***absorb*** *nonliteral cluster* wsj02:2251 U Another option will be to try to curb the growth in education and other local assistance , which absorbs 66 % of the state 's budget ./. wsj03:2839 N But in the short-term it will absorb a lot of top management 's energy and attention , '' says Philippe Haspeslagh , a business professor at the European management school , Insead , in Paris ./. wsj03:9412 U That merger , valued at about $ 1 billion , helped fuel a succession of financial marriages in which brokerage firms were absorbed by larger , diversified financial services companies ./. wsj04:10022 N Shocks from one-time changes in the terms of trade should be absorbed by adjustments in exchange-rate terms -- not price levels ./. wsj04:8152 U R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. has been a rich , fat operation , which absorbed 400 people from the old corporate headquarters staff with hardly a burp ./. wsj05:10980 U Taxes ca n't keep rising faster than the incomes of taxpayers , or the government would absorb an ever-increasing share of private incomes , destroying incentives ./. wsj05:5479 N During the past 18 months , the Houston-based unit of Texas Air Corp. absorbed several carriers , in the process inheriting a hodge-podge of different aircraft ./. wsj05:7339 N In the years since 1853 , when 4 , 058 steamboats arrived at the Cincinnati waterfront loaded with `` foreign '' people and exotic merchandise , Cincinnati residents have absorbed chili and pizza and wontons and dirty rice while adjusting to electric music and jet lag ./. wsj06:1157 U They stressed that many of the costs absorbed this quarter , such as the firing up of USX 's Fairfield facility , will be a benefit later on ./. wsj06:5718 U Also , the government was charged for development costs that Sundstrand either should have passed on to private customers or absorbed , Mr. Valukas said ./. wsj06:7156 U The decline resulted from costs of absorbing Stevens and from a marketing miscue in Arrow shirts ./. wsj09:8023 N Mr. Wyss of Data Resources suggested that factories may be having difficulty hiring new workers at a time of such low unemployment or may simply not be able to absorb as many new workers as they would like ./. wsj11:1022 N Management of three of the five highest yielding general purpose funds , as ranked by the Donoghue Organization , absorb a portion of fund expenses ./. wsj12:10373 U WestFed will absorb 20 % of the first $ 35 million of losses on the sale of those assets ./. wsj12:3384 N Meanwhile , Democratic nominee Michael Dukakis -- after a month of absorbing Republican blows on his patriotism and being portrayed as a big taxer -- tried to gain the offensive with an old Democratic chestnut: the Republicans are going to take away your Social Security ./. wsj12:762 U `` It 's so expensive to be over there , and if you have to absorb -LRB- overhead -RRB- expenses while operating at a loss , it 's going to make things very hard , '' he said ./. wsj13:9766 N And even when that loophole was closed , in 1980 , the Japanese decided to absorb the tariff rather than boost prices ./. wsj14:7526 N While the rest of the nation watched with mere curiosity or slight concern , the nation 's fourth-largest city was thoroughly absorbed by the approach of Hurricane Gilbert ./. wsj15:11128 U The Lloyd 's market will absorb roughly half the estimated $ 1.4 billion in losses from the Piper Alpha disaster , he said ./. wsj16:8496 U Aside from the cash , the Federal Home Loan Bank Board 's insurance arm will guarantee a return on bad assets and absorb 75 % of the first $ 2.7 million of capital losses on certain bad assets and then absorb all losses beyond that for five years ./. wsj17:5200 N Mr. Ennis said he believes Rockwood got into financial difficulty because its expansion efforts `` outstripped its ability to absorb those activities . ''/'' wsj18:10428 N The clearance came as a notary approved Ferruzzi 's plan to absorb Iniziativa Me.T.A ./. wsj18:132 N If his style after the strikes of last May indicates anything , Gen. Jaruzelski has n't absorbed that ./. wsj18:1993 U In addition , legal disputes appear to be brewing over who will absorb the growing losses associated with the recall , as well as product-liability claims ./. wsj19:10993 N Remics are absorbing the bulk of newly issued mortgage securities as institutional buyers , such as thrifts and insurance companies , prefer the more tailored investment features of structured mortgage securities to the greater payment uncertainties of ordinary pass-throughs issued by Ginnie Mae , Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae ./. wsj19:1640 U Chrysler says it will absorb the costs of making air bags standard equipment until at least 1990 ; it wo n't say how high it will push prices when it eventually does start charging for the feature ./. wsj21:7369 N Robert K. Heady , publisher of Bank Rate Monitor , a North Palm Beach , Fla . , interest rate newsletter , said banks `` did n't jump through hoops to raise savings yields 24 hours after absorbing the news of the Federal discount rate . ''/'' wsj22:11118 N Now , do all of them absorb it and grab it ?/. wsj23:11126 U Prime Computer Inc . , as expected , reported a sharp earnings decline because of a write-off and costs related to absorbing an acquisition during its second quarter ended July 4 ./. wsj23:1861 U While Islam converted people , it disseminated its knowledge to them and at the same time , it absorbed the teachings of others ./. wsj23:5188 U The company has slugged its way out of the economic doldrums , piling up $ 624 million in earnings from 1985 to 1987 after absorbing unprecedented losses of $ 953 million from 1982 to 1984 ./. wsj25:4814 U `` Some companies are better positioned than others to absorb these kinds of margin pressures , '' she says ./. wsj26:8818 U Chrysler also is incurring costs from accelerating product-development programs , and from absorbing American Motors Corp . , which it bought last year ./. wsj27:3112 N `` In a small company , the CEO and his people become so absorbed in the Eleven that it dominates the existence of the company . ''/'' wsj30:4783 N The House-passed version also includes the 4 % raise , but would require agencies to absorb only half of the cost ./. wsj32:3028 N In 1946 , Stalin in his campaign to break Ukrainian nationalism brutally forced the Russian Orthodox Church to absorb the Ukrainian Catholic Church ./. wsj33:10565 N And the $ 300 million sunflower industry is faring far worse than the $ 10.5 billion soybean industry , which is large enough to absorb short-term setbacks ./. wsj33:6252 U `` We 've been absorbing the costs for some time , '' the spokesman said ./. wsj36:8242 U Brokers said the new 10-year bond to be floated by the Bonn government will be absorbed only slowly by the market ./. wsj38:248 U Mr. Iacocca said at the annual meeting that other factors also are hurting second-quarter profit , including additional research-and-development spending , the recently negotiated new contract with the United Auto Workers union and the cost of absorbing American Motors Corp . , which Chrysler acquired last year ./. wsj38:6326 U `` Locals absorbed a lot of losses , '' said Mr. Sandor of Drexel ./. wsj39:5600 N The cost , about $ 250 a month , absorbs almost a third of her $ 1 , 400 monthly take-home pay ./. wsj39:9537 N `` When the market absorbs heavy selling , as this one did , and still comes back , it indicates to me that it wants to go higher , '' Mr. Radoccia said ./. wsj40:2451 N Jordan , with a flagging economy and a 4.2 % annual birth-rate , could n't absorb another influx of refugees no matter how sympathetically it viewed their plight ./. wsj42:3263 N Some diamond analysts said dealers may find it difficult to absorb De Beers latest price increase , particularly since it followed a 10 % rise in prices in early October ./. wsj42:6837 N By 1983 he had become so absorbed in his quest that he resigned as China correspondent for The Wall Street Journal and spent much of the next four years in China visiting relatives , searching libraries and scrabbling through underbrush looking for grave sites ./. wsj42:7514 N Mr. Jackson has absorbed whatever the press will give him , the useful along with the condescending ./. wsj43:10075 U And Bank Board Chairman Danny Wall says that , by getting hefty shares of profit and stock if Pelican turns around , the board will `` share on the up-side , '' rather than just bearing the risk of absorbing further losses ./. *literal cluster* wsj01:8268 N The Monitor 's losses are absorbed by the church 's working fund , which reportedly has declined during the past two years to about $ 200 million from more than $ 280 million , largely because of the stock-market crash ./. wsj02:10839 N The difference: An ever wealthier South Korea can imagine absorbing the poorer , less-populated Communist North , but Taiwan , no matter how rich , would be swallowed whole by the massive Chinese mainland ./. wsj03:1596 N In most instances , executives at the absorbed companies are the merger casualties , says Steven Potter of Russell Reynolds Associates ./. wsj03:4929 N Burt Sugarman , chairman of the cement company , said third-quarter earnings were hurt by unrealized losses on stocks in its investment portfolio of about $ 2 million , and by having to absorb about $ 3.9 million of a $ 6.9 million net loss recently posted by Barris Industries Inc. with no associated tax benefits ./. wsj04:7524 N Emulating Japan 's broad-based conglomerates , Samsung Electronics Co. will officially absorb Samsung Semiconductor & Telecommunications Co ./. wsj05:10824 N As a result , total investment from all sources , domestic and foreign , of about 16 % of gross national product is still way short of the 25 % analysts believe is needed to absorb a fast-expanding labor force ./. wsj06:4764 N Operations at metal and wood coffin manufacturing plants in Missouri , Indiana and Pennsylvania will remain open and , in fact , be expanded with additional shifts to absorb some of the workers and production idled elsewhere ./. wsj06:6076 N It 's the smile of a man who has wit , but is too absorbed to indulge himself in humor ./. wsj08:4612 N A U.S. Department of Labor report prepared by the U.S. Embassy here said the country `` continues to rely heavily on export of labor , tramsmigration and the capability of the informal sector to absorb surplus manpower to take up each year 's slack in unemployment opportunities . ''/'' wsj11:1363 L An Energy Department