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frames- Barge rates on the Mississippi River sank yesterday on speculation that [ARG0 widespread rain *ICH*-3] [ARGM-TMP this week] [ARGM-LOC in the Midwest] [ARGM-MOD might] [ARGM-TMP temporarily] [rel alleviate] [ARG1 the situation] .
- Or political arrangements 0 `` [ARG0 *] to [rel alleviate] [ARG1 the grievances and demands of Soviet ethnic minorities and republics] *T*-1 . ''
- [ARG0 The sale of a portion of refining and marketing operations to Saudi Arabia] helped [rel alleviate] [ARG1 the decline in earnings from that business] .
- But [ARG0 *] [rel alleviating] [ARG1 that overhang] failed *-1 to stimulate much activity in the secondary market , where prices were off 1\/8 to up 3\/8 point *T*-2 .
- Kodak says 0 [ARG0 its new CCD HDTV converter] will help *-1 [rel alleviate] [ARG1 the problem] [ARGM-MNR by *-2 allowing programmers and broadcasters to convert movies and television programs shot * in 35mm motion-picture film into high-definition video] .
- Her success , which *T*-1 included [ARG0 *] [rel alleviating] [ARG1 an urban food shortage] [ARGM-TMP in the early 1980s] , helped persuade Hanoi *-2 to take the reform path .
- The state is calling in a flotilla of navy landing vessels and other boats 0 *T*-1 to expand ferry service across the bay and hopes *-2 to add [ARG0 numerous new bus routes and train departures] *-2 to help [rel alleviate] [ARG1 the traffic problem] .
- [ARG0 American Telephone & Telegraph Co. , MCI Communications Inc. and United Telecommunications ' U S Sprint unit] were blocking phone calls into the Bay area *-1 to [rel alleviate] [ARG1 congestion] .