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frames- [ARGM-LOC In its home market] , [ARG0 Nissan] has [rel grabbed] [ARG1 attention] [ARGM-MNR with limited-production minicars featuring styling odd enough * to be cute] .
- [ARGM-DIS Likewise] , [ARGM-LOC in the U.S.] , [ARG0 Nissan] has [rel grabbed] [ARG1 5.2 % of the car market] [ARGM-TMP so far this year] , [ARGM-ADV up from 4.5 % a year ago] .
- [ARG0 He] came out of nowhere *-2 to [rel grab] [ARG1 the lead in opinion polls] , probably less *ICH*-3 because of his vague program 0 *T*-1 to `` build a new Brazil '' than because of his good looks , the open backing of the powerful Rede Globo television network and his reputation as a hunter of `` maharajahs , '' or overpaid and underworked civil servants .
- If that controversy continues , U.S. machine tool makers say 0 *T*-2 , [ARG0 West German and other foreign producers] are likely *-1 to [rel grab] [ARG1 most of the sales in Eastern Europe] .
- The persecution pursued the Rothschilds across Europe as [ARG0 the Nazis] [rel grabbed] [ARG1 countries] , [ARGM-ADV *-1 confiscating the family 's property in the process] .
- [ARG0 Others] [rel grab] [ARG1 books , records , photo albums , sofas and chairs] , [ARGM-ADV *-1 working frantically in the fear that an aftershock will jolt the house again] .
- He sees flashy sports as the only way 0 [ARG0 the last-place network] [ARGM-MOD can] cut through the clutter of cable and VCRs , [rel grab] [ARG1 millions of new viewers] and tell them about other shows premiering a few weeks later *T*-1 .
- Despite several spurts of dollar trading , it was noted *-1 that [ARG0 mark-yen cross trade] [rel grabbed] [ARG1 much of the market 's attention] .
- [ARGM-MNR Greedily] , [ARG0 it] [rel grabbed] [ARG1 a pawn] , [ARGM-MNR at the cost of *-1 facing a brutal attack] .
- [ARGM-DIS But] [ARGM-TMP since 1981] , [ARG0 Kirk Horse Insurance Inc. of Lexington , Ky.] has [rel grabbed] [ARG1 a 20 % stake of the market] .
- -LRB- Prior to *-1 acquiring the housewares business , the company was known *-1 as Centronics Corp. ; Centronics had been a maker of computer printers , but Mr. Stein and other officers decided *-2 to sell that business after [ARG0 Japanese competitors] [rel grabbed] [ARG1 a dominant share of the market] . -RRB-
- [ARGM-TMP Sometimes] [ARG0 Mr. Guber and Mr. Peters] do little more than [rel grab] [ARG1 the first draft of a screenplay for a `` Flashdance] , '' or buy rights to a best seller such as `` The Color Purple . ''
- Mitsubishi Rayon , a leading advancer Wednesday , fell 44 to 861 as [ARG0 investors] [rel grabbed] [ARG1 profits] .
- [ARG0 Whitbread] now intends *-1 to bolster its brewing interests , in an effort * to [rel grab] [ARG1 a share of sales to free houses] .
- [ARG0 Both Ford and its rival General Motors] recently set their sights on * [rel grabbing] [ARG1 significant minority stakes in the British company] .
- Mr. Carter said 0 he would go to war * to stop [ARG0 anyone] from * trying *-1 to [rel grab] [ARG1 Iran] .
- Why , he used *-1 to lay in wait for Cap ; [ARGM-TMP suddenly] [ARG0 he] [ARGM-MOD 'd] leap from behind some statue of Marshall onto Cap 's chest and [rel grab] [ARG1 him] [ARGM-MNR by the throat] and choke him till he coughed up an additional $ 2 billion *U* or so .
- They hope 0 the foreign deals will divide the Hollywood opposition and prod Congress to push for * ending federal rules that *T*-1 prohibit [ARG0 the networks] from *-3 [rel grabbing] [ARG1 a piece of rerun sales] and owning part of the shows 0 they put *T*-2 on the air .