Premise: Collins allows the Scots pronunciation, but, I am sorry to report, favors the English.

Hypothesis: The Scots are favored over the English by Collins.


Premise: Only after a common convention for bar codes had been established and in use for several years did retailers turn to such systems to transmit and receive data from suppliers.

Hypothesis: Retailers chose to adopt these systems before a common convention existed for bar codes.


Premise: As this was happening, passenger Daniel Lewin, who was seated in the row just behind Atta and Omari, was stabbed by one of the hijackers-probably Satam al Suqami, who was seated directly behind Lewin.

Hypothesis: Daniel Lewin was seated two rows in front of Atta and Omari.


Premise: As surveys have shown that etymological information is the least often sought after, making the average user wade through the etymology before getting to the definition has always seemed pointless and irritating to me; besides, it is unlikely that the serious, consistent seeker of etymological information is likely to use anything but the OED or a major etymological dictionary.

Hypothesis: Surveys have shown that the definition is the information least sought after.


Premise: American 77 was then 5 miles west-southwest of the Pentagon and began a 330-degree turn.

Hypothesis: American 77 was turning in the direction of the Pentagon.


Premise: In the late 1990s, these extremist groups suffered major defeats by Kurdish forces.

Hypothesis: Kurdish forces suffered devastating losses to these extremist groups.


Premise: The more pieces in a marker, the more effort required to make an efficient marker of a given width.

Hypothesis: Effort needed increases exponentially with the number of pieces in a marker.


Premise: So he says, No, from the school up, are all guerrillas.

Hypothesis: He is saying school children are guerrillas fighters.


Premise: We have already seen how academically related tasks, family celebrations, family outings, and adult-child storybook reading are excellent focal points for adult-child engagement.

Hypothesis: We have already noted that family outings are the best focal points of adult-child engagement.


Premise: Through conversing with others, we try to make puzzling events and behaviors understandable.

Hypothesis: Through talking with others, we try to understand funny events.


Premise: Caring about others.

Hypothesis: Thinking of others


Premise: The nuances of Vietnamese history, which Mr. Henn finds so fascinating, were as useful to the men who fought Ho Chi Minh's military machine as the facts of the Meiji Restoration to anyone who fought the Japanese Empire in WWII.

Hypothesis: Mr. Henn studies the nuances of Vietnamese history.


Premise: Because they're going to set up a committee, he said to me, so that when those big battalions, he said to me, of guerrillas arrive, these people attend, for example, the president is going to talk to the rest so that they all get food together for them.

Hypothesis: They're setting up a committee, so when the large battalions of guerrillas arrive they can all eat together while the President speaks.


Premise: If I wasn't working here.

Hypothesis: If I was working here.


Hypothesis: They're setting up a committee, so when the large battalions of guerrillas arrive food can be prepared so they can all eat together while the President speaks.


Premise: According to the blurb on the dust jacket of this distinctly unpleasant book, Rosalind Miles is head of the Centre for Women's Studies at Coventry Polytechnic, a lecturer, broadcaster, journalist, and author of several other books, including a  highly acclaimed  biography of Ben Jonson.

Hypothesis: Rosalind Miles is an author, though her books look distinctly unpleasant.


Premise: But uh, come mealtime boy this little apartment with central air conditioning running, the smoke hung about four and a half five feet down from the ceiling.

Hypothesis: This apartment was filled with smoke due to the central air conditioning.


Premise: It had resumed its flight to Minnesota and saw the smoke from the crash of United 93, less than two minutes after the plane went down.

Hypothesis: The plane to Minnesota crashed down.


Premise: While his allied Islamist groups were focused on local battles, such as those in Egypt, Algeria, Bosnia, or Chechnya, Bin Ladin concentrated on attacking the far enemy-the United States.

Hypothesis: Bin Ladin concentrated on attacking Egypt.


Premise: As a result, she acquires reasoning skills and can take initiative when faced with future problems.

Hypothesis: Consequently, she enhances her reasoning skills and ability to problem-solve in the moment.


Premise: And, there is always a need for scholarship funds to help make college degrees possible for our students, most of whom come from central Indiana.

Hypothesis: The majority of the students come from Indianapolis.


Premise: Without a nationally regulated and generously subsidized child-care system, formal child care in the United States is in much shorter supply and considerably more costly for parents than it is in other industrialized nations.

Hypothesis: Formal child care in the United States is in much shorter supply and considerably pricier than in all other countries.


Premise: The Vice Chairman joined the conference shortly before 10:00; the Secretary, shortly before 10:30.

Hypothesis: The Secretary joined before the Vice Chairman.


Premise: Secretary Rumsfeld told us he was just gaining situational awareness when he spoke with the Vice President at 10:39.

Hypothesis: Rumsfeld already had situational awareness when he spoke to the Vice President.


Premise: The doctor sewed up her leg.

Hypothesis: The doctor performed surgery on her leg.


Premise: But in appealing to societies full of discontent, Bin Ladin remained credible as other leaders and symbols faded.

Hypothesis: Bin Laden faded quickly as a symbol and leader for societies full of discontent.


Premise: A successful U.S. apparel-maker, for instance, may assemble basic men's khaki pants in average sizes in Mexico, taking advantage of low labor costs as well as Mexico's proximity to the maker's Texas distribution centers; at the same time, this company can choose to manufacture products with more variable demand, like khaki pants with narrow waists and long inseams, in the United States, providing fast turnaround for retailers and lower exposure to inventory risk.

Hypothesis: Khaki pants with wide waists and short inseams have more variable demand.


Premise: According to contemporaneous notes, at 9:55 the Vice President was still on the phone with the President advising that three planes were missing and one had hit the Pentagon.

Hypothesis: The President called the Vice President to tell him the plane hit the Pentagon.


Premise: Yes, Night will devour Day, but Macbeth's significant meaning here  under cover of darkness'in reckless defiance of weird authority'he will have his black agents eliminate the bonded progenitor of Scottish kings, along with his only progeny.

Hypothesis: The Scottish kings will eliminate their progeny.


Premise: My own reading of the passage turns as much on the word pale as on bond , but the word limit set by the essay competition forced me to be rather elliptical.

Hypothesis: In my essay, I focused parenthetically on the passage's use of the words pale and bond.


Premise: Five minutes later, the Command Center forwarded this update to  Command  O.K.

Hypothesis: Command O.K. sent the update to the Command Center.


Premise: The  lowing herd  ( Onomatoplazia ) wound slowly in the first verse of  Elegy in a Country Churchyard,  by Thomas Gray, not Oliver Goldsmith.

Hypothesis: The first verse of Elegy in a Country Churchyard, in which bovids moo mournfully, is not the work of Oliver Goldsmith as is commonly claimed, by the work of Thomas Gray.


Premise: As it began, some of the hijackers-most likely Wail al Shehri and Waleed al Shehri, who were seated in row 2 in first class-stabbed the two unarmed flight attendants who would have been preparing for cabin service.

Hypothesis: The terrorists stabbed two men in first class.


Premise: Kmart became the first major nonfood retailer to employ them as a means of tracking inventory in the early 1980s, several years before Walton made this technology a core building block of his distribution system.

Hypothesis: Walton was the first major retailer to track inventory in the early 1980s using the new distribution system.


Premise: They're actually both teachers.

Hypothesis: The are teachers together.


Premise: After anesthesia was introduced in the U.S. in 1844, the phrase came flguratively to mean to `deal with a bad situation resolutely,' as in Rudyard Kipling's lines  Bite the bullet, old man,/ And don't let them think you're afraid.

Hypothesis: Kipling coined the phrase "bite the bullet"


Premise: Now that manufacturers of power tools and ball bearings talk about their products as  fashion  items, the apparel industry'always subject to the whims of fashion'has much to say to any industry that involves retailing.

Hypothesis: They refer to their fashion items as power tools.


Premise: Indeed, Hannah's tale suggests that young children denied these supports can still profit from them later, if such supports are available and they have the fortitude to capitalize on them.

Hypothesis: Hannah's story suggests that young kids that don't have support can't just get them later.


Premise: Journalist Charles Rappaport once quipped,  I speak ten languages'all of them Yiddish.

Hypothesis: The journalist Charles Rappaport once joked that he masters ten languages, all of them being Yiddish, even though he actually speaks ten languages.


Premise: When I found out that the infant mortality rate in Indiana was 86 percent greater than for mothers in Sweden, I was shocked.

Hypothesis: Sweden has a significantly higher rate of infant mortality than Indiana.


Premise: But the cases suggest that stepping in only in at times of crisis cannot compensate for providing the ongoing togetherness and haven of a family.

Hypothesis: The cases suggest that only getting involved in a crisis can achieve enough.


Premise: About this time the Fasten Seatbelt sign would usually have been turned off and the flight attendants would have begun preparing for cabin service.

Hypothesis: The Fasten Sealtbelt sign would have been turned on around this time as the flight attendants begun preparing for cabin service.


Premise: At 9:39, the NMCC's deputy director for operations, a military officer, opened the call from the Pentagon, which had just been hit.

Hypothesis: The Pentagon was hit while on the call.


Premise: Manufacturers suddenly have much more to do than just make clothing'they are being asked to do work previously done by the retailer, such as picking and packing the order for each store from the retailer's warehouse.

Hypothesis: Retailers are picking and packing orders for their individual stores.


Premise: We brought them back in the afternoon, when I saw that, behind her there came a big group of, they looked like soldiers, but in street clothes.

Hypothesis: We brought them away during the afternoon.


Premise: The value of the coefficient can vary from zero (if demand is exactly the same every week) to numbers much greater than one for wildly fluctuating weekly demand.

Hypothesis: The coefficient can vary from zero to one for wildly fluctuating weekly demand.


Premise: Five years.

Hypothesis: It's been five years.


Premise: Much research confirms that overloading children with input leads to disorganization of behavior.

Hypothesis: A lot of research confirms that overloading kids makes them organized in behavior.


Premise: Daddy, Daddy, Daddy send those girls to get those filthy cigarettes.

Hypothesis: Daddy, get the girls to buy the cigarettes.


Premise: We hope the events of the near future will not.

Hypothesis: The events of the past will not.


Premise: These are dead people that are--

Hypothesis: Dead people are like this.


Premise: All of this is a minor irritation to the user, but Philip Gove wanted to save space at all costs.

Hypothesis: Philip Gove wanted to save time.


