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frames- Says 0 *ICH*-3 the organization 's founder , John Cannell , * prosecuting Mrs. Yeargin is `` a way for 0 [ARG0 administrators] to protect themselves *T*-4 and [rel look] [ARG1 like they take cheating seriously *T*-4] , when in fact they do n't take it seriously at all *T*-1 . ''
- So , while [ARG0 stock prices] [ARGM-MOD may] [rel look] [ARG1 fairly high] [ARGM-ADV relative to dividends] , they are not excessive relative to the underlying corporate strength .
- `` Actually , the long deterioration in daily newspapers shows signs of * coming to an end , and [ARG0 the industry] [rel looks] [ARG1 pretty healthy] . ''
- Many arbs are `` overleveraged , '' she says 0 *T*-3 , and they `` have *-1 to sell [ARGM-TMP when] [ARG0 things] [rel look] [ARG1 like they fall apart] *T*-2 . ''
- `` [ARG0 I] 'm not going *-1 to [rel look] [ARG1 stupid] , '' vows *T*-2 former Pittsburgh Pirate second baseman Rennie Stennett , sweat dotting his brow as he prepares for some practice swings .
- Fed Vice Chairman Manuel Johnson , who *T*-98 had dissented from the Treasury 's policy , told lawmakers , `` I became convinced about [ARG0 what] *T*-99 [rel looked] to [ARG2-to me] like [ARG1-like an attempt * to push the dollar down against the fundamentals in the market] . ''
- [ARG0 Everything] [rel looked] [ARG1 good] [ARGM-TMP as neurosurgeon Walter Levy and colleagues carefully cut away a woman 's spinal tumor at the Cleveland Clinic in 1978] .
- And [ARGM-ADV with the company 's recent announcement that it is contemplating a partial sale of its real estate] , [ARG0 the values] [ARGM-TMP suddenly] [rel look] [ARG1 poorer] .
- [ARGM-LOC In such a climate] , [ARG0 utility stocks] [rel look] [ARG1 good] to [ARG2-to him] .
- Utility stocks , on the other hand , thrive on disinflation , because [ARG0 the fat dividends 0 utilities pay *T*-1] [rel look] [ARG1 more attractive] [ARGM-TMP when prices are falling -LRB- or rising slowly -RRB- *T*-2] .
- `` We 're finally getting -- and it 's been very painful -- some understanding of [ARG1-like what] [ARG0 the company 's long-term horizon] should begin *-1 to [rel look] like *T*-2 , '' Mr. Eidsmo says *T*-3 .
- Concerning your Sept. 29 article `` Retailers Face Cutbacks , Uncertain Future '' : [ARG0 The outcome of our leveraged buyout] is [rel looking] [ARG1 very positive] .
- If there 's something ' weird and [ARG0 it] do [ARGM-NEG n't] [rel look] [ARG1 good] .
- [ARGM-TMP For a while] , [ARG0 it] [rel looked] [ARG1 like the deal -- * not to mention the courtroom itself -- was on the verge of collapse] .
- Yet the Soviet leader 's readiness * to embark on foreign visits and steady accumulation of personal power , particularly since the last Politburo reshuffle on Sept. 30 , do not suggest that Mr. Gorbachev is on the verge of * being toppled *-1 ; nor does [ARG0 he] [rel look] [ARG1 likely *-2 to reverse the powers of perestroika] .
- [ARG0 Their factories] [ARGM-MOD may] [rel look] like [ARG1-like sets for a Spielberg movie] , but their offices , with rows of clerks hunched * over ledgers and abacuses , are more like scenes from a Dickens novel .
- But the strategy can backfire ; if the ads appear too self-serving , [ARG0 the companies] may end up *-1 [rel looking] like [ARG1-like rank opportunists instead of good Samaritans] .
- [ARG0 They] chance *-2 alienating the customers 0 they hope *-3 to woo *T*-1 by *-4 [rel looking] like [ARG1-like opportunistic sharks] .
- He knows that * making [ARG0 George Bush] [rel look] [ARG1 silly] [ARGM-LOC in a photograph with him] will trigger Noriegan fulminations , and that * announcing an end to the liberals ' cease-fire will produce mainly their concern over the Contras ' military activities in northern Nicaragua .
- [ARGM-ADV As a model of capitalist efficiency on southern China 's doorstep] , [ARG0 Hong Kong 's prospects] [rel look] [ARG1 good] .
- [ARG0 It] [ARGM-TMP still] does [ARGM-NEG n't] [rel look] like [ARG1-like governments are coughing up everything 0 they know *T*-1] .
