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frames- [ARG0 Workers] [rel described] [ARG1 `` clouds of blue dust '' that *T*-1 hung over parts of the factory , even though exhaust fans ventilated the area] .
- [ARG0 The SEC documents] [rel describe] [ARG1 those chips , which *T*-1 are made *-22 of gallium arsenide ,] as [ARG2-as *-2 being so fragile and minute 0 they will require special robotic handling equipment] .
- As [ARG0 Mr. Whiting] [rel describes] [ARG1 it] , Nipponese baseball is a `` mirror of Japan 's fabled virtues of hard work and harmony . ''
- [ARGM-LOC In sometimes amusing , more often supercilious , even vicious passages] , [ARG0 Mr. Katzenstein] [rel describes] [ARG1 how Sony invades even the most mundane aspects of its workers ' lives -- at the regimented office , where employees are assigned *-59 lunch partners *T*-1 -- and at `` home '' in the austere company dormitory run * by a prying caretaker *T*-2] .
- [ARGM-DIS And] [ARG1 construction] [ARGM-DIS also] was [rel described] *-101 as [ARG2-as slow] [ARGM-LOC in most areas] .
- [ARGM-LOC In a well-known detective-story involving church bells] , [ARG0 English novelist Dorothy L. Sayers] [rel described] [ARG1 ringing] as [ARG2-as a `` passion -LCB- that -RCB- *T*-1 finds its satisfaction in mathematical completeness and mechanical perfection] . ''
- The paper accused him of *-3 being a leading proponent of `` peaceful evolution , '' a catch phrase 0 [ARG0 *] to [rel describe] [ARG1 what China believes 0 *T*-1 is the policy *ICH*-4 of Western countries * to seduce socialist nations into the capitalist sphere] *T*-2 .
- [ARG0 He] [rel described] [ARG1 the situation] as [ARG2-as `` an escrow problem , a timing issue , '' which he said 0 *T*-1 was rapidly rectified *-2 , with no losses to customers] .
- [ARG1 The Michigan Democrat 's proposal , which *T*-4 is expected *-2 today ,] is [rel described] *-1 by [ARG0-by government sources and lobbyists] as [ARG2-as significantly weaker than the Bush administration 's plan * to cut utility emissions that *T*-3 lead to acid rain] .
- [ARG1 The Democrat 's proposal] is [rel described] *-1 by [ARG0-by government sources and lobbyists] as [ARG2-as significantly weaker than the president 's plan * to cut utility emissions] .
- [ARG0 The second patent] [rel describes] [ARG1 bone morphogenetic protein-1 , a substance that *T*-2 can induce formation of new cartilage] .
- [ARG0 He] [ARGM-TMP once] [rel described] [ARG1-REC himself] as [ARG2-as a `` Berkeley Hippie] , '' and played the role *ICH*-1 well ; obligatory ragged jeans , a thicket of long hair and rejection of all things conventional , including , for a time at least , formal marriage to his `` sweetheart , '' Martha Matthews .
- [ARG0 *-1] [rel Describing] [ARG1-REC itself] as `` [ARG2-as asset rich] , '' Sea Containers said 0 it will move immediately *-2 to sell two ports , various ferries , ferry services , containers , and other investments .
- Federal and state thrift examiners said 0 they saw evidence of criminal wrongdoing in the collapse of Lincoln Savings & Loan Association , and [ARG0 a California regulator] [rel described] [ARG1 an attempted `` whitewash '' by deputies of chief federal regulator Danny Wall] .
- [ARGM-LOC In a riveting day of hearings before the House Banking Committee] , [ARG0 the examiners] [rel described] [ARG1 * finding shredded documents , a mysterious Panamanian subsidiary , millions of dollars funneled * into a Swiss bank , and a complacent attitude by Mr. Wall 's deputies , one of whom *T*-1 was portrayed *-2 as * acting more like a public-relations man for the thrift than a federal regulator] .
- [ARG0 *-1] [rel Describing] [ARG1 this and other grisly killings] , Sen. Strom Thurmond -LRB- R. , S.C . -RRB- recently urged fellow lawmakers *-2 to revive a broad federal death penalty .
