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frames-  [ARG0  *-3]  Having [rel  attained]  [ARG1  positions of real influence or wealth]  , these men constitute the Old Guard of New York City black politics ; they are less confrontational than the younger , more activist black political community that *T*-2 has been based *-1 largely in Brooklyn .
-  Two of [ARGM-MNR  the major ways]  that [ARG0  tax-writers]  managed *-3 to [rel  attain]  [ARG1  these ends]  *T*-2 were * to scrap the preferential treatment of capital gains and to curtail the use of paper losses , also known * as passive losses , that *T*-1 made many tax shelters possible .
-  [ARGM-TMP  In a generation or two]  [ARG0  some of the New Crowd]  [ARGM-MOD  may]  [rel  attain]  [ARG1  true respectability]  , [ARGM-PNC  *-1 perhaps to be displaced *-2 in turn by a later flock of unscrupulous raptors]  .