Premise: (This, remember, was in my youth, and it was a time when typographical errors were called typographical errors, not typos'at least by kids in junior high.)

Hypothesis: This was in my youth when we called things typos.


Premise: Markets certainly have not disappeared, but these relationships have been transformed.

Hypothesis: Market relationships have gotten better.


Premise: From Fiber to Cloth to Finished Product

Hypothesis: From cloth to fiber to finished product.


Premise: Miyares is a quick to share credit for his success with his business partner and long time friend Clay Chong (they own NUVENCO Group, a San Diego based product and business management firm where Chong is president and Miyares vice president); Chong's wife, Jan, administrative supervisor for the organization; and JoAnn.

Hypothesis: Chong's wife, Jan owns the NUEVENCO group.


Premise: On Flight 93, however, the takeover took place 46 minutes after takeoff and there were only four hijackers.

Hypothesis: With only 4 hijackers, the takeover of flight 93 only took 46 minutes.


Premise: In addition to that, by helping them find jobs, Goodwill reduced the state's Public Support tab by an estimated $4 million.

Hypothesis: By helping them find jobs, Goodwill cost the state $4 million dollars.


Premise: ) Juvenal wrote his satire on Rome in the early years of the second century, during the reign of the Emperor Trajan.

Hypothesis: Juvenal wrote about Emperor Trajan.


Premise: The inaccurate accounts created the impression that the Langley scramble was a logical response to an actual hijacked aircraft.

Hypothesis: The Langley scramble was a logical response to a hijacked aircraft.


Premise: The popularity of casual-wear items like T-shirts and jeans'quintessentially factory-sewn garments'has also shifted sewing from home to the factory.

Hypothesis: The popularity of casual-wear items has moved to the home.


Premise: What is  counterproductive  is the notion that speakers of a language have to recognize semantic  they don't  recognize  it, they create it.

Hypothesis: Speaking a language is counterproductive.


Premise: As technology advances, life imitates art.

Hypothesis: Art imitates life.


Premise: Yeah, but I've done it for so long, I'm used to like lifeguard and like everything like that.

Hypothesis: I love being a lifeguard.


Premise: Bin Ladin's grievance with the United States may have started in reaction to specific U.S. policies but it quickly became far deeper.

Hypothesis: Bin Ladin's hatred of the United States began with U.S. policy.


Premise: We noted earlier that a retailer's decision about how much to stock depends on the demand forecast for the product, the level of product availability it wishes to provide to customers, the frequency with which it will place replenishment orders, and the lead time to acquire replenishment units.

Hypothesis: Retailer decisions about how available to make products influences customer demand.


Premise: Yet our roots go much deeper.

Hypothesis: Yet our roots reach the deepest.


Premise: My dad he, I don't know, he doesn't think I'm stupid, but he doesn't he wants better for me, than what he has.

Hypothesis: My dad would like me to be better off than he is.


Premise: It has the original meaning, a `sprite or hobgoblin that plays tricks, especially at night in people's houses; a poltergeist.

Hypothesis: A sprite is a tricky ghost.


Premise: Except for its origin, in the British Interplanetary Society Journal, space warp has been restricted to fictional use.

Hypothesis: The British Interplanetary Society Journal space warp is restricted to non fictional use.


Premise: Yeah, it did because I know people from Charlotte now that went to like, not to slam Providence because I like a lot of those people, but they like have like so many like stereotypes of people because they don't know anybody.

Hypothesis: I did it because I know people from Charlotte now that went to there.


Premise: Nothing except knowing that you are helping to protect the Earth's precious natural resources.

Hypothesis: Everything, except knowing that you are helping to protect Earth's natural resources.


Premise: Let's assume that the store's demand for the size-8 Levi's jeans last week can be described by the distribution in Figure 6.1.

Hypothesis: Figure 6.1 shows the demand for wrangler jeans in a size 8.


Premise: No it was gas because you washed your legs all over because you did it in shorts.

Hypothesis: Your legs were washed all over due to having done it in short shorts.


Premise: Older preschoolers realize that people's beliefs, not just their desires, aect their behavior.

Hypothesis: Older preschoolers know people's interests affect their behavior.


Premise: Were you to visit a school on an Israeli kibbutz (cooperative agricultural settlement), you would find an explicit emphasis on cooperation and avoidance of pupil comparisons, and a far more positive attitude toward children who seek help than is common in American schools.

Hypothesis: American schools have a more positive attitude towards children who seek help than you will see at an Israeli kibbutz.


Premise: Perhaps the terrorists stabbed the flight attendants to get a cockpit key, to force one of them to open the cockpit door, or to lure the captain or first officer out of the cockpit.

Hypothesis: It could be, that the terrorists stabbed the flight attendants to lure the captain or first officer out of the cockpit so they could stab them too.


Premise: I'll ask you first Mom, and then Dad.

Hypothesis: Dad, first, I'll ask you.


Premise: Because of rapid brain growth and gradual decline in brain plasticity, the first 5 to 8 years of life are regarded as a sensitive phase of development in which appropriate stimulation is necessary for children to reach their full genetic potential.

Hypothesis: Full genetic potential is reached during the first 5 to 8 years.


Premise: The other aircraft referred to by New York Center was United 175.

Hypothesis: New York Center mentioned two aircrafts, including United 175.


Premise: YOU CAN HELP SUPPORT THESE AND OTHER NEEDED SERVICES HERE IN CENTRAL INDIANA.

Hypothesis: You can help support these needed services in Colorado.


Premise: With all the activity, these facilities will be used more than ever!

Hypothesis: With so much activity, this facility will be busy all the time.


Premise: Jarrah was in seat 1B, closest to the cockpit; Nami was in 3C, Ghamdi in 3D, and Haznawi in 6B.

Hypothesis: Nami, in seat 3C, was seated directly next to Ghamdi, in seat 3D.


Premise: I want him to beat my heart and beat my brain.

Hypothesis: I want to beat his heart and his brain


Premise: By the year 2000.

Hypothesis: In the year 2000.


Premise: Goin' cut him if he stan' still, goin' shoot him if he run.

Hypothesis: I will shoot him if he stands still and I'm going to cut him if he runs away.


Premise: Probably Lois, your Aunt Lois.

Hypothesis: It's your Aunt Lois.


Premise: No, he is a hijack.

Hypothesis: It is a hijacking.


Hypothesis: Haznawi was seated closer to the cockpit than Jarrah.


Premise: In high school I was, you know, 3.0's, you knows A's and B's an occasional C. Now here I'm lucky if I get a C on something.

Hypothesis: Now I can easily get A's and B's, while before I was lucky to get a C.


Premise: It took somebody like Slater'an indentured apprentice for over six years at the Arkwright and Strut's plant in Milford, England'to ferry the plans to America.

Hypothesis: The plans were ferried from America to the plant in Milford.


Premise: In Algeria, where in 1991 Islamists seemed almost certain to win power through the ballot box, the military preempted their victory, triggering a brutal civil war that continues today.

Hypothesis: Islamists won power in Algeria in 1991.


Premise: He slipped the knife out of the sheath and was ready, and unembarrassed by hampering bedclothes, for the weather was hot and we hadn't any.

Hypothesis: He slipped the knife out of the sheath to show he was ready.


Premise: Knit fleece goods are commonly joined by a seaming operation called over-edging in the factory (and overlocking sewing in home use).

Hypothesis: The factory seaming operation for knit fleece goods is called overlocking (and called over-edging in home use).


Premise: How to protect your neighborhood against crime and Jennifer Beals, star of `The Bride.

Hypothesis: You need to protect your neighborhood from Jennifer


Premise: As the above citations indicate, the distribution of one-letter words is quite broad, extending from The New York Times to Mother Jones , from the print world to cartoon country and TV land.

Hypothesis: The New York Times and Mother Jones have good examples of the distribution of one-letter-words.


Premise: In this chapter, we will concentrate on the past hundred years, outlining major changes in American retail, apparel, and textiles that occurred before the 1980s.

Hypothesis: Hundreds of year of history is included in this chapter.


Premise: For example, even at age 2, they waited patiently to open a small gift until a guest had departed'proper etiquette in Chinese culture.

Hypothesis: They couldn't wait to open a small gift when they were very small.


Premise: There is nothing ungrammatical or wrong about saying  She's a real Johnny-comelately,  but it grates.

Hypothesis: Technically there's grammatically incorrect in the sentence, "She's a real Johnny-comelately."


Premise: Admittedly, there is no such thing as perfect synonymy, but the meanings of many pairs of words are close enough for this term to be used in the context of a pastime like crosswords.

Hypothesis: Synonymy is imperfect, but close enough for it to be used for entertainment purposes.


Premise: Once demand variation for each SKU was determined for our men's coat manufacturer, its managers faced the question of how to manage the inventory of the items in its rapid replenishment collection while maintaining a smooth flow of products through the sewing room.

Hypothesis: The managers were asked to determine demand variation.


Premise: From his headquarters in Jersey City, he distributed messages calling for the murder of unbelievers.

Hypothesis: He sent out emails calling for the murder of unbelievers.


Premise: You can help us help overburdened new parents.

Hypothesis: You can offer them your support and services.


Premise: But he places most blame on how contemporary children are reared.

Hypothesis: People put the most blame on how contemporary children are reared.


Premise: Chapter 4 ( The Building Blocks of Lean Retailing) describes how the essential elements of lean retailing'bar codes

Hypothesis: The last chapter is about essential elements.


Premise: These changes are related to new technology and foreign competition.

Hypothesis: Foreign competition and newer technology are the root of these changes.


Premise: Even the Scots are likely to give them more credit than that.

Hypothesis: If the Scots give them credit than almost anyone would give them credit.


Premise: I hope you will take this opportunity to make a contribution to support SEND's homeownership work.

Hypothesis: I hope you'll take this donation from SEND.


Premise: Oh, you want a cracker!

Hypothesis: Oh, you want a cracker too!


Premise: One common way of measuring inventory is to calculate the I/S ratio'that is, the ratio of total finished good inventories to total sales.

Hypothesis: The I/S ratio is the ratio of total sales to total good inventories.


Premise: A survey of over 36,000 Indiana youth conducted by the IU Prevention Resource Center found that approximately two-thirds of substance abuse begins with this age group.

Hypothesis: There were 36,500 youths surveyed.


Premise: And in enabling children to practice and perfect narrative skills, adult-child conversation provides crucial preparation for literacy.