- [ARG0 Warner] [rel described] as `` [ARG2-as nonsense] '' [ARGM-TMP yesterday] [ARG1 Sony 's assertions *ICH*-1 in prior court filings that Mr. Guber and Mr. Peters could in theory run Columbia while *-2 still fulfilling their contract * to produce movies for Warner] .
- The two companies would appear *-1 to be a logical fit because of their complementary lines , and [ARG0 analysts] [rel described] [ARG1 the offer , representing a 36 % premium over Nekoosa 's market price] , as [ARG2-as fair] .
- But it 's more like an illustration of [ARG1 what *ICH*-2] [ARG0 Ben Stein] [rel describes] *T*-1 [ARGM-LOC in his study of social attitudes in the TV industry] : `` Fear of violence and animosity ... because of race or religion , fear and lack of comprehension about the politics of small-town people ... produce a powerful wave of dislike of small towns in the minds of TV writers and producers . ''
- He even had sex with one -- sort of , and not intentionally -- as readers learned in his `` Communion '' -LRB- [ARG1 a book] [ARGM-TMP recently] [rel described] * [ARGM-LOC in the New York Times] as [ARG2-as a `` nonfiction best seller ''] -RRB- .
- Howard Rubel , an analyst with C.J. Lawrence , Morgan Grenfell Inc. in New York , said 0 the shift reflects Boeing confidence in [ARG1 Mr. Pinick] , [rel described] * by [ARG0-by Mr. Rubel] as [ARG2-as an expert on * doing business with the military] .
- [ARG1 The provision] , [rel described] * as [ARG2-as `` back-end '' protection] , would require BellSouth to pay a price equivalent to what an outside party might have *-2 to pay *T*-1 .
- And even when [ARG1 specific projects] are [rel described] *-1 [ARGM-LOC in prospectuses] *T*-3 , the money often is used *-2 elsewhere , according to analysts .
- Its greatest drawback may be its 3-inch thickness , big enough for [ARG0 one consultant] to [rel describe] [ARG1 it] as `` [ARG2-as clunky] . ''
- -LRB- [ARGM-LOC In auto advertising] , [ARGM-DIS however] , [ARG1 items such as wheelbases] are [ARGM-TMP still] [rel described] *-1 [ARGM-MNR in inches] . -RRB-
- `` They looked like ordinary vacationers at first , '' says *T*-2 [ARG0 Willy LLerena , owner of Travel Air Service in Monte Bello , Calif.] , * [rel describing] [ARG1 five men who *T*-1 entered his agency last June] .
- [ARG1 A potentially safer whooping cough vaccine made * by novel genetic engineering techniques] was [rel described] *-1 by [ARG0-by a team of Italian , U.S. and Japanese scientists] .
- [ARGM-ADV Like other foreign banks establishing a presence here] , [ARG0 the family] [rel describes] [ARG1 its move] as [ARG2-as a calculated decision * to set up a financial services outlet in Europe 's largest economy ahead of the integration of European Community markets after 1992] .
- [ARGM-DIS But] [ARG0 even those numbers] do [ARGM-NEG n't] [rel describe] [ARG1 the situation] [ARGM-MNR as well as the athletes do *?* in their own words] .
- While [ARG1 he] is [ARGM-MNR widely] [rel described] as [ARG2-as a man with deep convictions] , he has few major political programs that he can call *T*-1 his own .
- `` I agree , it 's ridiculous , '' says *T*-2 Mr. Boren , and indeed by now ridiculous may be [ARG2 the only way] 0 [ARG0 *] to [rel describe] [ARG1 how the U.S. decides *-4 to take *RNR*-1 -- or rather , *-4 not to take *RNR*-1 -- covert action *T*-5] *T*-3 .
- [ARG1 Mr. Angelo] was [rel described] *-1 [ARGM-LOC in the filing] as [ARG2-as a consultant to Oasis] .
