clutch.01
frames- [ARG0 Brokers] [rel clutching] [ARG1 thick folders] stand in lines , *-1 waiting their turn 0 * to speak to the underwriters *T*-2 .
- In fact , the current weakness in auto buying and department-store sales and the gradual upturn in the household saving rate suggest that [ARG0 consumers , conservative as ever ,] are [ARGM-TMP already] [rel clutching] [ARG1 their purses] [ARGM-MNR a bit more tightly] .
- Mr. Noriega believes 0 [ARG0 he] has n't any alternative but * to continue [rel clutching] to [ARG1-to power] .