Premise: However, it was seen at the time as a success.

Hypothesis: Only later would it be looked at as a complete failure.


Premise: Correspondingly, employment in automotive and apparel trimmings increased 71.4 percent from 1979 to 1997 while in women's and misses blouses and skirts it declined by 60.6 percent in the same period.

Hypothesis: Employment in women's blouses and skirts decreased from 1979 to 1997 because the decrease in women working out of the home.


Premise: Miyares spent the next four months in hospitals in Japan and the U.S. before being medically discharged from the Army with as service-connected disability for diabetes.

Hypothesis: Miyares had no idea that he had diabetes before the hospitalization.


Premise: The first is that I find their interpretation of the evidence often skewed; the second is that while adjustment to lexicon, which they have always strongly advocated, is one thing, modification of grammar is another.

Hypothesis: Their lawyers were not the best when preparing various documents.


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 simply describes the obvious, and doesn't say anything the reader doesn't already know.


Premise: By combining our assets, we can make a difference.

Hypothesis: If we remain separate, our efforts will be middling at best.


Premise: According to Campbell, the only godlike female figure in the Bible is the Virgin Mary, and she appears, identified as virgin, only in the Gospel according to Luke.

Hypothesis: Mary was not a virgin, she lied to save face.


Premise: American narratives rarely dwelt on misdeeds and, at times, even recast children's oenses as strengths'as indicative of quick thinking and an active, spirited disposition.

Hypothesis: American narratives were bad for children's behavior and development.


Premise: Outraged, several Libyan members of al Qaeda and the Islamic Army Shura renounced all connections with him.

Hypothesis: He betrayed all his connections, and as a result, lost them all.


Premise: Three months later, when interviewed in Afghanistan by ABC-TV, Bin Ladin enlarged on these themes.

Hypothesis: Bin Ladin went into hiding after the attacks in Washington.


Premise: These are challenging times for public institutions of higher education, with legislative appropriations unable to fund schools to the level they have in the past.

Hypothesis: No one cares about public education anymore so schools aren't being funded like they used to.


Premise: Two such hints, however, have only a few possible answers in common, so that the solver can concentrate on them and pick the most probable one.

Hypothesis: Without hints, it would be too difficult for the problems to be solved.


Premise: Vivacious, stimulating parental behavior, including frequent questioning, instructing, and pointing out objects, is beneficial for reserved, inactive infants; it helps them become interested in and engaged with novel toys.

Hypothesis: Novel toys can be frightening for young children.


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

Hypothesis: He is currently working in a dead end job.


Premise: Yet the train trip across the country she will take at age 3 1/2 and her first day of kindergarten at age 5 may still be memorable when she is 80.

Hypothesis: She isn't going to remember the train trip across the country.


Premise: Bin Ladin, whose efforts in Afghanistan had earned him celebrity and respect, proposed to the Saudi monarchy that he summon mujahideen for a jihad to retake Kuwait.

Hypothesis: Bin Ladin was extremely weathy due to his fame.


Premise: Clearly, this rosily checkered past was soon to be replaced, chiefly, it seems, as Judeo-Christian-Islamic-Confucian-Buddhist cultures flourished.

Hypothesis: The bigots did not win with their ignorance.


Premise: And, anyway, uh, anyway, went on from there, started doing a lot of stuff in college working with um one person specifically.

Hypothesis: I only worked with one person in college.


Premise: Salem al Hazmi cleared the metal detector and was permitted through; Nawaf al Hazmi set off the alarms for both the first and second metal detectors and was then hand-wanded before being passed.

Hypothesis: The hand-wand didn't detect metal on Nawaf al Hazmi even though the first and second metal detectors did.


Premise: You can go out on the weekends but during the week it, you know, it should be study time.

Hypothesis: Don't go out during the week: it's best to keep the weekdays for studying, and let your hair down at the weekend.


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: He really doesn't want to be king.


Premise: They lived across the street from us in PA.

Hypothesis: The just moved in to the house across the street.


Premise: I hope this correspondence finds you and your family doing well.

Hypothesis: Last I wrote the family was in a bit of a downward spiral.


Premise: Let me assure you that we would appreciate receiving one million dollars from you.

Hypothesis: If you give us less than a million dollars we will be incredibly pissed off.


Premise: Everyone talks nowadays about making dictionaries user-friendlier.

Hypothesis: Dictionaries are only useful for people with plenty of education.


Premise: Many business firms have  casual days  for office attire.

Hypothesis: There would be a strike if business firms didn't practice casual days.


Premise: So after two or three days he called Callgrove and said, Don't bother coming in I found a guy better than you.

Hypothesis: He fired Callgrove because he was pretty incompetent.


Premise: You can see from the enclosed newspaper article the quality and diversity of those who receive this honor.

Hypothesis: The enclosed article is the only one in which these data can be found.


Premise: Laser-cutting equipment must be totally enclosed to be safe for human operators.

Hypothesis: It is dangerous to operate laser-cutting machines as-is without a containment method.


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

Hypothesis: Which parts of the story made you sad?


Premise: Well, I did and sometime later removed it to my cottage in Canada and used decopor (a thick, clear glazed resin) on the top.

Hypothesis: I changed my mind, moved it, and sealed it with a thick resin on top instead.


Premise: They also raise grave concerns about the recent proliferation of expensive commercial early learning centers, in which infants are barraged with letter and number fiashcards and slightly older toddlers are drenched in a full curriculum of reading, math, science, art, music, gym, and more.

Hypothesis: It's unclear if early learning centers actually help infants and older toddlers.


Premise: It is difficult to make any sensible connection between the lives of authors and their creations.

Hypothesis: Authors rarely write about their life experiences.


Premise: The Black Cane Society is named after the Black Cane award which is given annually by the law students to the professor who is voted to be the most outstanding classroom teacher.

Hypothesis: No professor has ever won the Black Cane award more than once.


Premise: He was rebuffed, and the Saudis joined the U.S.-led coalition.

Hypothesis: As a result, Bin Ladin declared war on the Saudis as well.


Premise: And they are less likely to cry and more likely to use gestures and words to express their desires than are infants whose parents delayed or failed to respond to their calls for help.

Hypothesis: Children who use gestures can be presumed deaf.


Premise: And that's how it was, he left, at dawn, and he said, See you there, and he left with the, with the livestock, with the, and the, the others who were going to help.

Hypothesis: I was not going to take care of the animals by myself.


Premise: Uh, it was pretty much a kitchen a front room and two-bedroom house one bathroom.

Hypothesis: The house had only one bathroom.


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

Hypothesis: The intelligence community was not prepared for the stopover, so Bin Ladin escaped the United Arab Emirates.


Premise: They touch an object, hold it up, or point to it while looking at another person to make sure he or she notices.

Hypothesis: The only way they can ensure another person notices them is by touching, holding up or pointing at an object while looking at another person.


Premise: Outstanding Herron students are honored on this special evening of recognition with gifts from local companies and individuals.

Hypothesis: Gifts are the only recognition Herron students receive.


Premise: From that point of view the differing interpretations Mr. Anson and I read into the passage are of secondary importance.

Hypothesis: The differing in interpretations are of only secondary importance.


Premise: United nine three, have you got information on that yet?

Hypothesis: No information was given on United 93.


Premise: We use terms like Neanderthal Man, Peking Man , etc., without believing for a moment that there were no Neanderthal or Peking women (leaving aside Peking Toms).

Hypothesis: People consider calling Neanderthal Man a sexist term as it doesn't include women


Premise: That message and all subsequent attempts to contact the flight were not acknowledged.

Hypothesis: Dozens of attempts were made to contact the flight, but none got a response.


Premise: At the same time, these regimes had closed off nearly all paths for peaceful opposition, forcing their critics to choose silence, exile, or violent opposition.

Hypothesis: The regimes did not allow any opposition parties.


Premise: .. I chucked him out the door and he's not been back innerwards.

Hypothesis: He is never coming back in.


Premise: Unfortunately, the presentation of his linguistic argument, where the author is clearly treading on more speculative ground than in those parts dealing with outright archaeology, where he is on more familiar territory, is disorganized and repetitious.

Hypothesis: The author has no clue what he is talking about.


Premise: I guess I want to say that it's been a real positive experience living here, because my, my mother really wants to move back up north because that's where she's from.

Hypothesis: My mother does not really like living here.


Premise: OK, I said, So, how do we do it?

Hypothesis: I hesitated, but asked him the proper process.


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: For security reasons, the President did not maintain an open line of communication with anyone on the morning of 9/11.


Premise: As always, please feel free to visit our campus.

Hypothesis: You have to set up an appointment before visiting


Premise: Chapter 3, Generalizations, treats with good sense methods that can be employed to avoid sexism in a wide variety of constructions.

Hypothesis: Chapter 3 is intended only for feminists.


Premise: In Mandarin the name America becomes `beautiful nation,' as Mr. Henn says.

Hypothesis: Mr. Henn's wife does not agree that America translates to 'beautiful nation'.


Premise: Are you close to your family?

Hypothesis: Not really, they're all homophobes and I'm a homosexual.


Premise: Please join in this help with your gift today.

Hypothesis: Please give us a gift or else we will have to close down and not continue.


Premise: The deadline for donations from each class will be July 31.

Hypothesis: Donations won't be accepted after the 31st of July.


Premise: // Even in the in, I mean NJ winters are really cold but--

Hypothesis: They aren't that bad, not if you've lived there all your life.


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: Referring to humanity as mankind is sexist and one-sided.


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: This chapter will be all about the American business.


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: You stop learning after 8 years of life.


Premise: The sociocultural vision is very dierent from behaviorism, which views development as directly imposed, or shaped, by external forces.

