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• [_ARGM-ADV *-1 Crude as they were *?*] , [_ARG0 these early PCs] [_rel triggered] [_ARG1 explosive product development in desktop models for the home and office] .
• If [_ARG1 the 20-point limit] is [_rel triggered] *-125 [_ARGM-TMP after 1:30 p.m . Chicago time] , it would remain in effect until the normal close of trading at 3:15 p.m .
• The Merc said that [_ARG1 its existing 30-minute , 12-point limit] on S&P 500 stock-index futures trading -LRB- equal to about 100 points on the Dow Jones industrials -RRB- , which *T*-1 was [_rel triggered] *-127 [_ARGM-TMP Oct. 13] , will remain in effect .
• [_ARG1 The Oct. 13 plunge] was [_rel triggered] *-72 not by program traders , but by [_ARG0-by news of the unraveling of the $ 6.79 billion *U* buy-out of UAL Corp] .
• [_ARG1 The Oct. 13 plunge] was [_rel triggered] *-72 [_ARGM-NEG not] by [_ARG0-by program traders] , but by news of the unraveling of the $ 6.79 billion *U* buy-out of UAL Corp .
• [_ARG0 What] *T*-42 [_rel triggered] [_ARG1 the latest clash] was a skirmish over the timing of a New Zealand government bond issue .
• [_ARG0 The steady growth of the mortgage securities market in the U.S.] has [_ARGM-DIS even] [_rel triggered] [_ARG1 talk of * building up a similar market here] .
• The pilots argued that [_ARG0 this] [_rel triggered] [_ARG1 a pay raise for them] .
• [_ARG0 Any major attempt * to revamp the health-care system] is likely *-1 to [_rel trigger] [_ARG1 opposition from politically powerful interest groups , particularly the American Medical Association , and perhaps from the public as well] , [_ARGM-ADV if Congress takes steps that patients fear 0 *T*-2 will limit the availability of care] .
• Paper and forest-products stocks were especially strong , as [_ARG0 the offer for Great Northern Nekoosa by Georgia-Pacific] [_rel triggered] [_ARG1 speculation that the industry could be in for a wave of merger activity] .
• [_ARG0 The boost in rates] sent IBM 's bonds *-2 tumbling , *-1 leaving underwriters with millions of dollars of losses and [_rel triggering] [_ARG1 a sell-off] [_ARGM-LOC in the overall market] .
• [_ARG0 Last week 's uncertainty in the stock market and a weaker dollar] [_rel triggered] [_ARG1 a flight to safety] , he said 0 *T*-1 , but yesterday the market lacked such stimuli .
• He knows that [_ARG0 * making George Bush look silly in a photograph with him] [_ARGM-MOD will] [_rel trigger] [_ARG1 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 .
• `` It 's a super-exciting set of discoveries , '' says *T*-2 Bert Vogelstein , a Johns Hopkins University researcher who *T*-1 has just found a gene pivotal to the [<sub>rel</sub> triggering] of [<sub>ARG1-of</sub> colon cancer] .
• But to Ms. Allen , the employee [<sub>ARG0</sub> whose back problem] *T*-1 [<sub>rel</sub> triggered] [<sub>ARG1</sub> a huge insurance-rate increase] , the issue was simple .
• The company said 0 it amended its shareholder rights plan by *-2 reducing to 10 % from 20 % [<sub>ARG0</sub> the level] of ownership by an outsider that *T*-1 [<sub>ARGM-MOD</sub> would] [<sub>rel</sub> trigger] [<sub>ARG1</sub> the issuance to other holders of rights * to buy additional shares of Nashua common at half price] .
• The first instance occurred in [<sub>ARGM-TMP</sub> 1967-68] , when [<sub>ARG0</sub> China 's Cultural Revolution] [<sub>rel</sub> triggered] [<sub>ARG1</sub> bloody street rioting] [<sub>ARGM-LOC</sub> in the colony] *T*-1 .
• [<sub>ARG1</sub> The offer] was [<sub>ARGM-MNR</sub> automatically] [<sub>rel</sub> triggered] *-1 by [<sub>ARG0-by</sub> the recent sale of Control Data 's Imprimis disk-drive business to Seagate Technology Inc] .