- In [ARG0 *-2] [rel describing] [ARG1 that business] [ARGM-ADV in general] , he says that when the client ca n't repay the loan *T*-1 , some machikin `` clutch on like hyenas '' and even take over the client 's company .
- Ever since the bad days of Big is Bad antitrust enforcement , this law has required that anyone proposing a merger must make [ARG0 a filing] [rel describing] [ARG1 the effects on all relevant markets] .
- [ARG0 Burmah , which *T*-1 has a strong market position supplying marine lubricants and metal-working fluids in Poland ,] [rel described] [ARG1 the joint venture] as `` [ARG2-as fairly small] . ''
- Ms. Malcolm , for example , wrote that [ARG0 Mr. Masson] [rel described] [ARG1-REC himself] as `` [ARG2-as the greatest analyst who *T*-1 ever lived] . ''
- Ms. Malcolm had [ARG0 Mr. Masson] [rel describing] [ARG1-REC himself] as `` [ARG2-as an intellectual gigolo] . ''
- [ARGM-LOC In a statement] , [ARG0 Mr. Merksamer] [rel described] [ARG1 the filing] as [ARG2-as a `` legal technicality] , '' but also said that `` our inability * to obtain trade credit , *-1 combined *-2 with a need * to ensure that our stores were properly stocked for the Christmas season , necessitated our filing Chapter 11 . ''
- Farmington , N.M.-based Mesa has consistently rejected StatesWest 's offers , and early this week said 0 its board would n't give the proposal further consideration , *-2 calling it `` vague and ill-defined '' because [ARG0 it] did [ARGM-NEG n't] [rel describe] [ARG1 the source of funds or the specific terms of StatesWest securities which *T*-1 were part of the offer] .
- [ARG1 The reforms] [rel described] * [ARGM-LOC above] would provide a more limited , but clearer , safer and ultimately more useful role for government as a lender .
- In [ARG0 a memorandum] [rel describing] [ARG1 the guidelines] , Assistant Attorney General Edward Dennis Jr. said that government efforts * to freeze defendants ' assets pending racketeering prosecutions `` have been the subject of considerable criticism in the press . ''
- About 30 floor traders crammed near the UAL post most of the day , and probably hundreds more came and went -- a `` seething mass , '' as [ARG0 one trader] [rel described] [ARG1 it] .
- *-2 Munching pizza when they could *?* and *-2 yelling until their voices gave out , the two Benjamin Jacobson specialists at the Big Board 's UAL trading post yesterday presided over [ARG1 what] *T*-3 [ARGM-MOD can] [ARGM-ADV only] be [rel described] *-1 as [ARG2-as a financial free-for-all] .
- Mr. Bebear contended that the tax cost to the exchanges under the revised structure would be [ARG1 about $ 8 million *U* a year] , which [ARG0 he] [rel described] *T*-1 as `` [ARG2-as peanuts] .
- There is [ARG0 a more descriptive word] 0 *T*-1 to [rel describe] [ARG1 his lapse of common sense] .
- Environmental groups would soon go out of business were they not able *-1 to send out [ARG0 mailings] [rel describing] [ARG1 the latest threat] and asking for money 0 * to fight it *T*-2 .
- [ARG1 They] [ARGM-MOD could] [ARGM-ADV all] [ARGM-MNR fairly] be [rel described] *-1 as [ARG2-as `` pap '' courses] .
- [ARG0 State officials] [ARGM-MOD wo] [ARGM-NEG n't] [rel describe] [ARG1 their position] [ARGM-MNR in detail] , but James McLelland Smith , state securities chief , said : `` We really are still looking at it and have informed -LRB- Drexel -RRB- that the proposal is really not sufficient for settlement . ''
- As a result of the partial sale and spinoff , the $ 56 billion *U* California Public Employees Retirement System would obtain two seats on the board of the real estate operation , according to [ARG0 officials] of the fund , who *T*-1 [rel described] [ARG1 the plan] .
- The Big Board says 0 [ARG0 program trading] [rel describes] [ARG1 a variety of strategies involving the purchase or sale of a basket of 15 or more stocks] .
