Mr. Gore, donate to the Democratic Party.

Hypothesis: Some of Mr. Knight's clients donated millions to Gore.


Premise: He was playing with the cell phone when by accident the top ten list of exotic places appeared.

Hypothesis: He was playing with his cell phone in the bathroom.


Premise: As discussed in this document, these efficiencies can reduce steel requirement somewhat and labor needs substantially.

Hypothesis: We can cut the time of production in half using this method.


Premise: Cars must be left at the southern end of the town.

Hypothesis: One is not allowed to leave cars in the north of the town.


Premise: Depending on individual need, Boeing offers a variety of learning experiences including selfpaced, team, classroom, case study, and simulation.

Hypothesis: Simulations are offered by Boeing, Boeing is an aviation company.


Premise: The mosaics of the dome and apse depict Christ Pantocrator with the Evangelists and Jesus blessing Peter and Paul; together with those of Ravenna, they are Italy's finest.

Hypothesis: The mosaics stand over 20 feet tall.


Premise: They'd gotten the right man for the name, all right.

Hypothesis: They had been seeking the right man for days.


Premise: you know and my oldest one is um almost going on nine so you know it's not that many years you know  before she's going to be going so i hope that you know i can continue the college fund because it's

Hypothesis: We hope that college education will be 25% funded by our savings.


Premise: FDA estimates that the total burden hours annually will be 120,578 with 51,336 hours being a one-time burden.

Hypothesis: dThe FDA says there will be 120,578 hours spent on this annually, an increase of 75%.


Premise: Off the Tyrrhenian (west) coast are the islands of Sardinia (south of France's Corsica) and Sicily (off the boot's  toe ), largest of the Mediterranean islands.

Hypothesis: The west coast has the Sardinia islands that have thousands of residents.


Premise: When the famous unifiers Nobunaga, Hideyoshi, and Tokugawa fought to end the 16th-century civil wars, Hideyoshi used Himeji as a base of operations against the recalcitrant warlords of Western Honshu.

Hypothesis: When Hideyoshi was attempting to unify Japan, he used Himeji as a base.


Premise: Title 7 identifies the following steps of the acquisition and payment process involving general  (1) purchase authorization (the ordering function), (2) receipt and acceptance of the items ordered,

Hypothesis: A purchase authorization must be obtained in writing three days before an order is placed in order for Title 7 to cover payments.


Premise: A three-sample test of a masked alcohol screening questionnaire.

Hypothesis: The test uses three blood samples.


Premise: The Government Performance and Results Act of 1993commonly know as GPRA or the Results Actwas enacted to hold federal agencies accountable for achieving program results.

Hypothesis: The GPRA wants to hold the agencies to achieve their goals by the end of the year.


Premise: Those who fled from the town recently made camps in the outer chambers while the rest of the town had gone deeper.

Hypothesis: Seventy people had fled from the town.


Premise: Thomas Street West turns into James's Street, where the Guinness Brewery has been situated since 1759, and nearby in Crane Street is the Guinness Hopstore .

Hypothesis: The Guinness Hopstore has been awarded ten accolades since its inception in 1760.


Premise: The 100-sq-m (1,076-sq-ft) courtyard is enclosed by long colonnades with a pavilion at each corner.

Hypothesis: The enclosed courtyard is 100 square meters and there are four pavilions.


Premise: Seven popes reigned in Avignon from 1309 until 1377, followed by three renegade popes.

Hypothesis: The 1300s had a over five popes reside in Avignon.


Premise: For ongoing work--except for classified work and investigations--GAO will disclose, if asked.

Hypothesis: GAO will discuss dinner if asked.


Premise: As we explained in our June 22 letter, the Counsel failed to supply any evidence from the statutory language, legislative history, or case law to support the assertion that Congress intended the phrase existing law to exclude the Constitution, the highest law of the land.

Hypothesis: The Counsel looked for evidence for weeks, to no avail.


Premise: There are vestiges of the rum distillery, cattle pens, and a large pimento barbecue for roasting allspice berries.

Hypothesis: The rum distillery opened in the 19th century.


Premise: Originally a house, it was designed by Sir William Chambers and completed in 1772; the dome was added in 1858.

Hypothesis: The house was originally built in 1772, and the dome added 86 years later.


Premise: Think of three seasons, cool, hot, and wet, emphasized here because they take on a particular meaning in the Indian context.

Hypothesis: The three seasons relevant to the Indian culture are the cold, warm and wet seasons.


Premise: From 1941 to 1944, all of Poland fell under Nazi occupation, and the country became the focus of Hitler's campaign to exterminate all Jews and non-Aryans.

Hypothesis: Millions of people were killed in Poland.


Premise: Completed in 1995, it shattered the record for cable-stayed bridges, with a span of 856 m (2,808 ft).

Hypothesis: The second largest is just 2000 feet.


Premise: The effective date of the statement as it applies to the consolidated financial statements, except for chapter 8, is deferred pending further deliberations of the Board.

Hypothesis: There is information about consolidated financial statements in chapter 9.


Premise: Eleven percent of the Tarrant County population, or 150,000 residents, live below poverty level.

Hypothesis: Over 10% of the population in Tarrant County are living in poverty.


Premise: The split seemed to come in 1969, when Julian Bond was elected to the Georgia state Legislature and became the darling of the American left's radical chic set.

Hypothesis: Julian Bond became the darling of the African-American left's radical chic set.


Premise: Its construction was almost completed in a mere 44 years in the middle of the 13th century; as a result it was possible to maintain a homogeneous architectural style.

Hypothesis: The construction was rushed by using 10,000 slaves.


Premise: Those nostalgic for the British Empire please Clive Road has been named Tyagraja, Queen Victoria Road has become Rajendra Prasad, and Curzon is Kasturba Gandhi.

Hypothesis: Queen Victoria Road was built in the late 19th century.


Premise: Interview Survey-Household is interviewed every three months over a 15month period.

Hypothesis: During a period lasting a little over 1 year, the family is interviewed every 90 days.


Premise: So you run then? said Adrin.

Hypothesis: Adrin asked if he ran and swam.


Premise: That's four months.

Hypothesis: That's definitely more than three months.


Premise: Consisting of the Executive Directors of the state's 33 nonprofit civil legal services programs, this group has responsibility for ensuring implementation at the program level.

Hypothesis: The Executive Directors have demanded a 20 percent pay raise.


Premise: A few long fairway shots away from Josephine's birthplace at La Pagerie is Martinique's 18-hole public golf course.

Hypothesis: Martinique's public golf course is only a short distance from Josephine's place of birth.


Premise: right yes exactly i mean we had to make the fires and dig latrines and everything

Hypothesis: Camping out requires a lot of hard work.


Premise: Bryant said he read about the issue in a July News &amp

Hypothesis: Bryant said he read about it in the law journal.


Premise: A study in the 1980s, in fact, found that four out of every five tender offers resulted in the target being absorbed by one firm or another.

Hypothesis: In a study of 1990 it has been found out that a vast majority of tender offers resulted in the target being absorbed by one firm or another.


Premise: 1) Snob  We all know recliners are tacky.

Hypothesis: Recliners went out of style fifteen years ago.


Premise: ( Post defectors include Celestine Bohlen, Gwen Ifill, Julia Preston, Michael Specter, Patrick Tyler, Patti Cohen, and David Richards--who defected back.

Hypothesis: There were over half a dozen post defectors.


Premise: In the mid-19th century, a railway line ran into the Palacio Real (Royal Palace) to the foot of the staircase.

Hypothesis: Trains were originally developed to transport royalty nearly 200 years ago.


Premise: timeliness, VBA set a national target for property holding time-the average number of months from date of acquisition to date of sale of properties acquired due to defaults on VA guaranteed loans-of 10 months for fiscal year 2001.

Hypothesis: VBA set a national target for how much to eat every day.


Premise: This is a delightful example of what lawyers call a bootstrap argument: If anyone points out that you've broken the rules, that's a challenge to your integrity, which requires reassuring the public, which means you have no longer broken the rules!

Hypothesis: Clinton was using the bootstrap argument.


Premise: oh about ten ten or eleven calls

Hypothesis: They get almost ten to eleven calls every hour.


Premise: In two or three days the train would pull out again, starting the long trip down into Sonora.

Hypothesis: The trip to Sonora would take 15 days by train.