spokesman says the sulfur dioxide might be simultaneously recoverable through the use of powdered limestone , which tends to absorb the sulfur ./. wsj12:1723 N He said that MMWEC will have to absorb only $ 4 million in additional annual costs now paid by the Vermont utilities ./. wsj13:11024 N To expect banks to absorb a cost without a commensurate charge defies logic ./. wsj13:5126 N Switzerland is an example of a country that has pursued a domestic price rule and achieved price stability while allowing fluctuations in the exchange rate to absorb real shocks ./. wsj15:10615 N At this year 's rate of $ 3.25 billion a month as tracked by IDD , it would take nearly four years for buy-outs to absorb $ 150 billion ./. wsj16:204 N While reconstruction projects may initially absorb many of the workers , the need to find work for men demobilized from Iraq 's million-strong army makes it unlikely that guest labor will remain at current levels ./. wsj16:6256 N It had been long assumed that the agency would n't act until late on a Friday afternoon in order to give market participants a weekend to absorb the news ./. wsj17:500 N -- The peaceful absorption into the world economy and polity of nations now moving swiftly to absorb all the major technologies , a group including among others , China and India , Brazil and Mexico ./. wsj17:7979 L The yellow beta carotene pigment absorbs blue -LRB- not yellow -RRB- laser light ./. wsj20:3923 N With its strength in the Old South , the Rocky Mountain and northern plains states and such dependable GOP bastions as Indiana , the party can absorb some losses and still accumulate close to 200 electoral votes ./. wsj21:345 N The FDIC staff also noted that Wells Fargo would have given the agency no control over the selection and management of bad loans for which the agency would have to absorb all losses ./. wsj24:7703 N `` We 're talking about $ 50 billion to $ 60 billion of debt that the taxpayer will have to absorb , '' Emory University 's Mr. Benston says ./. wsj24:8542 N Its value depends on how quickly you can bring it to market , and there are problems like zoning and water and the ability of the market to absorb inventory . ''/'' wsj25:10084 N The FDIC package would sharply boost the merged institution 's capital and give it a huge cushion to absorb future loan losses ./. wsj26:4332 N In spite of her wifely obligations -LRB- which ceased upon her official separation from Teddy in 1911 , followed by divorce -RRB- , her wealth and social standing allowed her to go where she pleased , read what she liked , and enjoy all she could absorb of a world that seemed to her to overflow with richness and beauty ./. wsj27:5326 N In no case did expenditures rise enough after the war to absorb the revenue that would have been available if the war taxes had been retained ./. wsj27:5617 L This time , the ground absorbed the shock waves enough to transfer her images to the metal in bas-relief ./. wsj28:3174 N He added that employees who do n't move to the rival 's factory in Chicago probably will be absorbed by Bally 's growing fitness-equipment manufacturing businesses ./. wsj31:7147 N Most of these losses must be absorbed by the FSLIC , the industry 's insurer , analysts said ./. wsj33:11255 N It is the growth of the Hidden Economy -- these millions of small , private businesses -- that cushions the shock of a crashing Dow , that absorbs the workers cut loose by big firms when they restructure and that created most of those 17 million jobs ./. wsj33:217 N `` The market is absorbing all of the mill 's output of supercalender paper , '' Mr. Nugent said ./. wsj33:6601 N Longtime American expatriates here like to recall what happened in the 1970s when Japan easily absorbed the same heavy body blows from the organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries that bring other developed nations to their knees ./. wsj33:8567 N An early new accord would absorb the existing one ./. wsj35:3136 N GM ca n't continue to absorb indefinitely the large fixed costs represented by unused capacity , he says ./. wsj37:459 N `` It is actually easier for this market to absorb small increases for the yen -LRB- against the dollar -RRB- , '' Mr. Nakaharu said , `` although of course a sudden fall for the dollar would be a problem . ''/'' wsj37:9748 N Nearly all of this growth is in the developing countries of Africa , Asia and Latin America , which are least capable of absorbing it , the report said ./. wsj38:4910 N Nearly four-fifths of this increase would be absorbed by the rising cost of Social Security benefits and the cost of keeping outlays for defense and education even with inflation , as Mr. Bush has proposed ./. wsj38:9064 N With its large stock of sober , muscular buildings , Chicago has been able to absorb Mr. Jahn 's work ; there , Xerox Centre 's sweeping curve of white metal and reflective glass , or One South Wacker 's long grids of pale pink and pale blue glass can seem like light relief . -LRB- For similar reasons , his recent Chryslerlike blue-glass tower can be accommodated in downtown Philadelphia -RRB- ./. wsj42:216 N Anyone who spends a few hours reading his speeches and talking to Democrats familiar with his views learns quickly that Mr. Dukakis has absorbed many of the dovish obsessions of his party 's left ./. wsj43:10337 N It said it expects to absorb `` the vast majority '' of those jobs in its private health-care business ./. wsj45:10223 N First Federal was then to absorb several other troubled thrifts in federally assisted mergers , as part of the Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corp. 's so-called Southwest Plan to rescue the many ailing savings and loans based in the region ./. wsj45:1719 N The pension agency , which had briefly absorbed LTV 's $ 2 billion pension shortfall , subsequently returned responsibility for the plans to the steelmaker ./. wsj46:1865 N Districts jump back and forth over mountain ranges , cross large bodies of water , send out little tentacles to absorb special communities and ensure safe seats . ''/'' wsj46:6709 N Previously , Olivetti refused to make such cuts , forcing AT & T 's computer business to absorb the shortfalls ./. wsj51:2139 N But he said Cigna 's after-tax gain wo n't be material because the company will absorb certain deferred taxes of the division ./. wsj52:4835 N Equally important , his Socialist government absorbed and then , in effect , destroyed the French Communist Party ./. wsj54:9202 N Reserving enables banks to absorb losses on bad credits ./. wsj55:7849 N One can not help but be absorbed by portions of Mr. Bouwsma 's diligent labor , but readers should be warned that the Calvin of this book is presented not as a dramatic heretic , but as a rather schematic schismatic ./. wsj56:3867 N DESPITE A modest rise in sales of luxury units , Miami 's glut of condominiums is n't expected to be absorbed for three years , according to RealData Information Systems , a local consultant ./. wsj57:3516 N Mr. Thunberg of Ried Thunberg said the Fed has `` aggressively '' absorbed reserves over each of the past three days , creating some confusion about its intentions ./. wsj59:7837 N Canadian National said that Canadian Pacific Hotels agreed to maintain all existing labor contracts and pension benefits and to absorb all of CN Hotels ' current employees ./. wsj65:10113 N Under the proposed merger , Wheelabrator Technologies will absorb Waste Management 's Tampa , Fla . , incinerator and three other waste-to-energy projects the company has under development in Broward County , Fla . ; Dakota County , Minn . ; and Falls Township , Pa ./. wsj65:5995 N But Korea 's booming economy can absorb them , economists say ./. wsj65:927 N Equity capital is the clearest picture of a bank 's net worth and its ability to absorb additional losses ./. wsj66:4078 N It said it expects to absorb `` the vast majority '' of those jobs in its private health-care business ./. wsj68:10049 N If the latest auditors ' recommendation is adopted , Illinois Power could add $ 1.84 billion to its rate base , but apparently would have to absorb the balance ./. wsj69:9000 N This cost has been absorbed by me in the hope that the FDA would reward my efforts with its favor ./. wsj72:3041 N For Koppers , selling off part of its construction-materials business is seen as crucial , because no matter how it decides to improve upon Beazer 's bid , it is likely to absorb considerable debt ./. wsj72:7639 N But he said Cigna 's after-tax gain wo n't be material because the company will absorb certain deferred taxes of the division ./. wsj73:10273 N Equally important , his Socialist government absorbed and then , in effect , destroyed the French Communist Party ./. wsj73:4183 N The plan calls for Ferruzzi Finanziaria , the family holding company that controls the Ferruzzi-Montedison group and is now closely held , to absorb Iniziativa Me.T.A. unit in a stock swap ./. wsj80:1126 N E.F. HUTTON & CO.: Now in the process of being absorbed by Shearson Lehman Brothers , Hutton does n't seem to have picked stocks as well as Shearson did ./. wsj80:4482 N Montedison 's Iniziativa Me.T.A. unit , which Ferruzzi is to absorb in its restructuring , dropped 7.2 % to 8 , 310 lire ./. wsj80:6829 L `` Vitamins could be passed right out of the body without being absorbed , '' he says ./. wsj81:4873 N The court ruled , however , that the trust will now have to absorb more of that cost ./. wsj82:10587 N He added: `` There is so much space out there that people are making deals at good prices , absorbing space ./. wsj85:829 N -- Futures dealers on the floors of the various exchanges `` absorbed some selling pressure '' but they were n't `` able to counterbalance the public selling pressure . ''/'' wsj03:10607 U According to one theory , the market was still trying to absorb the two large computer-generated sell programs that passed through the market Wednesday ./. wsj04:6510 U Next year it will open a $ 125 million paper manufacturing plant in Greensboro , N.C . , and the Tokyo firm wants a ready market to absorb the additional capacity ./. wsj04:7505 U New tenants in Chicago usually demand a period of free rent and significant physical improvements , costs which Sears will probably have to absorb ./. wsj04:7743 U But by contrast with other nuclear plants whose power is quickly absorbed in the high-demand areas they serve , this nuclear plant has brought so much generating capacity to sparsely populated New Mexico -LRB- 1.4 million residents in 121 , 000 square miles -RRB- that it wo n't be needed until the year 2000 ./. wsj05:1584 U Traders believe the market can absorb the flood , but it appears to be pushing up yields ./. wsj06:4131 U Most such disputed charges that go unpaid are absorbed by the card-issuing bank ./. wsj09:9943 U With the latest quarterly deficit , MCorp 's capital base , which represents its ability to absorb further losses , will be a slender $ 131 million of common equity , or $ 304 million in total shareholder equity , including two issues of preferred stock ./. wsj10:3881 U Some businesses are better able to absorb price increases these days ./. wsj10:5541 U `` Apparently , the manner in which the market absorbed the large quantity , estimated at about 200 , 000 tons , has encouraged demand for futures contracts , '' he said ./. wsj10:6987 U Instead , the bill calls for the FADA 's operations to be liquidated or absorbed into the Bank Board 's insurance arm , the Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corp ./. wsj10:9165 U `` The belief is that this quantity has been absorbed by the market and that the Ivory Coast might want to back off as a seller for a while , '' he said ./. wsj11:853 U Jerald D. Hitzemann , Carter 's research director , believes the market can handle all that activity , noting that about 2.8 million square feet of new space was absorbed in the first half of the year ./. wsj12:9351 U In particular , businesses with five or fewer employees , those exempted under the law , may avoid adding employees to the payroll or choose to absorb the less-costly penalties for not offering health insurance ./. wsj12:9489 L As Eliot wrote: `` In a warm haze , the sultry light is absorbed , not refracted , by grey stone . . . . '' and flowers do indeed `` sleep in empty silence . ''/'' wsj14:2131 U Paradoxically , the market that absorbed most of the dumping in the fourth quarter was Tokyo ./. wsj15:742 U Also , baseball owners contend that broadcast companies tend to drive up player salaries because they can afford to absorb operating losses on the baseball team ./. wsj15:960 U Hopkins & Sutter also has a Washington office and in July absorbed Washington-based Hamel & Park into that operation ./. wsj17:3013 U But polyester does n't absorb moisture , so permanent-press clothes are n't as cool as those made from all-cotton fibers ./. wsj17:5289 U They offer a way to absorb extra white-collar workers whom companies feel obliged to retain under lifetime employment practices ./. wsj17:6188 U It got the government to absorb half the cost and paid back the favor by offering federal agencies discount rates on its tracking service ./. wsj17:6897 L New Pig Corp . , Tipton , Pa . , offers a hot-dog-shaped sponge that absorbs polluting liquids around factory machines ./. wsj18:1977 U Panhandle said it would absorb half the cost of the settlements ./. wsj18:6958 U Their Northern European ancestors had to adapt to a climate where sunny days were few and short and it was important for the skin to absorb sunlight to produce vitamin D. Thus , light-skinned people have a type of melanin that builds up only after the skin is threatened by repeated sunburn and fades quickly when the threat diminishes ./. wsj18:6996 L Mr. Gallas says he began looking into melanin about five years ago when he was working on solar energy and was looking for materials that absorb sunlight ./. wsj18:7738 U The world oil glut that has kept gasoline prices low and bank-failure rates high will therefore be extended -- perhaps for years but surely for however long it takes for world-wide demand to absorb the new Iraqi production ./. wsj19:10773 L The fatty deposits have a yellowish hue and therefore absorb more of the yellow laser energy than the surrounding , almost colorless artery wall ./. wsj19:6417 U And now that the baby boom has been absorbed into the work force , slower labor force growth appears certain to lie ahead ./. wsj22:11256 U The country absorbed them ./. wsj22:1140 U Puma posted a loss of 73 million marks for 1987 , of which Mr. Dassler absorbed 40.5 million marks by waiving repayment on a personal loan to the company his father founded 40 years ago ./. wsj23:10419 U That 's because one of the ways the SBA `` rewards '' the 162 of its 7 , 000 lenders who have gained the preferred status is by having them absorb more of the loss if their loans turn sour ./. wsj24:9054 U He thinks some of the shock can be absorbed by retraining and welfare ./. wsj26:1711 U Its economy remains so robust that it can absorb much punishment before problems get serious , as they might in a recession ./. wsj27:4959 U `` The composite stock price index should remain between 650 points and 700 points , due to the expected unbalance of demand and supply , unless a measure to absorb the excess supply works out , '' said Lee Jung-ja , an analyst at W.I. Carr Securities Co ./. wsj28:1960 U Because of this logistical problem and because of the potential for diversion of the drug to nonregistered addicts , heroin began to be progressively replaced by methadone maintenance . -LRB- Methadone , a long-lasting opiate , needs to be absorbed only once a day , by mouth. -RRB-/-RRB- wsj28:462 U Stocks `` can absorb '' interest-rate rises as long as they are n't viewed as a panic step , says Charles Larkum , an analyst at James Capel & Co ./. wsj32:2604 U The reason for Daimler-Benz 's reluctance is that it has enough problems of its own , without absorbing those of aerospace group MBB , through which West Germany owns 37.9 % of Airbus Industrie , the money-draining European airline consortium ./. wsj32:2605 U Bonn has been trying for a year to persuade Daimler-Benz to absorb MBB ./. wsj33:3375 U I 'm not too concerned about how we can absorb the shares , '' says Reese Harasawa , manager of the strategic planning division at Mitsubishi Bank Ltd ./. wsj33:6763 U And there can be little question that massive new inflows would make it even more unlikely that these immigrants would be absorbed into the cultural framework of traditional France and West Germany ./. wsj35:7090 U In the filing made Wednesday , the company proposed to absorb 25 % of its obligations , which resulted in the charge ./. wsj37:1518 U On the narrow issue at hand , several European nations would like NATO simply to absorb the cost of relocating the F-16s by using a special joint `` infrastructure fund , '' designed to finance $ 11 billion of NATO construction projects between 1985 and 1990 ./. wsj38:10314 L Mr. Filisko says his fluids do n't rely on absorbed water , and perform better as temperatures rise ./. wsj39:8385 U `` Increasingly these adults are being absorbed into the mainstream of college education , '' rather than segregated in night school or special programs , says Carol Aslanian , director of the office of adult learning services ./. wsj40:8692 U Previously , the NASD could halt the listing of price quotations for Nasdaq stocks only to let the market absorb the announcement of `` material news . ''/'' wsj41:4438 U `` Some people feel it was bearish because it was n't regular sugar and absorbed a large chunk of demand , '' he said ./. wsj41:856 U `` There has been an enormous harvest of comandantes from this war and , at the hour of peace , it will be an enormous task to absorb them into civilian life . ''/'' wsj43:6276 U Such regulatory reviews result in electricity consumers absorbing , though higher bills , only those costs that have been efficiently or `` prudently '' incurred ./. wsj43:894 U Despite the absence of headline-grabbing violence , and the ability of the Korean economy to absorb large wage boosts , the strikes this spring nevertheless raise concern , as they will establish the practices and procedures for the future of Korean labor-management relations ./. wsj43:904 U But Korea 's booming economy can absorb them , economists say ./. wsj43:9277 U In 1979 the federal government absorbed 20.5 % of our gross national product ; by 1986 that had increased to 23.8 % ./. wsj44:10866 U Gordon Adams , director of a nonpartisan research organization called the Defense Budget Project , says that if the economy at that time is moving ahead as it is now , the loss of defense jobs probably would have `` zero '' effect on overall employment rates as workers are absorbed elsewhere ./. wsj44:11156 U Traders emphasized that the market was able to absorb some of the damage from the exchange-listed stocks ' fall because many small investors were n't around to sell ./. ******************** ***assault*** *nonliteral cluster* wsj08:9070 U On Tuesday , AIDS demonstrators assaulted the headquarters building of the Food and Drug Administration outside Washington ./. wsj11:7585 U At least six people were assaulted ./. wsj12:5684 U After all , consider the underlying facts: An innocent , if slightly vapid , college student is forced to wear a blindfold for two months ; she 's never left alone , not even to go to the bathroom ; she 's raped , then assaulted with ludicrous rhetoric informing her that sex is revolutionary activity ./. wsj12:6653 N The scenes two weeks ago of ordinary people in Krasnoyarsk verbally assaulting Mikhail Gorbachev because of the shortage of goods in the shops reflect how deep popular disappointment is over the results of `` perestroika '' thus far ./. wsj12:9511 N The bill admits that the key to winning the drug war is assaulting the demand side ./. wsj32:4480 N For the past 10 years the House Subcommittee on Africa , first under Stephen Solarz -LRB- D . , N.Y. -RRB- and now under Howard Wolpe -LRB- D . , Mich. -RRB- , has annually assaulted White House requests for aid appropriations ./. wsj37:3233 U Hezbollah fighters assaulted the last stronghold of pro-Iranian militiamen in the Shiite Moslem slums of southern Beirut as more than two weeks of fighting continued ./. wsj39:2778 U Now that the Reagan Revolution has come and gone , will conservatives turn on one another as zestfully as they 've assaulted modern liberals ?