Hypothesis: They almost completely contradict one another.


Premise: She waits tables like one night a week at another job to help put me through and everything like that.

Hypothesis: She only waits tables to help me.


Premise: It's hard enough for her to make good decisions when she's surrounded by support.

Hypothesis: Without support, she is destined to make wrong choices that will shape the rest of her life.


Premise: She told him to shut-up and get her a pack of cigarettes.

Hypothesis: She always yelled at him while telling him to do stuff.


Premise: It just kind a fills it out a little bit makes it a little easier on the ear especially if they can't sing but.

Hypothesis: It's unpleasant to listen to before we do this.


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

Hypothesis: The people on the ground did not have much information.


Premise: The standardized shipping container marker'which is possible only because of the existence of bar codes in the first place'provides a scannable description of a carton that can be electronically associated with data files containing specific information on the individual products shipped to the retailer.

Hypothesis: Without the existence of bar codes, shipping container markers would be impossible.


Premise: An Army special force launched a raid on Mogadishu to capture him.

Hypothesis: The Army was not successful in catching him.


Premise: My dad still doesn't believe me.

Hypothesis: My dad has always accused me of lying since I was 10.


Premise: It is shameful that the Gage Canadian allows only  plaid.

Hypothesis: Gage Canadian shouldn't allow only plaid.


Premise: Although automation of sewing operations is generally not cost effective, these innovations have made some inroads in particular segments.

Hypothesis: The cost of sewing operation automation has actually been prohibitive to most companies.


Premise: Some machines have an automatic thread-trimmer to do this step; if not, then the threads must be cut and the finished work put in an appropriate pile to be tied together when all the pieces of the bundle have been finished.

Hypothesis: If the machine does not have an automatic thread-trimmer, a person must be hired exclusively to cut the threads.


Premise: Help us continue to offer the finest professional art training to our students, the junior and senior high school students enrolled in Saturday School and to all those adults in continuing education courses.

Hypothesis: Without your help the community is losing a valuable source of art education.


Premise: I trust that this is a fillip of propaganda and not a serious query.

Hypothesis: This must be for attention, the request can not be serious. They know this will get the papers attention.


Premise: So you couldn't tell what kind, at night, what kind of people were going by, but you could hear clatter, because even beasts full of weapons, with, everything, you know?

Hypothesis: Even during the day we were afraid of the people coming after us.


Premise: Well, my brother had a, cow, tied out, and a goat, the cow's offspring.

Hypothesis: My brother got scammed and traded his house for those animals.


Premise: This year's contribution form includes a place to indicate how your donation should be used, or just make your check out to the IGGS Scholarship Fund.

Hypothesis: The form never had an option to indicate how your donation could be used in the past.


Premise: In the succeeding minutes, controllers were attempting to ascertain the altitude of the southbound flight.

Hypothesis: Controllers were unable to see the altitude of the plane.


Premise: But under rapid replenishment arrangements, the inventory risk is now assumed by the apparel manufacturer; consequently assembly time is now very important.

Hypothesis: Any delay in assembly time will cause issues within the whole system and hurt profits.


Premise: All the same, in one respect, Denis was right.

Hypothesis: We did not expect Denis to be right


Premise: What other kind of things do you do for your dad?

Hypothesis: Your dad does not care what things you do.


Premise: So after two or three days he called Callgrove and said, Don't bother coming in I found a guy better than you.

Hypothesis: So after three days he called up Callgrove and fired him.


Premise: These experiments in political Islam faltered during the 1990 the Iranian revolution lost momentum, prestige, and public support, and Pakistan's rulers found that most of its population had little enthusiasm for fundamentalist Islam.

Hypothesis: It is impossible to have a political Islamic state with popular support.


Premise: This edition when published was said to give more word definitions than any other British desk dictionary; including its main competitor, The Concise Oxford . But in 1986 it was moved into second place by the second edition of Collins Dictionary of the English Language .  ( Webster's New World Dictionary of the American Language seems about the same size as the Oxford ; the Gage Canadian Dictionary is slightly smaller.)

Hypothesis: This dictionary was expected to stay n first place for ever.


Premise: Saudi Arabia and the United States supplied billions of dollars worth of secret assistance to rebel groups in Afghanistan fighting the Soviet occupation.

Hypothesis: The Soviet occupation of Afghanistan was not accepted by the United States and Saudi Arabia.


Premise: 00 in labor and transportation costs (including direct labor at the plant level; transportation costs for fabric and other supplies shipped to the sewing plant; the cost of transporting finished goods to the manufacturer's distribution center, any customs fees or insurance associated with transportation, and any other costs associated with producing an acceptable unit of finished goods).

Hypothesis: There does not exist an acceptable unit of finished goods.


Premise: I am feeling quick on the trigger, quick on the draw, hot as a pistol, and loaded for bear, so I am going to get the drop on you and let you have it with both barrels.

Hypothesis: Even if you survive on barrel, the other one will get you.


Premise: Lush, green fields that stretched for miles, wisps of white clouds scattered across a clear, blue sky, tranquil silence broken only by cheerful bird songs, the fresh, sweet scent of morning air.

Hypothesis: It was hot and humid outside with no breeze.


Premise: In The Bride of Lammermoor (Chapter V), we are informed that the heroine  placed certain restrictions on their intercourse,  a limitation that might have been more usefully set in that same author's Rob Roy (Chapter VII) where we are told of the chance that the narrator and Miss Vernon might be  thrown into very close and frequent intercourse.

Hypothesis: The Bride did not want restrictions on intercourse


Premise: Your contribution will help with funding so Jameson Camp can continue providing the year-round camping experience that gives kids a chance to create dreams.

Hypothesis: The Jameson Camp needs external funding to survive


Premise: From Home Work to Modern Manufacture

Hypothesis: Home work is a less viable option.


Premise: A number of developments, many linked to issues we have discussed, indicate both the potential and limitations of electronic retailing.

Hypothesis: Electronic retailing is still relatively new in terms of development.


Premise: Again, let me assure you that we would appreciate receiving one million dollars from you and each of our 161 alumni.

Hypothesis: We don't want your donation if it isn't a million dollars or more.


Premise: He inveighed against the presence of U.S. troops in Saudi Arabia, the home of Islam's holiest sites.

Hypothesis: He wanted the American troops to get out of Arabia.


Premise: As Figure 6.6 shows, the safety stock needed to achieve a given customer service level is proportional to the standard deviation of the demand forecast.

Hypothesis: There are no instances where Figure 6.6 shows a picture of a kitten.


Premise: And he said, What's going on?

Hypothesis: I told him to mind his own business.


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

Hypothesis: I am sorry for Tuleja, who is grieving.


Premise: Just when you thought it was safe to assume that we now know all we are ever likely to know about the past, someone digs another hole and unearths (literally or figuratively) some ancient  one day it is a fragile scroll, found in a cave near the Dead Sea, that turns out to be pre-Biblical; the next day it is an entire terracotta army of Chinese  the next it is a skull, excavated from the Olduvai Gorge, that compels anthropologists (once again) to revise their guesses about the earliest stages of Homo sapiens sapiens vs hominids.

Hypothesis: We never really know everything there is to know about our past because every day someone will dig out treasures from the past, keeping anthropologists on their toes and guessing.


Premise: They assumed the fighter escort would be discreet, vectored to a position five miles directly behind the hijacked aircraft, where it could perform its mission to monitor the aircraft's flight path.

Hypothesis: The fighter jets were in position to shoot the plane down if needed.


Premise: I want to meet the coldest women'the women who get their diamonds and cars and then start to bawl about how sad and unlucky they've been.

Hypothesis: Women who have diamonds and cars should never complain about anything.


Premise: We have the chance to shape the future of IUPUI by what we choose to do here.

Hypothesis: The future of IUPUI lies in our hands only.


Premise: And you said, How do I get this tar off of me uncle?

Hypothesis: Did you seriously get tar on your uncle and you couldn't even figure out how to get it off?


Premise: The Herron School of Art and Gallery of Indiana University is contemporary art!

Hypothesis: Only contemporary art is housed in Herron's gallery.


Premise: Any dollar amount you wish to contribute is fine.

Hypothesis: You do not need to commit to a certain amount of money.


Premise: Understanding is the key.

Hypothesis: Understanding is the only important aspect


Premise: We are asking for your ten dollars to help fund our programs of Research, Education, and Patient Service and Rehabilitation.

Hypothesis: We do not accept contributions of less than ten dollars.


Premise: They must desire genuine communication and work toward attaining it.

Hypothesis: The communication they seek is very much unrealistic.


Premise: Well, who told you that story?

Hypothesis: You have forgotten who it was that told that story to you, haven't you?


Premise: Uh, let's see.

Hypothesis: I can't remember.


Premise: I guess I lay there unconscious awhile.

Hypothesis: I laid on the ground.


Premise: In addition to that behind-the-scenes role, MCCOY has taken an out-front role in developing a Summer Bus Pass, neighborhood youth councils, and the We Value Youth information line.

Hypothesis: MCCOY is focused primarily on developing for youths.


Premise: In some developing countries, workers are brought to the factories, which are generally located at the outer reaches of the local industrial infrastructure.

Hypothesis: In factories all over the world, workers need to figure out on their own how they can go to work.


Premise: Each narrative focused on a relatively exceptional personal experience.

Hypothesis: The narratives were each focused on a single experience.


Premise: At that time, and now later on she, she lives at the library just about.

Hypothesis: She became homeless as a result of her literature degree.


Premise: Does parenting really matter?

Hypothesis: Parents have little to do with how kids turn out.


Premise: My mom knows.

Hypothesis: My dad is unaware of this.


