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frames- Once [ARG1 the disease] was [rel confirmed] *-63 , all the man 's associates and family were tested *-64 , but none have so far been found *-1 to have AIDS , the newspaper said 0 *T*-2 .
- [ARG0 A spokesman for the IRS] [rel confirmed] [ARG1 that `` there has been correspondence mailed * about incomplete 8300s] , '' but he declined *-1 to say why the letters were sent *-2 to lawyers now .
- [ARG0 Mr. Canepa] [rel confirmed] [ARG1 0 he had consented to the sanctions] but declined *-1 to comment further .
- [ARG0 Last year 's record net cash income] [rel confirms] [ARG1 the farm sector 's rebound from the agricultural depression of the early 1980s] .
- [ARG0 Reliance] [rel confirmed] [ARG1 the filing] but would n't elaborate .
- `` [ARG0 Professional sugar people here who *T*-1 have strong contacts with the Brazilian sugar industry] have been unable *-3 to [rel confirm] [ARG1 the reports] or get enough information 0 * to clarify the situation *T*-4 , '' he said *T*-2 .
- Although traders rushed *-3 to buy futures contracts , many remained skeptical about [ARG1 the Brazilian development] , which *T*-4 [ARGM-MOD could] [ARGM-NEG n't] be [rel confirmed] *-1 , analysts said 0 *T*-2 .
- `` It 's the type of nervous atmosphere in which a report *ICH*-1 can be put out *-6 *T*-2 , such as the one saying 0 exports will be suspended *-7 , and [ARG0 no one] [ARGM-MOD can] [rel confirm] [ARG1 it] . ''
- [ARG0 The state agency 's figures] [rel confirm] [ARG1 previous estimates] and leave the index at 178.9 , up from 178.5 in August and 173.1 a year earlier .
- [ARG0 Israeli officials] [rel confirmed] [ARG1 that Energy Minister Moshe Shahal and his Canadian counterpart , Jake Epp , discussed a possible Israeli purchase of a $ 1.1 billion *U* Canadian nuclear reactor for * producing electricity] .
- [ARGM-DIS Separately] , [ARG0 Chemical] [rel confirmed] [ARG1 that it took an undisclosed charge *ICH*-1 in the second quarter for losses on forward-rate agreements involving foreign currency written * by its branch in Frankfurt , West Germany] .
- If [ARG0 the national survey] [rel confirms] [ARG1 a pickup in the manufacturing sector] , it could further depress bond prices while *-1 bolstering stock prices and the dollar .
- [ARG0 LTV] [rel confirmed] [ARG1 the price-increase plan] , [ARGM-ADV *-1 saying 0 the move is designed *-2 to more accurately reflect the value of products and to put steel on more equal footing with other commodities] .
- [ARG1 An alternative and more convincing explanation] , [rel confirmed] * by [ARG0-by recent events and a close inspection of the Gorbachev program] , is that the new Soviet economic and social structures are intended *-1 to conform to a model other than that of the market .
- [ARG0 Moody 's] [ARGM-DIS also] [rel confirmed] [ARG1 the Prime-1 rating , its highest , on CS First Boston 's commercial paper , or short-term corporate IOUs] .
- [ARG0 *-3] To [rel confirm] [ARG1 Mr. Guy 's identification] , Sotheby 's and IFAR exchanged photos by fax , and the waiting man , *-2 apparently innocent of knowledge that the kylix was stolen *-1 , agreed *-2 to release it .
- `` It was the [rel confirming] [ARG0 evidence] *ICH*-2 0 we all needed *T*-1 that -LCB- gene -RCB- losses were critical to the development of a common tumor , '' says *T*-3 Ray White at Howard Hughes Medical Institute in Salt Lake City .
- [ARGM-DIS But] [ARG0 Burger King operators] [ARGM-MNR independently] [rel confirm] [ARG1 *-1 using Michael 's product] .
- [ARG0 Michael] [ARGM-MOD wo] [ARGM-NEG n't] [rel confirm] [ARG1 the identities of any Easy Egg customers] , nor will it say much of anything else .