/. wsj41:2494 N Sound is not the only thing with which the audience is assaulted at `` Chess . ''/'' wsj46:10741 N BEST -- Baker: Attempted in each post to make government function using , not assaulting , the democratic process ./. wsj53:5696 U Mr. Guez was indicted last week by a federal grand jury , which charged him with assaulting , resisting and interfering with U.S. marshals in their attempt to seize the records ./. wsj54:7025 U Opponents assaulted the demonstrators with rocks , dirty dishwater and racial epithets ./. wsj62:1462 U U.S. policy has allowed effective control of the strait to pass into the hands of a few small warships and a flotilla of outboards while our Navy , present in overwhelming force , has the humiliating role of witnessing unarmed merchantmen being murderously assaulted in international waters ./. wsj64:481 U But here again investor confidence -- and particularly the confidence of foreign investors -- was being assaulted almost daily with news of the budgetary circus in Congress and the congressional war against the Reagan administration ./. *literal cluster* wsj26:3827 L For example , he carefully steered clear of controversies such as New York 's Tawana Brawley case , where some rabble-rousing lawyers are charging that a young black woman was assaulted and raped by whites ./. wsj37:4051 L Last year , the NRA ran a newspaper ad featuring a harrowing photo of a frightened woman and asserting that a 20-year-old American woman has a 72 % chance of being raped , robbed or assaulted in her lifetime ./. wsj80:4210 L Among the tantrums he admits: heaving a faulty phone across the control room , kicking in a TV screen to force NBC to buy a new one , and assaulting construction workers who were too noisy during taping ./. wsj13:7744 U And when basic democratic rights are assaulted by an employer , a worker finds it awfully hard to comprehend how their well-being is necessarily tied to that of their current employer ./. wsj15:2850 L Mr. Tyson has denied that he tried to kill himself and that he assaulted his wife ./. wsj27:8613 U Will Rogers , who assaulted the White House with humor on his radio programs and in his newspaper columns of the 1920s and '30s , might have put it this way: When it comes to criticizing one another , presidents are as human as the rest of us , only more so ./. wsj32:5201 U In June 1987 he had told Udo Janz of Amnesty International: `` that I was allowed to interview the detainees and they had told me that they were not assaulted . ''/'' wsj32:5203 U In December 1987 he had told Eric Schwartz of Asiawatch , the same organisation represented by Jerome Cohen: `` that the three detainees , namely Lim Li Kok , Wong Souk Yee and William Yap , whom I interviewed had said that they were not assaulted . ''/'' wsj35:3936 L He was detained on June 23 , and for two weeks he was regularly assaulted by South African police ./. wsj36:2695 U His brother Woody , who 's worth $ 100 million , is a grotesque 250-pound alcoholic moron who spends his time watching Arnold Schwarzenegger movies , eating peanuts , and floating stark naked on a rubber raft in his indoor swimming pool listening to favorites from `` My Fair Lady . '' -LRB- He also has raped and assaulted a showgirl. -RRB-/-RRB- wsj38:1392 L John Gil , a San Diego landlord , and Mike Black , an apartment manager , were sued in state Superior Court in San Diego by a tenant who was assaulted by a pet monkey owned by two other renters ./. wsj38:3910 L Mr. Guez , of Old Westbury , N.Y . , also is currently under indictment and awaiting trial for allegedly assaulting a deputy U.S. marshal who tried to seize Sasson records last year at the posh $ 5.5 million Manhattan townhouse where Mr. Guez once resided ./. wsj38:7142 U He insults guests -- `` Zip it ! `` -- and has assaulted at least one of them ./. wsj40:4540 U Mr. LaFree noted that the sentencing disparities were substantial: `` Black men accused of assaulting black women accounted for 45 % of all reported cases , but for only 26 % of all men sentenced to the state penitentiary and for only 17 % of all men who received sentences of six or more years ./. wsj40:4541 U By contrast , black men accused of assaulting white women accounted for 23 % of all reported rapes , but for 45 % of all men sent to the state penitentiary and for 50 % of all men who received sentences of six or more years . ''/'' wsj41:10717 U One of them , usually assaulting the New York Times , is signed J.J. Hunsecker , the gossip columnist in the movie `` Sweet Smell of Success . ''/'' wsj44:3989 U Tshekedi , whose people were complaining that their daughters were n't safe -LRB- an interesting twist given the amount of fretting whites in Africa have done about their daughters ' safety -RRB- , ordered McIntosh flogged -- McIntosh had assaulted an African who had insulted McIntosh 's African girlfriend ./. wsj53:10090 U Mr. Coakley was given a prison term on charges of breaking into an apartment where a couple was in bed watching television , assaulting the man , and then blindfolding and raping the woman ./. wsj54:9087 U She says six white men , including one wearing a police badge , kidnaped , beat and sexually assaulted her ./. wsj57:7687 U One recent morning , as Chicago 's winter wind was assaulting the streets , nine homeless men and women decided to move into vacant apartments at a large public-housing project here ./. wsj59:50 U It was no mugger who assaulted the elderly woman ./. ******************** ***attack*** *nonliteral cluster* wsj06:1068 N Then two industry trade groups sued the state , attacking the lemon law 's constitutionality ./. wsj07:1228 N And so it is on the grounds of insufficient candor that the resourceful Mr. Goldman , hot to debunk , attacks his subject ./. wsj07:8144 N `` Otherwise we will also be attacked . ''/'' wsj10:10431 N `` A Bright Shining Lie '' will be attacked by those who have trimmed their judgments to this decade 's prevailing winds ./. wsj14:5140 N The approach is raising eyebrows in the cigarette industry , which generally refrains from attacking the competition by name ./. wsj18:7295 N Their report , to be published here Saturday in the Lancet , a leading British medical journal , immediately was attacked by some radiation specialists as too optimistic ./. wsj21:2912 N He predicted the opinion `` will open up a can of worms because now any trade organization can attack any trademark claimed by someone else in the industry . ''/'' wsj24:6748 N On the stage , looking tired from ceaseless concertizing at just about every summer festival there is , Vladimir Feltsman attacked his recital program with typical confidence and power ./. wsj25:7307 N Recriminations already are beginning to fly in Israel as Foreign Minister Shimon Peres , who hopes to be Israel 's next prime minister , attacks the present one for lost opportunities to make peace while Iraq was distracted ./. wsj28:3020 N He returned to attack bats , helmets and pitched balls with equal gusto -LRB- he 's in the league 's Top 10 in five offensive categories -RRB- , and gave the club a needed injection of esprit ./. wsj30:8808 N If so , human cells may also make similar proteins -- potentially confusing immune cells that target foreign stress proteins and inducing them to attack a person 's own cells ./. wsj33:1208 N The specialist system has been attacked frequently since the October market crash , especially by the Chicago-based futures markets ./. wsj54:4217 N It turned out that a protein segment in cartilage is similar to the bacterial protein segment , which explained why the white cells also attacked the cartilage ./. wsj65:4058 N These pamphlets were among dozens written just after the Tulipmania by anti-speculative partisans attacking the speculative markets and especially futures trading ./. wsj65:9614 N The filing also reported two lawsuits brought by Staley shareholders attacking the company 's extensive anti-takeover arsenal ./. wsj74:1859 N According to this view , a work of art is an extension of the personality of the artist ; to alter or mutilate it is to attack the very personality of the artist ./. wsj80:9914 N In his previous handling of the case , Judge Brieant roundly attacked the merits of the Pennzoil judgment ./. wsj86:4387 N These pamphlets were among dozens written just after the Tulipmania by anti-speculative partisans attacking the speculative markets and especially futures trading ./. wsj02:616 U Last April , the Association of American Universities published a report attacking the restrictiveness as `` utlimately self-defeating . ''/'' wsj03:7309 N The virus attacked Argonne National Laboratory outside Chicago starting at 11:54 p.m. EST Wednesday and throughout the night ./. wsj03:9615 U The bug attacked machines that use the Unix operating system , filling their disk storage devices to capacity with unwanted data files until the computers shut down from data congestion ./. wsj06:1643 N `` The big question is whether the pest problems are happening by themselves or whether opportunistic insects are attacking weakened trees , '' said David Marvin , a maple syrup producer in Johnson , Vt ./. wsj07:1198 N His psyche was attacked first by New York Mets pitcher David Cone , who in print called his curveball `` high school , '' and then by A 's vet Don Baylor , who called him a `` choker , '' the ultimate ball-player insult ./. wsj07:1652 N It 's not enough to attack the ACLU simply by reciting its 10 most eccentric opinions , nor is it enough to defend the ACLU by recalling its occasional defense of unpopular groups and viewpoints ./. wsj07:2828 N According to a recently unsealed transcript of a closed meeting in Judge Pollack 's chambers with defense attorneys on Sept. 13 , the judge claimed he was being attacked `` professionally '' and threatened to impose sanctions if the lawyers pursued the issue of removing him ./. wsj07:5411 U In Congress , it can use the likes of a Kastenmeier or Rudman or Morrison to attack any targeted person ./. wsj09:179 U CD4 is found on the surface of certain immune cells that are attacked by the acquired immune deficiency syndrome virus ./. wsj09:864 U Dr. Mitchell also employed tumor cell lines to manufacture cancer `` antigens '' or foreign proteins that also would stimulate the immune system to recognize and attack the actual tumor ./. wsj11:2284 U The suits can give consumers a tool to attack practices of manufacturers , and they give state attorneys general a way to file antitrust actions against manufacturers on behalf of consumers ./. wsj20:1463 N Inflation , attacked in the abortive Austral Plan of 1985 and now the target of new economic measures , has exceeded 300 % over the past year ./. wsj22:6871 N The drought is spawning an explosion in the spider mite population by harming a plant fungus that attacks the tiny insects ./. wsj22:8705 U The group , in an article in today 's edition of the journal Science , said they have developed small segments of the molecule known as CD4 , which is carried on the surface of certain cells attacked by the AIDS virus ./. wsj22:9924 N They suggested that