1. T: GM has initiated criminal investigations in Germany and the US on the basis of their suspicions that Mr Lopez and his team stole confidential information before defecting to VW in March.
H: Lopez took documents from GM to VW.
Answer: Yes
Problem specific analysis: Need to connect ‘classified information’ with ‘documents’. Also we need to connect ‘stealing’ with ‘taking away’.
Objection: the connections can be made using the dictionary meaning of words
2. T: The sale was made to pay Yukos' US$ 27.5 billion tax bill, Yuganskneftegaz was originally sold for US$9.4 billion to a little known company Baikalfinansgroup which was later bought by the Russian state-owned oil company Rosneft.
H: Rosneft belonged to the Russian State.
Answer: Yes
Problem specific analysis: Connecting “Y-owned oil company X” with “X belonged to Y”
Belong means “owned by”
Generalization: Connecting a verb with synonyms.
Objection: the connections can be made using the dictionary meaning of words