- [ARG1 The wage stickiness] , which [ARG0 OECD studies] [rel confirm] 0 *T*-1 is particularly high in Britain , gives its economy a structural bias toward inflation .
- [ARG0 U.S. and northern European] diplomats [rel confirm] [ARG1 Mr. Korotich 's assessment that glasnost is in no immediate danger] .
- Says *ICH*-1 Ms. Raines , `` -LRB- [ARG0 The judgment] -RRB- [rel confirms] [ARG1 our concern that the absence of patent lawyers on the court could prove troublesome] .
- [ARG0 White House Press Secretary Marlin Fitzwater] [rel confirmed] [ARG1 that Mr. Bush was interested in the idea] , but cautioned that there was n't a firm decision * to try it .
- [ARG0 GM] [rel confirmed] [ARGM-TMP Friday] [ARG1 that it received permission *ICH*-1 late Thursday from U.S. antitrust regulators * to increase its Jaguar holdings past the $ 15 million *U* level] .
- [ARG0 Friday 's strong price gains] [rel confirmed] [ARG1 a turnaround in the precious metals markets] , according to PaineWebber 's Mr. Frawley .
- [ARG0 The spokeswoman] confirmed that the bank has significantly reduced its muni holdings , but [ARGM-MOD could] [ARGM-NEG n't] [ARGM-TMP immediately] [rel confirm] [ARG1 the amount] .
- [ARG0 The spokeswoman] [rel confirmed] [ARG1 that the bank has significantly reduced its muni holdings] , but could n't immediately confirm the amount .
- [ARG0 GM] [rel confirmed] [ARG1 0 it received U.S. antitrust clearance * to boost its holding] .
- But [ARG0 investigators] [ARGM-MOD could] [rel confirm] [ARG1 their theory] [ARGM-TMP only after the recent retrieval of a big chunk of Flight 232 's tail engine from a cornfield near the Sioux City Airport in Iowa] .
- [ARG0 The figures] [rel confirm] [ARG1 that there certainly is n't any drilling boom] .
- Mr. Dorfman provides [rel confirming] [ARG0 evidence] of this phenomenon when he reports that your staff of dart throwers would have accumulated only $ 112,383 *U* by * randomly selecting four new stocks 0 *T*-2 to be held *-1 in a portfolio each month *T*-3 .
- [ARG0 Interviews with three major fund groups -- Fidelity Investments , Vanguard Group Inc. and T. Rowe Price Associates Inc. --] [rel confirm] [ARG1 the trend] .
- Nonetheless , speculation heated up yesterday when [ARG0 Tokyu Department Store Co.] [rel confirmed] [ARG1 a report *ICH*-1 in Nihon Keizai Shimbun , Japan 's leading business daily , that Tokyu is talking with Campeau about * buying Bloomingdale 's] *T*-2 .
- [ARG0 Ira , himself ,] [rel confirms] [ARG1 this account] .
- [ARG0 Kodak] [ARGM-TMP yesterday] [rel confirmed] [ARG1 that it has entered negotiations with Maynard , Mass.-based Digital *-1 to manage all of its voice and data communications needs] .
- [ARG0 Mr. Terrizzi] [rel confirms] [ARG1 0 some clients *ICH*-1 have left Renaissance , but no major ones ,] and the firm has added new accounts .
- [ARG0 Renaissance] declined *-1 to [rel confirm] [ARG1 the move] , but its stock purchases were thought *-2 to have begun Tuesday , *-2 timed *-4 to coincide with the maturity this week of Treasury bills owned * by the firm .
- [ARG1 On Tuesday afternoon , Kemper told Bear , Stearns & Co. , General Electric Co. 's Kidder , Peabody & Co. unit , Morgan Stanley and Oppenheimer & Co. that it will no longer do business with them because of their commitment to index arbitrage] , [ARG0 officials inside and outside these firms] [rel confirmed] 0 *T*-1 .