their genetic variability may affect the infectiousness of the virus and its `` preference '' for attacking one type of cell over another ./. wsj25:6947 N Mr. Cardenas 's stunning success in this month 's presidential election , when he took close to a third of the vote and loosened the traditional stranglehold of the Institutional Revolutionary Party , or PRI , illustrated that attacking debt payments wins votes ./. wsj25:8473 N Similar in appearance and texture to petroleum-based plastics , the plastic decomposes into water and carbon dioxide when attacked by certain enzymes in the soil ./. wsj26:8927 N The dissident group plans to attack several provisions that block claimants ' ability to seek compensation from any source other than the special trust fund ./. wsj27:5184 U Then the scientists soak the isolated cells in IL-2 to grow massive quantities of TILs and infuse them in the patient 's body , where they attack the tumor in greater force ./. wsj28:2492 N In his own opinion , Chairman Ruder attacked both dissents as attempting to reduce the customer 's protection not only below the level set in the securities laws , but even below the standard set by common law ./. wsj28:9798 N `` We 're not attacking the core assets ; we 're looking at what we consider to be our less-profitable assets , '' the spokesman said ./. wsj32:5181 U The Journal published a letter -LRB- Asian Wall Street Journal , Jan. 22 -RRB- from Francis Seow attacking the legislation on Group Representation Constituencies ./. wsj32:5388 N Farmers also has questioned B.A.T 's ability to manage insurance operations and attacked its presence in South Africa ./. wsj33:4216 N The rate found by the study , which is designed to be definitive and to squelch second guessing , already is being attacked as too low ./. wsj34:10336 N Mr. Schnittke is also a composer of extremes , and in the new Fourth Piano Sonata he has Mr. Feltsman achieving kinetic climaxes at the highest and lowest registers simultaneously , the pianist 's arms widely extended and lunging at the piano like a hawk attacking his prey ./. wsj34:5617 N He also attacked a House panel for disclosing at least three pending SEC inquiries ./. wsj41:2564 N During the debate , when Mr. Chirac derided Mr. Mitterrand for having changed his mind from time to time during a 40-year political career , Mr. Mitterrand , clearly well coached , retorted with some 10-year-old quotations from Mr. Chirac attacking the European Community , which Mr. Chirac now warmly embraces ./. wsj41:6566 N I have dined out long enough on the strength of being attacked from the left by The Wall Street Journal editorial staff -LRB- it long being thought that nothing could exist to the right of that august body -RRB- ./. wsj42:2171 N In addition , Mr. Joseph said , referring to the subcommittee 's questions about Beatrice , Texstyrene and one other junk-bond issue , by Hanover Petroleum Corp . , `` I do n't think it 's fair at all to attack the firm over two or three instances . ''/'' *literal cluster* wsj01:10874 N But international groups that attacked Mr. Jenninger 's remarks may find themselves among the losers ./. wsj04:7217 L One sure sign has reappeared to attest that the interests of the United States must be taking a turn for the good in El Salvador: The country is being attacked ./. wsj05:6691 L From the 14th century to Corregidor in 1942 , such forts had to be taken by storm before attacking ships could pass ./. wsj05:7523 N Justice Abrams , so viciously attacked by Mr. Cooper , was earlier a hard-nosed career prosecutor ./. wsj10:6552 N He strongly attacked the Massachusetts governor , asserting that he would lead the nation toward higher taxes , economic stagnation and a weaker defense ./. wsj10:8061 N Already , President-elect Carlos Salinas de Gortari has found himself and his closest advisers attacked by the nation 's two strongest labor leaders: Fidel Velazquez , boss of the Confederation of Mexican Workers -LRB- CTM -RRB- , and oil union chief Joaquin Hernandez Galicia ./. wsj12:326 N In Idaho last week , the Indiana conservative attacked the Carter administration for having shown an `` insensitivity to Western needs '' and having tried to `` cancel vital water projects . ''/'' wsj13:1014 L Insects begin attacking the snags almost immediately after a fire , and the charred trunks are likely to be toppled by the wind ./. wsj13:6362 N Labor unions , too , attack the underground economy ./. wsj13:91 N Mr. Bush attacked the Massachusetts governor for vetoing a bill to require school teachers to lead pupils in the pledge of allegiance and for Massachusetts ' prisoner-furlough program ./. wsj15:10140 N The administration has been reluctant , for a number of reasons , to attack Tokyo on rice , historically Japan 's most sacrosanct product ./. wsj15:478 N The union leaders also will attack one of Wall Street 's most dearly held beliefs about Texas Air -- something that has long helped to sustain its stock price: that for all its losses and labor travails , the company still sits on a motherlode of cash ./. wsj19:8436 N By hitching a ride on these proteins , drugs can be very narrowly targeted to attack diseased cells , Mr. McCamant says ./. wsj19:9999 L An Agence France Press dispatch on August 8 reported that an Afghan air force plane was shot down by a Pakistani F-16 while attacking Afghan refugee camps 30 kilometers inside Pakistan territory , near Miram Shah ./. wsj24:3811 N And , to slash costs , he is attacking United 's slow-moving , free-spending ways , even banning fresh flowers from his office ./. wsj25:1928 N This avoidance of tradition gets reinforced by the many critics who attack as unrealistic , and possibly immoral , any effort to portray the Vietnam experience as similar to that of World War I , World War II or Korea ./. wsj26:8395 L -- The other day , U.S. helicopters fired on Iranian gunboats that were preparing to attack a Panamanian ship near Farsi Island ./. wsj27:3532 L Prince Norodom Sihanouk , the former Cambodian leader , said this week he was withdrawing from the resistance because the Khmer Rouge continues to attack his forces along the Thai-Cambodia border ./. wsj27:5449 L They point out that three members of Abu Nidal 's organization are in jail in Greece on separate charges of attacking a synagogue in Rome , weapons smuggling , plotting to assassinate the Jordanian charge d'affairs in Greece , and possessing weapons in prison ./. wsj27:5863 L The Sandinistas have now offered reasons for attacking and arresting anti-government demonstrators Sunday -LRB- `` Somocista Bands Invade Nandaime '' -RRB- ; for closing Radio Catolica -LRB- `` lack of respect for constitutional order '' -RRB- ; for arresting a Conservative Party leader -LRB- `` the principal instigator '' -RRB- ./. wsj27:7805 L In Greece , an official said the terrorists who attacked the liner in the Aegean Sea may have been pro-Iranian Arabs trying to hijack it ./. wsj28:4308 N Their plans were immediately attacked by the so-called social wing of the ruling Christian Democratic Union , which wanted more tax revenue to go to the poor ./. wsj29:4814 L The incident occurred after an Aegis cruiser mistook the large passenger jet for an attacking F-14 fighter ./. wsj29:6576 N Common Cause has attacked the Ways and Means Committee 's proposal to repeal the $ 3 , 000 limit on the deductibility of congressional living expenses in Washington , D.C ./. wsj31:1240 N He said he intends to push the party to endorse raising the top personal-income-tax rate , perhaps to 38 % from the current 28 % , to attack the federal deficit accumulated during the Reagan years ./. wsj33:4107 N Secretary of State George Shultz last week attacked as `` shocking '' Mr. Dukakis 's willingness to recognize Jerusalem rather than Tel Aviv as Israel 's capital -- a move that has been long sought by the Israelis and would be popular with Jewish voters in the U.S . , but that Mr. Shultz asserts would complicate efforts to find a Mideast peace ./. wsj33:9713 L Phalanx can be overwhelmed when a ship is attacked by several missiles at once -LRB- the Stark was struck by two Exocets -RRB- ./. wsj36:6007 N MINOR MEMOS: Texas Sen. Gramm , who last year bitterly attacked federal financing of a weed center in North Dakota , pushes to establish a `` plant stress '' lab in Lubbock . . . ./. wsj36:6856 N Pull out the big stick , of course , and attack the Democrats ./. wsj37:2823 N Coke is even directly attacking coffee 's breakfast appeal with radio ads urging people to drink something cold to come `` alive in the morning . ''/'' wsj38:839 N `` We 're going to keep attacking . ''/'' wsj39:2936 N Outraged at the sentence , the black community mounted an international campaign attacking the country 's legal system ./. wsj40:11033 N By spreading the benefits of economic development into depressed regions , Massachusetts economic policy has attacked structural unemployment ./. wsj40:2073 N `` I think glasnost is bad when they attack Stalin . ''/'' wsj40:9640 L The administration tried again in mid-1987 , suspending military and economic aid to Panama after rioters , led by some government officials , attacked the American Embassy in Panama City ./. wsj41:10614 L U.S. officials said evidence suggests that a Japanese terrorist arrested last month in New Jersey with homemade bombs was on his way to attack a target in New York City ./. wsj41:2562 N And when Mr. Chirac did get an opponent , he attacked the Francois Mitterrand of 1981 , not the one of 1988 ./. wsj43:2327 N The preacher and civil rights leader went after Mr. Dukakis yesterday , attacking him for failing to give specifics on budget questions ./. wsj43:5228 N But critics complain that the blitz of big fines , which generally are settled for half or less of the proposed amount , was a bombastic gimmick that did little to attack the root problems of workplace illness and injury ./. wsj43:6199 L The ship had n't attacked U.S.