Premise: yeah yeah i like both but since i'm in an apartment i just i don't think an apartment is big enough for a dog dogs to me dogs need a yard even little dogs they just need a yard

Hypothesis: I shouldn't get a dog until I move next year.


Premise: 5 million worth of tickets Wednesday--a new high for single-day and opening-day grosses--but its $61.

Hypothesis: Wednesday saw 25 million tickets sold.


Premise: The site permitted the interested public to subscribe to a list server that would notify subscribers by email when NPRMs and final rules are published or posted.

Hypothesis: Only about 1% of the population are subscribed to the notifications.


Premise: i'm being up here in the northeast corner i kind of like these northeast teams

Hypothesis: There are six northeast teams that I am a fan of.


Premise: The Gezira Sporting Club has a range of facilities that you can enjoy as a temporary member, but if you don't feel sporty try an evening of music the contemporary Opera House is here sharing a complex with the Modern Art Museum.

Hypothesis: The sporting club costs $10,000 to join.


Premise: The challenge by pro-choice groups was based on narrow arguments, but the media are spinning the court's action as a victory for fetal rights.

Hypothesis: The pro-choice groups relied on just two arguments.


Premise: Carthaginian settlers and miraculously preserved mosaics from 2nd-century a.d.

Hypothesis: The mosaics are well over one thousand years old.


Premise: The peninsula and Sumatra, after centuries of common language, religion, and political, cultural, and social traditions, were divided.

Hypothesis: The peninsula and Sumatra were divided in 1875.


Premise: The Clinger-Cohen Act of 1996 repeated this theme and provided more detailed requirements.

Hypothesis: The Clinger-Cohen Act was written in May of 1996.


Premise: participate directly in the oversight process as an independent congressional entity.

Hypothesis: The oversight process can be participated in directly by the general public.


Premise: it was it was pretty wild

Hypothesis: We rode dirtbikes on glaciers.


Premise: oh yeah yeah yeah it peaked out in the seventies yes yeah i've i've i've got thirty two years in

Hypothesis: I peaked in the 1970's, I've been in for 32 years.


Premise: In 1964 a sister structure, the Forth Road Bridge, was completed to take vehicular traffic across the Firth.

Hypothesis: Construction of the Forth Road Bridge took several months.


Premise: They will also provide a framework for future investigations that target non-responsive patients in need of more extensive services.

Hypothesis: They will also provide a framework for how to have sex


Premise: Steps nearby lead underground to the Lapis Niger, a black marble pavement laid by Julius Caesar over the presumed grave of Romulus, the city's founder.

Hypothesis: Julius Caesar laid several hundred pavements in many countries.


Premise: The post-1960s Democratic Party has come close to making the same mistake.

Hypothesis: The Democratic party has been around for 200 years.


Premise: Unfortunately, the civil legal needs of all low-income Americans are not being adequately met due to severe funding shortages at the federal and state level.

Hypothesis: The problem of low-income Americans and their civil legal needs being neglected dates back to the 1960's.


Premise: Might not doing so just accelerate the departure of this mail from the system?

Hypothesis: The speaker things that doing this thing would allow the meal to leave the sytem faster.


Premise: As a technical matter, it should be noted up front that there is no requirement that the mailer or the competitor really perform any particular piece of work, only that the mail be presented so that the postal service2 does not have to do that piece of work.

Hypothesis: The postal service has been working for over one hundred years.


Premise: It would have required a minimum of effort, and would been useful to readers, for Kutler to have pointed out that [first name unknown] Pomerantz was probably Martin Peretz, now editor in chief of the New Republic --and at the time a left-wing Harvard professor and generous McGovern donor.

Hypothesis: This is the second time that Martin Peretz is an editor in chief of a publication.


Premise: well i well i have um a son that's uh going to be eleven here pretty soon and then a daughter that's thirteen

Hypothesis: My daughter's about 2 years older than my son.


Premise: For example, basic mail has a higher average weight, with pieces ranging from 1 to 11 ounces, while most workshared mail weighs in the neighborhood of 1 ounce.

Hypothesis: Pieces ranging from 1 to 11 ounces in weight and 7 to 11 centimeters in size.


Premise: Since Mother Teresa's death, there have been no movie sightings of Harvey Keitel's penis.

Hypothesis: Harvey Keitel was shown naked in ten movies.


Premise: Take an excursion east to the quiet medieval town of Albenga, with its Romanesque-Gothic houses around the 11th- to 14th-century cathedral and early Christian (fifth-century) baptistery.

Hypothesis: The cathedral is at least six hundred years old.


Premise: oh i love it the mountains i love the mountains

Hypothesis: The mountains are where I was born.


Premise: The rule contains information collection requirements which will allow EPA to determine that detergent additives which are effective in controlling deposits are used and that emission control goals are realized.

Hypothesis: The EPA's emission control goal is to reduce emissions by 10%.


Premise: those uh ten speeds and their unforgiving seat that i sit on

Hypothesis: Those ten speeds and their very thin saddles.


Premise: The next day, I found the Note in the return-ticket envelope.

Hypothesis: The item was found in the envelope within twenty four hours.


Premise: Expanding the number of clients receiving some level of appropriate legal advice and referral via technologically sophisticated intake advice and referral systems.

Hypothesis: Every client that needed legal advice received it within a week of needing it.


Premise: and uh my back

Hypothesis: Also, my back and my stomach.


Premise: And more than anywhere else in the country, Tuscany and neighboring land-locked Umbria present the ideal green Italian landscape, dotted with stalwart hilltop towns, where cypress-tree sentinels watch over groves of twisted olive groves and vineyards blanket the gentle rolling hills.

Hypothesis: Umbria is land-locked by five different countries.


Premise: Facing the direction of both the port city of Jaffa and Jerusalem's New City Jaffa Gate is the traditional entrance for Western visitors to the Old City

Hypothesis: The Jaffa Gate of the New City is the traditional entrance for foreign visitors.


Premise: Northwestern France includes a long seacoast, stretching along the English Channel (La Manche), around Brittany, and down to the mouth of the Loire.

Hypothesis: the seacoast of northwestern France is 500 kilometers long.


Premise: um you just never know when you might come into contact with one

Hypothesis: I ran into one last week outside the grocery store.


Premise: and i bet that's illegal see if uh most company uh CEOs were to do that within their private company they'd be in jail

Hypothesis: That would award a CEO at least five years in jail.


Premise: The military complex continues with the Ecole Militaire and the spacious gardens of the Champ-de-Mars, once the site of military exercises and parades and the series of World's Fairs held between 1867 and 1937.

Hypothesis: The gardens of Champ-de-Mars are over one hundred acres large.


Premise: The highlight of Wild Water Wilderness is Bigfoot Rapids, a whitewater river ride.

Hypothesis: Bigfoot Rapids is a theme park water ride.


Premise: The city had grown very little since the 14th century, yet its population was said to be over 50,000.

Hypothesis: The city is at least 700 years old, dating back to the 14th century.


Premise: He got the rest from private funds and state and local government contracts and grants.

Hypothesis: The funds totaled 100 dollars.


Premise: Howard Kurtz, the media reporter of the Washington Post , does this a bit from time to time.

Hypothesis: The Washington Post has 40 field reporters.


Premise: The penguins still take pride of place the zoo has the world's largest group in captivity and they take a stroll around the zoo in the Penguin Parade every day during the summer (April October).

Hypothesis: The zoo has 2000 penguins.


Premise: yeah we just keep breeding them

Hypothesis: Yes, we have thousands of them by now.


Premise: Daniel Patrick Moynihan of New York, and Rep.

Hypothesis: Daniel Patrick Moynihan is New York's 40th.


Premise: At least we won't have to read The Healing Process on the editorial page the following day.

Hypothesis: The Healing Process is on the health page.


Premise: One week, you're the only one he can turn to when Newt shuts down the government; the next, you're bucking him up for Saddam.

Hypothesis: You will be working with a different government agency every week for the next six months.


Premise: Of the 76 doges portrayed here, one is blackened out, Marino Faliero, beheaded for treason in 1355.

Hypothesis: Marino Faliero sold state secrets to foreign spies in the 1320 war.


Premise: There probably aren't many fifth marriages that last 20 years, but Wynette's did.

Hypothesis: Wynette and her fifth husband were divorced after 22 years.


Premise: The majority will be housed on Pro Bono Net using their LawHelp template.

Hypothesis: The majority will be housed on Pro Bono Net, given to you with a free toy.