- We lost our chance * to communicate with [ARG0 sweet-natured visitors] `` about four feet tall -LCB- who -RCB- *T*-2 [rel looked] [ARG1 as though they were made *-1 of puffed-up marshmallow] . ''
- The fact that the agency will now be part of a U.K. company , under British accounting rules , will also make [ARG0 the profit picture] [rel look] [ARG1 better] .
- [ARGM-ADV With the nonferrous metals business undermined *-1 in Switzerland by tough foreign competition and high domestic costs] , [ARG0 this] [rel looked] like [ARG1-like a dull undertaking] .
- [ARGM-TMP Once again] [ARG0 the company 's future] [rel looked] [ARG1 less than rosy] .
- `` The quarter was terrible , and [ARG0 the future] [rel looks] [ARG1 anything but encouraging] . ''
- He says 0 [ARG0 the economy , and especially the employment numbers ,] [rel look] [ARG1 much better than he expected *?*] ; interest rates have generally declined ; inflation has n't run amok .
- But [ARG0 even a Japanese company] that *T*-1 [rel looks] like [ARG1-like a dog] may turn out *-3 to be a good investment for a foreign concern , some management consultants maintain 0 *T*-2 .
- `` [ARGM-ADV If you take away the outside influences] , [ARG0 the market itself] [rel looks] [ARG1 very cheap] .
- `` Just because [ARG0 upscale cosmetics] [rel look] like [ARG1-like packaged goods] and smell like packaged goods , it does n't mean 0 they are packaged goods , '' says *T*-1 Leonard Lauder , chief executive of Estee Lauder .
- However , skeptics caution that [ARG0 this kind of cross-pollination between brokers and investment bankers] [rel looks] [ARG1 great] [ARGM-LOC on paper] , but does n't always happen .
- `` There are a lot more downward than upward revisions and [ARG0 it] [rel looks] [ARG1 like people are questioning corporate profits as a means of support for stock prices] , '' she says *T*-1 .
- `` [ARG0 They] [rel looked] like [ARG1-like ordinary vacationers] [ARGM-TMP at first] , '' says *T*-2 Willy LLerena , owner of Travel Air Service in Monte Bello , Calif. , * describing five men who *T*-1 entered his agency last June .
- Critics have said 0 [ARG0 the payment] [rel looked] like [ARG1-like an attempt *ICH*-3 by the Dinkins camp * to get Mr. Carson to stop *-1 leading confrontational demonstrations protesting the Bensonhurst murder -- protests 0 the campaign may have feared 0 *T*-2 could cause some white voters to turn from a black candidate] .
- Still , local builders are eager *-1 to tell the world that [ARG0 most of San Francisco] does [ARGM-NEG n't] [rel look] like [ARG1-like the TV images of destruction] .
- Topaz , a translucent mineral that *T*-2 is often whitish when *-6 taken *-7 from the ground *T*-5 , can be turned *-1 blue by irradiation , which *T*-3 transforms it into [ARG0 a gemstone] that *T*-4 [rel looks] like [ARG1-like an aquamarine] .
- [ARG0 Huge machines] that *T*-1 [rel look] [ARG1 as though they came from the Star Wars desert-battle scene] lumber among the dunes .
- [ARG0 A companion jetty that *T*-1 helps * hold back the sea] [rel looks] like [ARG1-like a rusting junkyard] .
- [ARG0 They] have a life of their own and can be counted on *-1 *-2 to [rel look] [ARG1 good] and perform whenever a cast is n't up to either *T*-3 .
- [ARG0 Next year] `` [rel looks] [ARG1 dismal] , '' said 0 *T*-1 analyst Paul Luber of Robert Baird & Co. , Milwaukee .
- There are moments in this `` Summerfolk '' when the characters populating [ARG0 the vast multilevel country house] -LRB- which *T*-1 [rel looks] like [ARG1-like a parody of Frank Lloyd Wright] and is designed *-2 by Victoria Petrovich -RRB- spout philosophic bon mots with the self-conscious rat-a-tat-tat pacing of `` Laugh In . ''
- [ARGM-TMP So far] , [ARG0 the industry 's fourth quarter] is [ARGM-NEG n't] [rel looking] [ARG1 too strong] [ARGM-DIS either] , [ARGM-ADV * prompting many analysts to slash earning projections for the rest of the year by as much as one-fourth] .
- For many , [ARG0 it] began *-1 to [rel look] like [ARG1-like a replay of Oct. 13] .
- Euro Disneyland shares made a debut like Snow White yesterday while [ARG0 most of the London stock market] [rel looked] [ARG1 like it had eaten the Evil Queen 's poisoned apple] .