Premise: Other development applications allow designers to begin with an actual garment and make appropriate changes to achieve the desired design or construction modifications.

Hypothesis: Few development applications allow designers control over the actual garment and making appropriate changes to the desired design.


Premise: Where, where are you working now?

Hypothesis: You are still working in the same place, correct?


Premise: Not yet a reality, but often seriously discussed, is terraforming `aitering an extracterrestrial body to make it capable of supporting  Earth's life forms.

Hypothesis: Terraforming is a cruel practice that should never exist.


Premise: Because you are an organization that cares, you are invited once again to be an integral part of this fabulous event as a corporate sponsor for JCC Auction '99.

Hypothesis: This invitation to become a corporate sponsor will not be around for long.


Premise: No, it was first told to me by my grandmother, who is, um, was my first teacher, and remains my hero.

Hypothesis: My grandmother was the only one who read to me as a child.


Premise: We look forward to your written response, membership support, and having the opportunity to work with you.

Hypothesis: You are the only one we will work with.


Premise: When all the individual pieces of the garment have been modified and entered into the computer system, the final garment pattern is ready to be cut and sewn into a sample garment.

Hypothesis: You can't start cutting and sewing a garment before the individual pieces are entered into the computer system.


Premise: First, preschoolers easily misunderstand televised material.

Hypothesis: Televised material is meant for an older audience.


Premise: The firm was stocking out of the low demand items, which, as described above, suffered from relatively high demand variation.

Hypothesis: Stores need to stay away from items with high demand variations if they hope to make a profit.


Premise: Your gifts have helped him grow, too, by providing the training and support Joe's tutors have needed, buying the books, Joe used, and giving him the opportunity to meet and learn with other adult learners from Indianapolis and around the country.

Hypothesis: Without your gift, Joe would not have had the same experience or opportunity with Indy Reads.


Premise: In the Roman Catholic Church, for example, women can function as acolytes (one of the minor orders of the diaconate) but may not be officially installed as acolytes.

Hypothesis: Roman Catholic Church never officially recognized women as acolytes.


Premise: The second radio transmission, 35 seconds later, indicated that the fight was continuing.

Hypothesis: The flight never ended and kept going for a while.


Premise: When 3- and 4-year-olds use their newfound capacity to talk about mental states during play with friends, their understanding of false belief improves further.

Hypothesis: Children don't like false belief because it is wrong.


Premise: If a hijack was confirmed, procedures called for the hijack coordinator on duty to contact the Pentagon's National Military Command Center (NMCC) and to ask for a military escort aircraft to follow the flight, report anything unusual, and aid search and rescue in the event of an emergency.

Hypothesis: Once a hijacking is confirmed the Pentagon's National Military Command Center (NMCC) is supposed to be notified so they can order a military escort aircraft to follow the flight and report on anything suspicious, this didn't occur on 911.


Premise: It is difficult to place all the blame on Renfrew, for his editor should have noticed the lack of coherence.

Hypothesis: Renfrew's editor is an idiot.


Premise: It had been publicly declared years earlier, most notably in a declaration faxed early in 1998 to an Arabic-language newspaper in London.

Hypothesis: The newspaper did not bring up any concern to people in 1998.


Premise: I urge you to support your alma mater so that we can continue to make you proud of the degree that you hold from this institution.

Hypothesis: Without your support, we won't be able to continue making you proud of your degree.


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

Hypothesis: A negative profit margin means negative revenue.


Premise: The call lasted about two minutes, after which Policastro and a colleague tried unsuccessfully to contact the flight.

Hypothesis: There was no one available in the cockpit to answer the call.


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

Hypothesis: My father's side of the family didn't attend college.


Premise: That is, this is the last such request that will be penned from the Cavanaugh Hall address.

Hypothesis: We are burning down Cavanaugh hall to rid it of demons.


Premise: In the most extreme case, a stock-out might cause a customer to switch retailers, costing the lifetime value of that customer and others who might defect due to negative word-of-mouth.

Hypothesis: A customer is unlikely to switch retailers after five years.


Premise: Note that the I/S standard deviations control for differences in firm size.

Hypothesis: Firm size does not typically vary too greatly.


Premise: Let us consider the dust-jacket blurbs of Cobuild, CED , and two other native-speaker  the British Longman Dictionary of the English Language (Longman , 1984) and the American Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary ( W9 , 1983).

Hypothesis: There are no mistakes on the covers of any dictionaries,


Premise: Don't you think that will be hard if you move all the way up there, not seeing them as much?

Hypothesis: He doesn't think it will be hard for him at all. He hates his family.


Premise: There are also stories of subcontractors, in this country as well as overseas, crumpling a marker up so that when it is laid out again it will be just a little smaller in width and length'a trick to save a fraction of a percent from each piece.

Hypothesis: The subcontractors in this country as well as overseas work in cahoots.


Premise: The so-called diskette is a flat black square of rather tough plastic with a hole in the middle and an oblong slot on each of the flat sides; it is said to be 5 inches square, but that is a  as the only person who probably ever measured one of these things, I can tell you it is 5 3/16 inches square; that may seem irrelevant, but it is only the beginning of the Great Deception.

Hypothesis: Diskettes are not used any more,.


Premise: I can't think of anything, but it's been nice chatting with you.

Hypothesis: I don't want to talk to you any more.


Premise: Feminists ponder causes, implications.

Hypothesis: Feminists always consider the fall out.


Premise: He was paying him five bucks an hour and he would, he could work all day Wednesday and uh, but I believe it was on that job there, that Kavalo, that Dad said, Look boy you can read a tape measure better that this forty year old man can so I'll give you five bucks an hour if you prove you can do it.

Hypothesis: Dad couldn't read a tape measure well.


Premise: In short, while leaders in Washington believed that the fighters above them had been instructed to take out hostile aircraft, the only orders actually conveyed to the pilots were to ID type and tail.

Hypothesis: As a result, the hijacked planes were allowed to remain in the air.


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

Hypothesis: Bin Laden hated the country if Sudan.


Premise: In some respects, it may not be long before certain aspects of dialect geography will be largely historical.

Hypothesis: Dialect geography isn't important anymore like it used to be.


Premise: Had Jessica been thinking about Tyrone's  zone,  she might have framed the items on her list this

Hypothesis: Jessica hadn't considered Tyrone's zone when she was dealing with her list.


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: Parents have no reason to try when it comes to raising their kids.


Premise: We need your participation in our activities and your financial support to help make our goals happen.

Hypothesis: You financial support can only be accepted in donations of 100 dollar bills.


Premise: If approval was given, the orders would be transmitted down NORAD's chain of command.

Hypothesis: The orders never got approved.


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

Hypothesis: I am sorry for Tuleja.


Premise: The controller continued to try to contact United 93, and asked whether the pilot could confirm that he had been hijacked.

Hypothesis: The controller never got a response from the pilot of United 93.


Premise: IUPUI's goals for the 1990s, in the context of Indiana University's statewide plans, call for improving undergraduate education, enhancing relationships with the community , and strengthening research that will stimulate Indiana's economic growth.

Hypothesis: The economic growth of Indiana was very poor in the 1990's.


Premise: The Vice President authorized fighter aircraft to engage the inbound plane.

Hypothesis: The plane was trying to avoid the fighters.


Premise: He tried the radios, first calling the aircraft directly, then the airline.

Hypothesis: The airline didn't know where he was.


Premise: They took out all the rest (of the shrapnel), but the one in his eyebrow, they couldn't get it out.

Hypothesis: He was lucky he did not get any shrapnel in his eye.


Premise: Walked through her bedroom around 6:30, seven o'clock in the morning you know.

Hypothesis: She was still sleeping when I walked through her room.


Premise: As we strive to continue and improve upon our efforts for the community, it is our hope that you will join us by providing Keep Indianapolis Beautiful with a generous gift.

Hypothesis: Without your support, Keep Indianapolis Beautiful could not do the work it does.


Premise: From this and other evidence, we believe the hijacking began at 8:14 or shortly thereafter.

Hypothesis: The 9/11 hijackings all occurred on the same day.


Premise: The business grew and eventually, he was helping thousands nationwide.

Hypothesis: Without his company growing he wouldn't be able to reach as many people.


Premise: The whole idea of such a procedure is enough to make one sweat bullets.

Hypothesis: The procedure has a mediocre success rate.


Premise: The operation was carried out principally, perhaps exclusively, by Saudi Hezbollah, an organization that had received support from the government of Iran.

Hypothesis: The operation was carried out by Saudi Hezbollah without any help from anyone other than Iran's financial support.


Premise: The pilots knew their mission was to divert aircraft, but did not know that the threat came from hijacked airliners.

Hypothesis: They were not even successful at diverting the aircraft from their intended course.


Premise: The going gets tougher, however, as the two meanings of the answer move further

Hypothesis: If it gets too hard, they will all give up.


Premise: A member of the Muslim Brotherhood executed in 1966 on charges of attempting to overthrow the government, Qutb mixed Islamic scholarship with a very superficial acquaintance with Western history and thought.

Hypothesis: The member swore that he was innocent of all charges.


Premise: These funds would insure that scholarships are available to students as long as there are students to support.

Hypothesis: The funds are only given to academically successful students


Premise: At best, experience with different combinations of waist sizes and leg lengths for a given design allows a scheduler to aggregate the units to be made into groups of large and small sizes, which means marker-makers can achieve efficiencies near 90 percent for casual pants.

Hypothesis: Marker-makers can only achieve efficiencies of 80 percent if they do not aggregate the units to be made into groups of large and small sizes.


Premise: There is a term in English for a tennis player reaching a height, for a brief stretch or longer, when he cannot miss, and tennis people call it zoning .  I have not heard it used in other cases, but when used it seems to equal tener duende .  I do not know whether that use of duende has reached Portuguese speakers in Brazil or Portugal, but if it has not, it probably will soon, because so many Portuguese speakers are bilingual in Spanish.