Premise: Auditors should report the scope of their testing of compliance with laws and regulations and of internal control over financial reporting, including whether or not the tests they performed provided sufficient evidence to support an opinion on compliance with laws and regulations or internal control over financial reporting and whether the auditors are providing such opinions.

Hypothesis: Auditors are called in every three years for a medium sized company.


Premise: It is measured real GDP per worker --nothing more, nothing less.

Hypothesis: It is measured by the taxed GDP per worker.


Premise: Good heavens! I exclaimed.

Hypothesis: I vocally expressed my surprise at 80 decibels.


Premise: well no i worked for this company before i had my first daughter

Hypothesis: I worked for this company for many years before my daughter was born.


Premise: Based on the cost benefit analysis performed by EPA, the rule will not impose an intergovernmental mandate because there are no enforceable duties on State, local

Hypothesis: The cost benefit analysis was performed in the first quarter by the EPA.


Premise: Under this scenario, he suggests that rates be set to allow nondiscriminatory access to the monopoly delivery service by the firms competing in processing and transportation.

Hypothesis: There were 5,000 attendees who listened to his talk about service monopoly.


Premise: She was unable to chew gum while the braces were on, so now she is going cow wild, so to speak.

Hypothesis: Now that her braces are off, she's chewing a lot of Juicy Fruit.


Premise: On the equally attractive Piazza San Lorenzo, the Palazzo Papale has an impressive 13th-century Gothic loggia, opposite the Cathedral's intriguing mixture of Gothic campanile (bell tower) and Renaissance facade with Romanesque interior.

Hypothesis: The Cathedral took over 100 years to build.


Premise: Beside the mosque in fact, almost overshadowing it is a large plane tree.

Hypothesis: The plane tree is over 400 years old.


Premise: He drops two handkerchiefs, one to signal the swaggering parade that precedes the fight, and the other to release the first bull from the puerta de toriles, the matador's gate of fear, for the opening act or first tercio.

Hypothesis: The bullfight involves the dropping of red handkerchiefs.


Premise: Our hearts are particularly heavy this year as we look back at those we've lost, the Globe writes lovingly.

Hypothesis: We lost over 20 celebrities this year.


Premise: National Saving Changed Over Time- Both Overall and by Component?

Hypothesis: National saving changed over time, decreasing each year.


Premise: Legal Services of New Jersey receives 75 percent of the funds.

Hypothesis: The state gets 3/4 of the money.


Premise: But unfortunately, we have to sit and wait for studies that are underway to finish before we can predict the future with something more statistically powerful than hope.

Hypothesis: The studies will be wrapped up in a month.


Premise: Mr. Lawrence, he's wonderful.

Hypothesis: Mr. Lawrence is married.


Premise: Well, Monica honey, I think it's snack time, the president said with a sexy growl in his voice.

Hypothesis: Well, Monica honey, It's feeding time.


Premise: um-hum well i live in San Antonio and fifty percent of the population is minority

Hypothesis: Half of the population in San Antonio is made up of minorities.


Premise: Initiatives completed under Phase I of the Plan include the

Hypothesis: Under Phase 1 of the task that we're aiming to complete, you would have to finish things such as group management, you'd have to fire some nonessential employees, and...


Premise: At the nearby Patan Industrial Estate, Newari craftsmen can be watched carving windows and door frames for reconstruction projects or boxes for the tourist trade.

Hypothesis: The craftsmen charge a couple hundred dollars for a smooth and new door frame.


Premise: However, little evidence remains of that era some ceramics in the museum, a few fortifications, a network of irrigation ditches.

Hypothesis: The ceramics in the museum are worth millions.


Premise: big deal oh you make eight dollars now in Dallas County huh it's only seven fifty here in Collin

Hypothesis: The average minimum wage had gone up twenty percent over the years.


Premise: This final rule gives State agencies various options for requiring households to report changes in payments during the certification period and allows budgeting the deduction either prospectively or retrospectively.

Hypothesis: Certification periods run from July 1 to June 30.


Premise: Like Congress and the executive branch, an agency's top political and career leadership can encourage a greater accountability for results by providing managers at each level in the organization with the appropriate authority and flexibility to obtain those results.

Hypothesis: Top leadership can encourage greater accountability if they can fire people.


Premise: Don Cazar, he has offered money a hundred dollars in gold to have off the Range that killer pinto stud.

Hypothesis: The pinto stud belongs to Mr. Jones.


Premise: um we've got a couple of portable lap top PCs at the office that i end up bringing one of them home a lot

Hypothesis: I bring a laptop from work home slot.


Premise: better for companies to do these things get involved in it without huge cost to them because obviously no one wants to spend a lot of money just to deal with trash  you know

Hypothesis: No one wants to pay $70 for garbage disposal.


Premise: The knights of the Holy Sepulchre held court in its unique double-decker chapel surrounded by a circular nave.

Hypothesis: The knights of the Holy Sepulchre, responsible for the death of thousands, held court here.


Premise: It is oldest Anglican church in Southeast Asia.

Hypothesis: It is 800 years old.


Premise: okay uh well there are shops around here that have uh items like that uh not too many with the style that he uses though so

Hypothesis: there are five shops and they only sell items like that


Premise: 10For example, the adverse effect minimum wage rate for New York H-2A workers in 1999 is$7.

Hypothesis: In 1999, the minimum wage had an adverse effect on H-21 workers in New York


Premise: Fundamentally, what we're trying to do is provide equal access to justice, for all people - regardless of their economic standing, said LSSM Board Member and volunteer attorney, Fred Hall.

Hypothesis: LSSM stands for Louisiana Society for Social Management.


Premise: It was just outside Varanasi that Buddha's disciples gathered in the sixth century b.c. to hear his sermon at the Deer Park of Sarnath.

Hypothesis: Hundreds of faithful people gathered to hear Buddha's sermon.


Premise: As agreed, we have examined selected employee empowerment and involvement practices at specific components within the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), and the Veteran's Benefits Administration (VBA).

Hypothesis: The FAA has specific components for involvement practices for their executives.


Premise: so you feel good about it what kind of a system does he have does he have a power mower or a riding mower

Hypothesis: What kind of lawnmower does he use to cut the grass?


Premise: After deliberating the issue, the Board has concluded that additional investigation and further deliberation is required and has directed the FASAB staff to continue to research social insurance issues focusing especially  identifying the characteristics of programs which should cause them to be subject to the guidance provided in a Statement on Social Insurance; the appropriate display of information in the financial statements; the identification of additional information, if any, which should be required for social insurance programs; the means for measurement of financial data included in such additional information; and, the desirability of nonfinancial indicators (ratios of data to GDP or covered payroll) to describe the status of programs or the implications of potential changes to or needs of the programs.The Board has instructed the staff to be mindful of all current developments in structuring its research and its recommendations.

Hypothesis: The Board spent weeks deliberating the issue.


Premise: Hikers and mountain climbers won't want to miss the bus excursion (95 minutes from Takayama) to Nori-kura, a 3,026-m (9,928-ft) volcano at the southern end of Japan Alps National Park.

Hypothesis: It takes four hours to hike the volcano.


Premise: But it's Dinsmoor's niece, Estella, who becomes the focus of Finn's fantasy life--and art.

Hypothesis: Finn created a sculpture bearing the image of Estella.


Premise: So suppose advertisers direct one-fifth of their resources onto the Internet.

Hypothesis: Think about if advertisers focused 20% of their resources on the Internet.


Premise: and then the other thing is when i get out of college at twenty eight with my BS you know it's like by the time

Hypothesis: I have a job lined up after my bachelor's of science degree at the age of 28.


Premise: On the following page is a summary of the stewardship land by category of major use, broken down within each category by principal holding agency, at September 30, 199Z.

Hypothesis: The page is broken down into 10 categories of major use.


Premise: no no i usually just buy a pattern book i have several pattern books and i just go with those

Hypothesis: I have several pattern books, i bought one last week


Premise: yeah we we really haven't didn't get enough rain the other day to uh do much good for uh things growing just a lot of weeds right now  and they'll come up whether we get nice weather or not

Hypothesis: The things growing are plants.


Premise: and that night it got down to seventeen below and started snowing

Hypothesis: The snow continued till the morning.


Premise: The New Yorker that Newhouse bought in 1985 was profitable.

Hypothesis: Newhouse was a 35 year old man at the time.


Premise: Las Vegas has a rich boxing history, having hosted enough championship matches to qualify as a capital of the sport.