- `` [ARG0 It] [rel looks] like [ARG1-like a holiday] .
- Translation : Motorola appears *-3 to have taken a Hitachi technology that *T*-2 is patented *-1 in the U.S. , Hitachi says 0 *T*-4 , and `` tried *-5 to make [ARG0 it] [rel look] like [ARG1-like a new technology] . ''
- As the violinist tells it , his [ARG1 grandmotherly] [rel looking] [ARG0 teacher] `` put her hands on her hips , stomped her foot and said , ` You 've just got *-1 to get the -LCB- expletive deleted *-2 -RCB- out of there . ' ''
- `` I think 0 it is a good theme for [ARG0 what] *T*-1 [rel looks] [ARG1 * to be an uncertain market] , '' says *T*-2 Steven Einhorn , partner at Goldman Sachs .
- Ducks are this season 's word for new taxes , under OMB Director Richard Darman 's formulation that `` if [ARG0 it] [rel looks] like [ARG1-like a duck] , walks like a duck and quacks like a duck , it 's a duck . ''
- Vail , Colo. , now has [ARG0 a playland] that *T*-1 [rel looks] like [ARG1-like an old mining town] ; kids can ski through and pan for fool 's gold .
- The older one looks like a member of the jury for a literary award , [ARG0 the younger one] [rel looks] like [ARG1-like a novelist] .
- [ARG0 The older one] [rel looks] like [ARG1-like a member of the jury for a literary award] , the younger one looks like a novelist .
- `` * Putting it all together , we have [ARG0 a negative scenario] that *T*-1 does [ARGM-NEG n't] [rel look] [ARG1 like it will improve overnight] , '' he said *T*-2 .
- [ARG0 Eagle 's plastic type] sharpens and [rel looks] like [ARG1-like a wooden pencil] .
- New Product News says 0 [ARG0 the beverage] `` [rel looks] like [ARG1-like ginger ale] , tastes a little like cherries and smells like bubble gum . '' ...
- [ARG0 Anyone who *T*-3 's tried *-10 to appear `` natural '' in front of a camera] knows that it *EXP*-2 's much more natural * to end up *-11 [rel looking] like [ARG1-like a stiff] .
- Commodore said that its announcement is based *-1 on preliminary information and that [ARG0 the situation] [ARGM-MOD could] [rel look] [ARG1 different] [ARGM-TMP by the time 0 final results are announced *-2 early next month *T*-3] .
- [ARG0 It] [rel looks] to [ARG2-to us] like [ARG1-like a golden opportunity for George Bush to chop off at the knees all this talk about a timid , unserious presidency] .
- [ARG0 Britain 's economic fundamentals] , he said 0 *T*-1 , `` do [ARGM-NEG n't] [rel look] [ARG1 very bright] . ''
- And [ARGM-ADV while the company has n't made a definite statement] , [ARG0 it] [ARGM-TMP now] [rel looks] [ARG1 like that 's not going *-2 to be anytime soon] , '' Mr. Maxwell said *T*-1 .
- `` [ARG0 It] [ARGM-TMP now] [rel looks] [ARG1 like database IV Version 1.1 is n't going *-1 to be -LCB- widely -RCB- available until the first quarter of 1990] , '' said *T*-2 David Bayer , an analyst with Montgomery Securities in San Francisco .
- [ARG0 The current quarter] , he said 0 *T*-1 , `` [rel looks] [ARG1 fine] .
- Globe columnist Mike Barnicle -- in the second attack on his employer in as many weeks -- averred that his shadowy countenance was so bad , 0 [ARG0 it] [rel looked] `` like [ARG1-like a face 0 you 'd find *T*-2 on a bottle of miracle elixir that *T*-1 promises *-3 to do away with diarrhea in our lifetime] . ''
- Mr. Barnicle was hardly kinder to the renderings of colleagues Michael Madden -LRB- `` * appears *-2 to be a pervert '' -RRB- , [ARG0 Will McDonough] -LRB- `` * [rel looks] [ARG1 as if he drove for Abe Lincoln] '' -RRB- or Bella English , whose `` little girl *T*-1 now screams hysterically every time 0 she sees a newspaper *T*-3 . ''
- According to Institutional Brokers Estimate System , Wall Street market strategists see only a 2.4 % jump in company profits in 1990 -- unlike in [ARGM-TMP 1987] , when [ARG0 profits a year out] [rel looked] [ARG1 good] *T*-1 -LRB- they did soar 36 % in 1988 -RRB- .