Hypothesis: Adult-child conversation provides preparation for proper manner.


Premise: When I first began to study German it took a while to learn that Gift was not something one wanted for Christmas, and that Mist was not cool and dewy, but warm and smelly.

Hypothesis: It was not easy studying German at the beginning.


Premise: FAA Mission and Structure.

Hypothesis: Structure of the FDA.


Premise: If a retail customer pays a premium for a custom pair of jeans, dress shirt, or suit, that customer will expect the item to be delivered to her home within days, not weeks or months.

Hypothesis: Customers can expect to receive the items they pay for in months rather than days.


Premise: Business units adopting both bar codes and EDI are therefore able to reduce the transaction costs for processing information about sales and orders.

Hypothesis: Business units use either bar codes or EDI.


Premise: Many Americans have wondered, Why do 'they' hate us?

Hypothesis: Americans wonder why they hate them.


Premise: When we consider how much the set is on during school holidays and summer vacations, children spend more time watching TV than they do in any other waking activity, including going to school and interacting with family members or peers.

Hypothesis: TV is king when it comes to how children spend their time.


Premise: I do not know how he would rate it, but I must confess that for general use I am inclined to put it just a little ahead of Chambers . But I haven't found it quite as much fun to browse in.

Hypothesis: I'm sure he'd consider Chambers to be better, and I agree.


Premise: They have already transformed channel relations in such industries as food and grocery, home-building products, personal computers, and office products.

Hypothesis: The food and grocery industries are the same.


Premise: But while the effort failed, it shows what Bin Ladin and his associates hoped to do.

Hypothesis: All of Bin Ladin's goals and aspirations were revealed with he and his associates failed in their efforts.


Premise: (I have often wondered why the publishers did not have the nerve to call themselves  F**k and Wagnalls.

Hypothesis: I thought Fuck and Wagnalls was a good name for the publishers.


Premise: Although a seemingly mundane, tactical aspect of business, a firm's inventory strategy reflects its approach to managing risk.

Hypothesis: Inventory strategy is one of the most thrilling aspects of business.


Premise: In British English it is no longer considered a solecism to use the plurals they, their, them, theirs as a generalized pronoun for words like eyeryone, everybody, anyone, anybody , etc.

Hypothesis: It has become acceptable to substitute "they, their, them, theirs" as a generalized pronoun pronoun.


Premise: The New York Center controller and manager were unaware that American 11 had already crashed.

Hypothesis: The controllers soon found out the plane had crashed.


Premise: It's a relatively painless experience and not very cumbersome to deal with, not bad.

Hypothesis: It was pretty good and really simple to deal with.


Premise: Chased him all the way up to the upstairs, I don't think the bird ever even pooped in the house not that we found--

Hypothesis: The bird was always calm and very housebroken.


Premise: Not really, that's all.

Hypothesis: That is really all.


Premise: He said to me, You have to go, he said to me.

Hypothesis: After saying that I can stay, he then told me to leave.


Premise: over the moon `elated'

Hypothesis: Happy.


Premise: This statement was also incorrect.

Hypothesis: The statement was full of lies.


Premise: For them, as for most feminists, political considerations are primary.

Hypothesis: Feminists always consider politics first.


Premise: Sometimes I gave up, as when pointing to my temples (white) brought shampoo rather than the desired bleach.

Hypothesis: I had lots of shampoo but no bleach.


Premise: While it apparently was not heard by the passengers, this announcement, like those on Flight 11 and Flight 77, was intended to deceive them.

Hypothesis: The announcement was supposed to trick the passengers, but they didn't hear it, so they caught on quickly.


Premise: Similarly, feminists discourage titles that identify women's (but not men's) marital status (though many users mistakenly assume Ms . a synonym for Miss ).

Hypothesis: Feminists know exactly what is right and wrong about titles


Premise: Grandpop was a very quiet, somber man he wouldn't say much but uh, Gra ndmom was a little more boisterous.

Hypothesis: Grandpa was a man of few words, but many verbs.


Premise: over the moon `elated'

Hypothesis: Happy over a raise at work.


Premise: Yet once their children are beyond their grasp, they are hardly o the hook!

Hypothesis: Once their children have infiltrated all levels of society, they are ready to begin their plan.


Premise: The Vice President was wondering how the hell could a plane hit the World Trade Center when he saw the second aircraft strike the South Tower.

Hypothesis: The second plane hitting the South Tower answered the Vice President's question.


Premise: metapsychosis One of the finest of traps for the knowledgeable  it has nothing to do with some over-arching, society-wide psychological illness like alcoholism or jogging.

Hypothesis: Over-arching, society-wide psychological illnesses are hard to avoid.


Premise: Because I'm like a lifeguard every summer and this year I had to get a winter job all year.

Hypothesis: I had to get year-round employment.


Premise: Yiddish never apologizes for what it is'the earthy, wise soul of an expressive people learning that life is but a mingled yarn, good and ill together.

Hypothesis: Yiddish stays true to what it is through good times and bad.


Premise: A men's trousers manufacturer in the early 1990s invested in modular production in some of its lines to reduce throughput times.

Hypothesis: Modular production helped to speed up the amount of trousers being produced in the early 1990s.


Premise: Our programs are provided to schools at a price far below our actual cost.

Hypothesis: Are programs are highly subsidized to most schools.


Premise: The publisher sent unrevised bound proofs from which this review was prepared; unfortunately, there was no proof of an index, but the publisher has assured me that there will be one in the published book, a rather essential ingredient of a work with this title.

Hypothesis: Even though the publisher unrevised proofs, they insisted that an index would be published along with it.


Premise: When parents and children spend most of their time apart, the result is a profound dampening of parents' socializing power.

Hypothesis: When parents and kids are together more, the result is parents socialize more.


Premise: When tired, Sophie's teddy bear and leprechaun don't stay up late doing just as they please.

Hypothesis: Sophie's teddy bear and leprechaun play around the room till the wee hours when they are energetic.


Premise: Lenient  --lenient, you know.

Hypothesis: Permissive, tolerant


Premise: In contrast, children who regarded their teachers as unsupportive were more likely to disengage, stop trying, and show declines in achievement.

Hypothesis: Children who liked their teachers performed better in school.


Premise: The doctor sewed up her leg.

Hypothesis: The doctor was able to heal her leg.


Premise: Far more acquired valuable skills but lived in stagnant economies that could not generate satisfying jobs.

Hypothesis: Once the economy turned up everyone who needed a job found one.


Premise: Increased profit came from missing fewer sales by being in stock a higher percentage of the time.

Hypothesis: More sales were made and profits went up.


Premise: skinflint In many parts of early America, necessities such as flint were scarce.

Hypothesis: Flint was a luxury in America.


Premise: I mean literally you could just see it hang, it looked like a fire scene on the news it was awful.

Hypothesis: The scene made it onto the news.


Premise: No, they didn't, no, just that one.

Hypothesis: There was only one person the whole time.


Premise: Such a plot had not been carried out anywhere in the world in more than 30 years, and never in the United States.

Hypothesis: It was the first time such a plot happened in the United States.


Premise: When they learned a second plane had struck the World Trade Center, nearly everyone in the White House told us, they immediately knew it was not an accident.

Hypothesis: Everyone knew that the planes crashing were intentional.


Premise: The employers in the stable shops with employees whom they were anxious to keep suffered as much as we did because the union was weak.

Hypothesis: Workers who had good union representation benefited from improved conditions since their employers couldn't easily get rid of them.


Premise: They need individual support to attend conferences, present papers, publish their works, and keep in touch with others in their fields across the country.

Hypothesis: They need a lot of funding to do their work effectively.


Premise: Customers rarely inform the sales clerk in a typical retail store if a desired product is out of stock; they either buy a different product or leave the store without making a purchase.

Hypothesis: Customers will usually just buy something else, or leave the store entirely, if the item they want is not in stock.


Premise: Islamist revival movements gained followers across the Muslim world, but failed to secure political power except in Iran and Sudan.

Hypothesis: The Muslim world allowed the Islam revival movements to continue.


Premise: But the conflict did not begin on 9/11.

Hypothesis: The conflict started long before 9/11.


Premise: This does not necessarily translate into a desire for clerical rule and the abolition of a secular state.

Hypothesis: Secular state can perfectly coexist with clerical rule as shown in the past.


Premise: Just before 8:14, it had climbed to 26,000 feet, not quite its initial assigned cruising altitude of 29,000 feet.

Hypothesis: Its initial assigned cruising altitude was 29,000 feet.


Premise: Although no single retailer pioneered or adopted all the innovations that compose lean retailing, we focus here on those in three segments'mass merchants, national chains, and departments stores'that played important roles in initiating the larger transformation.

Hypothesis: Lean retailing was developed by multiple retailers in aggregate.


Premise: Do you know what a teja is?

Hypothesis: They all knew what a teja was.


Premise: In the late 1990s, these extremist groups suffered major defeats by Kurdish forces.

Hypothesis: Kurdish forces were able to win over the extremist groups.


Premise: And welfare reform is an uncertain solution with an unknown starting date.

Hypothesis: A welfare reform is the most complicated possible solution.


Premise: There have been so many changes to the IUPUI campus and your department that you and your fellow graduates might not recognize them.

Hypothesis: You might still recognize the IUPUI campus.


Premise: Simply doing business with lean retailers in no way confers competitive success.

Hypothesis: Doing business with lean retailers is a step in the right direction towards success.


Premise: Even for basic products, demand varies from day to day and week to week.

Hypothesis: Demand is always varying from day to day on products.


Premise: The automated sewing systems that create the closely spaced regular stitch patterns used as decorative top stitching on men's dress shirts, collars, cuffs, and pockets are examples of expensive machines operated for a single shift.

Hypothesis: Automated sewing machines are cheaper than manually operated machines.


Premise: Bin Ladin declined, apparently judging that his circumstances in Afghanistan remained more favorable than the Iraqi alternative.

Hypothesis: Judging that his circumstances in Afghanistan remained more favorable than the Iraqi alternative, Bin Laden decided to stay in Adghanistan.


Premise: Um, not really anything unusual.

Hypothesis: It's happened before.


Premise: He views either of them as the instrument, the bond, of his not being able to pass on the crown to a successor of his choosing (or of his subsequent begetting).

Hypothesis: Actually passing on the crown is quite simple and easy.