- [ARG0 He] [rel describes] [ARG1 a reporter] as `` [ARG2-as Miss First Amendment] . ''
- [ARG0 He] [rel describes] [ARG1 a drowned corpse] as `` [ARG2-as Esther Williams] . ''
- For * providing [ARG1 what] [ARG0 his customers] [rel described] *T*-1 as [ARG2-as very personal and helpful] service .
- Bob Stone is a fictional name , but [ARG1 the incident] [rel described] * is real .
- On the other hand , they make sure at a minimum that [ARG1 their systems] are [rel described] *-1 [ARGM-LOC in their employee handbooks] and talked *-1 up by personnel specialists .
- But the promotion is n't likely *-2 to alter [ARG1 a management style] 0 [ARG0 Mr. Andersson] [rel describes] *T*-1 as `` [ARG2-as * being the driving force leading the troops , not managing by *-3 sitting back with a cigar *-4 waiting for people to bring me ideas] . ''
- Polymerix makes [ARG1 lumber-like materials] that [ARG0 it] [rel describes] *T*-1 as `` [ARG2-as plastic wood] . ''
- Most of the two dozen scientists taking the podium reported results with new , more sophisticated variations of [ARG1 the seemingly simple electrolysis-of-water experiments] [rel described] * [ARGM-TMP last March] by [ARG0-by Messrs. Fleischmann and Pons] .
- Specific-Time Order : This type of order couples many of [ARG1 the orders] [rel described] * [ARGM-LOC above] with instructions that the order must be carried *-1 out at or by a certain time .
- [ARG0 Another] [rel described] [ARG1 how tax-collection officials in Thanh Hoa province one night stormed through homes and confiscated rice from starving villagers] .
- `` It has been in [ARG1 what] [ARG0 I] [ARGM-MOD would] [rel describe] *T*-1 as [ARG2-as a lull] for the past several months . ''
- `` It felt like I was on a station platform and a train went by , '' said *T*-1 [ARG0 one man] , *-2 [rel describing] [ARG1 my own reaction] .
- [ARG0 Longtime Hollywood associates] [rel describe] [ARG1 Mr. Guber] as [ARG2-as the intellectual powerhouse of the two , a man with a flair for deal-making and marketing] .
- In Spain , anyway , the 73-year-old Mr. Cela enjoys some renown for the novels and travel books 0 he wrote *T*-1 during the parched Franco years , [ARG1 the everyday poverty and stagnant atmosphere of which] [ARG0 he] [rel described] *T*-2 [ARGM-MNR in brutally direct , vivid prose] , [ARGM-ADV *-3 beginning with `` The Family of Pascal Duarte '' -LRB- 1942 -RRB-] .
- [ARG0 The man] who *T*-1 wore out his shoes *-3 wandering around Guadalajara in 1958 *PPA*-4 , *-3 [rel describing] [ARGM-LOC in his travel book `` Viaje a la Alcarria ''] [ARG1 how he scrounged for food and stayed in squalid inns *T*-2] , now tours Spain in a Rolls-Royce .
- `` After more than 200 years , something new has happened to pencils , '' said *T*-2 Arthur D. Little in [ARG0 a 1974 report] that *T*-1 [ARGM-MNR publicly] [rel described] [ARG1 the previously secret item] .
- Thus we have [ARG1 a condition] that *T*-2 is [ARGM-MNR easily] [rel described] *-1 as [ARG2-as undemocratic] .
- [ARGM-LOC Under the exchange 's definitions] , [ARG0 program trading] [ARGM-DIS also] [rel describes] [ARG1 a number of other strategies that , in the opinion of some traders , *T*-1 do n't cause big swings in the market] .
- [ARG0 The sheets] tell how the medicine works *T*-1 , [rel describe] [ARG1 how * to use it *T*-2] and list its possible side effects .