- [ARG0 He] declined *-1 to [rel confirm] or deny [ARG1 reports that Provigo executive Henri Roy is trying *-2 to put together a management buy-out of the catalogue showroom unit] .
- Stockbrokers who *T*-1 cater to individual investors said 0 [ARG0 the Big Board 's new product] [rel confirms] [ARG1 0 the exchange does n't want *-2 to curtail program trading , which *T*-3 last month accounted for a record 13.8 % of the exchange 's average daily volume] .
- [ARG1 The rumor] , which *T*-1 has been neither [rel confirmed] nor denied *-2 , has China buying 125,000 to 200,000 bales for near-term delivery .
- [ARG0 Investment bankers in Tokyo] [rel confirmed] [ARG1 that Tokyu Department Store is one of several Japanese companies that *T*-2 has been approached *-1 by representatives of a management committee headed * by Bloomingdale 's Mr. Traub] .
- `` [ARG0 It] [ARGM-EXT pretty much] [rel confirms] [ARG1 what we had been expecting *T*-1] , '' said *T*-2 Anthony Hatch , an analyst at PaineWebber Inc .
- [ARG0 The Italian auto maker] [rel confirmed] [ARG1 that it was discussing technical cooperation with Saab] , but declined *-1 to comment on rumors that it was planning *-2 to buy Saab 's car division .
- The agency noted , however , 0 [ARG1 the estimate] [ARGM-MOD will] [ARGM-MOD likely] be [rel confirmed] *-1 .
- [ARG0 White House spokesman Marlin Fitzwater] , *-1 [rel confirming] [ARG1 comments made * this week by Vice President Dan Quayle] , said 0 Mr. Bush is `` interested '' in * finding a suitable test case .
- IBM is reviewing its entire business-partners program , and [ARG0 XL\/Datacomp] [rel confirmed] [ARGM-TMP earlier this month] [ARG1 that it was in talks with the company about possible modifications to its current IBM-remarketer contract] .
- [ARGM-ADV *-2 Taken *-1 together] , [ARG0 the auto-sales and durable-goods reports] [rel confirmed] [ARG1 perceptions that the economy is bogging down] .
- [ARG1 An S&P rating of double-A-plus] has [ARGM-TMP already] been [rel confirmed] *-1 .
- After [ARG0 the legislature] [rel confirmed] [ARG1 him] [ARGM-MNR as the Communist Party leader] , Krenz said 0 demonstrations * to demand democratic freedoms could cause a `` worsening of the situation , or confrontation . ''
- [ARGM-TMP Since then] , [ARG0 Jaguar officials] have [rel confirmed] [ARG1 that they are discussing an alliance with GM] and said last week that they hoped *-1 to reach an agreement within a month .
- [ARG0 An administration official] [rel confirmed] [ARGM-TMP last week] [ARG1 that Mr. Simmons , the chairman of Valley National Bank in Phoenix , is the Republican appointee , and that a security clearance was under way] .
- [ARG0 A Ford official] [rel confirmed] [ARGM-LOC in Tokyo] [ARG1 that the U.S. motor vehicle maker is studying such an arrangement] .
- [ARG0 A spokesman for Chicago-based Santa Fe Pacific] [rel confirmed] [ARG1 that negotiations were being held *-1 with the fund] .
- [ARG0 A Generale spokesman] [rel confirmed] [ARG1 that the giant Belgian holding company would be willing *-1 to raise its stake in AG should a raider seek control] .
- [ARG0 A spokesman for the city] [ARGM-MOD would] [ARGM-NEG n't] [rel confirm] [ARG1 the size of the bond issue] , but did say that a general obligation offering is in the works and should be priced sometime in the next two weeks , before the November mayoral election .
- [ARGM-DIS Still] , the directors said *T*-1 , `` [ARGM-ADV *-2 Having fully considered all aspects of the company 's state of affairs and future cash flows] , [ARG0 the directors] [rel confirm] [ARGM-MNR absolutely] [ARG1 that the company is solvent] . ''
- But [ARG0 the spokesman] [rel confirmed] [ARG1 that Saatchi has received several inquiries from companies interested * in * acquiring its Campbell-Mithun and Rowland units] .