Premise: Information systems at apparel factories were primitive.

Hypothesis: Information systems are very basic at apparel factories.


Premise: Therefore, I stand uncorrected.

Hypothesis: And so, I am still right.


Premise: On the other hand, I do not have the hard evidence at hand and assume that the RHD does.

Hypothesis: RHD has the hard evidence at hand


Premise: (Tries to insert a piece in the wrong place)

Hypothesis: They figured out where the piece goes.


Premise: Do you think they've become more ex, do you think they've accepted more what you've decided to do or that's going to take a while?

Hypothesis: Do you think they agree with and are very supportive of your decision?


Premise: History and Political Context Few fundamentalist movements in the Islamic world gained lasting political power.

Hypothesis: Political power in the Islamic world is maintained by the fundamentalist movements.


Premise: Sixteen seconds after that transmission, ATC instructed the aircraft's pilots to climb to 35,000 feet.

Hypothesis: The aircraft's pilots immediately began their assent upwards.


Premise: No finer education is available-anywhere.

Hypothesis: We provide the best education around.


Premise: The parent always in a hurry'who says, when the child desires involvement,  There isn't time,  or who fails to insist that the child join in household tasks in keeping with his or her capacity'severely limits the child's learning.

Hypothesis: The parent who insists that their child do some household chores encourages the child's learning.


Premise: They would rather me stay in Nursing because they know that's where my heart is but, um, you know, they're behind me in whatever I decide to do.

Hypothesis: I know that they will fully support me no matter what I choose to do next, even though they would love for me to stay in nursing since they know it's what I truly love.


Premise: Third, no middle ground exists in what Qutb conceived as a struggle between God and Satan.

Hypothesis: What Qutb conceived as a fight between God and Satan is very black and white.


Premise: Both pilots had been killed (reported by one flight attendant).

Hypothesis: All of the pilots have been killed.


Premise: Parents trying to make their way through these opposing theories, and their attendant advice about child-rearing and educational practice, are likely to find themselves in a dim forest, without a discernible trail blazed before them.

Hypothesis: Parents attempting to use these theories travel an unbeaten path.


Premise: The bankruptcy of secular, autocratic nationalism was evident across the Muslim world by the late 1970s.

Hypothesis: Muslims disliked autocratic nationalism by the late 1970s.


Premise: The forecasting challenges retailers confront have been amplified in recent years by product proliferation in almost every category.

Hypothesis: Forecasting has been easier recently due to the updated process we have today.


Premise: The city is going to explode with Herron's artistic contributions!

Hypothesis: Herron is donating some works of art to the city.


Premise: It ill behooves me, excoriated recently as enamored of the  cheap larf,  to criticize Safire's arch puns, which permeate' enliven  is probably the word his editor would use'his articles, but I find some kinds of humor unsuitable for reading, however they might evoke a chuckle when uttered viva voce .  A handful of examples, from the book at

Hypothesis: I find that Safire tries too hard to make his readers laugh.


Premise: Caring about others.

Hypothesis: Others need care


Premise: Recently we read that how children turn out is mostly written in their genes; there's little we as parents can do about it.

Hypothesis: How children turn out is primarily determined by how they're parented.


Premise: I'm going to do Education now.

Hypothesis: I am looking forward to doing Education now.


Premise: And the scope of The Salvation Army's services extends far beyond this community.

Hypothesis: The Salvation Army's scope is global.


Premise: Second, the total amount of retail space in the United States has expanded dramatically, even while consumer expenditures on apparel items have declined as a share of total expenditures.

Hypothesis: The rate of spending on apparel has declined, but the gross money spent on apparel has increased.


Premise: In his delightful article,  Onomatoplazia  [XV, 1], Chester Delaney writes,   analysand ...

Hypothesis: Chester Delaney was a good writer


Premise: But, um, It's not like I'll never come back and visit or anything like that.

Hypothesis: I will likely come back and visit.


Premise: The other women gasped and asked,  And what is the famous Lipschitz curse?

Hypothesis: The other women gasped for air, amazed.


Premise: Some of Bin Ladin's companies ran short of funds.

Hypothesis: Bin Ladin had trouble operating all of his businesses at once.


Premise: Denouncing waywardness among the faithful, some clerics have appealed for a return to observance of the literal teachings of the Qur'an and Hadith.

Hypothesis: The clerics have made their best efforts to stress the importance of taking the passages in the books with a grain of salt.


Premise: By the late 1980s, a growing number of retailers had started changing the way they did business.

Hypothesis: Retailers began selling different stuff in the late 1980s.


Premise: But he would indeed be feigning naivete to claim that generic man is now understood to include woman.

Hypothesis: He is feigning to be naive about the topic


Premise: The coat manufacturer will have to hold relatively more finished goods inventory of the low volume SKUs than of the high volume SKUs.

Hypothesis: The coat manufacturer is required to hold the same goods inventories for different items.


Premise: Like neither, like I'm the first one in my family to go to college on my dad's side.

Hypothesis: I'm one of a long line of college graduates from my dad's side.


Premise: So, I have my sister's kid here and I'm going to kill him underneath this vehicle shortly.

Hypothesis: I am going to run over my sister's kid.


Premise: What were your least favorite parts of the story?

Hypothesis: Which parts of the story did you love the most?


Premise: No normal speaker of English encountering Man wants but little here below wonders'except facetiously'why women have been ignored.

Hypothesis: The average English speaker wonders about that.


Premise: They want to regain their parents' warmth and approval as quickly as possible.

Hypothesis: They really like their parents, so they want to be approved.


Premise: ) for the ironic title of his dystopic novel.

Hypothesis: For the title to his book about a utopian society is it is non-ironic.


Premise: A number of poignant Yiddish words defy genuine translation into

Hypothesis: A certain amount of moving Yiddish words are very hard to translate as they carry multiple meanings.


Premise: Perhaps one day we shall find an Etruscan library, buried deep in the Italian countryside; but for the present, we have to make do with what we have, which is precious little.

Hypothesis: We have to complain and ask for more, as what we have now is not enough.


Premise: As explained in previous chapters, variation in weekly demand can be characterized by a standardized measure, the coefficient of variation, or Cv.

Hypothesis: There is more than one coefficient that can characterize variation in weekly demand.


Premise: Please send your most generous gift today.

Hypothesis: PLease send the gift you value most today.


Premise: The bull start making his noises and all that other stuff.

Hypothesis: The bull made a lot of noise.


Premise: I, I do think they read to them when they are little.

Hypothesis: They are certain they were read stories when they were little.


Premise: The thin plastic sheet effectively cuts off the flow of room air through the fabric.

Hypothesis: Room air can destroy the fabric if it's not controlled.


Premise: Bin Ladin was prepared to pick up where he had left off in Sudan.

Hypothesis: Bin Laden was going to leave Sudan alone.


Premise: It's kind of a, which is the cause and which is the effect, question.

Hypothesis: We can work out which is the cause and which is the effect.


Premise: We were putting siding on her house and beat on the door nobody comes to the door it's summertime everybody sleeping until 10:00.

Hypothesis: Everybody is awake before ten o'clock.


Premise: You were called and requested additional information prior to making a pledge or gift to the law school.

Hypothesis: You were confused about how to make a pledge or give a gift and needed an explanation about this.


Premise: No, they didn't, no, just that one.

Hypothesis: Only one person was involved.


Premise: Spreading the cloth many plies thick without stressing the cloth is, again, one of the quality steps of getting ready to sew.

Hypothesis: You should stress the cloth prior to sewing for a quality product.


Premise: The passengers continued their assault and at 10:02:23, a hijacker said, Pull it down!

Hypothesis: The assault by the passengers did not begin until 10:10:00.


Premise: This chapter also describes a new approach to production and sourcing strategies, one that balances traditional and short-cycle production lines.

Hypothesis: The new approach to production is one that casts tradition aside entirely.


Premise: THE GIRL SCOUT PROMISE On my honor, I will try To serve god and my country, To help people at all times, And to live by the Girl Scout Law.

Hypothesis: Girl Scouts promise to serve their own respective gods.


Premise: Over the last ten years, VNS has delivered over $1 million worth of free services to the citizens of Central Indiana.

Hypothesis: VNS has provided services that citizens of Central Indiana might not otherwise have received.


Premise: This time, it was MUSCAT RAMBLE.

Hypothesis: They changed the name to Muscat Ramble.


Premise: Bin Ladin flew on a leased aircraft from Khartoum to Jalalabad, with a refueling stopover in the United Arab Emirates.

Hypothesis: Bin Ladin owned the plane that was used for his flight.


Premise: These newest Scholars bring the number to ten--ten who, like Christa McAuliffe, will touch the future.

Hypothesis: They will change the world for the better.


Premise: .. Defication of humankind as supreme.

Hypothesis: Human beings are blameless.


Premise: All the lowest dives, the phoniest ginmills ...

Hypothesis: The realist of ginmills.


Premise: Onomatopoeia has a long, honorable, and pleasurable history'from Aristophanes' brek-ke-kex ko-ax ko-ax to Kermit's ribbet, ribbet 'from majestic lines in ancient epic poetry to simple, homey words like plop, splash , and murmur .  In every language and time, the sound and look of some words have given clues to their  their sound has suggested their sense.

Hypothesis: A philosophical meaning can be taken from onomatopoeia,


Premise: The whole point is speed and clarity of communications.

Hypothesis: Clarity is vital in communications.


Premise: Three of the flights had actually taken off within 10 to 15 minutes of their planned departure times.

Hypothesis: There of the flights had taken off, but the others remained.


Premise: Unfortunately, the mistake is compounded and perpetuated by dragging in expressions like man in the street, the average working man , and others, and, as a result, the entire argument degenerates.

Hypothesis: Expressions like man in the street help further the argument in question.


Premise: This startling news prompted the mission crew commander at NEADS to take immediate control of the airspace to clear a flight path for the Langley Okay, we're going to turn it . . . crank it up.

Hypothesis: They cleared a flight path to Langley, and the plane turned.


Premise: As more American parents with busy, stressed lives retreat from their children, peers take over.

Hypothesis: Less parents are getting out of their kids' lives.


Premise: By 8:33, it had reached its assigned cruising altitude of 31,000 feet.

Hypothesis: By 8:33, it had followed its correct flight path.


Premise: More picturesque are the references to erections.

Hypothesis: The references to erections had a lot of pictures.