-flag vessels or been involved in mine-laying ./. wsj44:7888 N Only American policy in Vietnam has been as maligned , vilified and attacked as U.S. policy toward Iran ./. wsj44:9970 L Here in Masaya , supporters of a group known as the Mothers of Political Prisoners were brutally attacked by turbas in a well-documented incident in March ./. wsj45:10126 L Sparrows used to have a rep for selectively attacking yellow crocuses such as `` E.A ./. wsj45:2951 L American officials have concluded that the Kuwaiti hijacking is the work of a Lebanese Shiite terrorist named Imad Mugniyah who has been trying for more than four years to free his wife 's brother from prison in Kuwait , where he was convicted in 1984 of building a bomb used to attack the U.S. Embassy ./. wsj45:36 N Indeed , Richard Gephardt , Jesse Jackson and Michael Dukakis have all made public appearances in support of Eastern 's union -- sometimes sharply attacking Mr. Lorenzo ./. wsj46:6146 L Iran said its jets bombarded an Iraqi military base and oil refinery in Baghdad , and Iraq said its forces attacked 10 Iranian towns ./. wsj46:8482 N Finally , Texas Air 's financing has left Mr. Lorenzo some breathing room to wage his cost war with organized labor and to attack his operating problems ./. wsj47:1392 N The World Wildlife Fund is trying to attack the problem at its source , by working with developing countries to control the poaching and set up wildlife management programs ./. wsj47:8344 L Tamil militants attacked and set fire to two Moslem fishing villages in eastern Sri Lanka ./. wsj48:10247 L Iranian gunboats attacked an Indian tanker in the Persian Gulf , setting the vessel ablaze and wounding at least one crew member , gulf-based shipping executives reported ./. wsj48:1164 N Suzy says she almost did n't answer the Revson column: `` But nobody , especially nobody of this ilk , can attack the queen ./. wsj49:2058 N Major newspapers generally endorse the notion of liberalization , but they are n't attacking the GATT solution ./. wsj50:7683 L In northern Nicaragua , Honduran jets attacked a Sandinista military headquarters ./. wsj52:4958 N An analogous appeal attacking similar treatment of future claims in the Manville case is pending before a federal appellate court in Manhattan ./. wsj53:1302 L Rioting Iranians attacked the Soviet Union 's Embassy in Tehran , accusing Moscow of supplying Iraq with missiles used in recent raids on Iran ./. wsj53:2337 N Meanwhile , the U.S. quietly tries to persuade former Israeli Defense Minister Sharon not to undercut Shamir by attacking the peace effort ./. wsj54:29 N While proposing such cuts to attack the current deficit , Mr. Jackson is vague on how the expensive new social programs he proposes would pay for themselves ./. wsj56:8743 L The PLO said it would attack Israeli targets to avenge Sunday 's killing of three guerrillas and Monday 's bombing of a ship intended to carry Palestinian deportees to Israel ./. wsj58:10665 L In the Persian Gulf , Iran twice attacked a Norwegian tanker ./. wsj58:2825 N They have agreed to attack only the Socalists , not each other , so Mr. Barre must find a way to beat Mr. Chirac without talking about him ./. wsj59:10752 N Sen. Brock Adams -LRB- D . , Wash. -RRB- attacked what he called `` sweatshop conditions '' in some labs ./. wsj59:1366 N After a few years of relative calm , Burger King is about to start a new advertising campaign that attacks the way McDonald 's cooks ./. wsj60:1475 L This expert also believes that Pyongyang might use helicopters it has bought from the West , which are identical to those used by the Seoul army , to attack student demonstrators ./. wsj60:4847 L His antics once provoked an elderly ruling-party legislator to attack him with a cane ./. wsj60:6179 N It was one of the congressional spending programs President Reagan attacked in his State of the Union address ./. wsj63:5543 L The view contradicts administration claims that Moscow knew it was attacking a non-military target ./. wsj66:6269 L It is to this purpose that SDI laser technology can be uniquely directed , where moving targets can be attacked almost immediately after they are detected ./. wsj67:3723 L Here in Masaya , supporters of a group known as the Mothers of Political Prisoners were brutally attacked by turbas in a well-documented incident in March ./. wsj68:4580 N U.S. conservatives attacked the accord , but it helps clear the way for an upbeat superpower summit in Moscow at the end of May ./. wsj68:5813 L Pakistani cheating could prompt Moscow to declare the accords void or to attack Afghan-resistance camps in Pakistan ./. wsj68:598 N Packages of `` fight material '' attacking Mr. Icahn are almost ready to be mailed to shareholders ./. wsj69:8988 N IBP attacked the report as not factual and full of innuendo and as `` egotistical '' grandstanding by the subcommittee chairman , Rep. Tom Lantos -LRB- D . , Calif. -RRB- ./. wsj72:5012 L None of the Democratic leadership in the House or Senate was notified about the move , unlike when the U.S. ordered troops into Grenada in 1983 or last October when U.S. forces in the Persian Gulf attacked an oil platform that had been converted to a military facility ./. wsj74:10504 L Tamil rebels attacked a village in eastern Sri Lanka , killing at least 16 people in the assault on homes of the majority Sinhalese ./. wsj75:7942 N A Treasury official yesterday attacked Mr. Robinson 's proposal as `` clearly a commercial venture on the part of American Express '' and one that contains nothing new ./. wsj76:1238 N Dukakis plans to attack Gephardt for taking special-interest money ./. wsj77:1331 N So Mr. Tribe of Justice will file a brief arguing for independent counsels ; Justice itself has filed briefs attacking these prosecutors , and both arguments are supposed to represent the view of the executive branch ./. wsj77:6771 N Most budget experts agree that any credible solution to the deficit problem will have to attack two political sacred cows: taxes and Social Security ./. wsj78:7644 N But Mr. Dole has so far spent much of his campaign attacking Vice President Bush for , among other things , having the effrontery to attack Congress ./. wsj79:2166 N The Bush strategists insist they will not attack Mr. Robertson , noting that much of their own support in the South is conservative and evangelical ./. wsj79:8312 N They have agreed to attack only the Socalists , not each other , so Mr. Barre must find a way to beat Mr. Chirac without talking about him ./. wsj79:8862 N Without the boost in the capital-gains rate , congressional liberals would have attacked the tax reform plan for leaning too far in favor of the rich ./. wsj81:2231 L As the recent Ikle-Wohlstetter report , `` Discriminate Deterrence '' -LRB- the source of the nearby maps -RRB- , to President Reagan makes clear , it 's far more likely that the Soviets would attack first on the more vulnerable fringes of the alliance , perhaps in the Persian Gulf or Norway ./. wsj85:2406 L Because a commitment to hold open the 74.4 miles of supply road to Khost from Gardez would require even more Soviet casualties and force , the optimists surmise that the Soviets are attacking Khost to get out of Afghanistan ./. wsj85:7952 L The point of this review is not necessarily to let off the Eritreans , who have recently come under deservedly strong criticism for attacking two food convoys , but to demonstrate how famine in northern Ethiopia is part of something much broader and more complex than drought ./. wsj86:2851 N In hearings before Mr. Needelman last August , the lawyers attacked the seeming contradictions between the papers ' earlier upbeat statements and ambitious spending , and their more recent statements that the Free Press is failing ./. wsj01:2300 U Canadian opponents of the trade agreement are likely to attack the decision as an effort to boost the campaign of Mr. Mulroney , who negotiated the treaty , by showing Canadians the pact could ward off nasty trade fights with the U.S ./. wsj02:4571 U Mr. Bates also charged that white business leaders and `` Uncle Tom blacks '' were attacking `` a black board that has put over a half billion dollars into the black community . ''/'' wsj03:391 U Yet despite the desire to see the federal budget deficit attacked , there was n't any consensus about how to solve the problem: 39 % thought it would be necessary for the new president to raise taxes to reduce the deficit , while 44 % said it would n't be needed and 17 % said they were n't sure ./. wsj03:6968 U In a later interview , he attacked `` the Washington-beltway-New York-Eastern mentality that says the easy spending cuts have been made , '' leaving only tax hikes to lower the deficit ./. wsj04:7197 U They surely would have supported actions like Ambassador Clayton Yeutter 's decision Friday to refuse retaliation for Japan 's rice quotas , though Mr. Dukakis has attacked the decision and George Bush has defensively renounced it ./. wsj04:8760 U Now her opponent is attacking such fees as `` corrupting '' and demanding that she return the money ./. wsj04:8846 U Mr. McKay , a Democrat , now is trying to reclaim his old seat and is attacking Rep. Hansen 's speaking fees , including a $ 500 payment the incumbent took last June 2 for addressing a conservative group on wilderness issues in Las Vegas ./. wsj05:11245 L The only thing certain is that a Korean merchant wholly dependent on the good will of his customers would be crazy to attack a black grandmother in a virtually all-black neighborhood -- and Mr. Chung , who cleaned fish for three years to scrape together the money to buy his market , seems anything but crazy ./. wsj05:2772 U For the most part , they are careful not to snipe at each other personally , though they are quick to attack each other 's policies ./. wsj05:9200 U Israeli warplanes attacked Palestinian guerrilla bases in Sidon and Beirut , killing at least six people , including a man identified as a senior PLO commander ./. wsj06:4678 U Philip Morris attacked Kraft 's proposed $ 110-a-share recapitalization , signaling the tobacco company 's determination to pursue its takeover bid of $ 90 a share , or $ 11.4 billion ./. wsj08:10886 U `` I think he has to be aggressive '' by directly attacking Mr. Bush across the debate stage , says Democratic consultant Mark Siegel ./. wsj08:6255 U In 1986 , he recruited former GOP national committeeman Roger Eddy to run against Democratic Sen. Chris Dodd , but then before Election Day publicly attacked Mr. Eddy for taking issue with Mr. Dodd 's liberal record ./. wsj08:7773 U Both men spend large chunks of their time raising money , which they quickly convert into negative TV commercials attacking each other , hoping voters finally will begin to notice ./. wsj08:929 U This weapon could be extremely powerful , perhaps ideal for the European battlefield -- simply put attacking troops to sleep ./. wsj09:5859 U Imre said the Prosorba column also has shown promise as an experimental treatment for Kaposi 's sarcoma , a form of cancer that often attacks AIDS victims ./. wsj09:7380 L These Protestants retaliate by physically