• [<sub>ARG0</sub> A partisan fight over * cutting capital-gains taxes] has slowed the progress of 1990 deficit-reduction legislation almost to a halt , *-1 [<sub>rel</sub> triggering] [<sub>ARG1</sub> across-the-board spending cuts under the Gramm-Rudman law] .
• The Nikkei index was pressured *-1 down by [<sub>ARG1</sub> profit-taking] [<sub>rel</sub> triggered] * by [<sub>ARG0-by</sub> sharp advances made * through this week] and fell 151.20 points to 35527.29 .
• [<sub>ARG1</sub> The rights plan] [<sub>ARGM-MOD</sub> would] be [<sub>rel</sub> triggered] *-1 [<sub>ARGM-ADV</sub> if a person or group acquires 20 % or more of the common shares outstanding without *-2 making an offer to all shareholders] .
• Bond market analysts say 0 [<sub>ARG1</sub> the institutional selling] was [<sub>rel</sub> triggered] *-1 by [<sub>ARG0-by</sub> several factors] .
• [<sub>ARG1</sub> The sell-off in New York City bonds] was [<sub>rel</sub> triggered] *-1 by [<sub>ARG0-by</sub> concerns about the city 's financial health and political uncertainty in view of the impending mayoral election] .
• [<sub>ARG0</sub> Reports of Dr. Toseland 's findings in the British press] have [<sub>rel</sub> triggered] [<sub>ARG1</sub> widespread concern] [<sub>ARGM-LOC</sub> among diabetics there] .
• [<sub>ARG0</sub> The scientists] [<sub>ARGM-TMP</sub> then] took the five toxin genes and [<sub>rel</sub> triggered] [<sub>ARG1</sub> a mutation in the one gene that *T*-1 caused virulence] .
• These failures in turn contributed to the fall in the market averages : Uncertainty extracted an extra risk premium and [<sub>ARG0</sub> margin-calls] [<sub>rel</sub> triggered] [<sub>ARG1</sub> additional selling pressures] .
• [<sub>ARG1</sub> Rights attached * to the company 's common shares *ICH*-4] were issued *-1 that *T*-3 are [<sub>rel</sub> triggered] *-2 [<sub>ARGM-ADV</sub> if a hostile bidder acquires more than 20 % of the shares outstanding] .
• [<sub>ARGM-TMP</sub> Once] [<sub>ARG1</sub> *-1] [<sub>rel</sub> triggered] *-2 , the rights allow holders to buy additional shares at 50 % of the then current market price or , at the board 's discretion , to receive securities or assets .
• Even if [<sub>ARG0</sub> baseball] [<sub>rel</sub> triggers] [<sub>ARG1</sub> losses at CBS] -- and he does n't think 0 it will *?* -- `` I 'd rather *ICH*-1 see the games on our air than on NBC and ABC , '' he says 0 *T*-2 .
• He added that , after [_ARG1 an initial surge] [_rel triggered] * by [_ARG0-by an advertising blitz in March] , Sears expected that the pricing program would n't have any effect on revenue .
• [_ARG1 That rout] was [_rel triggered] *-1 by [_ARG0-by UAL Corp. 's announcement *ICH*-2 late Monday that the proposed management-labor buy-out had collapsed] .
• [_ARG1 The current effort * to auction off the company] was [_rel triggered] *-1 by [_ARG0-by a dispute between Mr. Drabinsky and the Toronto-based movie chain 's major shareholder , MCA Inc] .
• [_ARG0 The deepening bloodbath for takeover-stock traders , who by then *T*-2 had seen UAL stock tumble 49 % since Oct. 12 ,] [_ARGM-DIS also] [_rel triggered] [_ARG1 a marketwide sell-off that *T*-1 sent the Dow Jones Industrial Average down more than 80 points at 10:40 a.m] .
• [_ARGM-TMP Late in the afternoon] , [_ARG0 several big purchases by Bear , Stearns , particularly a block of 200,000 shares at 2:43 p.m. at $ 150 *U* a share ,] [_rel triggered] [_ARG1 a buying spree that *T*-1 took UAL up more than 18 points in the final hour of trading] .