Premise: He could stand as a symbol of resistance-above all, resistance to the West and to America.

Hypothesis: He would have been a good symbol for them to follow.


Premise: It is a game that is like fishing in a barrel, but more stimulating mentally.

Hypothesis: There are better games than fishing.


Premise: However, our sample also reveals that some manufacturers began to adjust to the new demands of lean  By 1992, the median dropped to ten hours, reflecting their desire to reduce the amount of work-in-process at this beginning stage of apparel assembly.

Hypothesis: Our sample shows that some manufacturers fail to adjust to the new demands.


Premise: Ironically, she notes, economically less well o parents find it easier to establish a viable dividing line between workplace and home.

Hypothesis: She notes that economically less well off parents have the toughest time separating their jobs from their families.


Premise: I'd be happy to answer any questions you may have about this program--please call me at 317/274-5625.

Hypothesis: If you have questions, someone else will need to help you.


Premise: Children can become competent readers and writers without being trained, pushed, or goaded into literacy learning in early childhood.

Hypothesis: Children can learn to enjoy reading and writing and not just see them as useful skills.


Premise: The Command Center and FAA headquarters watched it too.

Hypothesis: FAA headquarters was in communication with the Command Center.


Premise: So you guys get along really well now?

Hypothesis: You guys have repaired your relationship and are very close now?


Premise: Any of these

Hypothesis: All of these.


Premise: Bin Ladin's grievance with the United States may have started in reaction to specific U.S. policies but it quickly became far deeper.

Hypothesis: Bin Ladin had grievances with the United States starting with U.S. foreign policy.


Premise: Qutb argued that humans can choose only between Islam and jahiliyya.

Hypothesis: Qutb thought Islam was a better choice than jahiliyya, and humans could only choose between the two.


Premise: Somebody who obviously that English was not their first language, but they wrote a book?

Hypothesis: Someone who is obviously foreign would have English as their first language.


Premise: Parents seem to be in the best position to read to their child often and to tailor their dialogues to the child's interests and abilities.

Hypothesis: Parents need to read to their children that the children find interesting.


Premise: farthingale Neither a singing, nocturnal coin, nor a storm of flatulence, but the light wooden frame that puffed out milady's 16th-century skirt.

Hypothesis: Milady used the frame to increase the splendor of her appearance.


Premise: In June 1984 I moved from Ottawa to Victoria, on Vancouver Island, where I now enjoy genteel retirement.

Hypothesis: I moved to Victoria in 1983


Premise: Children who failed to grasp the kidnapper's motive and the reason for the arrest judged him to be  good,  not  bad.

Hypothesis: Kids who don't understand why kidnappers are doing what they are doing thought they were bad.


Premise: So please become an Audubon Society Member now!

Hypothesis: Here's how to become an Audobon Society member.


Premise: Lenient  --lenient, you know.

Hypothesis: Strict -- severe.


Premise: Although few retailers have embraced the complete set of forecasting and inventory models described in this chapter, lean retailers are moving in that direction.

Hypothesis: Lean retailers are the least able to embrace forecasting and inventory models.


Premise: In any event, it is hard to discern, from the arch style affected in an attempt to make dull facts interesting, just what is the origin of sow one's wild oats .  In many entries, Claiborne labors the obvious, offering little or nothing we do not already know, could easily imagine, or for which the author offers no explanation.

Hypothesis: Claiborne offers a lot of information that is new and was unknown to the reader.


Premise: I was asleep, but Luigi was awake, and he thought he detected a vague form nearing the bed.

Hypothesis: Luigi thought that he saw a ghost and was going crazy.


Premise: This, in turn, suggests that firms with more of the key technologies in place will have total inventories that are less volatile.

Hypothesis: There is more volatility in firms with more technologies in place.


Premise: If any of us at the dental school can be of assistance, please write or call.

Hypothesis: The dental school may or may not be able to help.


Premise: In this competition for legitimacy, secular regimes had no alternative to offer.

Hypothesis: Secular regimes resorted to chaos, as they had no other choice.


Premise: OK, let me ask the question here.

Hypothesis: Allow me to ask this question, be quiet everyone.


Premise: When the vacuum pump comes on, five pounds of force per square foot push down on the fabric.

Hypothesis: WHen the pump starts up, the force is on the thread.


Premise: After all, what can one do with a language like English except come up with things like A SLUT NIXES SEX IN TULSA or I MAIM MAIMI?

Hypothesis: There is so much that can be done with the English language.


Premise: Please show your support and make a gift.

Hypothesis: You can show your support by not giving a gift.


Premise: Contributions qualify for tax deductions under state and Federal guidelines.

Hypothesis: State and Federal guidelines impose a limit on contributions.


Premise: It's just not me.

Hypothesis: I'm all alone on this.


Premise: Another commercial aircraft in the vicinity then radioed in with reports over the radio of a commuter plane hitting the World Trade Center.

Hypothesis: Reports came in from one airplane and one agency nearby with news of a plane hitting the World Trade Center.


Premise: Children of highly involved fathers score better on measures of intelligence, school achievement, mature social behavior, and fiexible beliefs about gender roles'in short, on all the positive outcomes associated with maternal employment.

Hypothesis: Working mothers create a positive cognitive and social effect on their children.


Premise: And that's like I can totally see my dad in my personality.

Hypothesis: There are many parents who were just like their children.


Premise: You couldn't leave it if you didn't rinse your glass out after you got drinking after you got done drinking it would stick to the glass to the point where you'd have to scrape it.

Hypothesis: I rinsed the glass when I got done with it.


Premise: In addition, its capacity to use information on the state of demand allows it to set inventory levels on a SKU basis that balances the benefits of having a product available against the costs of holding work-in-process and finished goods inventories.

Hypothesis: Balancing  the benefits of product availability and the cost of holding in progress as well as finished goods can be computed through a mathematical model.


Premise: 6 million grant from Lilly Endowment Inc.

Hypothesis: We won a 6 millioin grant from Lilly Endowment Inc.


Premise: J. C. Penney built an internal data communications network well in advance of its use with suppliers.

Hypothesis: By the time J.C. Penney decided to build an internal data communications network, it was already deep entrenched in its ways with suppliers.


Premise: These definitions are given in the most recent (1983) edition of Chambers 20th Century Dictionary , which was edited and published in Edinburgh.

Hypothesis: The Chambers 20th Century Dictionary contains multiple definitions.


Premise: The centering operation is important because the diameter of a knit tube varies slightly along its length, and it is necessary to reference cutting from the midline of the tube.

Hypothesis: The centering operation is crucial to make sure the fabric is cut straight.


Premise: Mitch, in contrast, scores low on fearful distress and high on positive mood.

Hypothesis: Mitch scores high on fearful distress and low on positive mood.


Premise: It is many years since my contemporaries and I got a kick out of seeing even the bowdlerized f**k in print (in Partridge's Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English , 1935), and fug in Mailer's The Naked and the Dead allowed prudery to mock itself.

Hypothesis: There are many times when the Dictionary of Unconventional English was referred to.


Premise: Look, the sun is sleepy, going to bed,  said 2 1/2-year-old David while watching the sun disappear below the horizon at the end of a day at the beach.

Hypothesis: The boy was confused and said the sun woke up when it disappeared behind the horizon.


Premise: I know about that!

Hypothesis: I was the one that told you about that.


Premise: This was the last normal contact the FAA had with the flight.

Hypothesis: The FAA lost normal contact with the flight early on.


Premise: No finer education is available-anywhere.

Hypothesis: There is great education available in many places, some places better than us.


Premise: The resulting profit accrues, even after the higher finished goods carrying cost associated with larger inventory has been considered.

Hypothesis: The resulting profit is eaten into by the costs of the higher finished goods.


Premise: We had a barn, a dairy farm that was maybe quarter of a mile from the house and uh, Mama say, We need milk.

Hypothesis: We lived very far from our dairy farm.


Premise: You can't do it with your hands; you need a peeler.

Hypothesis: You can do it with your hands, no peeler is required.


Premise: Private gifts will play a vital role in reaching these goals.

Hypothesis: These objectives can be met without financial contributions from individuals.


Premise: As for stalemate , which is related to checkmate , would it not have been important to indicate that the - mate part has nothing to do with English, having been borrowed from checkmate which is a loanword from Persian (and has nothing to do with check , either).

Hypothesis: Many words have their origins from unexpected countries.


Premise: And, as one would expect, the higher the variation in week-to-week demand, the more inventory a manufacturer must hold to meet a retailer's high service expectations.

Hypothesis: Less inventory has to be held when there's high weekly demand variation.


Premise: Uh she had a big garage that was separate from the house and almost bigger than the house it was almost like it was a barn.

Hypothesis: The garage she had was really far from the place of residence.


Premise: It is a fund-raising appeal.

Hypothesis: It's a gift of funds.


Premise: Well, as a teacher, do you see reading as something that is still important in families today?

Hypothesis: How do you feel as the number of parents who read to their children is decreasing?


Premise: Gradually, spike one's guns came to mean `frustrate the enemy by blocking his intended plan of action.

Hypothesis: spiking one's guns was a common term used.


Premise: But in appealing to societies full of discontent, Bin Ladin remained credible as other leaders and symbols faded.

Hypothesis: Bin Laden gave societies full of discontent hope for the future.


Premise: The parent or teacher intervenes only when the child is truly stuck, granting the child as much opportunity to master his or her own behavior as possible.

Hypothesis: The child is able to solve the issue after the parent steps in.


Premise: Although small specialty shops were limited to a few items, such as those found in a traditional dressmaker or milliner's shop, department stores offered fixed prices and the convenience of returning purchases for exchange or cash.

Hypothesis: Department stores often specialized in one or two products.


Premise: Man as a False Generic,  M and S question whether the definitions  2.

Hypothesis: The essay questioned the existence of man.


Premise: He moved on to open his own retail stores, restaurants, sales organizations, a manufacturing company and a public relations firm.

Hypothesis: He used to work at an associate in a retail store and was inspired to open his own.


Premise: Eventually ramrod became personified, taking on the added meaning of `one marked by rigidity, stiffness, and severity,' even though the original ramrods, which were straight, were rather flexible.

Hypothesis: The original ramrod was wavy but not very easy to bend.


Premise: Many Little Sisters are preparing to go back to school this fall full of hope and with a positive outlook.

Hypothesis: The Little Sisters have a positive outlook for the first time.