Hypothesis: Zoning does not seem like it could be possible.


Premise: I mean, like my junior year of high school the first dress I ever owned was my junior year prom dress!

Hypothesis: Most people wear their prom dresses only once.


Premise: In order to study performance we must first examine how different manufacturing practices fit together for suppliers.

Hypothesis: There isn't enough data to conduct a comprehensive analysis of manufacturing practices.


Premise: Contact my office in the fall for the schedule and listing of this years' artists.

Hypothesis: If you don't contact us by the fall, you will have no idea what artists are scheduled for this year.


Premise: And who could blame him?

Hypothesis: He had no idea, why would he be guilty?


Premise: Retailers have an incentive to stock high levels of  They want both to provide sufficient display stock to attract customers'empty shelves are not inviting'and to have products available for those who wish to purchase them.

Hypothesis: Empty shelves are routinely turning customers away from stores.


Premise: When most people think of apparel design, they see fashion designers and models on runways.

Hypothesis: Fashion designers and models are a small part of apparel design.


Premise: Because of your past support, Girl Scouts has been able to reach out to more of our future leaders---our girls.

Hypothesis: The girls in the program could not have done it without your financial assistance.


Premise: The President and the Vice President The President was seated in a classroom when, at 9:05, Andrew Card whispered to  A second plane hit the second tower.

Hypothesis: By the time the third plane hit, the President was on his way to an undisclosed location.


Premise: According to Campbell, the only godlike female figure in the Bible is the Virgin Mary, and she appears, identified as virgin, only in the Gospel according to Luke.

Hypothesis: There were lots of god like females in the bible, titled goddesses.


Premise: They may at least begin to suggest the considerable language barrier between my hosts and me.

Hypothesis: My host and I speak the same language.


Premise: Basic items also represent a major percentage of all apparel goods sold.

Hypothesis: Prom dresses make up the largest percentage of apparel goods sold.


Premise: In studies following children from infancy into childhood and adolescence, early brief episodes of parental stimulation and sensitivity did not result in more competent children.

Hypothesis: Early parental stimulation greatly affect the competency of a child as proven by countless tests.


Premise: It is a pivotal time in the life of a young girl-when small changes in her behavior, or the choices she makes, can affect her future.

Hypothesis: It is important to help young girls with the choices that they make.


Premise: The paper marker identifies each piece in the layout so that the cloth pieces for individual apparel items can be put together after the fabric is cut.

Hypothesis: The paper marker makes putting together the items more efficient.


Premise: Please send the largest contribution you can comfortably make.

Hypothesis: Send us everything you have no matter the price you have to pay.


Premise: Under  L,  entries include Latin/Greek , defined by Aphra Behn, cited in Dale Spender's book, as `Secret codes supplied through an education traditionally denied women.

Hypothesis: Women have always had the same opportunities as men.


Premise: We provide free counseling and support services to them through our office in Birmingham, and we have camping and adventure services for them here on our Lake Martin Campus.

Hypothesis: In the Birmingham office, you can avail of skiing services, whereas our Lake Martin Campus features exposure therapy.


Premise: Levi's uses proprietary software to make these modifications, but other software systems are commercially available for modifying standard patterns and producing a marker to guide fabric cutting.

Hypothesis: Levi's is an example of a big company that still sticks to manual methods of production.


Premise: When I first came to Goodwill I was a single parent with little or no self-esteem.

Hypothesis: I was excited for the discounted items at the Goodwill.


Premise: We are the only statewide not-for-profit organization whose primary mission is child abuse prevention.

Hypothesis: There are many not-for-profit organizations whose primary mission is child abuse prevention.


Premise: They were, um, they were best-seller type fiction from the um, 40's and 50's and 60's and on, just, they were members of a book club and they got a lot of books that way.

Hypothesis: The monthly book club sent a lot of books.


Premise: They assumed the fighter escort would be discreet, vectored to a position five miles directly behind the hijacked aircraft, where it could perform its mission to monitor the aircraft's flight path.

Hypothesis: The fighter jets stayed far enough away to track the plane.


Premise: I said to him, that they want to do in that meeting?

Hypothesis: The question wasn't exactly clear, so he didn't understand.


Premise: Because teaching a man to fish will keep him fed for his entire life.

Hypothesis: It is better to help a person to become self-sufficient rather than reliant on others


Premise: That's a little bit of pressure, though.

Hypothesis: That amount of pressure will kill anyone.


Premise: Vivacious, stimulating parental behavior, including frequent questioning, instructing, and pointing out objects, is beneficial for reserved, inactive infants; it helps them become interested in and engaged with novel toys.

Hypothesis: Children that are stimulated by parents are more likely to be afraid of novel toys.


Premise: A favorite story about anything?

Hypothesis: You may talk about any story that you have liked.


Premise: But stories I remember hearing one of uh, I believe it was Marsha uh, the wind caught the storm door there she was, she was uh, hanging on to the back storm door and I guess pulled it open a little bit to see what was going on and the wind caught it and threw her right out in the yard.

Hypothesis: The best story about storms I have ever heard was about Marsha getting thrown out into the yard when the wind caught the door she was opening.


Premise: The interest in man's forebears did not become fashionable upon the publication, a few years ago, of Roots : on a far larger scale, we have been trying to discover all we can about the origins not of men but of man.

Hypothesis: The public was always interested in male origins.


Premise: It is unlike Dr. Aman to cloak his subject'dirty language'under the euphemism  verbal aggression : he and most of the authors of the articles appearing in Maledicta let it all hang out; some, however, tuck it away neatly and write under a pseudonym.

Hypothesis: Everyone dealing with 'dirty language' prefers to write under a pseudonym.


Premise: The parallels with the information integration now occurring in retail-apparel-textile channels'this time driven by advances in computer and related technologies'are striking.

Hypothesis: Information integration is primarily recorded on paper.


Premise: This is demonstrated in a variety of  a shared literacy and the assumptions and biases that go with it; an awareness of what books are for; consciousness and use of innumerable cultural allusions and educated idioms; and a relative ease in reading a periodical called VERBATIM, with sections called OBITER DICTA and EPISTOLAE.

Hypothesis: VERBATIM was an article written once in the New York Times in the late 1960s.


Premise: This could be a third aircraft.

Hypothesis: The airplane is the third aircraft, beyond all doubt.


Premise: He said he had not heard any prior discussion on the subject with the President.

Hypothesis: He heard about it in an earlier discussion with the President.


Premise: Beginning in the 1970s, retailers expanded their offshore sourcing efforts, especially after quality standards improved, establishing sourcing offices and relationships in low-wage countries, particularly in Asia.

Hypothesis: The offices in Asia charged high prices to retailers, destroying their relationship.


Premise: One day when the wind chill factor was nearing absolute zero, I took shelter in the service club.

Hypothesis: I suffered through the cold.


Premise: I was a mistake.

Hypothesis: I feel wanted.


Premise: For example, close to 50 percent of the value of shipments for men's shirts comes from the cost of materials, while 25 percent arises from compensation costs.

Hypothesis: The cost of materials for men's shirts is greater than the compensation costs.


Premise: We have already described some specific ways that managers can think about integration of new information technologies and manufacturing practices.

Hypothesis: Managers can think about integration of new technologies in any of the ways we have described.


Premise: Your contribution will help with funding so Jameson Camp can continue providing the year-round camping experience that gives kids a chance to create dreams.

Hypothesis: The Jameson Camp is fully funded with internal money


Premise: The ability to keep learning, to keep discovering, and to keep inventing becomes even more important if we are to compete in tomorrow's world.

Hypothesis: We can afford to slack a little in today's world because the competition is very weak.


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 trying these theories have a lot to learn from others who have been there before.


Premise: Additionally, there is a tremendous need to upgrade the technological infrastructure of the school.

Hypothesis: The technological infrastructure of the dental school is currently state-of-the-art.


Premise: I would like to look for a job in education, possibly teaching elementary school, um, hopefully up north I would rather do that up north, so--

Hypothesis: I enjoy teaching and education and would like to live in the north.


Premise: They made up stories sometimes, my mother in particular, she made up stories.

Hypothesis: My mother was fond of making up stories.


Premise: Well, probably the favorite book I had, this is a little different I had The Giant Golden Book of Astronomy, which I got when I was in the second grade and I read it cover to cover till I wore it out.

Hypothesis: I read The Giant Golden Book of Astronomy many times.


Premise: Neither do we.

Hypothesis: We also don't wish that.


Premise: It is important, too, to note that writing systems are  for instance, Polish is written (today) using the Roman alphabet, but Russian, a related Slavic language, uses the Cyrillic; Yiddish, a Germanic language, is written in Hebrew characters; Latin, Greek, and Sanskrit, which resemble one another rather closely in some respects, all use different alphabets; and early examples, utterly unrecognizable to untrained readers of modern languages, were written in cuneiform, quite suitable for writing on soft clay tablets with a pointed stylus, and hieroglyphics.

Hypothesis: Every language has exactly the same writing system


Premise: Those accounts had the effect of deflecting questions about the military's capacity to obtain timely and accurate information from its own sources.

Hypothesis: As a result, the military faced less scrutiny about its information-gathering.


Premise: In the 16th century the word was also a  `to run through, run across.

Hypothesis: The word had another additional meaning in the 16th century.


Premise: Your contribution--large or small-- through the Annual Fund will carry us one more step toward realizing the Purdue dream for the 21st century.

Hypothesis: No matter what the size your contributions are important to us.


Premise: Islam is divided into two main branches, Sunni and Shia.