- Mr. Oriani said 0 [ARG1 his skepticism of the Utah claims] was [ARGM-TMP initially] [rel confirmed] [ARGM-TMP when his first experiments last spring failed *-2 to produce results *T*-1] .
- Shimson Gottesfeld of Los Alamos National Laboratory said 0 researchers there detected a burst of neutrons from an early cold fusion experiment last April but decided *-1 not to announce it until [ARG0 they] [ARGM-MOD could] [rel confirm] [ARG1 it] .
- [ARG1 Hepatitis A , considered * the least dangerous strain of the virus ,] has been [rel confirmed] *-1 [ARGM-LOC in at least one GTE employee] , company and city officials said 0 *T*-2 .
- Additionally , Moody 's Investors Service said 0 [ARG0 it] downgraded Valley National 's senior debt and [rel confirmed] [ARG1 the company 's commercial paper rating of `` not prime] . ''
- In Sacramento , a transportation department spokesman said 0 [ARG0 he] [ARGM-MOD could] [ARGM-NEG n't] [ARGM-TMP immediately] [rel confirm] or deny [ARG1 existence of the test work] .
- `` The computers find all the key words 0 they can *?* *T*-1 , but [ARG0 the editors] [rel confirm] [ARG1 every one] .
- Before [ARG1 he] was [rel confirmed] *-1 , Sullivan said 0 he had `` reservations about any blanket prohibitions on medical research . ''
- Those rumors were confirmed *-1 after the end of trading yesterday when the U.S. Agriculture Department announced that the Soviets had bought 1.2 million metric tons of U.S. corn , * bringing [ARG1 their U.S. corn purchases] [rel confirmed] * [ARGM-TMP so far] [ARGM-TMP this month] to about five million metric tons *T*-2 .
- [ARG1 Those rumors] were [rel confirmed] *-1 [ARGM-TMP after the end of trading] [ARGM-TMP yesterday] [ARGM-TMP when the U.S. Agriculture Department announced that the Soviets had bought 1.2 million metric tons of U.S. corn , * bringing their U.S. corn purchases confirmed * so far this month to about five million metric tons *T*-2] .
- An estimated $ 321 million *U* is provided *-2 *-3 to maintain the program , but Mr. Rudman also succeeded in *-4 attaching language seeking * to curb the authority of the current board until [ARG1 new members] are [rel confirmed] *-1 .
- [ARGM-LOC In Armonk , N.Y. ,] [ARG0 an IBM spokeswoman] [rel confirmed] [ARG1 that IBM executives will be announcing some computer-integrated-manufacturing plans next week] but declined *-1 to elaborate .
- [ARG0 Mr. Stevens 's remarks] , *-2 [rel confirming] [ARG1 a report *ICH*-3 in The Wall Street Journal that British Air wants *-1 to start from scratch in any new bid for the nation 's second-largest airline] , helped *-2 push UAL stock lower for the fourth straight day .
- -- [ARG0 *] [rel Confirming] [ARG1 other government data showing that wages are n't keeping pace with inflation] , earnings of year-round , full-time male workers fell 1.3 % in 1988 after * adjusting for higher prices , the first such drop since 1982 .
- [ARGM-LOC In Frankfurt] , [ARG0 a Lufthansa spokesman] [rel confirmed] [ARG1 0 talks are under way] , but declined *-1 to comment .
- In Tokyo , a JAL spokesman said 0 [ARG0 he] [ARGM-MOD could] [ARGM-NEG n't] [rel confirm] or deny [ARG1 the latest Japanese report] .
- [ARGM-LOC In Chicago] [ARGM-TMP yesterday] , [ARG0 Options Clearing] [rel confirmed] [ARG1 that it guarantees the Pacific exchange options] .
- [ARG0 Timothy Vincent , Petco chief executive officer ,] [rel confirmed] [ARG1 that Petco was withdrawing from the clearing business] .