Premise: It does not take a too-wicked mind to read into such terms meanings of a lewd nature.

Hypothesis: Only a twisted mind would read crude meanings into such terms.


Premise: (Admittedly, no party completely purges its rhetoric of terms like phallologocentric, however.)

Hypothesis: Often rhetoric of terms like phallogocentric is purged.


Premise: Oh, it can lead one to a rhymed

Hypothesis: It makes you speak formally.


Premise: He could go and make more his self if he would get off his butt and do it.

Hypothesis: He could make more money working for himself.


Premise: After anesthesia was introduced in the U.S. in 1844, the phrase came flguratively to mean to `deal with a bad situation resolutely,' as in Rudyard Kipling's lines  Bite the bullet, old man,/ And don't let them think you're afraid.

Hypothesis: Anaesthesia was available during the American Revolution.


Premise: The optimal policy is one for which marginal increases or decreases in chosen inventory levels will not confer additional profits.

Hypothesis: The best policy should be sensitive to changes in select inventory levels.


Premise: Oh well that was Rosemary, her mother was gone.

Hypothesis: Rosemary's mother was gone and she returned.


Premise: Analysand , like several - nd words in English, is derived from the gerundive, and so means `(a person) to be analyzed.

Hypothesis: It is common for English words to come from gerundive


Premise: Perhaps the fascination with man's past grew out of the obsession with ruins evinced by Romanticism; certainly, modern archaeology seems to have followed close behind, for the excavation of the supposed site of Troy took place only about 100 years ago.

Hypothesis: People became fascinated with history because they romanticized it,


Premise: In a time when higher education, and graduate programs in particular, are suffering from a lack of funding, we are positioning ourselves to remain in a leadership position with outstanding faculty, students, and private support from alumni and friends of the program.

Hypothesis: The faculty and students work together to gain private support.


Premise: It had at most one or two minutes to react to the unidentified plane approaching Washington, and the fighters were in the wrong place to be able to help.

Hypothesis: The fighters could have helped if in position.


Premise: Lacking a target, they were vectored toward military-controlled airspace off the Long Island coast.

Hypothesis: The Long Island coast was the place of an airspace military experiment.


Premise: When parents and children spend most of their time apart, the result is a profound dampening of parents' socializing power.

Hypothesis: When parents and kids are together more, the result is parents socialize less than their childless peers.


Premise: Securely attached infants actively seek contact with and are easily consoled by their familiar, responsive caregiver.

Hypothesis: Securely attached infants love their familiar caregivers.


Premise: Go ahead.

Hypothesis: They were given the go ahead.


Premise: Once inside, Vice President Cheney and the agents paused in an area of the tunnel that had a secure phone, a bench, and television.

Hypothesis: Cheney and the agents stopped in the tunnel to collect their thoughts.


Premise: You want to be down anymore than anybody else, so--

Hypothesis: Others prefer to be down more than do you, alas--


Premise: I'll twist him, sir.

Hypothesis: I'll turn him around in circles.


Premise: The line to the White House shelter conference room-and the Vice President- kept cutting off.

Hypothesis: The line to the White House shelter conference room kept dropping calls so the Vice President was impossible to reach.


Premise: And she told me that everyone has to be like a little child to God, and that God loves everyone just like He is their own father and they are His children, because of what they are.

Hypothesis: She told me that everyone is God's child and that I should pray to him.


Premise: His primary concern was ensuring that the pilots had a clear understanding of their rules of engagement.

Hypothesis: He knew that the pilots knew their rules of engagement backwards and forwards.


Premise: There are lengthy usage notes and synonym studies in W that do not appear in L at all or in greatly abbreviated form, sometimes mercifully so, for W occasionally succumbs to prolixity.

Hypothesis: The usage notes in L are overly short


Premise: I can think of no better time to continue extending grace to others than at Easter.

Hypothesis: Easter is a bad time like to continue to extend grace to others.


Premise: But, as a British journalist might say, we should be told.

Hypothesis: It is important that we are made aware of all the facts.


Premise: In all the ways just mentioned, parents and other adults are vital conveyers of culture, through direct teaching of attitudes and values and through the pervasive imprint of culture on the settings and activities they provide for children.

Hypothesis: Parents convey the culture to the children using all their small behaviors.


Premise: And this is, I guess, after, after high school, kind of right before college, actually, while I was in college, before I went away to school, while I was still in Brooklyn.

Hypothesis: I have several stories from when I was in college.


Premise: The top thread is then pulled up by the take-up arm.

Hypothesis: The top thread is pulled by the arm that has thread around it.


Premise: In all the following cases, the spelling, (apparent) roots, or sound of the word actively suggest a meaning different from the true one.

Hypothesis: The word's meaning can be decoded directly from its roots, sound, and spelling.


Premise: While that has not been literally proposed (as far as I know), the fact that the men's names appear first has been used by some feminists to illustrate the manifestation of an attitude that women have had to put up with all these centuries.

Hypothesis: That men's names appear first in our society is indicative of the attitude our society holds of women, in other societies where this is not the case, there is not a corresponding attitude.


Premise: And although the wages of nonsupervisory workers in retail have been and still are quite low,9 the compensation system for buyers provided substantial rewards for favorable results.

Hypothesis: Poor people worked in retail jobs.


Premise: So in some ways it was very similar to the space exploration that you were so interested in?

Hypothesis: So you found it interesting too?


Premise: I like, uh, political non-fiction, and I've read The Making of the President series from 1960 on up.

Hypothesis: I like to read political non-fiction to take a break from fiction.


Premise: ' The atom was named before it was split.

Hypothesis: The atom was only named once it had been split.


Premise: I urge your consideration of joining the Maennerchor Society by making a gift of $1,000 per year.

Hypothesis: A contribution of several thousand dollars is necessary to join the society.


Premise: But my main object in choosing the passage was to illustrate the way in which Shakespeare could move from the literal to the metaphorical or metaphysical in his use of a legal term.

Hypothesis: I just wanted to show that Shakespeare meant to be just literal.


Premise: Computer-assisted marker-making can offer large savings with basic garments, like men's pants or women's intimate apparel, which may be manufactured repeatedly over several years.

Hypothesis: Marker-making with computers introduce extra unnecessary costs to garment manufacturing.


Premise: I mean I'm sure I have read I just can't even remember what, Dr. Zhivago, I read that.

Hypothesis: I am certain that I can remember what Dr. Zhivago read.


Premise: Make-believe roles are not equally pleasurable'a feature of cooperation that is as true in everyday life as it is in fantasy play.

Hypothesis: Cooperation may be less pleasurable at times, but are also necessary.


Premise: Poking and prodding at contemporary speech and writing, feminists condemn the use of a term identified with one sex or gender to designate all humanity.

Hypothesis: Feminists suggest that humanity should be identified with one's gender.


Premise: Well thank you so much for letting me interview you.

Hypothesis: It's been an honor to have this conversation with you.


Premise: As a male reader, I get strong vibrations from this book that the authors advocate the paranoid view that everything in the language that is not exactly as they would like it to be is the result of a gigantic hate program against women.

Hypothesis: Male readers hate women.


Premise: To save this precious, historical land from developers, Audubon worked with a local bank and purchased this land for preservation.

Hypothesis: Audubon bought the land to live on and preserve.


Premise: Seizing on symbols of Islam's past greatness, he promises to restore pride to people who consider themselves the victims of successive foreign masters.

Hypothesis: They promised a lot of misfortune to the peopel.


Premise: Tell me about Batman.

Hypothesis: Tell me a story with Batman in it.


Premise: Push them back.

Hypothesis: Pull them this way, toward us.


Premise: Yeah on some of the songs yeah.

Hypothesis: They played on some of the songs.


Premise: These include impacts on its revenues (prices and sales), cost structures, and profitability.

Hypothesis: That considers the extent of profitability.


Premise: It places a high value on success with such things.

Hypothesis: High values are placed on important things


Premise: Witness the following conclusion by a researcher who compared American with Japanese infant rearing   An American mother-infant relationship consists of two individuals . . . a Japanese mother-infant relationship consists of only one individual, i.e., mother and infant are not divided.

Hypothesis: There are lots of things that can be taught to an infant.


Premise: The screener should have resolved what set off the alarm; and in the case of both Moqed and Hazmi, it was clear that he did not.

Hypothesis: The screener has a history of not resolving what set off the alarm.


Premise: W has illustrations (better than those in the Third Unabridged ); L has none, but it must be noted that other British dictionaries lack them also, so L need not have included them purely for competitive reasons in the main market it is intended to serve.

Hypothesis: It would have been necessary to include illustrations in order to compete in the dictionary market


Premise: Now he comes running out from there whenever he sees Harry.

Hypothesis: Whenever he sees Harry he runs and hides.


Premise: The publisher sent unrevised bound proofs from which this review was prepared; unfortunately, there was no proof of an index, but the publisher has assured me that there will be one in the published book, a rather essential ingredient of a work with this title.

Hypothesis: The publisher claimed there would be an index when the book was published, but he lied.


Premise: Of course it can't be published because all those things are copyrighted, but my mother made up the story and I thought it was very nice and I still have it, uh, handwritten, uh, in our file here.

Hypothesis: We can have it published today but my mom and I don't like the story.


Premise: And she told me that everyone has to be like a little child to God, and that God loves everyone just like He is their own father and they are His children, because of what they are.

Hypothesis: She told me that not everyone is God's child, only very special people.


Premise: One scholar from the fourteenth century from whom Bin Ladin selectively quotes, Ibn Taimiyyah, condemned both corrupt rulers and the clerics who failed to criticize them.

Hypothesis: Bin Ladin used the scholars quotes in his writings.


Premise: As Damon's message suggests, in building an eective vision of child development and child rearing, neither the child's inner thoughts and feelings nor the role of adult guidance can be singularly extolled or wholeheartedly ignored.

Hypothesis: Damon's message talks mostly about child development and child rearing.


Premise: She got gangrene in her foot and he said if you don't quit smoking you're going to lose your foot.

Hypothesis: Gangrene was caused by smoking.


Premise: But even without them, he would certainly have understood that the attacks on the World Trade Center would already have unfolded, given Flight 93's tardy departure from Newark.

Hypothesis: He knew that the attacks on the World Trade Center would have always happened regardless of anyone's efforts or lack thereof.


Premise: Jarrah's objective was to crash his airliner into symbols of the American Republic, the Capitol or the White House.