Hypothesis: Sunni and Shia are the same and are friendly.


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 full of nuances.


Premise: So I think maybe, reading for young people, is not as important.

Hypothesis: I know that the younger generation values reading much, much more then our own generation.


Premise: Although changes in how managers orchestrate production flow through the sewing room are starting to make a difference, shifts in the practices of shop-floor workers have more to do with new human resource policies than equipment.

Hypothesis: Equipment is the biggest reason there have been shifts in the practices of shop-floor workers.


Premise: I have nobody here to guide me.

Hypothesis: My great aunt has been helping me with getting around the city.


Premise: On October 29th, a BBC Radio Scotland program was running a competition in which people calling in were asked to spell ventriloquist and kibbutz (among other words, presumably); several callers with  older  voices'they certainly were not children'were unable to do so; does that mean that the Scots are to be excepted from the QES campaign  to compel all children to study formal grammar up to the age of 16  or that the rot set in long ago?

Hypothesis: The older Scots could spell al the words easily.


Premise: I picture muskrats wallowing about in the mire and paddling sluggishly through the water, but I wouldn't call that rambling.

Hypothesis: A group of muskrats showed up and startled me.


Premise: Adjective, being before especially in time or arrangement

Hypothesis: Adjectives always refer to a certain time.


Premise: [I]mmigrants are cheap and controllable.

Hypothesis: Immigrants are top notch workers, and they demand excellent wages.


Premise: Only smooth and clever entry into the make-believe activity'for example, inviting the dolls and stuffed animals to get up for breakfast'could lure Mattie into starting the  real  part of her day without protest.

Hypothesis: Mattie prefers her stuffed animals and dolls to join her for breakfast.


Premise: My friend, a punster, spotted the fact that the plate nicely violated the no  offensive  plates rule.

Hypothesis: My friend noticed that the cup was full of piping hot coffee.


Premise: As a nonexpert, although interested, subscriber to VERBATIM, it is  a bit mysterious  to me that the singular noun absence takes the plural verb are .  I refer to the first sentence of your article about the Longman Dictionary [XV,1].

Hypothesis: The author is concerned about the verb use in VERBATIM magazine.


Premise: Uh, well, would you care to relate the story to me now?

Hypothesis: I hope I conveyed the message of the story clearly to you.


Premise: Tomorrow will be another day for the kids, they rationalize, but a business deal or a professional achievement, if not capitalized on at the moment, may evaporate.

Hypothesis: They quit their jobs because they know their time with their children is limited.


Premise: Given the predominant share of workers in assembly, organization of work in the sewing room has been the central focus of management attention.

Hypothesis: Management attention has been focused mostly on providing good benefits for workers.


Premise: You may recall from my earlier letter regarding our 50th reunion that a room in the Union Building has been reserved for our use following the banquet on Friday.

Hypothesis: I clearly indicated in my letter that we reserved a room in the Union Building.


Premise: I don't remember, but only, only a fractured collarbone, which I recommend to anyone that needs to break a bone, break a collarbone.

Hypothesis: The worst bone to break is a collarbone.


Premise: The opportunities presented by the Ruth Lilly Outdoor Center offer these kids learning experiences not available in the inner-city environment.

Hypothesis: There are only some types of experiences available in an inner-city environment.


Premise: Aman evidently disagrees, for his writing is peppered (salted?)

Hypothesis: Bob's writing is delicious.


Premise: Concurrently, we are undertaking three new program  an undergraduate program in civil engineering with an emphasis on the environment; an undergraduate program in industrial engineering with a focus on manufacturing; and graduate programs leading to the M.S.

Hypothesis: The organization wants to fund three new projects.


Premise: As the tax year draws to a close I would like to urge you to make a tax deductible contribution for the support of Women's Studies.

Hypothesis: Make sure you donate to this year's fundraiser especially since its tax deductible.


Premise: Our state appropriation is not now -nor has it ever been --sufficient to fund, for example, all of the costs associated with faculty research, student programs, scholarships, seminars, guest speakers, and the law library.

Hypothesis: We need to be given more funding in order to run the school.


Premise: I mean, like my junior year of high school the first dress I ever owned was my junior year prom dress!

Hypothesis: I had many dresses before my junior prom year.


Premise: Ooh, one of my three older sisters.

Hypothesis: I am the eldest of my sisters.


Premise: I see the rather boring point about using alumni to cover both men and women, and I quite agree that the use of relatively newer and less widely used terms like authoress, aviatrix , and poetess seems to be a deliberate, unwarranted attempt to identify someone as a female; but a graduate of the feminine gender is a `woman graduate' = alumna , the `first woman dancer in a ballet company' is a prima ballerina (I've never heard of a  prime ballerino ), and a `woman opera star' is a diva or prima donna .  I hesitate to point out that we use prima donna of men, too, because my critics will say that they disapprove of the term's second life as designating a  temperamental person of either sex.

Hypothesis: Alumna means a graduate of any gender.


Premise: Some, like French, Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese, had more in common with one another than they did with, say, German, English, Swedish, Danish, and Dutch, which, in turn, bore only a remote resemblance to Russian and Polish, on the one hand, and the two extant varieties of, say, Gaelic, on the other.

Hypothesis: Romance languages bear similarities to one another, but they differ from English and German.


Premise: Fulfillment of this goal requires full participation from members of the Indiana Dental Association.

Hypothesis: We can fulfill this goal with or without the help of the members of the Indiana Dental Association.


Premise: After consulting with NEADS command, the crew commander issued the order at 9:23:Okay . . . scramble Langley.

Hypothesis: The scramble order was executed by Langley immediately.


Premise: These include toys, books, television, computers, special lessons, weekend outings, time with grandparents and other extended family members, as well as the quality of child care, schooling, and the neighborhood they choose to live in (depending, of course, on the extent to which communities oer viable choices).

Hypothesis: They include toys and outings as things that shape kids.


Premise: One wonders whether the marriage had secretly taken place between the consecutive chapters!

Hypothesis: A secret marriage definitely happened.


Premise: My father didn't read anything in terms of what you'd call a book, uh, but he was analytical of the Sport of Kings, and, so would peruse the paper to check on that . But, uh, my mother, uh, you know, didn't read a whole lot, but spent a lot of time reading to me, uh, my being an only child.

Hypothesis: My father reads a lot, especially complicated books.


Premise: The hijackers attacked sometime between 8:42 and 8:46.

Hypothesis: Sometime between 8:42 and 8:46 the hijackers bought a coffee from the starbucks at the airport.


Premise: I find it difficult to imagine a people more hospitable, more generous with their time, than the Japanese who took care of me.

Hypothesis: The Japanese who cared for me were the most friendly, hospitable people I have ever met.


Premise: Over the past three decades, external forces impinging on the family have transformed parents' and, therefore, children's lives.

Hypothesis: Children are exclusively influenced and transformed by how their parents act and behave.


Premise: Giving $50 club sponsor provides supplies needed for one club $100 camper sponsor provides one child a whole week of fun at camp.

Hypothesis: As you can see, just a small donation can make a big difference.


Premise: We reach out to kids -- especially those from disadvantaged neighborhoods where the risks are highest.

Hypothesis: We want to help the disadvantaged people more


Premise: So you see the purpose of this fund is about need and helping worthy, but less fortunate students, who without your help would not be able to attend the school of their choice.

Hypothesis: Any student, regardless of need, can apply for financial assistance from the fund.


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

Hypothesis: The artistic contribution's from Herron will help the city grow.


Premise: Duende meant `hobgoblin,' `sprite,' or `ghost' in Spanish for a long time, but it is not known when it acquired its artistic coloration.

Hypothesis: Duende has had many meanings, but all were similar.


Premise: I just loved Cinderella . I also saw my sisters as the wicked stepsisters sometimes , and I was Cinderella, running around waiting on them.

Hypothesis: My sisters were very similar in temperament to the wicked stepsisters from Cinderella.


Premise: Lush, green fields that stretched for miles, wisps of white clouds scattered across a clear, blue sky, tranquil silence broken only by cheerful bird songs, the fresh, sweet scent of morning air.

Hypothesis: The fields were full of strawberry crops.


Premise: As you begin that process this year, I would like to ask you to consider helping young people in Marion County toward more positive youth development by becoming a supporter of the Marion County Commission on Youth, Inc.

Hypothesis: The Commission on Young Scam Artists needs your help now more than ever.


Premise: Most federal agencies learned about the crash in New York from CNN.

Hypothesis: CNN's broadcast was the first most federal agencies learned of the crash.


Premise: The opposite of point-blank is hanging fire , `undecided, up in the air.

Hypothesis: Blunt hanging fire is the same as up in the air.


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: Retailers must consider many other things besides just customer demand when deciding how much stock to carry.


Premise: Just when you thought it was safe to assume that we now know all we are ever likely to know about the past, someone digs another hole and unearths (literally or figuratively) some ancient  one day it is a fragile scroll, found in a cave near the Dead Sea, that turns out to be pre-Biblical; the next day it is an entire terracotta army of Chinese  the next it is a skull, excavated from the Olduvai Gorge, that compels anthropologists (once again) to revise their guesses about the earliest stages of Homo sapiens sapiens vs hominids.

Hypothesis: We already know everything there is to know about our past, nothing can ever change that.


Premise: In short, while leaders in Washington believed that the fighters above them had been instructed to take out hostile aircraft, the only orders actually conveyed to the pilots were to ID type and tail.

Hypothesis: The fighters had been ordered to take out all hostile aircraft.


Premise: '  However, similar expressions in French, Spanish, and Judezmo, all mentioning numbers, give pause (they are listed in Jewish Language Review 7, 1987, p.

