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frames-  * Let the president demand strict new ethics rules : [ARGM-MNR  With four sitting House members accused * of sexual misdeeds , amid the unfolding HUD scandal and after the Wright debacle]  , `` [ARG1  people]  are [ARGM-ADV  slightly]  [rel  dulled]  *-2 by [ARG0-by  scandal]  , '' says 0 *T*-1 political humorist Art Buchwald .
-  Outside what *T*-1 essentially amounted to a bookkeeping exercise , dealers said 0 [ARG1  London dealings]  were [ARGM-ADV  largely]  [rel  dulled]  *-2 by [ARG0-by  the absence of active interest beyond the market-makers]  .