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• [_ARG2 Panama] was [_rel stripped] *-8 of [_ARG1-of this right] [_ARGM-CAU because of U.S. differences with the Noriega regime] , but the Central American country would have received a quota of 30,537 metric tons over a 21-month period ending Sept. 30 , 1990 .
• [_ARG0 The 1990 appropriations legislation] attempts *-1 to [_rel strip] [_ARG2 the president] of [_ARG1-of his powers * to make certain appointments as * provided *-2 by Article II] .
• Although the action removes one obstacle in the way of an overall settlement to the case , it also means that [_ARG2 Mr. Hunt] [_ARGM-MOD could] be [_rel stripped] *-165 of [_ARG1-of virtually all of his assets] [_ARGM-ADV if the Tax Court rules against him in a 1982 case heard * earlier this year in Washington , D.C] .
• [_ARGM-DIS But] [_ARG1 they] were [_rel stripped] *-242 from [_ARG2-from the Senate bill] [_ARGM-TMP after staffers estimated 0 penalty revenue would fall by $ 216 million *U* over five years] .
• [_ARGM-DIS But] [_ARGM-LOC on a 53-45 roll call] [_ARG1 this provision] was [_rel stripped] *-1 from [_ARG2-from the bill] [_ARGM-TMP last night] [_ARGM-TMP after Foreign Relations Chairman Claiborne Pell -LRB- D. , R.I . -RRB- complained that it was an intrusion on exclusive powers vested * in his panel for more than three decades] .
• And on back-to-back roll calls , 206-199 and 223-178 , the Appropriations Committee leadership turned back efforts [_ARG0 *] to weaken or [_rel strip] [_ARG1 the proposed restrictions] first added * by Sen. Warren Rudman -LRB- R. , N.H. -RRB-
• The House agreed *-1 to defer for a year a scheduled 50 % increase in the required state matching funds for law-enforcement grants but , [_ARGM-MNR by a 287-123 margin] , [_ARG0 the chamber] [_rel stripped] [_ARG1 a Senate initiative * to raise the minimum grant for smaller states , such as New Hampshire and Delaware , to $ 1.6 million *U* from $ 500,000 *U*] .
• Earlier this month , the White House endorsed [_ARG0 *] [_rel stripping] [_ARG1 the controversial tax measure] from [_ARG2-from the bill] so that Congress could pass quickly a `` clean '' bill containing only provisions specifically designed * * to meet federal budget targets under the Gramm-Rudman act .
• Critics have complained that [<sub>ARG0</sub> the law] [<sub>ARGM-MNR</sub> unfairly] [<sub>rel</sub> strips] [<sub>ARG2</sub> defendants] of [<sub>ARG1-of</sub> assets] [<sub>ARGM-TMP</sub> before a jury determines 0 they have committed a crime] and that aggressive use of the forfeiture provisions can ruin corporate defendants or force them into unfavorable plea bargains .
• Republicans as well as Democrats were angered *-1 by the budget director 's rejection of [<sub>ARG0</sub> Speaker Foley 's] effort * to expedite a deficitcutting measure by *-2 [<sub>rel</sub> stripping] [<sub>ARG2</sub> it] of [<sub>ARG1-of</sub> the capital-gains tax cut as well as pet Democratic projects] .
• An estimated $ 1.32 billion *U* *ICH*-2 is provided *-1 for next year 's census , and [<sub>ARG0</sub> negotiators] [<sub>rel</sub> stripped] [<sub>ARG1</sub> a Senate-passed rider seeking * to block the counting of illegal aliens] .
• And [<sub>ARG0</sub> a squad of influential former Senate aides employed * by the Wall Street firm Salomon Brothers] came to the Capitol in a vain attempt * to [<sub>rel</sub> strip] [<sub>ARG1</sub> the provision] .
• In fact , Aer Lingus started *-1 ferrying Russians from Shannon to New York when [<sub>ARG0</sub> Washington] [<sub>rel</sub> stripped] [<sub>ARG2</sub> Aeroflot] of [<sub>ARG1-of</sub> its U.S. landing rights] *T*-2 .
• The games 0 [<sub>ARG0</sub> Bronx children] played *T*-1 -LRB- * holding kids down and [<sub>rel</sub> stripping] [<sub>ARG2</sub> them] , for example -RRB- seem tame by today 's crack standards , but Ms. Cunningham makes it all sound like a great adventure .
• Late Friday night , the Senate voted 87-7 *-1 to approve [<sub>ARG2</sub> an estimated $ 13.5 billion *U* measure] that *T*-2 had been [<sub>rel</sub> stripped] *-8 of [<sub>ARG1-of</sub> hundreds of provisions that *T*-9 would have widened , rather than narrowed , the federal budget deficit] .
• One obvious place 0 * to attach a capital-gains tax cut , and perhaps [<sub>ARG1</sub> other popular items] [<sub>rel</sub> stripped] * from [<sub>ARG2-from</sub> the deficit-reduction bill] , *T*-1 is the legislation 0 *T*-2 to raise the federal borrowing limit .
• When an agreement *ICH*-1 was reached *-3 [<sub>ARG0</sub> *] to [<sub>rel</sub> strip] [<sub>ARG1</sub> capital gains] from [<sub>ARG2-from</sub> the legislation] *T*-2 , Oregon Sen. Bob Packwood , the ranking GOP member of the tax-writing Senate Finance Committee , hailed it .
• `` The market needs a strong signal that we 're serious about deficit reduction , and the best way 0 * to do that *T*-1 is for [_ARG0 the House of Representatives] to [_rel strip] [_ARG2 their bill] '' of [_ARG1-of similar provisions] , Sen. Warren Rudman -LRB- R. , N.H . -RRB- . said 0 *T*-2 yesterday .
• There were also calls 0 [_ARG0 *] to [_rel strip] [_ARG2 the stock markets] of [_ARG1-of `` derivative '' products , such as stock-index futures and options , which Federal Judge Stanley Sporkin , for example , likened *T*-1 to `` barnacles attached to the basic market] *T*-2 . ''
• [_ARGM-TMP An hour before Friday 's plunge] , [_ARG1 that provision] was [_rel stripped] *-1 from [_ARG2-from the tax bill] , [_ARGM-ADV * leaving it with $ 5.4 billion *U* in tax increases without a capital gains cut] .
• There is a great deal 0 *T*-2 to be said *-1 , * to be sure , for [_ARG0 *] [_rel stripping] [_ARG1 the garbage] [_ARG2 out of the reconciliation bill] .