attacking Catholics , Mr. Donnelly says ./. wsj10:487 U Miller 's deputy and successor , Joseph Wright , draws fire for a clumsy effort to use an in-house analysis to attack Dukakis ./. wsj11:233 U If not attacking Mr. Dukakis , his speeches -- which end with a `` God Bless You '' -- have a dreamy , inspirational flair that seems to satisfy many voters younger than himself ./. wsj12:4775 U Mr. Bush is attacking Mr. Dukakis 's new campaign theme of `` economic patriotism , '' calling it in California recently `` nothing but a code word for protectionism . ''/'' wsj13:11243 U In attacking Mr. Bush , he falls back on such phrases as `` McCarthyism . ''/'' wsj13:1431 U When the moderator asked both men to test their microphones , Mr. King began with the usual `` testing , one , two . . . , '' but Mr. Dukakis began attacking Mr. King ./. wsj13:2985 U `` Very clearly , -LRB- legislators -RRB- have indicated several different ways the deduction could be attacked , but nobody wants to talk about it before November , '' says Robert B. Evans , president of the American Financial Services Association , a trade group representing financial concerns , some of which make residential mortgages ./. wsj14:7595 U Mr. Bush does sometimes address substantive issues , as he does today in a well-received speech to San Francisco 's conservative Commonwealth Club attacking Mr. Dukakis ' record in managing the Massachusetts economy ./. wsj15:2175 U In a new tack in his economic pitch , Mr. Bush began attacking Mr. Dukakis 's plan for a so-called Fund to Rebuild America ./. wsj16:755 U In an unusual special report in its current issue , the direct-mail industry newsletter , `` Who 's Mailing What , '' attacks the group as one of three `` shadow PACs '' generating profits for Virginia-based fund-raising consultants doing business as Response Dynamics Inc. National Security PAC paid 76 % of its gross receipts in fees to Response Dynamics and associated companies , the newsletter said ./. wsj17:1287 U The campaign will air its initial round of national commercials this week and will seek to aggressively attack the Republicans on such issues as jobs , drugs and education ./. wsj17:447 U He wants the world to understand that the real Korean `` miracle '' has been its ability to survive over 5 , 000 years as an independent country without attacking its neighbors ./. wsj17:4946 L These do n't protect anything and are n't designed to kill attacking guerrillas ./. wsj18:10161 U In spite of its all-out fight , the park can manage only the direction of the fires ' flanks , attacking wherever towns and other developed sites are threatened ./. wsj19:5622 U He attacked Mr. Dukakis as the only governor who `` refused to have a site anywhere in his state '' for the Ground Wave Emergency Networkknown as GWEN -- which is a military communications system designed to span the continent ./. wsj20:6921 U But it still remains to be seen whether Mr. Quayle will be effective in attacking the Democratic ticket ./. wsj24:10162 L I arrived in Vietnam in early 1968 , as green as the beret I wore , and was assigned to the Special Forces `` A '' team that had the dubious distinction , two weeks later , of being one of the first attacked during the Tet offensive ./. wsj25:10687 L Next , a member of his audience , attired in a garment resembling the flag , attacked him ./. wsj25:2570 U By lowering tax rates and lessening its regulation of industry , done for separate reasons , the government has indirectly attacked the black-money problem ./. wsj26:8890 U One crew either was shot down or crashed , and another made a navigational error and attacked a civilian neighborhood ./. wsj27:4657 U CIA Director Webster said that while it appears `` unlikely '' that Iran will retaliate immediately for the downing of an Iran Air jet , Tehran 's leaders may decide to attack U.S. targets if the current diplomatic campaign to force the Navy out of the Persian Gulf does n't succeed ./. wsj28:8189 L This suggests a panicky response from the Vincennes , particularly since a Pentagon air-combat specialist quoted by Mr. Kaplan in the Boston Globe said that an attacking F-14 probably would be traveling `` at at least 550 to 580 knots , '' 100 knots faster than Adm. Crow says the Airbus was flying , and `` well under 1 , 000 feet . . . ./. wsj29:6562 U And he used his position to attack sexual promiscuity as `` not something that should be socially condoned . ''/'' wsj29:8759 L But Iran 's positions , overrun in last Saturday 's attack on Majnoon , were just a few thin lines of hillocks ; the fortifications of an army that expects to attack rather than defend ./. wsj30:1366 U The law has been attacked by the National Press Association in Chile , which groups most of the country 's newspapers and magazines , and by local officials of the Roman Catholic Church ./. wsj30:1487 L On Friday , Commander Abdul Haq 's troops attacked Kabul Airport with new Sacher incendiary rockets ./. wsj30:8066 U `` Newsletters are one way direct-marketed funds can attack this . ''/'' wsj30:9574 U Former Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger acknowledged the helicopters ' presence in the gulf after one of them intercepted and attacked an Iranian navy ship , the Iran Ajr , as it sowed mines in international waters of the gulf last Sept. 21 ./. wsj31:1349 U But attacking the Carter era also has limitations ./. wsj33:3458 U In apparent protest to the talks , Renamo has attacked a main road leading to Cahora Bassa , making overland travel to the dam unsafe ./. wsj34:4472 L The best of show in painting , Oleg Stavrowsky 's 40-inch by 72-inch oil of a stagecoach being attacked by bandits , went for $ 14 , 000 ./. wsj34:8913 U The issue was immediately seized on by Democrats as a potent weapon for attacking what they see as the GOP 's lack of concern for working people ./. wsj35:6403 U Though he did n't mention Mr. Dukakis , Mr. Bush attacked `` the liberal elite '' for being outside the postwar `` bipartisan consensus '' on deterrence ./. wsj36:5985 U Bush adds two women aides to address women 's issues and plans a big push on child care , stressing a menu of choices for parents while attacking Democrats for pushing big-government solutions ./. wsj36:8411 U Indian forces attacked Tamil rebel camps in northern Sri Lanka , killing as many as 30 insurgents and 10 soldiers , officials in Colombo said ./. wsj37:140 U Israeli-backed militias attacked strongholds of the pro-Iranian Hezbollah in southern Lebanon after Israeli warplanes raided the villages ./. wsj37:4618 U But administration officials , aware that the plant-closing provision has broad political support , have written into the veto message language that aims to soften criticism of the layoff clause while attacking several other parts of the bill ./. wsj37:5264 U By contrast , Speaker Wright attacks the motives of Common Cause , a group never known for its Republican ties , and allows his associates to threaten it with political retribution ./. wsj38:5784 U Mr. Eastland first attracted attention with the book he co-wrote with Bill Bennett in 1979 attacking busing and racial quotas ./. wsj38:8273 L Preassembling attacking teams on a number of single bases , so that the loss of no one base could mess things up too badly , would help , although it would be a logistical nightmare ./. wsj39:2545 U Rebels said they would attack Jalalabad as soon as the Red Army leaves ./. wsj40:10440 U It is a tried and true communist ploy that when facts are incontrovertible , attack the intentions of the person presenting them ./. wsj40:4860 U Steve: Did n't George Bush get attacked by one of his own dogs ?/. wsj40:7782 U Whatever it is that is happening , it is necessary to identify the psychological and social roots of the drug epidemic and attack them directly ./. wsj42:10211 U Mr. Mack already has begun to attack Mr. Askew as `` just another tax-and-spend liberal , '' and has used recent events in Panama as a springboard to criticize Mr. Askew 's role in the Panama Canal `` giveaway . ''/'' wsj42:214 U With Mr. Dukakis now the Democrats ' candidate-apparent , the Bush campaign is already attacking him as a callow liberal on defense and foreign policy ./. wsj42:9446 U Israeli soldiers attacked a group of Arab guerrillas who had entered Israel from Lebanon , and two soldiers and three guerrillas were killed ./. wsj43:1719 U When American companies move abroad , they not only attack local markets but become big exporters -- often to the U.S. Almost 20 % of U.S. imports come from American affiliates overseas ./. wsj43:2432 U The company has prepared a 120-page response , attacking the report 's methods as `` deeply flawed '' and its findings as `` meaningless . ''/'' wsj43:6191 U Pentagon officials said that on two occasions , the U.S. approved attacks on Iranian vessels that had n't attacked U.S.-flag ships , but had threatened other neutral interests in the region ./. wsj43:8777 U Politicians are as one in their commitment to attacking the menace of crack and other `` hard '' drugs ./. wsj44:1216 U The Israelis tried to kill Mr. Arafat during their 1982 siege of Beirut , but they generally have refrained from attacking the PLO 's political leaders , in part , perhaps , because the Syrians and more-radical Palestinians frequently did that for them ./. wsj44:3143 U At least one commercial ship already has been attacked by Iran in the Strait of Hormuz , the entrance to the gulf , since Monday ./. wsj44:3332 U Navy warships and aircraft searched for a missing U.S. helicopter in the southern Persian Gulf as Iran attacked two commercial vessels ./. wsj44:3889 U -- Agreed to decide if U.S. courts may handle a lawsuit against Argentina for attacking a Liberian tanker engaged in `` U.S. domestic trade '' during the Falkland Islands War in 1982 ./. ******************** ***besiege*** *nonliteral cluster* wsj01:1150 N `` I 'd heard about Powelson from another classicist at the University of Maryland , and then Powelson began to besiege me with letters asking for an invitation , '' Mr. Ambrose says ./. wsj01:1817 N NTN Toyo Bearing Co . , a Japanese firm with plants in the U.S . , is being besieged by potential buyers and has lead times of seven to 13 months ./. wsj05:4713 N The marauding huns of the takeover game are besieging ever-larger corporate kingdoms ./. wsj37:6840 N For their part , though , Chicago aldermen have been too busy functioning as art critics to besiege the statehouse in Springfield on behalf of the team , and state legislators have shown