Hypothesis: Las Vegas has been the center of boxing since 1932.


Premise: Take 2 is the starting point, and we hope to establish an endowment.

Hypothesis: You start at Take 2 and finish at Take 3.


Premise: The Kodak-Fuji case was, as innumerable press accounts have pointed out, the most important case to come before the WTO in its two years of existence.

Hypothesis: The Kodak-Fuji case was handed to the WTO in April.


Premise: I go home feeling satisfied with my job.

Hypothesis: When I wake up in the morning, I can't wait to get to work.


Premise: Here, INS published a notice of proposed rulemaking on January 3, 1997, and received comments for 30 days, and therefore the good cause exception was not properly invoked.

Hypothesis: INS published a notice of proposed rulemaking and received comments for 30 days then again 6 years on.


Premise: The percentage that comes from mining revenue is somewhat less than that.

Hypothesis: The larger percentage comes from manufacturing revenue.


Premise: well i i personally don't like to go to Italian restaurants because  i'm Italian and

Hypothesis: I like going to Indian restaurants because I'm Italian.


Premise: The girl is a naive, but her mixture of optimism and spooky prescience gives her perceptions weight, and Hiditch has a subterranean existence that's constantly at odds with his  He might well be a psychopath who has preyed on--and dispatched--other young women.

Hypothesis: Hiditch might be a predator who has killed dozens.


Premise: but uh the closest one to Raleigh is in uh Chapel Hill which is about twenty five miles away and believe it or not you can't pick it up

Hypothesis: You'd have to go from Raleigh to Chapel Hill and it's nearly twenty five miles.


Premise: The AEO2001 was published in December 2000 (Energy Information Administration, 2000).

Hypothesis: The AEO2001 was published in the last week of the year 2000.


Premise: Normally you'll find no one at all on the delightful volcanic sand beach at Anse C??ron.

Hypothesis: You can usually stroll for an hour without seeing anyone on the beach.


Premise: This entitles you to a roundtrip train ticket from Shinjuku to Gora, connecting with the funicular railway up into the mountains to a cable car.

Hypothesis: There's a shuttle bus waiting for you at the end of the railway up the mountains.


Premise: The nature of the transfer determines whether the transaction is treated as an expenditure transfer or a non-expenditure transfer.

Hypothesis: Half of the transactions are expenditure transfers while the other half are non-expenditures.


Premise: Jamaica and Its People

Hypothesis: Jamaica and Bahamas and their people.


Premise: and he got a a demo and it's been a real good car and it's it's like new and it only had had very very low mileage on it

Hypothesis: The mileage on the demo car he got was less than two hundred.


Premise: i bought mine a year ago so i'm not buying a car any time soon

Hypothesis: I bought my Ford Focus a year ago.


Premise: There are over 20 nightclubs to choose from, some of them offering Greek, Oriental, or Jamaican themes.

Hypothesis: There are three nightclubs that offer American themes.


Premise: If you want to go farther out to sea without getting your feet wet, Coral World also has a state-of-the-art yellow submarine.

Hypothesis: The yellow submarine can dive to depths of 1000 meters.


Premise: To defray costs, worshippers must make a generous donation to receive a piece of the old shrine.

Hypothesis: The old shrine is given away to worshippers in small pieces of about an inch.


Premise: Earned me a good ten with the cane when I read it instead of dealing faithfully with Caesar's campaigns in Gaul.

Hypothesis: When I read it, I was hit ten times with a cane.


Premise: Both have their trade-offs.

Hypothesis: After analyzing both of them for two hours, I saw they both had their compromises.


Premise: But the best cellars open to the public are those in the chateau at Clos de Vougeot, owned by the Cis?ter?cian monks until the Revolution and now the property of the Chevaliers du Tastevin (fraternity of wine tasters).

Hypothesis: The cellars at Clos de Vougeot are open to the public once a week.


Premise: Some 30 km (18. 5 miles) outside Kyoto, set deep in a forested nature preserve, is the Miho Museum, designed by internationally acclaimed architect I.M. Pei.

Hypothesis: I.M. Pei designed the building with the aid of 6 accomplices.


Premise: EPA has certified that the final rule will not have a significant impact on a substantial number of small entities because, using the size standard of fewer than 750 employees, only four firms would be considered small entities.

Hypothesis: There are more than two thousand large entities.


Premise: Daniel's second wife is his Homicide co-star Isabella Hofman.

Hypothesis: Daniel married Isabella Hofman in 1989.


Premise: Przyrobacki and la Rousse agreed that this time the assistant should definitely be a brunette.

Hypothesis: The two professors were in agreement that the new assistant should not have red hair.


Premise: Twin rows of majestic royal palm trees line the road.

Hypothesis: The palm trees lining the road stand 40ft tall.


Premise: and it was just so realistic the way you know you have to just keep reminding yourself that he's an actor

Hypothesis: He won five awards for his role.


Premise: Napoleon went home to claim  victory' but he had to leave the bulk of his army behind.

Hypothesis: Napolean went home to win but he left his 40,000 men behind.


Premise: He didn't even stop fighting when I broke his arm and Vrenna pinned him to the tree.

Hypothesis: Only after I broke both of his legs did he stop putting up a fight.


Premise: The little fellow asked nothing for himself, only that Santa send his mother $100.

Hypothesis: The little fellow asked for $50 for his Uncle Gary.


Premise: This was one of the most densely populated parts of the ancient world, with many famous cities to its name Troy, city of the Iliad and the Odyssey, and Smyrna, the birthplace of Homer; Sardis, home of the wealthy King Croesus; Ephesus, where St. Paul preached the gospels; and Halicarnassus, birthplace of the historian Herodotus.

Hypothesis: Troy, Smyrna, and Sardis were just a few of the famous ancient cities in this part of the world.


Premise: We are replacing the older test site with two dynamic database-driven Web sites ...

Hypothesis: It will take 3 hours to replace the older test sites.


Premise: The adjacent George C. Page Museum of La Brea Discoveries (5801 Wilshire Boulevard) provides fascinating insight into Ice Age life in southern Caleornia.

Hypothesis: The George Page Museum's main attraction relates to the Ice Age life in S. Cali.


Premise: yep yeah well you think about the waste even i mean you know cost wise and and you know like you saving saving trees and stuff like that i mean it's just amazing you know the difference

Hypothesis: it saves more than 10,000 trees every year


Premise: The proposals include abstinence education, school vouchers for poor kids, faith-based drug-rehabilitation programs, and a $500 tax credit for anyone who does 10 hours of volunteer work for the poor during the year.

Hypothesis: The school will hvae abstinence education next year.


Premise: Morris' commission alone amounts to more than all the money Democrats have had to give back to suspicious contributors.

Hypothesis: Democrats had to refund $2million.


Premise: Henceforth, as Tucker sees it, Monet searched for a more private and less jingoistic tie to the French landscape and discovered it in the multiple layers of his own water garden.

Hypothesis: Monet searched for many years before he realized the French landscape he sought above all others was in his own back yard.


Premise: Flashes of blue tore through the room- my own little thunderstorm.

Hypothesis: There was lightning.


Premise: Click here to read the first chapter.)

Hypothesis: Click here for the second chapter.)


Premise: Some tickets to The Phantom Menace will, indeed, be sold in advance--and no doubt be snapped up by scalpers.

Hypothesis: Perhaps 15% of all tickets will end up being resold.


Premise: and those things just keep ticking i mean they just it can rack up a a hundred fifty K on them and they're still beating on them

Hypothesis: You can put 150 thousand miles on one and they just keep going.


Premise: Migration takes place from September through November and from March through May.

Hypothesis: Migration takes place during six months of the year.


Premise: yeah um actually it turned out in our case um i know somebody who when they tried to defrost their car cracked their windshield um though occasionally it can be dethawed in our case we didn't um we didn't have the problem because my we keep my wife's car in the garage so her car didn't get iced over you know it wasn't um um it was a little bit cold in her car in the morning but it wasn't iced over so i just left my car out there for a couple of days and um within two or three days it was it was actually warm enough that everything melted um it was it was actually one of the most beautiful sights i've ever seen because everything looks you know if you can imagine just seeing everything coated in a nice clean sheet of ice and and and it looks really nice the whole whole place but um it got you know after the initial storm it got worse as things started to melt because um as things melted branches shifted and started to fall again so we're still cleaning up we actually left the last people got power i guess yesterday and we left the state of emergency last night or something at like midnight so it's it's it's not fun

Hypothesis: Incorrectly defrosting your car can cause thousands of dollars in damage.