• [_ARG0 December copper] opened near Monday 's close , tried *-1 to rally but failed , and [_ARGM-TMP then] [_rel triggered] [_ARG1 stop-loss orders] [_ARGM-LOC on its way down] [_ARGM-ADV *-1 to settle at $ 1.1510 *U* a pound , off 4.50 cents for the day] .
• [_ARG0 The December contract] opened just under Monday 's close , [_rel triggered] [_ARG1 some previously placed buy orders just above $ 1,030 *U* a metric ton] , [_ARGM-ADV * pushing the price to $ 1,040 *U*] , and then encountered heavy selling by traders who *T*-1 buy and sell for their own accounts and by commercial interests .
• [_ARGM-ADV As in the Oct. 13 massacre] , [_ARG1 yesterday morning 's drop] was [_rel triggered] *-1 by [_ARG0-by bad news for speculators in UAL] .
• [_rel Triggering] [_ARG1 the re-examination] is *T*-1 [_ARG0 a recent city council decision * to give preference in * letting city contracts to suppliers with a stated policy on child care for their employees] .
• Los Angeles investor Marvin Davis , [_ARG0 whose $ 240-a-share offer for UAL in August] *T*-1 [_rel triggered] [_ARG1 a bidding war] , says 0 he remains interested in the airline .
• Municipal bond analysts said 0 [_ARG1 the sell-off] was [_rel triggered] *-1 by [_ARG0-by concerns about the city 's financial health , rumors of a $ 900 million *U* bond offering coming soon , and political uncertainty] .
• However , the only outsider who *T*-2 has emerged *-4 to lead such a shareholder vote , [_ARG0 Los Angeles investor Marvin Davis] , who *T*-3 [_rel triggered] [_ARG1 the buy-out] with [_ARG2-with a $ 5.4 billion *U* bid in early August] , is hanging back -- apparently *-5 to avoid *-6 being blamed *-1 for *-7 contributing to the deal 's collapse .
• Neither of the two chemists [_ARG0 whose Utah experiments] *T*-1 [_rel triggered] [_ARG1 the cold fusion uproar] , Martin Fleischmann and B. Stanley Pons , were at the meeting .
• [_ARG0 The announcement of the buy-out 's troubles] [_rel triggered] [_ARG1 the market 's nose dive a week ago] .
• Traders said 0 [_ARG0 a variety of factors] [_rel triggered] [_ARG1 the rally] .
• [_ARG0 His dismissal] [_rel triggered] [_ARG1 a furor among intellectuals that *T*-1 continues today] .
• But while * pumping more money into the economy would bring relief to many industries , [_ARG0 it] also runs the risk of * [_rel triggering] [_ARG1 another period of runaway growth and steep inflation] .
• Security consultant Dennis Dalton of Ventura , Calif. , thinks 0 [_ARG0 mergers] [_ARGM-TMP often] [_rel trigger] [_ARG1 longer lunch hours and increased absenteeism , conduct which *T*-1 can sap the bottom line more than thefts] .
• A United spokesman said 0 14 of its 21 gates were unusable , mainly because of water damage caused * [_ARGM-TMP when] [_ARG1 a sprinkler system] was [_rel triggered] *-1 by [_ARG0-by the tremors] *T*-2 .
• [_ARG0 Whitbread & Co.] put its spirits division up for sale , *-2 [_rel triggering] [_ARG1 a scramble among global groups for the British company 's brands] .
• The main advantage of a convertible mortgage is that [_ARG0 it] is not a sale and [_ARGM-DIS therefore] does [_ARGM-NEG not] [_rel trigger] [_ARG1 costly transfer taxes and reappraisal] .
• But Japanese institutions shied away from *-1 bidding on the high-profile tower out of fear 0 [_ARG0 their purchase of the property] [_ARGM-MOD would] [_rel trigger] [_ARG1 anti-Japanese sentiment] .
• [_ARG0 News of the major earthquake in California Tuesday] [_rel triggered] [_ARG1 a round of dollar sales in early Asian trade] , but most foreign-exchange dealers said 0 they expect the impact of the quake on financial markets to be short-lived .
• [_ARG1 Public protests against him] were [_rel triggered] *-1 [_ARGM-TMP in June 1987] [_ARGM-CAU due to charges *ICH*-2 by Diaz Herrera , his former chief of staff , that Mr. Noriega had stolen the 1984 election and had ordered the killing of Messrs. Spadafora and Torrijos] .