Hypothesis: Jarrah would prefer to hit the white house.


Premise: In August 1996, Bin Ladin had issued his own self-styled fatwa calling on Muslims to drive American soldiers out of Saudi Arabia.

Hypothesis: Bin Ladin pleaded for Muslims to accept American assistance.


Premise: Here is a commonsense style book, useful to those who have the education and common sense to be in doubt about questions of English usage.

Hypothesis: Commonsense style books are useful to people without education to show them what things they should commonly know.


Premise: The metaphor of a scaffold has been used to describe eective adult support as children work on tasks that teach culturally valued concepts and skills.

Hypothesis: Children need the benefit from adult support when working on tasks that teach culturally valued concepts and skills.


Premise: Such stitching generally outlasts the fabric of jeans, as one can see from looking at the holey knees of jeans worn by many teenagers.

Hypothesis: Such stitching usually gives out before the fabric of the jeans does.


Premise: So, that was such a racy and shocking book at that time, and so, of course, we had to read it.

Hypothesis: We had to read the book but we thought it was very interesting.


Premise: . . . You got a conflict on that direction?

Hypothesis: There may have been differing views on that decision.


Premise: Well, so many bullets, so many things.

Hypothesis: You know what they say about life, so many bullets, so many things.


Premise: Um, reading is fundamental as they say and it truly is.

Hypothesis: Reading is a part of life.


Premise: It scarcely needs pointing out that the British usage was not brought about by any sense of justice toward women but by the apparent fact that the people in Britain are not quite as uptight about usage as the Americans.

Hypothesis: The British are less uptight about a woman's body than Americans are.


Premise: Children's social exchanges begin to infiuence their ways of thinking more profoundly than before, permitting them to acquire competencies in keeping with the requirements of their families and communities.

Hypothesis: Children's social exchanges begin to influence how they think more than anything.


Premise: Since Slurvian thus exists in both a Germanic language (English) and a Romance language (French), must it not therefore follow that Slurvian has its origin in the common ancestor of both tongues, that is in the Indo-stage?

Hypothesis: Slurvian was originated by German ancestors.


Premise: ' The atom was named before it was split.

Hypothesis: After the splitting of the atom, atoms were renamed to a word which signified "easily split".


Premise: The Branch's goals focus on increasing the percentage of youth  Grow into mentally and physically healthy adults; Know how to structure their lives in ways that produce meaning and enjoyment; Plan their high school program to allow them to qualify for future higher education, even if the current goals are vocational; Use non-violent conflict resolution skills when needed; Reach adulthood without being involved in alcohol, tobacco and other drug use; Are able to develop and achieve their goals and aspirations.

Hypothesis: Youths should be involved in alcohol, drugs and tobacco usage by the time they reach their adult years.


Premise: Junn Quechua children have diculty with false-belief tasks for years after children in industrialized nations have mastered them.

Hypothesis: Junn Quechua children have less trouble with false-belief tasks than industrialized nation's children.


Premise: One spoke very little English and one spoke excellent English.

Hypothesis: Both men spoke perfect English to each other.


Premise: You wrote this out all by yourself.

Hypothesis: You plagiarized this and called it your own work.


Premise: set in a type (as boldface) readily distinguishable from that of the lightface running text which defines, explains, or identifies the entry

Hypothesis: Boldface type is practically indistinguishable from lightface running text.


Premise: an item recorded, as in a diary, dictionary, or account.

Hypothesis: A couple sentences about something


Premise: There is nothing wrong with any of [these images] in themselves.

Hypothesis: These images, in themselves, are just plain wrong.


Premise: We would all slide the windows down on the bus open the door, stick your head out the door, you couldn't hear anything coming that way, you couldn't hear anything coming the other way, and he'd just drop it in low and gun it, we would make it another morning.

Hypothesis: We would stick our heads out the window where we could hear clearly the cars coming.


Premise: Perhaps one day we shall find an Etruscan library, buried deep in the Italian countryside; but for the present, we have to make do with what we have, which is precious little.

Hypothesis: How much we have is generally relative.


Premise: Your involvement will be greatly appreciated.

Hypothesis: Your help is really needed and would be appreciated.


Premise: Since a second copy exceeded the first by one hundred percent, it was considered an abundance.

Hypothesis: The second copy was dwarfed by the first


Premise: At 8:41, Sweeney told Woodward that passengers in coach were under the impression that there was a routine medical emergency in first class.

Hypothesis: Woodward was told that passengers in coach were purposely led to believe that there was a medical emergency.


Premise: This information infrastructure proved most beneficial when it gave Penney's major vendors access to sales data via direct broadcast satellite.

Hypothesis: This infrastructure of information was used in order to provide customers with information regarding sales.


Premise: During the 1980s, however, the amount of inventory held by Federated ballooned while it faced bankruptcy.

Hypothesis: Federated's financial difficulties lead them to unload large chunks of inventory at a loss.


Premise: I also had conversation with American Airlines, and they've told us that they believe that one of their stewardesses was stabbed and that there are people in the cockpit that have control of the aircraft, and that's all the information they have right now.

Hypothesis: I talked with American Airlines, who said a flight attended was threatened but safe so far.


Premise: We invite you to sponsor a bench.

Hypothesis: Customize the bench however you see fit.


Premise: At about 9:00, the senior NMCC operations officer reached out to the FAA operations center for information.

Hypothesis: A senior NMCC operations officer reached out to the FAA at 9:00 but was ignored.


Premise: Collins allows the Scots pronunciation, but, I am sorry to report, favors the English.

Hypothesis: Collins likes English people more that Scottish people.


Premise: Now that manufacturers of power tools and ball bearings talk about their products as  fashion  items, the apparel industry'always subject to the whims of fashion'has much to say to any industry that involves retailing.

Hypothesis: There are many power tools that people refer to as fashion items.


Premise: Computer images can be viewed on the local area network or even put on the Internet in a secure form.

Hypothesis: In addition to seeing it in printed form, photos can also be seen on the computer's local network or on the internet.


Premise: Perhaps the second system cannot access events stored by the first, making the earliest events of our lives forever irretrievable.

Hypothesis: Second system interferes with the first system.


Premise: At first glance, it might appear that almost all of the cloth is used in the marker; in fact, only 90 percent has been covered in the layout of 108 individual pieces.

Hypothesis: 100 percent of the individual pieces are on the marker.


Premise: Though novel for its open endorsement of indiscriminate killing, Bin Ladin's 1998 declaration was only the latest in the long series of his public and private calls since 1992 that singled out the United States for attack.

Hypothesis: Bin Ladin had ignored the United States until 1998.


Premise: Well, it wasn't light yet when the gunfire starts.

Hypothesis: When the gunfire had started, there was light.


Premise: Therefore, I stand uncorrected.

Hypothesis: Thus, I have been proven wrong.


Premise: Every Japan veteran has his list of favorite mistakes.

Hypothesis: All former military members have their preferred errors.


Premise: An arresting one occurs in A Passage to India (Chapter XXI) in which Forster describes a small building as  a flimsy and frivolous erection,  while in The Mayor of Casterbridge (Chapter XVI) the Mayor himself  beheld the unattractive exterior of Farfrae's erection.

Hypothesis: Erection can have some dirty connotations that catch the eye.


Premise: But what about a reference by MacNeil's partner, Jim Lehrer, to  some ten thousand black gold and diamond miners [on strike in South Africa].

Hypothesis: Black gold and diamond miners on strike in South Africa are being talked about often by people like Jim Lehrer.


Premise: Such information is very likely to be misinterpreted by the average user, who does not approach a dictionary with a critical eye.

Hypothesis: The average user has a critical eye and is unlikely to misinterpret the information.


Premise: And to request confirmation, they might well say  You do it exactly this way!

Hypothesis: Customers often send unique confirmation requests.


Premise: Thank you for your generosity.

Hypothesis: We truly value your donation.


Premise: The history, culture, and body of beliefs from which Bin Ladin has shaped and spread his message are largely unknown to many Americans.

Hypothesis: Many Americans do not know the history, culture and body of beliefs Bin Ladin has used for his message, however they are more than willing to dissect it and find out.


Premise: It scarcely needs pointing out that the British usage was not brought about by any sense of justice toward women but by the apparent fact that the people in Britain are not quite as uptight about usage as the Americans.

Hypothesis: The British did it out of a sense of justice, knowing women were being wronged.


Premise: new and creative research.

Hypothesis: Groundbreaking and state-of-the-art scientific research.


Premise: But the highest-level Defense Department officials relied on the NMCC's air threat conference, in which the FAA did not participate for the first 48 minutes.

Hypothesis: Defense Department officials relied on the NMCC's air threat conference which included the FAA from the beginning.


Premise: One recipient of a call from the aircraft recounted specifically asking her caller whether the hijackers had guns.

Hypothesis: Somebody who received a call from the plane asked her caller if the hijackers had guns or other weapons.


Premise: The child's mind, then, is a profoundly social organ.

Hypothesis: The mind of a child is a complex place.


Premise: Profitability is measured as operating profit margin'revenue minus costs of goods sold divided by revenue.

Hypothesis: Profitability is measured via total revenue divided by total costs.


Premise: The Hadith, which recount Mohammed's sayings and deeds as recorded by his contemporaries, are another fundamental source.

Hypothesis: The Hadith has a lot of Mohammed's sayings and deeds recorded.


Premise: And then, like now that I'm in college, like I call her, like all the time and it won't occur that I should talk to my dad, too!

Hypothesis: I talk to my mom on the phone a lot more than my dad.


Premise: It is true that textiles firms still sell to apparel-makers, which in turn sell to retailers, which ultimately sell to consumers.

Hypothesis: Consumers attain textiles direct from the apparel-makers.


Premise: Take a step toward making a difference in the lives of our young woman and recommit to the Girl Scout vision.

Hypothesis: Just a simple response with the form attached indicating your preferences you can begin to support the girls.


Premise: With all the activity, these facilities will be used more than ever!

Hypothesis: This facility will be busier than anyone could have ever imagined.


Premise: The air defense of America began with this call.

Hypothesis: The call was made to ensure America's airspace would be safe.


Premise: They are thus a ready audience for calls to Muslims to purify their society, reject unwelcome modernization, and adhere strictly to the Sharia.

Hypothesis: Muslims should indeed purify their society.


Premise: American 11 struck the NorthTower at 8:46.