Premise: they're the ones that'll come home and tell you you know you shouldn't smoke it's bad for you shouldn't drink it's bad for you

Hypothesis: They will tell you that you shouldn't eat meat.


Premise: Be careful with the heady Corsican wines; the most enjoyable ones are the rose.

Hypothesis: Of the Corsican wines, the best ones to try are the rosés.


Premise: "Shiloh!"Drew wadded the towel in his fist and pitched it across the room.

Hypothesis: Drew threw a wadded green towel across the room.


Premise: Press Policy GAO does not initiate press conferences, but senior GAO officials may participate in press conferences held by Members of Congress, if requested.

Hypothesis: Press Policy GAO has not held a press conference in seventeen years.


Premise: Outside town, on the main Valencia highway, the Monasterio de Santa Verenica (Saint Veronica's Monastery) attracts about 15,000 pilgrims and a good many hawkers during the annual May celebration of the Santa Faz (Holy Face).

Hypothesis: Monasterio de Santa Verenica was established in the ninth century.


Premise: All of the many pieces in the house are authentic, including a huge array of kitchen utensils, crockery, cutlery, furniture, carpets, and curtains.

Hypothesis: All 50 parts of the house are authentic.


Premise: the sentencing yeah i agree i agree with you right i do agree with you i i figure that it's been a couple of years now since i've served now so i'm i've been looking lately for mine  it's about time for me to get called up down there again

Hypothesis: He had not been on a jury for over three years.


Premise: Of course, said Tuppence.

Hypothesis: "Maybe" said Tuppence.


Premise: The primary benefit of combining these two projects is that the ACI hookup can be completed during the outage for the SCR hookup, since the installation effort necessary for the SCR will far outweigh the ACI system.

Hypothesis: ACI hookups typically take two months.


Premise: The Globe stretches the reconciliation theme to new heights with a story suggesting that the fates are trying to bring John F. Kennedy Jr. back to his ex Daryl Hannah.

Hypothesis: John F Kennedy dated Daryl Hannah for two years.


Premise: The beer garden, to the northeast of the downtown area, is a lusty place to sample the town's frontier spirit.

Hypothesis: The bear garden is the most freauented attraction.


Premise: A recent study found that the students' median law school debt is more than $84,000 - an amount that does not include the additional undergraduate debt burden that many students bear.

Hypothesis: Law school debt is typically over $80,000.


Premise: The method selected by management to record the deviations should be the most efficient and effective one under the circumstances.

Hypothesis: The method selected by management to record the deviations should be the cheapest one under the circumstances.


Premise: With all these things going for them, including a friendly, easygoing population conversant in several languages, it's not surprising that the Balearics continue to reel in short- and long-term visitors by the millions.

Hypothesis: Most of the locals speak more than 5 languages.


Premise: Delegating authorities to front-line employees involves the transfer of authorities from managers to those employees who are closer to citizens and provide services and information as part of their day-to-day activities.

Hypothesis: Eight authorities are delegated to front-line employees.


Premise: The rule has been determined to be economically significant under Executive Order

Hypothesis: The rule was found to be very significant economically, bringing in $2million.


Premise: MAST requires 20 minutes to administer.

Hypothesis: The MAST survey on personality takes at least 15 minutes to give.


Premise: More a part of Europe than ever before, Spain joined the European Community (now European Union) in 1986, giving further boost to a booming economy.

Hypothesis: The European Unions was formed in 1976


Premise: yeah because Ohio State used to be just a perennial powerhouse

Hypothesis: Ohio State never failed to end a season placed within the top three for two decades.


Premise: Ramadan Bairam is a month long celebration when Moslems fast during the hours of daylight.

Hypothesis: Once evening comes around, Moslems are allowed to break their fast.


Premise: In the valley, at least the main street of principal villages is paved and accessible by taxi and bus, though the slower pace of walking or cycling is the most pleasant way to enter this world where time seems to have stopped.

Hypothesis: In the valley walking or cycling is the most pleasant way to see all of the old temples.


Premise: A large 1960s greenhouse sits beside it and, though lacking the elegance of its neighbor, still boasts an impressive collection.

Hypothesis: Though simple the greenhouse holds dozens of beautiful flowers.


Premise: Scientific Peer Review of the Regulatory Modeling System for Aerosols and Deposition (REMSAD).

Hypothesis: A Peer Review of the REMSAD in a scientific area has been published yesterday.


Premise: He went to his saddle bags and took out a bundle of gray cloth.

Hypothesis: He got three yards of fabric out of the bag.


Premise: Further information.

Hypothesis: You can get more information on our website.


Premise: His classic has thickened gracelessly over the years, but as the forthcoming eighth edition once again shows, it has remained true to the adaptable temperament it was born with.

Hypothesis: He plans to make a total of twelve editions for the classic.


Premise: right we've just been watching the national news

Hypothesis: We watched a recording of the news.


Premise: for thousands of years

Hypothesis: It has been tens of centuries.


Premise: well the other thing i can think of is uh what is still going on in Iraq

Hypothesis: the events in Iraq have been going on for over 100 years


Premise: i had uh Mazda RX seven before that and that was the worse car i've ever driven in my life

Hypothesis: The Mazda RX7 sucks, I owned one for about 3 years and it was the worst car I've ever driven.


Premise: POST-1991 LOAN GUARANTEES -Loan guarantees committed after September 30, 1991.

Hypothesis: Loans committed from Sept. 1991 through October 1999.


Premise: How far the boy had come.

Hypothesis: It took years for the boy to get to this point.


Premise: Simple wills cost $75 apiece.

Hypothesis: Simple wills cost over $60 dollars a piece.


Premise: In 1266, they financed the mercenary army of Charles d'Anjou to defeat the imperial forces and take the Sicilian throne.

Hypothesis: They hired 1,000 soldiers to take the throne.


Premise: It's a pleasant one-hour drive from Paris and there are regular train departures from the Gare de Montparnasse.

Hypothesis: It takes only one hour to complete the drive.


Premise: A free walking tour departs every Saturday at 10:00 a.m. from the Plaza Hotel and points out the town's historic sights, most notably the tombs of prominent rabbis.

Hypothesis: The walking tour takes about three hours to take in all of the historical sites.


Premise: Between two streams ribeiras (riverbeds) that carry excess water down from the mountains to the sea is Rua Dr. Fernao Ornelas, a street lined with old shops that leads to Funchal's certral market.

Hypothesis: Rua Dr. Fernao Ornelas used to be a dirt street before the new upgrades.


Premise: Recently, a significant amount of attention has been focused on the structure of stock options and the related accounting treatment.

Hypothesis: People just started to pay attention to the structure of stock options a month ago.


Premise: However, facilities are responding to the NOX SIP Call at this time and it is uncertain exactly how many facilities will ultimately be equipped with SCR in 2004 when the NOX SIP Call deadline arrives.

Hypothesis: We anticipate that 30 facilities in total will be equipped with SCR, but that is subject to change.


Premise: Your grinch sounds like Scrooge with a mood disorder.

Hypothesis: Scrooge with bipolar disorder sounds like Santa Claus.


Premise: Small-scale agriculture dominates the island's land?scape, employing about a fifth of the people.

Hypothesis: 20% of the population works in agriculture.


Premise: The island proved to be the last bastion of the samurai ideal, when disenfranchised warriors launched the doomed Satsuma Rebellion in their desperation to forestall the relentless march of progress.

Hypothesis: The samurai lived in the island for over 100 years.


Premise: i drive a Honda Prelude and

Hypothesis: I drive a red Honda Prelude, I bought it 2 years ago


Premise: Your zeal will be the undoing of us, Albert.

Hypothesis: Albert had nearly exposed their position twice.


Premise: The conservative British journalist, known for his mammoth histories, writes an old-fashioned Great Man chronicle of the United States.

Hypothesis: The journalist had been writing for 15 years.


Premise: His endurance is chalked up to his training as an architect and his embrace of bright colors.

Hypothesis: He went to school for eight years for architecture.


Premise: Slowly he learned to manage his mobility problem - he worked out a monthly rate with the moving company.

Hypothesis: He made a deal for a great rate of 50.00 a day.


Premise: Cliff-top pool and access to swimming and snorkeling in Pristine Cove more than make up for no sandy beach.