Hypothesis: Expressions in other languages mentioning numbers, give pause.


Premise: In any case, on May 19, 1996, Bin Ladin left Sudan-significantly weakened, despite his ambitions and organizational skills.

Hypothesis: The evil man set up permanent shock in Sudan.


Premise: I think she must have enjoyed it because she read them to us too.

Hypothesis: She was tired of reading to people.


Premise: The hijacking began between 8:51 and 8:54.

Hypothesis: Sometime between 8:51 and 8:54 the hijacking was prevented from happening by air marshalls.


Premise: Also, if you enter jump , you get the synonyms for that; but if you enter jumped , you get the (same) synonyms but inflected'including the variants leapt, leaped for leap . All in all, for a relatively primitive system, it is not too bad; but you would have to be in love with your computer to use it in preference to a far more complete books of synonyms available (especially The Synonym Finder , Rodale in the U.S. and Canada, Longman elsewhere, which offers more than 800,000 synonyms, more than three times the number listed in any other synonym book).

Hypothesis: The Synonym Finder has the most synonyms of any synonym book.


Premise: It took me really a long time to sort what was going on in my mind out,  she said.

Hypothesis: She now knows what was going on in her mind.


Premise: American Airlines dispatchers also tried, without success.

Hypothesis: The dispatchers were trying to help.


Premise: And just as important, I invite you to renew your partnership with The Salvation Army by sending a contribution, once again, today.

Hypothesis: Your donation to The Salvation Army is important.


Premise: This year 20,349 girls are members of our Council.

Hypothesis: There's a huge number of girls who became members this year.


Premise: Please show your support and make a gift.

Hypothesis: A gift would be greatly appreciated.


Premise: Na, that's the only one they told me.

Hypothesis: They told me millions of different ones.


Premise: Consider, for instance, how many store clerks still scan items incorrectly at the register.

Hypothesis: Store clerks are specially trained to scan with pinpoint accuracy and honed focus.


Premise: To change the size of the item to be cut, the die must be removed and a new one installed.

Hypothesis: The old die can be used as many times as desired to change the size of the item to be cut.


Premise: Unfortunately, most American employers do not provide this option, and many parents'especially, single parents'cannot aord it.

Hypothesis: Every parent is entitled care afforded by this option.


Premise: Map 33 shows the distribution of child (most of southern England) and of bairn (north of a slightly wavy line between Boston, on the Wash to the east, and Lancaster, on the west coast).

Hypothesis: In Map 33 we see the areas where the words child and bairn were popular.


Premise: She recalled first telling the President it was a twin-engine aircraft-and then a commercial aircraft-that had struck the World Trade Center, adding that's all we know right now, Mr. President.

Hypothesis: The president found out about the crash from watching tv.


Premise: It has been suggested that SF include only those stories which would be invalidated without their scientific content;  that fiction which concerns science, scientists, and the impact of science on humans;  that which explores alternate existences (whether future, extraterrestrial, or only in characters' minds) based on facts and logical progression via scientific method.

Hypothesis: Everyone agrees that SF stories can ignore facts and logic.


Premise: However, it didn't seem to be so horrifying.

Hypothesis: It seemed so horrifying at the beginning.


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 used past events to spur on the people now.


Premise: When Bond Stores had customers lining up around the block to buy suits,  casual wear,  as we know it today, did not exist.

Hypothesis: Many people line up around the block for many things such as iPhones.


Premise: The headword is syllabified in W , not in L .  In older dictionaries the words are syllabified mainly to help in pronouncing them; latterly, syllabication has been used largely to find where a word can be hyphenated at the end of a line of text, though, judging by today's newspapers and magazines, one would be sore put to believe that a dictionary had ever been within the grasp of their editors, proofreaders, or the programmers who wrote the hyphenation programs for the automatic typesetting many of them now employ.

Hypothesis: Newspaper and magazine editors do a poor job of properly hyphenating words.


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

Hypothesis: Adult support the child no matter that happens.


Premise: Some, like French, Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese, had more in common with one another than they did with, say, German, English, Swedish, Danish, and Dutch, which, in turn, bore only a remote resemblance to Russian and Polish, on the one hand, and the two extant varieties of, say, Gaelic, on the other.

Hypothesis: The Russian language is very similar in form and structure to French and Spanish.


Premise: Because they were living in a, in an apartment basically.

Hypothesis: For that stretch of time, they were homeless.


Premise: Although by age 4 children know that not all TV programming is real, they judge TV reality according to whether the images resemble people and objects in everyday life.

Hypothesis: Some children never figure out that some TV programming is not real.


Premise: In other words, the savings created in throughput reduction in assembly were lost on the shipping dock.

Hypothesis: The shipping dock proved to be more of a cost than the savings created in other areas.


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: For employers, rewarding workers with better conditions had unforeseen consequences.


Premise: Some machines have an automatic thread-trimmer to do this step; if not, then the threads must be cut and the finished work put in an appropriate pile to be tied together when all the pieces of the bundle have been finished.

Hypothesis: Every machine has an automatic thread-trimmer to do this step.


Premise: I don't remember, but only, only a fractured collarbone, which I recommend to anyone that needs to break a bone, break a collarbone.

Hypothesis: The collarbone is the best bone to break.


Premise: It's not a family story.

Hypothesis: It makes a good bedtime story.


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: Men's names come after women's, they are therefore a subjugated group.


Premise: State financial support is unlikely to increase significantly during the remainder of this decade.

Hypothesis: The state has substantially increased spending for all manner of financial support services.


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: Genes are one of the largest determinants of how children turn out.


Premise: He did not know that other aircraft had been hijacked.

Hypothesis: He didn't know about the plane hijacking for awhile.


Premise: By the 1990s, high birthrates and declining rates of infant mortality had produced a common problem throughout the Muslim  a large, steadily increasing population of young men without any reasonable expectation of suitable or steady employment-a sure prescription for social turbulence.

Hypothesis: The Muslims have a good chance of working well and stably.


Premise: If approval was given, the orders would be transmitted down NORAD's chain of command.

Hypothesis: The orders required approval to be given to proceed.


Premise: Once constructed, this persisting psychological self serves as an anchor for unique experiences, which are retained easily as long as they become personally meaningful.

Hypothesis: Personally meaningful unique experiences are always retained easily.


Premise: In many other places, the ancient sites lay buried'and still do'beneath modern  modern property owners quite understandably take a dim view of tearing down their buildings on the off chance that the remnants of an ancient town will be found several yards below.

Hypothesis: All ancient places have been investigated.


Premise: I pointed out to him that if they made available a proper manual the number of calls could probably be reduced to 6,000.

Hypothesis: I believe a manual would have helped the situation.


Premise: At that point, the second call was cut off.

Hypothesis: The second call continued for hours.


Premise: At 9:57, the passenger assault began.

Hypothesis: The passengers were too scared to fight back.


Premise: These funds would insure that scholarships are available to students as long as there are students to support.

Hypothesis: The funds are planned to be used to help the homeless people


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 more trouble with false-belief tasks than industrialized nation's children.


Premise: In this way, the adult evokes from the child his or her current knowledge and, on that basis, can scaold more eectively.

Hypothesis: The most effective way to scaffold is by determining the child's current level of knowledge.


Premise: Yet the income gap in free time is not large; financially well-o individuals average only 2 to 4 hours a week less free time than do their less economically advantaged counterparts.

Hypothesis: The free time is the same regardless of income.


Premise: And I said, I don't have anybody, I said, hidden away.

Hypothesis: I can show you where the runaway is.


Premise: The other is of the newer, playful genre, often referred to as  cryptic ; but this designation is by no means universal.

Hypothesis: The new genre is absurd and people just don't understand it.


Premise: Al Qaeda members could travel freely within the country, enter and exit it without visas or any immigration procedures, purchase and import vehicles and weapons, and enjoy the use of official Afghan Ministry of Defense license plates.

Hypothesis: Al Qaeda members had unlimited powers within the country, could purchase and import weapons and vehicles and could travel freely without visas.


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 those most able to establish a dividing line between workplace and home are always poorer.


Premise: It is unlike Dr. Aman to cloak his subject'dirty language'under the euphemism  verbal aggression : he and most of the authors of the articles appearing in Maledicta let it all hang out; some, however, tuck it away neatly and write under a pseudonym.

Hypothesis: Some who specialize in offensive language are more comfortable using offensive language than others.


Premise: Al Qaeda leaders set up a Nairobi cell and used it to send weapons and trainers to the Somali warlords battling U.S. forces, an operation directly supervised by al Qaeda's military leader.

Hypothesis: Al Qaeda and Somali warlords had a mutual relationship


Premise: Gifts to the Chancellor's Circle will help pay travel costs to our city and campus for prospective faculty and their spouses, along with some relocation costs.

Hypothesis: Donations to this fund help us to recruit talented faculty to join our institution.


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 use a crystal ball to forecast and develop inventory models they know will be successful.


Premise: ...One nation, invisible.

Hypothesis: The greatest nation.


Premise: Thanks to our Big Sisters volunteers, these young people are self-confident, believe in themselves and are beginning to realize their full potential.

Hypothesis: Many mentored young people don't realize their full potential.


Premise: A robust economy helps by providing job opportunities, but to be honest, most of the people who aren't working today are quite simply the ones who face the greatest obstacles.

Hypothesis: Unemployed people have an easier time finding jobs even in a bad economy.


Premise: I recently purchased a new computer, and, because it operated on a system different from the one of my old computer, I asked a few friends to recommend a word-processing package that I might.find useful.

Hypothesis: I already knew how to use the OS that my new machine runs.


Premise: Finally, as children participate in narratives and listen to those of others, they acquire culturally accepted ways for negotiating clashing viewpoints.

