Problem: Context: The watchdog International Atomic Energy Agency meets in Vienna on September 19.
The International Atomic Energy Agency holds a meeting in Vienna.
A: yes

Problem: Context: For example, the fields of Western farmers feed the United States and many other parts of the world, and India's irrigation systems have enabled that country to be self-sufficient in food production since 1974. In addition, in many parts of the world dams have helped to remedy life-threatening problems such as poverty from lack of economic development, famine as a result of drought, devastation from floods, and continued disease from lack of potable water supplies.
Dam building prevents life-threatening situations.
A: yes

Problem: Context: The National Assn. of Realtors reported that sales of existing homes had shot up to an annual rate of 7.29 million in August, 7.8% higher than a year earlier.
Sales of existing homes raised 7.8%.
A: yes

Problem: Context: Although I come across Borges and Calvino fairly often, too, I have to admit that Gabriel Garcia Marquez is the only one of the other authors I am at all familiar with, so I am not sure which difference it might make. I would be curious, though, what that difference might look like to people writing about media art and architecture in Spanish, for example.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez is a writer.
A:
yes