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frames- [ARG0 You] [rel dismiss] as `` [ARG2-as sentimental] '' [ARG1 the view that the reduction of federal housing-assistance programs by 77 % might have played a significant role in the increased number of men and women sleeping on our city streets during the Reagan-Bush years] .
- An attempted buy-out led * by John J. McCabe , chief operating officer , never materialized , and a stream of [ARG1 what] [ARG0 one staff member] [rel dismissed] *T*-1 as `` [ARG2-as tire-kickers and lookee-loos] '' had filed through since .
- But [ARG0 you] [ARGM-MOD ca] [ARGM-NEG n't] [rel dismiss] [ARG1 Mr. Stoltzman 's music or his motives] as [ARG2-as merely commercial and lightweight] .
- [ARG0 One U.S. trader] , [ARGM-DIS however] , [rel dismissed] [ARG1 sterling doomsayers] [ARGM-ADV while *-1 acknowledging 0 there is little immediate upside potential for the U.K. unit] .
- *-1 A master of pork-barrel politics , [ARG0 he] had crafted the $ 2.85 billion *U* package in vintage style and used the full force of his chairmanship *-1 to keep the proposal intact and [rel dismiss] [ARG1 any alternative] .
- [ARGM-TMP When the bikes first entered mass production in 1981 *T*-2] , [ARG1 they] were [rel dismissed] *-1 as [ARG2-as a fad] .
- [ARG0 Jonathan H. Kress , the son of the painting 's former owner , Mrs. Rush Kress ,] [rel dismisses] [ARG1 the price talk] as [ARG2-as `` sour grapes] . ''
- But [ARG0 a lawyer for Triland Investment Group , the developer of Valley Ranch ,] [rel dismisses] [ARG1 such arguments] as [ARG2-as a `` defense du jour] . ''
- The thrifts ' lawyers claim that [ARG1 the suits , numbering 700 to 1,000 in Texas alone ,] [ARGM-MOD should] be [rel dismissed] *-1 as [ARG2-as moot] [ARGM-CAU because neither the S&Ls nor the extinct Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corp. has the money 0 * to pay judgments *T*-2] .
- [ARG1 Both palmtops] are [rel dismissed] *-1 by [ARG0-by notebook makers , who *T*-2 argue that they 're too small -- a problem 0 Poquet also encountered *T*-3 in focus groups , admits 0 *T*-4 Gerry Purdy , director of marketing] .
- [ARGM-MNR Privately] , [ARG0 some free marketeers] [rel dismissed] [ARG1 such mechanisms] as [ARG2-as sops to interventionists] .