- [ARGM-DIS For instance] , he says 0 *T*-1 , [ARG0 International Business Machines and Unisys] [ARGM-MOD might] [rel look] [ARG1 cheap] , but investors might continue *-2 to do better with stocks like Walt Disney , Procter & Gamble and Coca-Cola , strong performers in recent years .
- With flat corporate profits on the horizon for 1990 , money managers say 0 [ARG0 price-earnings multiples] that *T*-1 [rel look] [ARG1 cheap] [ARGM-TMP today] might go on *-2 being cheap for a long time .
- `` [ARG0 They] [rel look] [ARG1 the same] .
- `` When you leave the room after your massage *T*-1 , people say 0 [ARG0 you] [rel look] [ARG1 like you 're glowing] . ''
- `` [ARG0 I] pull my hair back , wear a little makeup and [rel look] [ARG1 corporate] , '' says *T*-2 Ms. Byler , who *T*-1 has been visiting Emerson since January .
- He 's an ex-hurler who *T*-1 's one of the leading gurus of [ARG0 the fashionable delivery] , which *T*-2 [rel looks] like [ARG1-like a fastball] [ARGM-TMP until it dives beneath the lunging bat] .
- [ARGM-DIS But] to [ARG2-to traders] , [ARG0 it] [rel looked] like [ARG1-like disaster] [ARGM-TMP on the 9:30 a.m. opening bell] .
- The Dow dropped to a quick 27-point loss , and to [ARG2-to many traders] [ARG0 it] [rel looked] [ARG1 as if stocks were headed *-1 for yet another big tumble] .
- But according to one trader , [ARG0 the programmers] `` did [ARGM-NEG n't] [rel look] [ARG1 as dominant on the upside as on the downside] [ARGM-CAU because there was -LCB- also -RCB- a lot of bargain-hunting '' by institutions] .
- *-2 Using black and white , `` we can make [ARG0 housewives] [rel look] like [ARG1-like stars] , '' says 0 *T*-1 John Perrin .
- `` [ARG0 Our balance sheets] [rel look] [ARG1 like they came from Alice 's wonderland] , '' Mr. Fromstein said *T*-1 .
- With loving detail she recalls her Uncle Gabe , an Orthodox Jew and song lyricist -LRB- who *T*-1 rhymed river with liver in a love song -RRB- ; and Uncle Len , [ARG0 a mysterious part-time investigator] who *T*-2 [rel looked] like [ARG1-like Lincoln] and carried a change of clothing in a Manila envelope , *-3 like an `` undercover President on a good-will mission . ''
- *-3 Asked *-1 why senators were giving up so much *T*-2 , New Mexico Sen. Pete Domenici , the ranking Republican on the Senate Budget Committee , said , 0 `` [ARG0 We] 're [rel looking] like [ARG1-like idiots] .
- `` Most people , '' he says *T*-2 , `` have no idea [ARG1-like what] [ARG0 a massacre pattern] [rel looks] like *T*-1 . ''
- Over the next several months , though , he says 0 [ARG0 things] [rel look] [ARG1 bad] .
- Traders spend the morning * frantically selling bonds , in the belief that [ARG0 the U.S. monthly trade figures] [ARGM-MOD will] [rel look] [ARG1 lousy] .
- [ARG0 Joanna Kanska] [rel looks] like [ARG1-like a young Zsa Zsa Gabor] ; William Armstrong , who *T*-1 plays Max , could pass for Hans Conreid , and Douglas Hodge -LRB- Declan -RRB- for James Farentino ; Rolf Saxon is a passable Tommy Noonan and Dorian Healy could easily double for Huntz Hall , the blank-faced foil of the Bowery Boys comedies .
- Months before the decision *ICH*-1 by [ARG0 the Hungarian Communist Party] * to rename itself Socialist and try *-2 to [rel look] [ARG1 more] appealing to [ARG2-to voters] , the country 's rulers were trying *-3 to look more hospitable .
- Months before the decision *ICH*-1 by the Hungarian Communist Party * to rename itself Socialist and try *-2 to look more appealing to voters , [ARG0 the country 's rulers] were trying *-3 to [rel look] [ARG1 more hospitable] .
- [ARG0 The brightly colored new products] [rel looked] [ARG1 more like toys than the adult models] .
- [ARG0 The outlook] `` [rel looks] [ARG1 shaky] [ARGM-CAU because we 're still waiting '' for mutual funds , in particular , to dump some of their junk bond holdings * to pay off redemptions by individual investors] , says 0 *T*-1 King Penniman , senior vice president at McCarthy , Crisanti & Maffei , an investment arm of Xerox Financial Services .