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• `` [<sub>ARG0</sub> We] 're [<sub>rel</sub> taking] on [<sub>ARG1</sub> more debt than we would have liked *-2 to *?*] , '' acknowledged *T*-1 Michael Plouf , LIN 's vice president and treasurer .
• We did n't think 0 [<sub>ARG0</sub> a sleeping -LCB- Bell -RCB- mentality] would be willing *-1 to [<sub>rel</sub> take] on [<sub>ARG1</sub> dilution] . ''
• [<sub>ARG0</sub> The realty unit] [<sub>ARGM-MOD</sub> might] [<sub>rel</sub> take] on [<sub>ARG1</sub> new debt] or obtain additional investors , among other possibilities .
• [<sub>ARGM-DIS</sub> As a result] , [<sub>ARG0</sub> the effort *ICH*-1 by some oil ministers * to get OPEC to approve a new permanent production-sharing agreement next month] is [<sub>rel</sub> taking] on [<sub>ARG1</sub> increasing urgency] .
• [<sub>ARG0</sub> Mr. Lang] [<sub>rel</sub> took] on [<sub>ARG1</sub> Ms. and Sassy] [<sub>ARGM-ADV</sub> with the acquisition of Matilda Publications Inc. by his newly formed Lang Communications] .
• [<sub>ARGM-ADV</sub> As * described *-1 in `` The New Crowd] , '' [_ARG0 they] [_rel take] on [_ARG1 ambitious new wives] , move to Greenwich , Conn. , or Bedford , N.Y. , buy OK pictures , and let their wives share the wealth with decorators .
• `` [<sub>ARG0</sub> *] Having *-1 to [<sub>rel</sub> take] on [<sub>ARG1</sub> less debt] would certainly be an advantage , '' said *T*-2 Mr. Leblang .
• S. Waite Rawls III , vice chairman of Continental Bank , First Options ' parent company , said 0 [<sub>ARG0</sub> the firm] [<sub>rel</sub> took] on [<sub>ARG1</sub> about 160 accounts formerly held * by Fossett] , almost all of them belonging to professional floor traders .
• At the same time , its annual payments on long-term debt will more than double from a year ago to about $ 240 million *U* , largely because of [<sub>ARG1</sub> debt] [<sub>rel</sub> taken] * on [<sub>ARGM-PNC</sub> * to pay a $ 50-a-share *U* special dividend earlier this year] .
• [<sub>ARG0</sub> Ever-more powerful desk-top computers , designed * with one or more microprocessors as their `` brains , ''] are expected *-1 to [_ARGM-MNR increasingly] [_rel take] on [_ARG1 functions carried out by more expensive minicomputers and mainframes] .