• And [_ARG0 rumors of forced selling by takeover-stock traders] [_rel triggered] [_ARG1 a 25-point downdraft in the Dow Jones Industrial Average] [_ARGM-TMP around 11:15 a.m. EDT yesterday] .
• [_ARG0 The market upheaval] [_ARGM-ADV apparently] has [_ARGM-NEG n't] [_rel triggered] [_ARG1 any cash crunch] -- [_ARGM-TMP yet] .
• [_ARG1 The so-called circuit breakers devised * by the Big Board and the Chicago Mercantile Exchange * to quell free falls in stock and futures prices] were [_ARGM-NEG n't] [_rel triggered] *-1 [_ARGM-TMP yesterday] [_ARGM-CAU because the markets were higher for most of the day] .
• [_ARG0 UAL] , which *T*-1 [_rel triggered] [_ARG1 the slide] , opened Monday at $ 224 *U* , down about 20 % from Thursday 's close .
• Mr. Phelan said that [_ARG0 program trading strategies] were n't responsible for *-1 [_rel triggering] [_ARG1 Friday 's decline] [_ARGM-ADV despite a jump in the use of the computer-driven strategies in recent months] .
• [_ARG0 The sudden `` flight] to quality '' that *T*-2 [<sub>rel</sub> triggered] [<sub>ARG1</sub> Friday 's explosive bond-market rally] was reversed *-1 yesterday in a `` flight from quality '' rout .
• Then , traders say 0 *T*-1 , [_ARG0 corporations with share buy-back programs] kicked into high gear , * [_rel triggering] [_ARG1 gains in , among other issues , Alcan Aluminium and McDonald 's] .
• This technical strength spurred buying from Wall Street 's `` black boxes , '' [<sub>ARG0</sub> computer programs] designed * *-1 to [<sub>rel</sub> trigger] [<sub>ARG1</sub> large stock purchases] [<sub>ARGM-TMP</sub> during bullish periods] .
• Selling snowballed because of waves of [<sub>ARG1</sub> automatic `` stop-loss '' orders] , which *T*-2 are [_rel triggered] *-1 by [_ARG0-by computer] [_ARGM-TMP when prices fall to certain levels *T*-3] .
• In Seattle , a Boeing spokesman explained that the company has been in constant communication with all of its customers and that it *EXP*-2 was impossible * to predict [_ARG1 what further disruptions] *T*-3 [_ARGM-MOD might] be [_rel triggered] *-1 by [_ARG0-by the strike] .
• Although [_ARG0 the report , which *T*-2 was released *-1 before the stock market opened ,] did [_ARGM-NEG n't] [_rel trigger] [_ARG1 the 190.58-point drop in the Dow Jones Industrial Average] , analysts said 0 it did play a role in the market 's decline .
• Some analysts say 0 uncertainty about Washington 's anti-takeover policy was one reason that financing for the United Airlines takeover fell through *T*-2 -- [_ARG0 the event] that *T*-1 [_rel triggered] [_ARG1 the market drop] .
• [_ARGM-TMP During the first halt] , [_ARGM-TMP after the S&P index had fallen 12 points] , [_ARG1 the Big Board 's `` Sidecar '' computer program] [_ARGM-MNR automatically] was [_rel triggered] *-1 .
• But the 250-point circuit breaker never had *-2 to kick in , and [_ARG1 freezes on the Chicago Board of Trade 's Major Market Index] [_ARGM-DIS also] were [_ARGM-NEG n't] [_rel triggered] *-1 .
• Simultaneously , [_ARG0 it] also helped *-2 [_rel trigger] [_ARG1 this year 's biggest rally in the U.S. government bond market] as investors rushed *-3 to move capital into the highest-quality securities 0 they could find *T*-1 .
• The consensus along the street seems *-2 to be that [_ARG1 the plunge] was [_rel triggered] *-1 by [_ARG0-by the financing problems of the UAL takeover] , and it 's certainly true 0 the rout began immediately after the UAL trading halt .
• [_ARG1 Friday 's sell-off] was [_rel triggered] *-1 by [_ARG0-by the collapse of UAL 's buy-out plan and a big rise in producer prices] .