Hypothesis: The first plane hit the tower at 8:46


Premise: Manufacturers suddenly have much more to do than just make clothing'they are being asked to do work previously done by the retailer, such as picking and packing the order for each store from the retailer's warehouse.

Hypothesis: In the past manufacturers only had to be worried about making their products.


Premise: The parent always in a hurry'who says, when the child desires involvement,  There isn't time,  or who fails to insist that the child join in household tasks in keeping with his or her capacity'severely limits the child's learning.

Hypothesis: The parent who does not permit their child to do household chores helps the child learn.


Premise: Examples of franglais which they find particularly monstrous are, I hear, to be condemned to a newly created  Mus??e des horreurs.

Hypothesis: They think some franglais are great.


Premise: The music industry, well, you want more of the juicy, sordid details.

Hypothesis: The music industry is filled with gossip.


Premise: In this period, a number of key technological changes  sewing machines that made many more stitches a minute, long knives instead of shears for cutting, and pressing machines.

Hypothesis: During the 2000s, several key technological updates were made for industry tools.


Premise: Consequently, Sydney begins to move toward independent solving of the puzzle.

Hypothesis: Sydney was dependent on help with solving the puzzle.


Premise: It is only from an article about CED that we learn it has  171,000 entries,  which suggests that Collins means by references what Merriam-Webster means by entries .  But CED and Cobuild certainly do not say so!

Hypothesis: Collins means by "references" something completely different that Merriam Webster means by "entries."


Premise: This could be a third aircraft.

Hypothesis: The airplane could be the third or fourth.


Premise: He next spoke to Vice President Cheney, Dr. Rice, New York Governor George Pataki, and FBI Director Robert Mueller.

Hypothesis: He spoke next to the highest members of the government.


Premise: She knew I was going to do it, but Dad was pretty irate.

Hypothesis: Mom knew what I was up to, however Dad was caught off guard.


Premise: Sophie turned toward the teddy bear, lifted his paw, and exclaimed,  She wants a lollipop to hold in her hand!

Hypothesis: The teddy bear was holding a lollipop so Sophie asked for one too.


Premise: Historians have often discussed the  three estates  of the Western world'nobility, church, and commons.

Hypothesis: The nobility of the Western world often have inherited wealth.


Premise: Other extremists had, and have, followings of their own.

Hypothesis: Other extremists had similar ideas and easily had a following.


Premise: And I'm like, I'm trying to convince him to, you know, if I don't make it and there's a strong possibility I won't, I know that, I'm not stupid, I'm nor going to go to L.A. and make five million or more than that--

Hypothesis: I wanted them to know I'm going to Broadway not L.A.


Premise: According to the blurb on the dust jacket of this distinctly unpleasant book, Rosalind Miles is head of the Centre for Women's Studies at Coventry Polytechnic, a lecturer, broadcaster, journalist, and author of several other books, including a  highly acclaimed  biography of Ben Jonson.

Hypothesis: Rosalind Miles is a boring person which is shown through her boring books.


Premise: Feminists have much to say about men's claim that women talk too much.

Hypothesis: Feminists dispute the claim that women talk too much.


Premise: Do you feel like that's just in Charlotte that that's how the school systems are?

Hypothesis: Charlotte school systems are unique to all the others?


Premise: You may remember bumping into me somewhere along your path through college.

Hypothesis: You had a conversation with me during college


Premise: Sweeney told Woodward that she and Ong were trying to relay as much information as they could to people on the ground.

Hypothesis: Sweeney was trying to keep the information secret.


Premise: bar code Not the ethics of the legal profession nor the law that interferes with the corner conviviality, but the small rectangle of stripes (bars) on store merchandise that provides coded pricing and inventory information to electronic scanners.

Hypothesis: A bar code can be read by a variety of scanners.


Premise: But there is something you can do to help.

Hypothesis: There are a variety of ways you can help.


Premise: In the 95 paper, I extend Tuleja my sympathies.

Hypothesis: I am happy for Tuleja.


Premise: Where ellipses occur, I have not bothered to copy down the entire list of offerings, selecting only those that struck me as odd, either because of the incongruity of the choice or because I could not, in the wildest flights of dyslexic, schizophrenic-fancy, imagine the criteria employed in arriving at the selections.

Hypothesis: Who ever came up with the specifications was clearly insane.


Premise: She did not display signs of panic and did not indicate any awareness of an impending crash.

Hypothesis: She was clearly terrified knowing she would die soon.


Premise: I look forward to hearing from you soon.

Hypothesis: Please contact me soon, I look forward to seeing you in person.


Premise: Their actions saved the lives of countless others, and may have saved either the Capitol or the White House from destruction.

Hypothesis: The could have saved more lives with more action.


Premise: But some very clever comparative linguists, beginning in Germany in the 19th century, theorized about how the nature of the ancestors of the more modern tongues.

Hypothesis: Linguists studied the ancestors of the German people before the 19th century.


Premise: Pages later (Chapter XXXVII), it is acknowledged that  He, too, felt that this was their last free intercourse.

Hypothesis: Later in the book, it is described what he did after their last intercourse.


Premise: Pleasant Run cares for at-risk children and families.

Hypothesis: We target children that we think will succeed.


Premise: Anything else?

Hypothesis: More of the same?


Premise: Right now, there are thousands of people who do not know what it feels like to support themselves.

Hypothesis: Although the number is shrinking, there are still thousands of people that don't know what it's like to support themselves.


Premise: Before we take up this emerging theoretical consensus, let's address the question of whether greater parental commitment, in the context of today's demanding and stressful work lives, is possible.

Hypothesis: The emerging theoretical consensus can be realized with a greater parental commitment.


Premise: The Hijacking of American 77 American Airlines Flight 77 was scheduled to depart from Washington Dulles for Los Angeles at 8:10.

Hypothesis: The plane was arriving at Dulles airport.


Premise: In urban centers, there have always been small shops with goods for sale.

Hypothesis: A variety of goods are available.


Premise: The whole enchilada!

Hypothesis: The entire plate of food


Premise: The New York Center controller and manager were unaware that American 11 had already crashed.

Hypothesis: The managers were aware of the plane crashing.


Premise: The Japanese spell and pronounce what they hear and are accustomed to pronounce, much as Americans are inclined to say  Kindagarden,   ekscape,   lawnjeray,   asterik,  and  ekcetera.

Hypothesis: The Japanese spell and pronounce words differently from what they hear and are used to.


Premise: He cut out a square and a circle with help today.

Hypothesis: He managed to cut out a circle and a square all by himself today.


Premise: M and S also go out of their way to praise usages that neatly sidestep offensive usage.

Hypothesis: M and S advocate the use of offensive words and phrases.


Premise: Parents seem to be in the best position to read to their child often and to tailor their dialogues to the child's interests and abilities.

Hypothesis: Children generally are able to understand what their parents read to them.


Premise: United 93 and the Shootdown Order On the morning of 9/11, the President and Vice President stayed in contact not by an open line of communication but through a series of calls.

Hypothesis: The President and Vice President did use an open line of communication to maintain contact with one and another on the morning of 9/11/


Premise: But he would indeed be feigning naivete to claim that generic man is now understood to include woman.

Hypothesis: He is indeed naive about the generic man


Premise: In the new competitive arena'where demand uncertainty and time to market have become important factors along with price'textile firms are being forced to adapt to information-integrated channels, rather than just drawing on the economies of scale that led to their success in the past.

Hypothesis: Demand uncertainty is purportedly more important than time to market.


Premise: To a Western ear, the most predictable of language traits, perhaps, is the well-advertised Japanese use of r for our l .  Indeed, in my travels about Honshu during a three-month visit, I did hear  coinrocker,   see you rater,   Adurt Graphics  (dirty books),  blackwrrants  (hit-and-miss rendering of black walnuts),  Coffee Corombia  (a chain of coffee shops), and  Coconut Glove.

Hypothesis: The Western ear can discern the most predictable of language traits.


Premise: Rather, the intensity of adult support depends on where the task falls within the child's  zone.

Hypothesis: Adult support might support weaker child than stronger child.


Premise: It is true that textiles firms still sell to apparel-makers, which in turn sell to retailers, which ultimately sell to consumers.

Hypothesis: The textile firms profit from the retailers and the retailers profit from the consumers.


Premise: That will only be the first step toward healing the pain of having been abandoned several times, neglected, and denied the happy childhood that should be every child's birthright.

Hypothesis: We are addressing only the initial attempts to help them overcome a childhood of trauma and abuse.


Premise: We had a barn, a dairy farm that was maybe quarter of a mile from the house and uh, Mama say, We need milk.

Hypothesis: There was milk for us at the farm.


Premise: Just how does imaginative play help children distinguish ideas from the enticing stimuli around them and use thought to guide behavior?

Hypothesis: Imaginative play helps children's cognitive development in some capacity.


Premise: At the end of the second year, children begin to label their own and others' internal states with words, such as  want,   happy,   mad,   think,  and  pretend.

Hypothesis: Children think a lot about their internal states and the internal states of others.


Premise: And the rate of textile productivity over this period far outpaced that for the manufacturing sector as a whole.

Hypothesis: Manufacturing growth has been higher than the rate of the textile industry.


Premise: And, um, I just wish that my counselor would have been more helpful to me.

Hypothesis: I wish that my counselor would have stayed out of my business.


Premise: pediculosis Not as foot disease nor the bad breath of children, but just plain (and literally) lousiness.

Hypothesis: A child with a diseased foot has pediculosis.


Premise: He urged Muslims to read the Qur'an and the Hadith for themselves, not to depend solely on learned interpreters like himself but to hold one another to account for the quality of their observance.

Hypothesis: He wanted Muslims to be more social, so he urged them to hold one another accountable for the quality of their observance.


Premise: My own reading of the passage turns as much on the word pale as on bond , but the word limit set by the essay competition forced me to be rather elliptical.

Hypothesis: My discussion of the passage focused extensively on the words pale and bond, owing to the generous word limit.


Premise: What a pleasure, for example, to discover that one who has been tagged out at home plate is the victim of an  out-throw.

Hypothesis: There are many times when it was considered a pleasure.


Premise: For example, increasing the number of products offered in a category by a factor of four (say from fifty items to 200) without increasing total demand in the category would increase the coefficient of variation for each individual product by a factor of two.

Hypothesis: There are times when multiplying the stock quantity will not help with making more money.