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frames- While he reaffirmed support for the country 's Feb. 25 elections , Ortega indicated that [ARG0 renewed U.S. military aid to the Contras] [ARGM-MOD could] [rel thwart] [ARG1 the balloting] .
- [ARG0 The bill] [ARGM-MOD would] [rel thwart] [ARG1 a recent Labor Department opinion that * investing individual-retirement-account funds * to earn free checking violates the law] .
- He says 0 bowling helps him shed pounds , though [ARG1 that effort] is [ARGM-TMP sometimes] [rel thwarted] *-2 by [ARG0-by the fact that `` when I 'm drinking *T*-1 , I bowl better] . ''
- But [ARG0 the new pact] will force huge debt on the new firm and could still fail *-1 to [rel thwart] [ARG1 rival suitor McCaw Cellular] .
- [ARG1 The government] spent most of last year *-1 attempting *-2 to carry out such a plan but was [rel thwarted] *-1 [ARGM-TMP when the parent Waertsilae concern pulled out at the last minute *T*-3] .
- [ARG1 Plans for the auction , which *T*-2 was supposed *-3 to take place last spring and become a regular event ,] have been [rel thwarted] *-1 by [ARG0-by a lack of hard currency] .
- [ARG0 A proposed conflict-of-interest policy for federally funded biomedical researchers] [ARGM-MOD may] [rel thwart] [ARG1 many high-technology new ventures] , say 0 *T*-1 financiers , researchers and university administrators .
- Royal 's suit contends that [ARG0 the Ammann acquisition] was `` designed *-1 to entrench management and [rel thwart] [ARG1 Royal 's offer] . ''
- John Dingell demagogues a David Baltimore , animal-rights activists do $ 3.5 million *U* of damage to labs at the U.Cal-Davis , Meryl Streep decries the horrors of chemistry on talk shows , [ARG0 Jeremy Rifkin] files lawsuits in federal court *-1 to [rel thwart] [ARG1 biotech experiments] , and Dutch-elm-disease researcher Gary Strobel 's own colleagues at Montana State denounce him for `` * violating '' EPA rules .
- [ARGM-DIS But] [ARG1 efforts] have been [rel thwarted] *-1 by [ARG0-by official indifference , bureaucratic resistance , a legal system that *T*-2 operates at a snail 's pace , political opposition and government misjudgments] .
- [ARGM-TMP In February 1987] , [ARG0 Bally] [rel thwarted] [ARG1 a possible hostile takeover bid from Mr. Trump] [ARGM-MNR by *-1 agreeing *-2 to buy 2.6 million of Mr. Trump 's 3.1 million Bally shares for $ 83.7 million *U* -- more than $ 18 million *U* above market price] .
- In a letter to subcommittee Chairman James Oberstar -LRB- D. , Minn. -RRB- , Mr. Trump criticized the bill as an explicit effort [ARG0 *] to [rel thwart] [ARG1 his bid for AMR] , and said 0 it contributed to the collapse of the deal .
- [ARG1 The plot] is [rel thwarted] *-1 [ARGM-TMP when the firm 's major stockholder , kelp farming on the other side of the globe , hurries home * to support the executive *T*-3] .
- First came *T*-1 his predictable fusillade : He charged 0 the Coalition of the Left and Progress had sold out its leftist tenets by * collaborating in [ARG0 a right-wing plot] aimed * at * ousting PASOK and [rel thwarting] [ARG1 the course of socialism in Greece] .