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frames- But at a time of [rel mounting] [ARG1 concern] over alcohol abuse , some liquor marketers consider Seagram 's frequent buyer promotion risky .
- [ARG1 First Boston 's merchant banking risks] [rel mounted] [ARGM-TMP last month] [ARGM-TMP as highly leveraged Campeau Corp. , First Boston 's most lucrative client of the decade , was hit *-4 by a cash squeeze and the high-risk junk bond market tumbled] .
- He sold them well below market value *-2 to raise cash `` *-3 to pay off [rel mounting] [ARG1 credit-card] debts , '' incurred * * to buy presents for his girlfriend , his attorney , Philip Russell , told IFAR 0 *T*-1 .
- *-1 Bowing to a [rel mounting] [ARG1 public] outcry , three more major securities firms -- Bear , Stearns & Co. Inc. , Morgan Stanley & Co. and Oppenheimer & Co. -- announced Friday 0 they would suspend stock-index arbitrage trading for their own accounts .
- While *-2 admitting 0 such a move would be `` devastating '' to most creditors , Judge Abramson told a courtroom filled * with nearly two dozen attorneys that he was concerned *-1 about the toll 0 [rel mounting] [ARG1 legal] bills will take *T*-3 on Mr. Hunt 's shrinking estate and about the fact that , following voting by creditors , none of the reorganization plans appeared *-4 to be viable in their present form .
- Meanwhile , as [ARG1 such strategic investments] have [rel mounted] , the merchant-banking arm of Mr. Rey 's Omni Holding has been busily buying and selling dozens of companies , often after a financial or corporate restructuring .
- [ARG1 The tension] [rel mounted] [ARGM-TMP as Ralph Branca , again on the mound , stared down the batter] .
- Finnish government officials are negotiating with creditors of Waertsilae Marine Oy , a major shipyard that *T*-2 filed for bankruptcy protection this week , amid confusion and [rel mounting] [ARG1 doubts] that collapse of the nation 's entire shipbuilding industry can be averted *-1 .
- The mergers and acquisitions market has been a saving grace for the industry , but [ARG1 uncertainties] are beginning *-1 to [rel mount] [ARGM-LOC even there] .
- And so our institutions of higher learning lurch from scandal to scandal on gridiron and basketball court , while [ARG1 the casualties] [rel mount] .
- But despite [rel mounting] [ARG1 recession] fears , government data do n't yet show the economy grinding to a halt .
- Bond prices took the high road and stock prices took the low road as [ARG1 worries *ICH*-1] [rel mounted] about the economy and the junk bond market .
- The company made and marketed the Dalkon Shield in the early 1970s amid [rel mounting] [ARG1 evidence] that it could cause serious injuries .
- Stock prices fell and bonds rose as [ARG1 worries *ICH*-1] [rel mounted] about the economy and the junk bond market .
- Competition and [rel mounting] [ARG1 insurance] and equipment costs have been the undoing of many resorts .
- MORE EXECUTIVES and their spouses are seeking counseling as [ARG1 work and family pressures] [rel mount] .
- The [rel mounting] [ARG1 risks] did not go unobserved , even in the mid-1980s .
- Bank of New England Corp. , *-1 seeking *-2 to streamline its business after a year of weak earnings and [rel mounting] [ARG1 loan] problems , said 0 it will sell some operations and lay off 4 % of its work force .
- [ARGM-DIS Yet] , [ARG0 his political setbacks] [rel mounted] .
- Early yesterday , investors scrambled *-2 to buy Treasury bonds for safety as stock prices plummeted and [ARG1 fears *ICH*-1] [rel mounted] of a replay of Friday .
- In early trading , investors were bidding bond prices higher as stocks tumbled and [ARG1 fears *ICH*-1] [rel mounted] that Friday 's stock market debacle would be repeated *-2 .
- Bank of New England plans *-1 to sell some operations and lay off 4 % of its work force after a year of weak earnings and [rel mounting] [ARG1 loan] problems .
- Gorbachev blamed the Soviet Union 's press for *-1 contributing to the nation 's [rel mounting] [ARG1 problems] .
- One reason is [rel mounting] [ARG1 competition] from new Japanese car plants in the U.S. that *T*-1 are pouring out more than one million vehicles a year at costs lower than GM can match *?* .