Hypothesis: Hearing differing narratives causes children to cling more tightly to their world views.


Premise: In particular, advanced practices in distribution and modular production interact with each other because they both reduce throughput time.

Hypothesis: One should certainly expect that distribution and modular production practices are combined to reduce the average time to complete processes.


Premise: If you'd like to make a donation at a later date, please indicate your pledge on the invoice and return it to us.

Hypothesis: We appreciate you indicating your pledged amount on the invoice.


Premise: This machine picks up cut material from a carousel at one end and delivers finished sleeves at the other.

Hypothesis: The machine will take cut materials and will turn out a completed garment every time.


Premise: It is not widely recognized that in our community there are families in need.

Hypothesis: The families in our community are all wealthy.


Premise: We use terms like Neanderthal Man, Peking Man , etc., without believing for a moment that there were no Neanderthal or Peking women (leaving aside Peking Toms).

Hypothesis: The Neanderthal Man was of course a generation where only Men survived.


Premise: The computer, on command, then connects the image of the points on its screen with a series of line segments that form the silhouette of the pattern piece.

Hypothesis: The computer sputters and crashes when the command is entered.


Premise: Bodenheim adds a   Most of the above-listed terms are peculiar to Harlem, but some of them are also used by whites in other sections.

Hypothesis: Harlem is full of the above-listed items


Premise: Determining the degree to which a supplier benefits from its technological investments is the real issue.

Hypothesis: It's been easy to quantify the benefits technological investment has brought to suppliers.


Premise: That is not entirely true, for linguists know too much about language to suggest that there ever was, literally, a single language from which all Indo-European languages descended.

Hypothesis: The one language from which all Indo-European languages descended will be announced soon.


Premise: Not too many stories about Grandmom and Grandpop though they were pretty quiet.

Hypothesis: Turns out my grandparents were some of the wildest people you'll ever meet.


Premise: Al Qaeda leaders set up a Nairobi cell and used it to send weapons and trainers to the Somali warlords battling U.S. forces, an operation directly supervised by al Qaeda's military leader.

Hypothesis: Al Qaeda and Somali warlords were against each other in war.


Premise: It seems silly to separate Gruy?¨re the cheese from Gruy?¨re the place in Switzerland whence it comes' indeed, the latter is not even an entry in the geographical sections of either dictionary.

Hypothesis: The Gruy and the cheese and important to separate


Premise: If you believe that balderdash, you'll believe anything.

Hypothesis: Most people, even the intelligent, discerning ones, fall for that.


Premise: You and I have done some important work together.

Hypothesis: The work we have accomplished together is very important.


Premise: At least two callers from the flight reported that the hijackers knew that passengers were making calls but did not seem to care.

Hypothesis: The hijackers confiscated the phones of every passenger.


Premise: There are several critical areas which cannot be funded by the citizens of the State of Indiana, and without these programs our school cannot completely fulfill its mission.

Hypothesis: The citizens of Indiana are the only ones who can fund the school.


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: A coefficient can indeed rise up to ten for wildly fluctuating weekly demand.


Premise: The IUPUI Challenger Scholars are chosen from among outstanding students in the humanities, sciences, technologies and education who have chosen to pursue careers in teaching, at any level.

Hypothesis: We choose all students who apply for the IUPUI scholarship.


Premise: But there, as everywhere else, nothing can interfere with progress and, regardless of the finds and their importance, the archaeologist must eventually yield to the bulldozer.

Hypothesis: Change is inevitable.


Premise: hydrox It is wildly improbable that this is the name of a cookie and not a many-headed, bovine monster.

Hypothesis: The name of the cookie is, in reality, probably a foul monster's name.


Premise: Adding the Japanese final vowels produces Gone with the Windo .  Hypercorrection, where Japanese speakers learn that many final vowels do not exist in the American version of the tongue and so remove them, sometimes incorrectly, gives us the California cities of San Francisk and Sacrament .  This process resulted in the sign reading Pizz and Coffee .

Hypothesis: The final vowel in Japanese words doesn't always exist in English ones, so the Japanese often drop syllables at the end of words.


Premise: Yeah, he had a guy that would help him on Wednesdays, it was the local barber.

Hypothesis: He knew the local barber.


Premise: Command  Uh, do we want to think, uh, about scrambling aircraft?

Hypothesis: We need to keep all planes on the ground.


Premise: over the moon `elated'

Hypothesis: Sad and very depressed.


Premise: The best traditional retailers were also good at merchandising.

Hypothesis: Good merchandising is key to being one of the best traditional sellers.


Premise: This fall alumni and students at the Indiana University School of Law Indianapolis will initiate several programs to encourage alumni support for the school.

Hypothesis: The students are working hard to get more money for the school.


Premise: I didn't hit nothing.

Hypothesis: I hit the vase.


Premise: Inevitably, some of the entries are more imaginative than others; Dickson will have his hands full if everyone responds giving private words.

Hypothesis: Every entire contains unique immaginatives with no dullness.


Premise: Sharing information and current knowledge of the market across channel players achieves some of the same objectives'at lower cost'of formally reaching forward or backward into markets.

Hypothesis: It is better to reach backward into markets than share information because it harms the competition.


Premise: Yet a tension exists between its desire to provide customers with a changing variety of apparel fashions and the need to increase its capacity to replenish a higher percentage of products, thereby taking advantage of its expertise in logistics.

Hypothesis: It is always easy to determine to add new fashion.


Premise: Your investment is critical to making our community a better place.

Hypothesis: We have a ton of donations and a surplus in our budget!


Premise: Condo living, the spread of AIDS through prostitutes and veterinary surgery.

Hypothesis: It is a common misconception that prostitutes carry STDs.


Premise: He soon made clear his desire for unchallenged control and for preparing the mujahideen to fight anywhere in the world.

Hypothesis: He sought council members that would rule with him.


Premise: One of the most significant changes in retail inventory management in recent years has been the introduction of vendor-managed inventory?(VMI) programs, also known as Continuous Replenishment Programs (CRP) or Continuous Product Replenishment (CPR).

Hypothesis: VMI is Vector Management Institution it has been effective in controlling pests.


Premise: Wha, yeah, very hard compared to high school.

Hypothesis: I'm surprised, and actually pretty disappointed, that the difficulty level hardly stepped up after high school.


Premise: Just when you thought it was safe to assume that we now know all we are ever likely to know about the past, someone digs another hole and unearths (literally or figuratively) some ancient  one day it is a fragile scroll, found in a cave near the Dead Sea, that turns out to be pre-Biblical; the next day it is an entire terracotta army of Chinese  the next it is a skull, excavated from the Olduvai Gorge, that compels anthropologists (once again) to revise their guesses about the earliest stages of Homo sapiens sapiens vs hominids.

Hypothesis: There are plenty more discoveries to be made, fossils to be dug up, and history to be uncovered.


Premise: A Goodwill staff member addresses a group of welfare  You can earn the money to support yourself and your family, she says.

Hypothesis: The employee of Goodwill encouraged the welfare recipients with positive words about employment.


Premise: Notwithstanding the unfortunate fact that the gathering and assessment of citational evidence is not what it should (or might) be, I should still put my money on professional lexicographers and their resources rather than on M and S.

Hypothesis: Professional lexicographers do not deserve the money more so than M and S do


Premise: Of the two, the W geographical listings seem more  W lists Aylesbury , which, through some grievous, egregious fault, is not in the geographical section of the L but does appear in the A-Z section (because of the ducks).

Hypothesis: I really don't know. this was a confusing line.


Premise: This sort of misnomer leads Carnegie to suppose that  to the uninitiated no map is so misleading as that of West Australia where lakes are salt-bogs without surface water, springs seldom run, and native `wells' are merely tiny holes in the rock, yielding from 0 to 200 gallons.

Hypothesis: The terms for water are the same in Australia as they are through out the world.


Premise: Then watch your gift multiply.

Hypothesis: Your gift will help tremendously.


Premise: The call ended abruptly.

Hypothesis: The call did not end until the plane had stopped.


Premise: The White House requested (1) the implementation of continuity of government measures, (2) fighter escorts for Air Force One, and (3) a fighter combat air patrol over Washington, D.C.

Hypothesis: The White House had a contingency plan in place.


Premise: But, it is high time that we establish direct contact with all alumni from all the graduation years, from all Department activities and areas.

Hypothesis: We could directly contact alumni at another time.


Premise: When two peoples speaking different languages share a common border, there is an infiltration of words from one language to the other.

Hypothesis: Languages can move across borders fairly easily.


Premise: That is, this is the last such request that will be penned from the Cavanaugh Hall address.

Hypothesis: Every request you get from us from now until the end of time will be from Cavanaugh hall.


Premise: But between water and watt there are fifty-four main entries in Cobuild and 148 in CED . They share such entries as water biscuit and waterworks . But in addition CED alone enters water measurer (a `bug'), Watford (a `town north of London'), etc.

Hypothesis: Cobuild's collection of words between water and watt is much larger than CED's.


Premise: Bin Ladin, whose efforts in Afghanistan had earned him celebrity and respect, proposed to the Saudi monarchy that he summon mujahideen for a jihad to retake Kuwait.

Hypothesis: Bin Ladin was very unknown when he made a proposal.


Premise: The long, disjointed document condemned the Saudi monarchy for allowing the presence of an army of infidels in a land with the sites most sacred to Islam, and celebrated recent suicide bombings of American military facilities in the Kingdom.

Hypothesis: The Saudi monarchy was highly controversial in their dealings with western relations.


Premise: Well, my brother had a, cow, tied out, and a goat, the cow's offspring.

Hypothesis: My sister owns some animals, a dog, tarantula, and a dingo.