Hypothesis: The pools is up on the cliff and has a diving board.


Premise: Smith practiced law for a living until 1982.

Hypothesis: Smith was involved in over 100 criminal cases.


Premise: Even assuming, for example, that the Congress and the President adhere to the oftenstated goal of saving the Social Security surpluses, our longterm model shows a world by 2030 in which these three programs alone would require almost threequarters of total federal revenue.

Hypothesis: Our long-term model suggests that more than half of total federal revenue would be consumed by these programs.


Premise: Fourth, there are those who argue that worksharing discounts are a natural outcome of traditional make or buy decisions.

Hypothesis: Worksharing discounts can be up to twelve percent in some cases.


Premise: A good photoshopping session would take his graphic editor at least two whole weeks.

Hypothesis: In order to do a good job a graphic editor would have to spend close to half a month.


Premise: The thundering engine will transport you back to the age of steam.

Hypothesis: The engine had a cost of 10,000 euros.


Premise: For example, we have reported on FAA's implementation of management reforms, including delegating authorities to teams, to improve its rulemaking processes.

Hypothesis: The FAA's reforms were implemented a year ago.


Premise: and it's really nice because that keeps them going too rather than just sitting around and i know um our youth group goes over and we play bingo with them and you know like stuff like that

Hypothesis: after the bingo we sit down and watch a movie


Premise: Internal Revenue Service

Hypothesis: Federal Income Tax Department


Premise: He reached for the arm around his neck and began breaking it free from its stranglehold.

Hypothesis: He punched the person strangling him.


Premise: The Hasmoneans ruled until Pompey's Roman legions arrived in 63 b.c.

Hypothesis: The Romans killed 10,000 people.


Premise: and you know it's got some stuff on it it's got a nice little word processing software on it you know and some budgeting type things and stuff and i don't think she's ever touched it

Hypothesis: it has word processing software, budgeting software, and seven different games on it


Premise: Given these uncertainties, lower unified surpluses and even deficits are possible budget outcomes over the next decade.

Hypothesis: lower unified surpluses will cause 96% of the population to become richer


Premise: The interim final rule does not impose any unfunded mandates upon state, local or tribal governments or the private sector under the Unfunded Mandates Reform Act of 1995.

Hypothesis: The Unfunded Mandates Reform Act of 1995 was renewed in the year 2003.


Premise: Thus, rural (and highway contract) routes serve slightly less than 25 percent of total residential delivery points; this is the same as the percentage of the population living in rural areas.

Hypothesis: Each rural route has 50 stops, on average.


Premise: well  my stepson you know i he went into the Navy or Air Force i just really get my military i married into a military family and i don't know i really address them all as generals so i don't offend anybody

Hypothesis: My stepson became a pilot in the military.


Premise: Republican fund-raising hypocrisy  1) The Washington

Hypothesis: There are approximately 15 hypocrites in the Republican party.


Premise: TO AUDIT OFFICIALS AND OTHERS INTERESTED IN GOVERNMENT AUDITING STANDARDS

Hypothesis: Turn to page 97 to read about government auditing standards.


Premise: After-school prayer clubs skirt church-state separation laws and are popping up in as many as 1 out of every 4 public schools in the country.

Hypothesis: The after school prayer clubs usually last about one hour, after school hours.


Premise: The engineers we have are snatched from Duality just after dying and revived here while their brains still retain their knowledge.

Hypothesis: Duality has over a hundred engineers anyways.


Premise: The Museum of History (open Tuesday Saturday 10am 6pm, Sunday 1 6pm; closed Monday; admission HK$10 adult, HK$5 child) opened its new permanent collection at the end of August 2001.

Hypothesis: The Museum of History is open daily from Tuesday to Sunday but is closed on Monday's.


Premise: digital signature and public-key infrastructure

Hypothesis: The digital signature requires your full and last name typed three times.


Premise: Exhibits include models of ships that have called at the port over its long and glorious history.

Hypothesis: Some of the ships have visited the port more than five times.


Premise: Children will enjoy the little steam train that loops around the bay to Le Crotoy in the summer.

Hypothesis: The steam train has been in operation for over thirty years.


Premise: The day gave them time to practice.

Hypothesis: They had 4 hours to practice.


Premise: So-called commuter aliens are a special category of lawful permanent residents recognized by the INS regulations as resident aliens of the United States who may reside outside of the United States in a contiguous territory and who return to work in the United States regularly.

Hypothesis: Commuter aliens can live in four states in Mexico.


Premise: yeah yeah one thing i like to do is is go to a police auction and get a car because i've heard you can get pretty good deals but you have to be kind of patient because you can't always just go in and get something right away like like like the Dallas Police Department has a car auction every Monday morning from like nine till twelve

Hypothesis: Dallas Police Department holds a weekly car auction lasting three hours.


Premise: On the opposite side of town in the Barrio San Blas is the smaller Castillo de San Fernando, begun during the War of Independence (1808-1814).

Hypothesis: Castillo de San Fernando costs $200 per night.


Premise: Four years later, the Appalachian Research and Defense Fund merged with the Legal Aid Society of Charleston at the start of 2000 to create Appalachian Legal Services.

Hypothesis: The merger with the Appalachian Research and Defense Fund was five years in the making.


Premise: In April 2001, the Director of Congressional Affairs for the Foreign Service Officers Association told us that the Association would support legislation that would allow federal employees to keep for personal use frequent flyer miles earned on official travel.

Hypothesis: The Director of Congressional Affairs for the Foreign Service Officers Association averages 6 plane flights per week.


Premise: ten years

Hypothesis: a decade.


Premise: uh-huh i think they're made out of aluminum

Hypothesis: They're soda cans.


Premise: Built in 1594, the pharmacy's cupboards line two rooms with matching glass and porcelain apothecary jars specially ordered by Carlos IV.

Hypothesis: The pharmacy was built in the late 1500s.


Premise: Dunleavy, John, Hjelm, Elizabeth, Johansson, Henry, and Walther, Thomas.

Hypothesis: More than five people altogether.


Premise: At the very pinnacle of the upper ward is Crown Square, a beautiful collection of buildings housing the treasures of Scotland.

Hypothesis: Crown Square is 7 beautiful buildings.


Premise: you have to pay more you know social security covers so much and then um you have to pay some more and she chose to pay some more

Hypothesis: Social security covers part of it and you pay the other $1000.


Premise: He was faster, fearless, felt no pain.

Hypothesis: He was a 3 time gold medal champion.


Premise: I drew my off-hand dagger.

Hypothesis: I pulled the concealed dagger from my right coat pocket, and wielded it in my left hand.


Premise: Thursday's celebration was the first public even held at the courthouse.

Hypothesis: They celebrated in public on the sidewalks.


Premise: Further, several participants cautioned that the auditor rotation rules currently being developed by the regulators could further reduce audit quality by resulting in a loss of continuity, experience, and technical knowledge on an audit.

Hypothesis: The auditors were to be reassigned every quarter.


Premise: It is estimated that it will average 494 hours per the expected 126 responses from 20 respondents at an annualized capital/startup cost of $1.

Hypothesis: It is estimated that it will average close to 500 hours.


Premise: right like you expect expect from the movies of mental hospitals

Hypothesis: I was expecting a stark white building with wire over the windows.


Premise: More than a million Americans are in jail today--five times as many as in 1970.

Hypothesis: About 200,000 Americans were in jail in 1970.


Premise: yeah yeah just like VCRs too  yeah i thought of that too that if i wait it'll get a lot less expensive and i can do without it for a while

Hypothesis: I thought I would wait until it's less than $20.


Premise: i really don't know what the solution would be everybody  or a lot of people thought when they ended the poll tax you know many years ago that that would bring out you know a lot of voters

Hypothesis: The poll tax was hundreds of dollars per person.


Premise: CREDIT PROGRAM -For the purpose of this Statement, a federal program that makes loans and/or loan guarantees to nonfederal borrowers.

Hypothesis: A type of credit program includes load guarantee arrangements.


Premise: This corresponds to a capacity factor of 68.

Hypothesis: This means that 68 gallons of water can fit in the tank.


Premise: I handed him out half a dollar, and that settled that.

Hypothesis: I gave him 50 cents to settle the dispute.


Premise: Dizengoff Circle's bizarre multi-colour cog-wheel fountain, known as Water and Fire, has the same sort of magnetic appeal for people as London's Piccadilly Circus.