- While [ARG0 he] did [ARGM-NEG n't] [rel describe] [ARG1 the partnerships ' financial condition] , he said 0 their operations `` continue *-1 to drain the resources of Equitec . ''
- Caltrans today uses a variation of [ARG1 the design] 0 [ARG0 Mr. Parker] [rel describes] *T*-1 , with spiraling steel rods inside .
- [ARG0 Mr. Laband] [rel described] [ARG1 one of the more insidious threats 0 we face *T*-1 when *-3 dealing with disasters such as Hugo *T*-2 -- anti-profiteering ordinances such as that by the Charleston City Council as it thrashed about *-4 trying *-5 to Do Something] .
- [ARG0 He] [rel describes] [ARG1 a Mastergate flunky] as [ARG2-as one who *T*-1 experienced a `` meteoric disappearance '' and found himself `` handling blanket appeals at the Bureau of Indian Affairs] . ''
- [ARG0 `` The New Crowd '' by Judith Ramsey Ehrlich and Barry J. Rehfeld -LRB- Little , Brown , 444 pages , $ 19.95 *U* -RRB- ,] [rel describes] [ARG1 the displacing of the old `` our crowd '' Jewish Wall Street banking grandees by such new business barons as Saul Steinberg , Carl Icahn , Sanford Weill and Bruce Wasserstein] .
- As [ARG1 *] [rel described] *-1 [ARGM-LOC in `` The New Crowd] , '' they take on ambitious new wives , move to Greenwich , Conn. , or Bedford , N.Y. , buy OK pictures , and let their wives share the wealth with decorators .
- [ARGM-LOC In an internal memorandum to employees] , [ARG0 Messrs. Connolly and Driscoll] [rel described] [ARG1 the restructuring] as [ARG2-as an effort * to continue *-1 rationalizing operations assembled * during a series of mergers over the past five years] .
- [ARG0 IRS Notice 89-136] [rel describes] [ARG1 this and other deadline relief for Hugo 's victims] .
- [ARG0 IRS Revenue Procedure 89-52] [rel describes] [ARG1 the reporting requirements] .
- [ARG0 The director of Zimbabwe 's Wildlife Department] [rel described] [ARG1 American conservationists] as `` [ARG2-as fat little puppies from urban environments who *T*-1 do n't know a thing about Africa] . ''
- *-1 Softly introducing and explaining his pieces , Mr. Glass looks and sounds more like [ARG0 a shaggy poet] [rel describing] [ARG1 his work] than a classical pianist playing a recital .
- [ARG0 Some masseurs] have tried *-1 to get around this by * calling themselves `` bodyworkers '' and [rel describing] [ARG1 their office visits] as `` [ARG2-as reinvigoration breaks] . ''
- [ARG0 He] [rel described] [ARG1 Friday 's plunge in the U.S.] as [ARG2-as a `` fleeting '' event resulting in part from excessive merger and acquisition activity] .
- [ARG0 Nestor Hinzack , an analyst at brokerage firm Burdett , Buckeridge & Young Ltd. ,] [rel described] [ARG1 the market 's performance] as `` [ARG2-as sheep-like] '' [ARGM-ADV as investors fled to bluechip Australian stocks and shunned entrepreneurial companies 0 they perceived *T*-1 as *-2 having any takeover premium built into the price] .
- [ARG0 Quantum] [rel described] [ARG1 the payout] [ARGM-TMP at the time] as [ARG2-as a way 0 for it to share the bonanza with its holders *T*-1 , because its stock price was n't reflecting the huge profit increases] .
- Details of [ARG1 the talks] , [rel described] * by [ARG0-by a Zairean official] as `` [ARG2-as very delicate] , '' were n't disclosed *-1 .
- [ARG1 One annual co-production , the three-hour-long `` Eurovision Song Contest , '' featuring soft-rock songs from each of 20 European countries ,] has been [rel described] *-1 as [ARG2-as the world 's most boring TV show] .
- William Lebo , Hilton 's general counsel , said 0 plans * to consider a sale of the company or some of its assets are `` on track '' for [ARG1 what] *T*-2 has been [rel described] *-1 [ARGM-TMP previously] as `` [ARG2-as a slow and deliberate process] . ''