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frames- The Senate Finance Committee , chaired * by a fellow Texan , Democratic Sen. Lloyd Bentsen , last month urged [ARG0 U.S. Trade Representative Carla Hills] to use Mr. Pickens 's experience in talks with Tokyo `` *-1 to [rel highlight] [ARG1 this problem facing Americans who *T*-185 seek access to the Japanese capital markets] . ''
- The threat came during [ARG0 a two-day celebration] in Costa Rica 0 *T*-1 to [rel highlight] [ARG1 Central America 's progress toward democracy in the region] , attended * by President Bush , Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney and 14 other Western Hemisphere leaders .
- Officials also insist 0 [ARG0 Mr. Bush] will use the trip *-1 to [rel highlight] [ARG1 his own initiatives for * pushing democracy in the region , fighting illegal drugs and assisting the less developed countries] .
- Analysts peg the dollar 's recent weakness to [ARG1 an underlying slowdown in the U.S. economy] , [rel highlighted] * by [ARG0-by recent economic data , particularly a surprisingly sharp widening in the August U.S. trade gap] .
- [ARG0 The company] is [rel highlighting] [ARG1 more special deals] [ARGM-LOC in its advertising and stores] , and it 's offering *-1 to defer finance charges on certain big-ticket items .
- Instead , CBS hopes 0 [ARG0 the show] [ARGM-MOD will] [ARGM-MNR increasingly] [rel highlight] [ARG1 the talent agency and the business of * being an agent] .
- [ARG0 The trial of Raful Edmond III in Washington] serves *-1 to [rel highlight] [ARG1 our efforts in this area and the results achieved * through our excellent working relationship with the Drug Enforcement Administration and the Metropolitan Police Department -LRB- MPD -RRB-] .
- [ARG0 The class-action suit] [rel highlights] [ARG1 shortcomings of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline Liability Fund , which *T*-1 gets its money from oil companies using the pipeline and compensates those harmed by oil spills] .
- [ARG0 Those hearings] [ARGM-DIS also] [rel highlighted] [ARG1 how Gen. Noriega was able *-1 to use his relationships with these agencies *-3 to delay U.S. action against him , and to exploit the administration 's obsession with * overthrowing the Sandinistas *-4 to protect his own drug-dealing *T*-2] .
- My response was that sports rarely are important , only diverting , and [ARG0 the quake] [ARGM-ADV merely] [rel highlighted] [ARG1 that fact] .
- [ARG0 The success of the NWA financing , and the failure of the UAL deal ,] also seem *-1 to [rel highlight] [ARG1 the important new role in takeover financing being played * by Japanese banks] .
- [ARG0 Commercials] [ARGM-MOD will] [rel highlight] [ARG1 heart-rending scenes of Texas and chest-swelling , ain't-it-great-to-be-a-Texan music] .
- Without federal subsidies to developers of beach houses , the economic and structural damage by Hurricane Hugo in South Carolina would have been much less , as [ARG1 *] [rel highlighted] *-1 by [ARG0-by your Oct. 3 editorial `` * Subsidizing Disaster] . ''
- `` [ARG0 We] wanted *-1 to [rel highlight] [ARG1 the individual , not the environment] , '' he says *T*-2 , `` and black and white allows you to do that better than color . ''