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frames- [ARGM-DIS And] [ARG1 those efforts] are [rel paying] off : Spirits exports jumped more than 2 1\/2 times to $ 157.2 million *U* in 1988 from $ 59.8 million *U* in 1983 , according to the Distilled Spirits Council of the U.S. , a trade group .
- [ARG1 Sotheby 's Inc. 's gamble in the art-dealing business] appears *-1 to have [rel paid] off .
- [ARG1 The Soviets ' eavesdropping] [rel paid] off , [ARGM-DIS however] , [ARGM-CAU because they got the contract] .
- And until last Friday , it seemed 0 [ARG1 those efforts] were starting *-1 to [rel pay] off .