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How to pay by check at a store<br>Confirm the store accepts checks for payment. Most businesses feature acceptable payment methods on their front doors and registers. Alternately, ask an employee whether the store accepts checks.
Hypothesis: The Dollar Store will accept checks with a valid ID at time pf purchase.
It's impossible to say
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Your Honor, as you know, we've got the question of whether or not these are admissible for effect. Our position on that we've articulated. I don't know if you want us to argue at greater length or brief, but it's hearsay to the extent it's offered for the truth of the matter asserted as effect.
Hypothesis: The speaker is not talking to someone who is a judge.
No
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A month after Gov. David A. Paterson dropped his proposal for a soda tax, New York City's health commissioner has written an article advocating "hefty" taxes on sodas and sports drinks containing sugar. Such a tax, the article said, could be the biggest boon to public health since tobacco taxes. The commissioner, Dr. Thomas R. Frieden, and Kelly D. Brownell of Yale University, his co-author, argue in the New England Journal of Medicine that a tax of a penny per ounce could reduce consumption by more than 10 percent and raise $1.2 billion a year in New York State alone.
Hypothesis: Tobacco taxes have been bad for public health.

No