Hypothesis: It changes color and spews fire on the hour.


Premise: When planning a risk assessment, the auditor should first review the agency's acquisition policies and directives to identify the organizations and individuals responsible for approving procurements.

Hypothesis: The auditor should review HR policies and directives.


Premise: With its variety of landscapes and ever-changing light, the Lake District offers never-ending opportunities for outdoor photographers.

Hypothesis: There are many places in the Lake District that are good for indoor photography.


Premise: The Advisory Council has recognized that GAGAS applicable to the performance audit objectives of effectiveness, economy and efficiency, internal control, and compliance are also applicable to prospective analyses, guidance, or summary information.

Hypothesis: The GAGAS have been codified for over a century and are applicable to many areas of the prospectus.


Premise: Behind it is the Yamate Shiryokan, a small museum of materials about the city's 19th-century European population.

Hypothesis: Yamate Shiryokan museum is located within the city limits of Yokohama.


Premise: Branches up at l'Etoile, down the Champs-Elysees, Montparnasse, and the Forum des Halles, as well as La Defense, have huge selections of books, CDs and cassettes, electronics, and sports goods.

Hypothesis: One can buy clothes at branches down the Champs-Elysees.


Premise: The grounds of the cemeteries of Paris are beautifully kept, and the avenues of tombs provide a fascinating walk through history.

Hypothesis: Caretakers groom Parisian cemetery grounds daily.


Premise: well i'll check that out uh-huh

Hypothesis: Well, I will give that a try tomorrow.


Premise: As the application of advancing technology continues, systems will be able to directly transmit receipt and acceptance data from points of purchase to central locations for invoice examination and payment authorization.

Hypothesis: Transmitting data from the cashier to the centers for authorization of payments and examining invoices is an ability that future technology may have.


Premise: Their sea-resistant limestone foundations stand on massive pinewood stilts driven 8 m (26 ft) into the lagoon bed.

Hypothesis: The foundations were created using a combination of wood and limestone.


Premise: The century and a half after 1492 has been called Spain's  Golden Age.

Hypothesis: The period from 1642 to 1800 has been called Spain's Silver Age.


Premise: One reason for this is that Madonna's pregnancy during shooting required her Dior finery to mask her thickening midsection, whereas photos of Evita in the clothes show that her slimness and tiny waist--maintained both by will and by deteriorating health--were a strong focus of her visual appeal.

Hypothesis: Evita weighed 80 pounds.


Premise: Large portions of Argentine-style meats.

Hypothesis: The portions are very large and are enough to feed two men.


Premise: On Meet the Press , ham-fisted moralist Bill Bennett huffed, How many times does this kind of thing have to come up?

Hypothesis: Meet the Press does many interviews and has been on air since 1998.


Premise: The two-year program is fully funded under the Justice Department's Grants to Encourage Arrest Policies and Enforcement of Protection Orders initiative.

Hypothesis: The program was funded with $400,000.


Premise: The organizational positions of the central groups varied.

Hypothesis: Some of these organizations were made up of more than twenty people.


Premise: GAO/OGC-96-9 evaluates comments concerning alternative means of establishing fees for small entities and evaluates these alternatives.

Hypothesis: GAO took a week to evaluate alternative means of establishing fees for small entities.


Premise: Adjacent to the restaurant is a tiny chapel and small botanical garden.

Hypothesis: The garden features seven different kinds of flowers.


Premise: forty five dollars i mean people people get out of college and work for less than that

Hypothesis: I make forty five dollars an hour.


Premise: I felt from the first that there was something wrong about him, and I always suspected that it was he who silenced Mrs. Vandemeyer so appositely.

Hypothesis: From the beginning, I had a hunch there was something off about him, so I kept my eye on him for weeks.


Premise: The nonpersonnel figure includes $82,782,000 for bed space and related alien custody requirements (3,600 beds at $63 per bed).

Hypothesis: More than eighty million dollars are spent on bed spaces alone.


Premise: In 1963 it had 520 employees and an annual budget of $8 million.

Hypothesis: Back in 1963 they had over 500 employees.


Premise: The bay around the mount's granite outcrop has been steadily silting up in recent years, so that it's an island only during very high tides.

Hypothesis: The outcrop is only an island for a few minutes per day.


Premise: This subcommittee is uniquely positioned to consider these broadbased and crosscutting challenges and what needs to be done to address them.

Hypothesis: The subcommittee is issuing its decision tonight.


Premise: They even invited other colleagues and the popularity of the game was so huge they could afford to play it in a championship system.

Hypothesis: THey each invited 10 people they knew.


Premise: Planet Hollywood at long last has filed for bankruptcy , and has apparently negotiated a refinancing deal that will wipe out the value of all its current shareholders and trade 70 percent of the equity in the company for a measly $80 million.

Hypothesis: Planet Hollywood had $40billion in debt.


Premise: Its mortality rate for children under five of 13 per 1,000 places it on a par with major industrial countries.

Hypothesis: 1.3 percent of babies die within five years of their birth.


Premise: He believes the use of free tickets awarded for frequent flyer miles in DOD is spotty at best.

Hypothesis: He pointed to last months' use of free tickets by frequent flyers.


Premise: and so i've got to have total almost total silence i can't really watch television if the pattern is very intricate it sounds like you'd have lots of shading on that particular piece it is not does not sound like an easy one to finish

Hypothesis: When a piece has very little shading, I tend to get it finished in about ten minutes.


Premise: (Watts, a black GOP congressman, delivered the party's reply to the State of the Union.)

Hypothesis: Watts is a black republican.


Premise: Parker, Jonathan A. Spendthrift in America?

Hypothesis: Parker studied twelve hundred spendthrifts in America.


Premise: One was th' Bible Ma brought long when she was married.

Hypothesis: Ma had a New American Standard Bible.


Premise: As Matthew Cooper wrote in the latest Newsweek , there is a standard forgiveness ritual for sinning celebrities.

Hypothesis: Sinning celebrities are usually forgiven within 2 months.


Premise: So far the staunchly anti-Communist government has relied on repression to survive the crisis.

Hypothesis: The crisis is a flood which made thousands of people homeless.


Premise: A vegetarian restaurant serving great pasta, salads, and desserts in a small, modern, arty dining room with views of the Old City walls.

Hypothesis: The restaurant has great pasta dishes that are served out on the patio.


Premise: When the largest piece to be lifted is determined from the construction plan, the necessary crane can be determined.

Hypothesis: The largest piece to be lifted is a 5,000 pound hunk of metal.


Premise: A short bus ride away is Cheung Sha Beach, 3 km (2 miles) long, and popular for its white sand and excellent facilities.

Hypothesis: A short bus ride to Cheung Sha Beach will cost approximately 20 dollars.


Premise: If a written product has been planned, the requesters or co-requesters must advise GAO of their withdrawal before the product is submitted for printing.

Hypothesis: If a written product was planned, the requesters have to advice GAO of the withdrawal 30 days before.


Premise: And about the lost key and the duplicate?

Hypothesis: What about the two keys you found?


Premise: Brute strength, without aid of machinery, carved flat surfaces out of the mountains, and settlers built the terraces still seen today on the steep slopes.

Hypothesis: Brute strength of 100s of men was necessary to carve the mountains.


Premise: yeah i've talked to some people from Attleboro uh Massachusetts

Hypothesis: I've talked to about 20 people from all over Massachusetts this year.


Premise: rarely a day went by when the wind was less than fifteen or twenty miles an hour

Hypothesis: In these parts of Oklahoma, it's very common for winds to reach up to 60 MPH.


Premise: After the election, the first lady responded to a congratulatory note from the National Lawyers' Guild, which had been founded in the 1930s as an adjunct of the American Communist Party.

Hypothesis: The first lady received many congratulatory notes in the first month after the election.


Premise: The labor force projection reflects the OASDI Trustees' 2001 intermediate assumptions, including those for fertility, immigration, and labor force participation.

Hypothesis: The labor force projections have statistical analyses of the AOSDI assumptions.


Premise: It was completed in 1248 by the sainted King Louis IX to house precious relics, such as Christ's crown of thorns.

Hypothesis: It houses important historical relics of the Catholic Church.


Premise: Specialties of the region are truffles, wild mushrooms, foie gras, and walnuts.

Hypothesis: Local restaurants harvest their own mushrooms and truffles daily.


Premise: The graceful open?work spire was added in the 15th century by Johannes H??ltz of Cologne.