Premise: Your gift in this area has a direct impact on a student's continuing education.

Hypothesis: Your gift goes towards buying the student drugs so they can have a fun time in college.


Premise: They're going to lessons for this and that, and sports, and they're playing interactive games with their computer and, uh, watching TV, and I think, really, they're not reading on their own, like maybe we did when I was that age because we didn't have all those other things to do.

Hypothesis: They would rather use technology than read on their own.


Premise: It is quite firm about the r -sound when it follows a vowel-sound or is at the ends of words, not dropping it as is usual with the RP but insisting that it be given full value, in various ways, as it is in Scots and Irish and, generally but not always, in the speech of most Americans except for those in New England and the South.

Hypothesis: Residents of New England always pronounce the -r sound when it follows a vowel.


Premise: The IU School of Dentistry is committed to remaining the recognized leader in scholarly research, teaching and service.

Hypothesis: The IU School of Dentistry is one of the best schools for research, teaching and service.


Premise: Recently in Chambers I came across the adjective perjink , a Scots word given also in Collins , but not in any of the other desk dictionaries I  it means   finical.

Hypothesis: The Scottish adjective perjink can be translated as 'lucky'.


Premise: Not really, that's all.

Hypothesis: We have so much left to cover.


Premise: I trust that this is a fillip of propaganda and not a serious query.

Hypothesis: They do not want it known they asked for this information.


Premise: To be sure, it is the most common meaning, which is why it is listed first.

Hypothesis: The lesser common definitions tend to be the first ones to be listed.


Premise: I write to ask you to become a supporter of the Moving Company.

Hypothesis: The paper I am writing to you on is yellow with blue lines.


Premise: Lush, green fields that stretched for miles, wisps of white clouds scattered across a clear, blue sky, tranquil silence broken only by cheerful bird songs, the fresh, sweet scent of morning air.

Hypothesis: The birds were making noise early in the day.


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: I think it makes more sense to list the definition before the etymology.


Premise: But it wasn't like Daddy's Little Wannabe Tomboy, thing anymore, you know.

Hypothesis: I continued to be viewed as just a tomboy.


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: Many teenagers have holes in their jeans.


Premise: The headword is syllabified in W , not in L .  In older dictionaries the words are syllabified mainly to help in pronouncing them; latterly, syllabication has been used largely to find where a word can be hyphenated at the end of a line of text, though, judging by today's newspapers and magazines, one would be sore put to believe that a dictionary had ever been within the grasp of their editors, proofreaders, or the programmers who wrote the hyphenation programs for the automatic typesetting many of them now employ.

Hypothesis: You can tell from newspaper and magazines these days that editors are highly adept at hyphenating words.


Premise: An astute mother I observed in the grocery store had her 3-year-old son, Ricky, reach for items on the shelf and put them in the cart.

Hypothesis: Ricky was a good boy and followed his mother doing nothing else.


Premise: As it has been an exciting year for all of us, MCCOY, Inc. cannot do its part without the support of organizations like yours.

Hypothesis: MCCOY, Inc. got to where it was on it's on.


Premise: Thus, in modern parlance, when a person goes off half cocked (or at half cock ), he or she is not in control of the situation.

Hypothesis: Going of half cocked is always a good thing.


Premise: That's best thing, that's the best play right now.

Hypothesis: There are alternate strategies that we could use.


Premise: You can find out more about our work and environmental developments on Beacon Hill at ELM' s website, www.EnvironmentalLeague.org.

Hypothesis: ELM's website contains a special section dedicated to Beacon Hill.


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 Vice President knew the three planes were missing.


Premise: Is this real-world or exercise?

Hypothesis: It's just an exercise, for sure.


Premise: The flight had taken off just as American 11 was being hijacked, and at 8:42 the United 175 flight crew completed their report on a suspicious transmission overheard from another plane (which turned out to have been Flight 11) just after takeoff.

Hypothesis: The aircrew knew that there was something suspicious.


Premise: Before 9/11, it was not unheard of for a commercial aircraft to deviate slightly from its course, or for an FAA controller to lose radio contact with a pilot for a short period of time.

Hypothesis: Commercial airlines can change their route whenever they feel like it.


Premise: Penny Perrick regrets (January 11) that  There is no word in English to describe that particular, special sort of pride that one feels in the achievements of one's children.

Hypothesis: Penny Perrick would like it if English had a word to denote pride in one's children.


Premise: Consistent with the Confucian parental obligation,  The deeper the love, the greater the correction,  Chinese mothers'  misdeed  stories were much longer than those of the American mothers'in fact, the most lengthy and elaborate of all Chinese narrations.

Hypothesis: Confucian ideology taught that the amount of correction was directly proportional to how much a parent loved their child.


Premise: They're making trincheras, they call them trincheras, where they're putting mounds of stones near the houses, so that the bullets there.

Hypothesis: The people of the village are enjoying a time of peace and prosperity.


Premise: Does parenting really matter?

Hypothesis: There's no question that parenting is extremely important.


Premise: On the other hand, one would hate to lose the information that might be contained in past years' selling patterns.

Hypothesis: Losing the information from past years' would be devastating.


Premise: Wells's The Time Machine (1895), considered by some the first work of true SF.

Hypothesis: Dozens of titles predate The Time Machine as original examples of true SF.


Premise: By 10:45 there was, however, another set of fighters circling Washington that had entirely different rules of engagement.

Hypothesis: The fighters in the air over Washington at 10:45 had been told specific rules of engagement.


Premise: Throughout this book'and especially in Chapter 5, which addresses the development of children with physical and mental disabilities'we will see many more examples of these synergistic eects.

Hypothesis: The effects are described in each chapter in different ways.


Premise: crapulous, crapulent What this suggests would, of course, only occur to pre-pubescent boys and has nothing to do with the real meaning of drunkenness, overeating.

Hypothesis: Virtually all people would think this regardless of their familiarity on the real meaning of drunkenness.


Premise: So, what I am going to ask you is what was your philosophy behind that?

Hypothesis: I am curious to hear your thoughts on the matter.


Premise: But it is patently ridiculous to refer to someone whose sex is known as a chairperson .  Chair should be reserved for the office of the chairperson, not the person holding the office.

Hypothesis: Calling someone a chairperson, even if we know his sex is the right thing to do.


Premise: Minutes later, United 175 turned southwest without clearance from air traffic control.

Hypothesis: United 175 turned and it was against protocol.


Premise: Each of us needs to be ambassadors for Dentistry within our own practices, and at church, athletic and social events.

Hypothesis: Church is perhaps not as suitable a platform for being a Dentistry ambassador than social events.


Premise: It's such a handicap not to read.

Hypothesis: You really need to read it when you get a chance.


Premise: American narratives rarely dwelt on misdeeds and, at times, even recast children's oenses as strengths'as indicative of quick thinking and an active, spirited disposition.

Hypothesis: American narrative had a lot of misdeeds in them.


Premise: Journalists and other commentators have sometimes taken a facetious view of the situation, suggesting that person , itself, is sexist because -son denotes `male offspring,' that words like manhole are sexist, and that even woman ( wo + man ) is sexist.

Hypothesis: Journalists and commentators take the idea of sexism in language very seriously.


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

Hypothesis: Sydney asks her dad for help with the next puzzle.


Premise: Only smooth and clever entry into the make-believe activity'for example, inviting the dolls and stuffed animals to get up for breakfast'could lure Mattie into starting the  real  part of her day without protest.

Hypothesis: Mattie enjoys make-believe activities with her dolls and stuffed animals


Premise: At 10:02, the communicators in the shelter began receiving reports from the Secret Service of an inbound aircraft-presumably hijacked-heading toward Washington.

Hypothesis: Washington was safe by 10 am.


Premise: Lancame has begun to market a line of cosmetics called Nios??me, which lexics (opposite of dyslexics) may read as Noisame, a singularly unimaginative name for a  it ranks with product names like Anusol (regardless of its pronunciation in commercials).

Hypothesis: Nois??me, the new cosmetic collection by Lancame, is destined to win awards and accolades for its inventive moniker.


Premise: Regardless of how customization was done in the past, consumers paid more for the end product.

Hypothesis: The final goods will always cost more for consumers, even if the entire production process is changed.


Premise: Upon entering the work force, he discovered few job opportunities that seemed to match his abilities.

Hypothesis: He found that he was underqualified for most jobs.


Premise: Last year, you gave us a contribution of $xx, for which we, and the people you helped, are grateful.

Hypothesis: That money you gave us last year got spent on booze and porn parties.


Premise: Ask parents why they spell rather than say the words, and they remark,  If you say  ice cream,' he'll want it now.

Hypothesis: Parents prefer to say words over spell them so their kids will know what they are saying.


Premise: Girl Scouting benefits Parent/child relationships.

Hypothesis: Young girls that take part grow stronger bonds with their parents.


Premise: (The computer age term,  spaghetti code,  derives from the same pasta-related idea as macaronic, but more obviously so.)

Hypothesis: Spaghetti code has always been a phrase


Premise: We reach out to kids -- especially those from disadvantaged neighborhoods where the risks are highest.

Hypothesis: We like to help disadvantaged kids with risk


Premise: On the other hand, the shared main entry for watershed has twenty-three words in CED but 93 in Cobuild .  And the word waterless is a main entry in Cobuild , explained in twenty words, whereas in CED it is naught but a so-called  undefined runon 'merely mentioned, but not explained explicitly, as a sub-entry at water .  So CED enters more items than Cobuild , but devotes less space to explaining them.

Hypothesis: CED is a more effective system because it has a broader database of items.


Premise: One of the wife's brothers had come.

Hypothesis: We were surprised to see everyone in the family there except both of my wife's brothers.