- Given Democratic frustration with the Reagan victories and Court appointments , the contingency plans in place , and Mr. Bork 's paper trail of vulnerable writings , it *EXP*-2 was pretty clear that [ARG1 Judge Bork] never stood much chance of * being [rel confirmed] *-1 .
- [ARG0 The British carrier] [ARGM-DIS also] [rel confirmed] [ARG1 0 it is n't committed to * going forward with any new bid] .
- [ARG0 Salomon Brothers] [rel confirmed] [ARG1 that it has had a buy recommendation on the stock for about two years] .
- [ARG0 The Tokyo rally] seemed *-1 to [rel confirm] [ARG1 the view *ICH*-2 , frequently expressed * in Japan in the past few days , that the drop in New York was a local problem related to merger and acquisition activity in the U.S.] .
- [ARG0 A Mesa official] [rel confirmed] [ARG1 receipt of the offer] and said 0 directors would meet *-1 to consider it .
- Both he and Mr. Lorenzo predicted 0 [ARG1 that plan] [ARGM-MOD might] be [rel confirmed] *-1 [ARGM-TMP in January] .
- Sweden 's National Audit Bureau releases [ARG0 its report] [rel confirming] [ARG1 payment of about $ 40 million *U* to unidentified Indians] .
- After * placing orders * to sell , Mr. Freeman called [ARG0 Martin Siegel , an investment banker at Kidder , Peabody & Co. , who *T*-1 was advising on the deal] , * to [rel confirm] [ARG1 these rumors] .
- [ARG0 A spokeswoman for J.P. Morgan , parent of the bank Morgan Guaranty Trust Co. ,] [rel confirmed] [ARG1 its appointment * to assist the managers] but declined *-1 to elaborate .
- Fears that Ford 's ardor might be cooling put Jaguar shares into reverse after [ARG0 GM] [rel confirmed] [ARG1 its friendly negotiations with Jaguar] .
- [ARG0 Mark Bachmann , a senior vice president at Standard & Poor 's Corp. ,] [rel confirms] [ARG1 that there is `` increasing concern about the future liquidity of the junk bond market] . ''
- [ARGM-DIS In fact] , [ARG0 Lever Bros.] [rel confirms] [ARG1 that its Sunlight brand does contain chlorine bleach , even though it is n't listed *-1 on the label for the powder version] .
- If [ARG1 she] is nominated *-2 by President Bush and [rel confirmed] *-2 by [ARG0-by the Senate] , Dr. Novello would succeed C. Everett Koop , who *T*-1 rattled liberals and conservatives alike with his outspoken views on a range of health issues .
- After all , [ARG0 the stock market 's response to the collapse of the UAL deal] might be taken *-1 to [rel confirm] [ARG1 the anti-debt direction of regulators] .
- [ARGM-ADV Although the union-bidder expects *-1 to patch together a substitute offer , consisting of less cash ,] [ARG0 the failure * to get cash from Japanese and American banks] [rel confirmed] [ARG1 a growing fear *ICH*-2 among arbitragers that the pageant of high-leverage takeover deals is ending] .
- The agency said 0 [ARG0 it] [rel confirmed] [ARG1 American Continental 's preferred stock rating] [ARGM-LOC at C] .
- [ARG0 A spokesman for the New York-based food and tobacco giant , taken * private earlier this year in a $ 25 billion *U* leveraged buy-out by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. ,] [rel confirmed] [ARG1 that it is shutting down the RJR Nabisco Broadcast unit , and dismissing its 14 employees , in a move * to save money] .
- [ARG0 A P&G spokeswoman] [rel confirmed] [ARG1 that shipments to Phoenix started late last month] .
- [ARG0 A State Department spokesman] acknowledged that the U.S. is discussing the allegations with the Italian government and Cocom , but declined *-1 to [rel confirm] [ARG1 any details] .
- [ARGM-TMP Yesterday] , [ARG0 a source close to GEC] [rel confirmed] [ARG1 that his company may join the Ferranti fight , as part of a possible consortium that *T*-1 would bid against British Aerospace and Thomson-CSF] .