Hypothesis: The spire was completed over the course of two years.


Premise: The Synagogue, with its red tabernacle and Chinese tiling, was built in 1568.

Hypothesis: This synagogue dates back to the 16th century.


Premise: 4 million -from the state budget.

Hypothesis: Over 3 million from the state's budget.


Premise: Its language pointedly avoids accusing him of perjury or obstruction of justice.

Hypothesis: Its language says he committed perjury in July.


Premise: and he's got curly hair and so do i so

Hypothesis: He has curly brown hair like me


Premise: The agency has 53 people on staff, including 27 attorneys, some of whom function as administrators and others who are part-time.

Hypothesis: There are 10 full time and 17 part time attorneys on staff.


Premise: At eleven-fifteen every night, a train departs Louisian.

Hypothesis: The train goes to atlanta.


Premise: Time of year is also a factor, the winter months bringing heavier seas.

Hypothesis: January through March are months where the seas are most disturbed.


Premise: Museums and Galleries

Hypothesis: Map to all the Galleries and Museums in the U.S.


Premise: As a result, our estimates are based on the best available methods of benefits transfer.

Hypothesis: Starting in 2012 the estimates were being based on the best available methods.


Premise: The Democratic Party was elected in 1950, and remained in control until 1960, when, faced with increasing social and economic difficulties, it was overthrown by a military coup.

Hypothesis: The Democratic Party stayed in power for a decade.


Premise: oh yeah sure now how many could you serve

Hypothesis: Could you serve 12 people with that?


Premise: and we're still using those things too

Hypothesis: we've been using those things too since 2007


Premise: U.S. women's soccer team advanced to the World Cup finals , beating Brazil 2-0.

Hypothesis: The U.S. women's soccer team played Germany in the World Cup finals.


Premise: The gateway to the Lake District for those traveling from the north, Penrith was often at the center of battles between the English and the Scots for control of this frontier territory.

Hypothesis: Penrith has been destroyed and rebuilt several times.


Premise: Would it be rude if I took a nice bottle of French wine (OK, maybe two)?

Hypothesis: Would you be ok with me grabbing some red wine?


Premise: 58884), and a public hearing was held on June 6, 1995.

Hypothesis: The hearing lasted two hours.


Premise: Upscale bungalows with slate floors, private gardens, and spacious lanais create a relaxing hideaway on the beach.

Hypothesis: The bungalows have slate floors and hammocks on the porch.


Premise: Behind Mt.Rokko is Arima Onsen, one of Japan's oldest hot-spring resorts.

Hypothesis: The Arima Onsen is Japan's second oldest hot spring.


Premise: T&A information must be transmitted to the payroll system for all employees or, under exceptionbased systems, for employees who have changes to their normal work schedules.

Hypothesis: information must be transmitted to the payroll system for all children but not adults


Premise: A constant cycle of building, decay, collapse, and rebuilding plus the occasional catastrophic fire gave the Old Town its characteristic irregular layout and chimney-strewn skyline.

Hypothesis: Old Town has had 20 large fires in the past.


Premise: David Bye, Rivera's counterpart in Larimer County, works with a staff of seven.

Hypothesis: David Bye has a staff of seven attorneys who have worked for him for years.


Premise: Typical configuration is shown in Figure 2-1.

Hypothesis: Figure 2-2 shows atypical configurations.


Premise: To date, the program has identified about 260 different types of failures, such as main landing gear tires wearing out more quickly than planned, fasteners being damaged, and canopy delaminating.

Hypothesis: The program has noted over 200 different types of failures.


Premise: application of case study methods brings together the findings from case studies done at different times.

Hypothesis: Over 200 case studies are analyzed and applied a month.


Premise: and she hasn't had any problems out of it see

Hypothesis: She's had it for over a year, so we'll see how long it lasts.


Premise: know you don't sound like you're from Dallas where do you come do you come from originally Texas or

Hypothesis: Are you originally from the south?


Premise: Twelve o'clock to-morrow.

Hypothesis: Approximately noon tomorrow.


Premise: The city center lies within the walls of a vast fortress started by the Venetians and reinforced by the Turks.

Hypothesis: The Venetians built the fortress in the 14th century.


Premise: Since the author has not been able to figure out how much the postal service charges itself for delivery, this notion, while sounding meritorious and politically correct, will not be mentioned again.

Hypothesis: The postal service charges $1 per pound for delivery.


Premise: Off Lebuh Cannon so called because of the holes made in the road surface here by cannonballs fired during the Great Penang Riot of 1867 and through a laneway is the Khoo Kongsi (clan house house of the family Khoo).

Hypothesis: The Khoo family lived at Khoo Kongsi for seven generations.


Premise: The houses display old farm tools and cooking utensils, and some operate as workshops where you can watch the much-vaunted local craftsmen demonstrating their skills in lacquerwork, carving, weaving, and dyeing.

Hypothesis: The houses show the tools they used in the 1940's.


Premise: He was light skinned and had hair of gold.

Hypothesis: He had blonde hair and light skin.


Premise: We prophesied this, oh, two hundred years ago.

Hypothesis: We predicted this exactly two hundred and four years ago.


Premise: The brick-paved Piazza della Signoria is the center stage of the city of stone.

Hypothesis: Florence's Piazza della Signoria is the heart of the city.


Premise: The Swedes named it after King Gustav III and, in 1785, declared it the free port that it remains today.

Hypothesis: It has been a free port for over 200 years.


Premise: Others (a Saint Jerome and a Virgin) are on display among the chalices and retablos of the Museo Diocesano, adjoining the Cathedral.

Hypothesis: The Museo Dicesano was established in the 11th century.


Premise: However, in accordance with the SAB advice, we use the VSL in the Base Estimate and present age adjusted values in the tables of alternative calculations, Exhibit 12 and 13.

Hypothesis: SAB is the acronym for Stock and Bearings.


Premise: The Cityof Los Angeles operates seven 18-hole and five 9-hole courses; for information on these courses (and all city-sponsored sports) call (818) 246-5613, or visit the L. A. Department of Recreation and Parks website at www.laparks.org.

Hypothesis: There are 12 different golf courses within Los Angeles.


Premise: She was the conduit of the seven swords.

Hypothesis: She was the leader of the clan.


Premise: The agency provides free legal representation in civil cases to about 24,000 low-income people annually.

Hypothesis: More than 20,000 people are provided with pro bono lawyers every year.


Premise: And it takes two weeks to cross from Fena Set to Fena Dim? asked Jon.

Hypothesis: It's a two hundred mile trip from Fena Set to Fena Dim.


Premise: When you had that interview with Whittington, they had time before them.

Hypothesis: They had a few days before them, when you had that interview with Whittington.


Premise: nothing the one girl the boys ran i couldn't keep up with them but the one girl was like carrying a two year old on her back and i was able to keep up with her and follow her until the police police came you know so we would know who they were and her mother the police called her mother to come and pick them up

Hypothesis: The girl was carrying her little sister with her.


Premise: Louder, less expensive, younger, and weirder places come and go around Bastille and Oberkampf.

Hypothesis: Extravagant people go to these places multiple times a week.


Premise: Room 17: Canaletto's hugely popular 18th-century vedute (views) of Venice were aristocratic precursors of modern postcards; in such works as Island of San Giorgio Maggiore, Francesco Guardi achieved both poetry and melancholy.

Hypothesis: Canaletto's most popular vedute was a depiction of the harbor at dawn.


Premise: is that the one set in the fifties or sixties

Hypothesis: Is that set sometime in the middle of the 20th century?


Premise: um-hum um well i am we're fairly new to the area and so we're still shopping for a favorite channel

Hypothesis: We moved to this area just about 3 months ago so we're still shopping for a favorite channel


Premise: Natalia had a tendency to mistake herself for a tour guide.

Hypothesis: Natalia held a clipboard.


Premise: Now then, said Tommy, taking a large bite of bun, "let's get up-to-date.

Hypothesis: Tommy finished the bun over the course of the conversation.


Premise: Slate 's Complete Flytrap Coverage

Hypothesis: Slate is covering Flytrap every day through March.


Premise: so you're saying that the repairs would have cost more than the car was worth

Hypothesis: The repairs would have cost over $100,000.


Premise: The Vacaville program kicked off in March and has proven to be so popular during its first two sessions that it has already expanded from one meeting per month to two.

Hypothesis: The Vacaville program has an approval rating of over 60%