more inclination to clown than to move quickly or positively ./. wsj51:9876 N At Russell Field here he is besieged for autographs and his ears are bent relentlessly by people , mostly older ones , who want to share baseball memories ./. *literal cluster* wsj02:1225 N People split their tickets from the presidential line to the House line because they know who the incumbent is , having been besieged by mail from the House member 's office and ads from his campaign and having been helped by his constituent case workers ./. wsj02:9105 N Budgetary gridlock , a possible financial crisis , and a presidency besieged almost immediately by pressing domestic and international economic problems ./. wsj02:9917 N Public judges could appear , in the public imagination , as nothing more than besieged bureaucrats ./. wsj09:3273 N `` USA Today , '' in only its fifth week on the air , has been besieged by lackluster ratings , savage reviews , rumors -- fed by competitors -- that the show will be canceled , and a spate of new rival programs aimed at replacing it ./. wsj14:3672 L In 1347 , Mongols besieging the Black Sea port of Caffa began to sicken and die from the plague ./. wsj14:5470 N The park has been besieged for nearly three months by dry weather and fires that have charred more than half its 2.2 million acres ./. wsj17:6713 N Though besieged by friends who `` want me to pick them a winner , '' he does n't bet often ./. wsj29:1570 N Ever since , Banner has been besieged by hundreds of thrill-seeking callers ./. wsj35:5077 L When radicals besieged his hotel while he was visiting Seoul last week , he promised them he would make yet another effort to play up to North Korea -- by renewing the offer to let the North host several Olympic events ./. wsj37:163 L Thousands of Chinese soccer fans battled police and besieged a rival team 's hotel during a riot Monday night ./. wsj41:3186 N A Congress besieged by special interests passed Smoot-Hawley , and a Republican President too sensitive to business interests signed it ./. wsj41:7406 N The U.S. armed forces are being besieged these days -- not by foreign military aggressors -- but by aggressive consumer-product marketers ./. wsj47:10925 N The picture painted in the annual report shows one of the nation 's largest banking corporations besieged by problems that it seems unable to control ./. wsj56:2665 N First RepublicBank , besieged with rumors about a possible failure or takeover , said it would n't have any comment on the FDIC 's activity ./. wsj56:3639 N LAW SCHOOLS are besieged by applicants , after a five-year slump ./. wsj62:7675 N Democratic candidates are plagued by confusion over the lessons of Vietnam , reluctant to take on new military obligations , troubled by the buildup in American military power in the Reagan years and besieged here in Iowa by interest groups assailing even the current level of U.S. engagements ./. ******************** ***cool*** *nonliteral cluster* wsj03:10367 N A surprisingly strong October employment report , implying that the economy is n't cooling off as fast as many investors had hoped , could force a sharp retreat in stock prices today , he said ./. wsj05:9379 N The last time China tried to cool its economy , in 1985 and 1986 , foreign exporters and investors suffered ./. wsj06:4659 L Company officials could n't be reached for elaboration , but Gary P. Smaby , who follows the industry for Needham & Co . , said he understood that cooling problems had developed that could delay delivery of the machine ./. wsj07:7862 N `` They do it to cool off the market , so to speak , because they need the copper and when they 're buying they find themselves chasing the market upward , '' he said ./. wsj07:9651 N Mr. Lawson insists the acceleration is but `` a blip '' and says recently imposed higher interest rates will cool things off without interrupting growth ./. wsj08:6436 N But after several months of talks with each other and with clients , their ardor has cooled considerably ./. wsj09:5984 N But at some point the market will cool , so Siemens figures it had better start selling to tomorrow 's customers today ./. wsj10:127 N Mr. Feldt insisted that the need to cool the high-flying capital markets -- and placate his party 's union supporters at a sensitive juncture in the election campaign -- outweighed the Riksbank 's arguments ./. wsj12:4032 N Some say interest rates may have to rise further to cool domestic demand , while others say the problem is more deep-rooted and requires greater investment by United Kingdom industry ./. wsj12:8387 N Since the middle of August , there have been some signs that the economy has begun to cool off ./. wsj14:1947 N But several analysts predict the Fed will push short-term rates slightly higher later this year in hopes of cooling the economy and restraining inflation pressures ./. wsj15:10966 N He thinks equity investors are bothered that short-term interest rates have n't eased despite the evidence of a cooling economy ./. wsj19:7594 N The drought is expected to draw down agricultural stockpiles , which could help `` cool '' the third-quarter-GNP report , economists said ./. wsj22:7724 N Takeover speculative ardor cooled in Information Resources ./. wsj23:1337 N The delay agreed to by the railroad and the United Transportation Union will give Congress a chance to take final action today on a bill reinstating a government-ordered cooling off period in the long-running labor dispute ./. wsj26:11315 N Fed officials hope for signs soon that the economy is slowing , which would cool the need for further rate increases ./. wsj27:3199 N The suit alleged that Tamiami Gun Shop broke Florida gun laws by selling Mr. Katz the gun without the required 48-hour `` cooling off '' period ./. wsj29:5482 N Some U.S. officials believe that in time emotions will cool , and necessity once more will draw Iran toward normalizing relations with the U.S ./. wsj30:4072 N The sell-off cooled inflation fears , but farm futures prices are now expected to be volatile ./. wsj30:5319 N If the story has cooled , it is because Speaker Wright and the Democratic caucus pulled the plug at the right moment ./. wsj33:2272 N The Tokyo Stock Exchange has twice this year raised margin requirements in an effort to cool the Tokyo market 's sharp rally , but share prices have continued upward as the moves were widely viewed as , if anything , healthy and reassuring ./. wsj43:990 N Pakistan has served as a conduit for U.S. aid to Afghan rebels , but the settlement may cause its relations with Washington to cool ./. wsj44:9082 N Tighter credit could help narrow the trade deficit by cooling consumer spending , but high interest rates have bleaker implications for other areas , such as housing ./. wsj46:5364 N The result: Some car makers are cooling their hot rods ./. wsj49:8178 N A Wall Street Journal story yesterday said sales of the company 's clot-dissolving drug TPA have cooled a bit from the fast pace in December ./. wsj50:10594 N The United Kingdom 's chancellor of the exchequer , Nigel Lawson , said the country has tightened its monetary policy to cool a consumer spending spree and bolster weak savings and investment levels ./. wsj50:5900 N The stock-market crash had little cooling effect on one of the world 's hottest property markets ./. wsj51:3012 N There is suspicion in U.S. industry and government that the latest effort is a political exercise to cool American complaints about subsidies and avert a trade war ./. wsj58:8949 N If it cools off , they worry about lower earnings , which also would hurt the market ./. wsj60:5003 N Business confidence remains buoyant despite the October market crash , according to the survey , though it has cooled somewhat since the previous poll ./. wsj68:5209 N `` That remark -LRB- of the official -RRB- definitely cooled the heels of the bulls , '' said Paul Clohesy , chief dealer at Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Ltd. in New York ./. wsj71:7037 N One trader said that the rumors of the Finance Ministry 's efforts to cool trading of the large-capitalization issues triggered the losses in the steel and heavy industrial sectors ./. wsj72:10775 N The report cooled bullish sentiment brought about by a smaller Brazilian crop this year , analysts said ./. wsj73:6779 L Justin makes building products , cooling towers and boots ./. wsj74:2760 N Investor enthusiasm cooled considerably in the wake of reports that Lilco 's demand was a bargaining tactic aimed at getting its talks with the state back in high gear ./. wsj77:437 L The Nuclear Regulatory Commission fined Detroit Edison Co . $ 25 , 000 for the faulty design of a core cooling system at the Detroit-based utility 's Fermi 2 nuclear reactor ./. wsj80:3174 N Jack Laporte , a mutual-fund manager at T. Rowe Price Associates Inc. in Baltimore , says people can find a reason to worry whether the economy shows signs of heating up or cooling off ./. wsj82:5184 N Watson 's rhetoric is purged of offensive racial references and cooled to a sympathetic refrain about the misery of dispossessed country folk forced to sell their youngsters ' lifeblood to money-grubbing factory owners from the North ./. wsj85:8836 N The Oct. 19 stock market crash , however , cooled Home Group 's enthusiasm for the deal ./. wsj86:4353 N Still , pension plans appeared to be cooling off on their earlier infatuation with small-stock strategies ./. wsj01:5856 N On the other hand , the potential for the dollar to resume its recent slide if the trade report is disappointing raises the possibility that the Federal Reserve could push interest rates higher , both to boost the dollar and to cool the economy ./. wsj02:10801 N Not only are they being replaced by younger politicians without roots on the mainland , but Taiwan 's recently eased political atmosphere has cooled the obsession with reunification ./. wsj02:2884 U The FTC rule requiring the three-day cooling off period , which has been in effect since 1972 , was aimed at countering high-pressure tactics by door-to-door sales people ./. wsj02:3836 N Instead , they spend much of their time fighting brush fires , and although Mr. Baker inherits a world in which a number of major crises appear to be cooling off , plenty of hot spots remain ./. wsj02:4097 N The Bank of England added that it is `` too early to be sure '' whether the British government 's recent efforts to cool down Britain 's overheated economy `` will prove sufficient to restore the economy to a sustainable path . ''/'' wsj04:6303 U Mr. Lawson said inflation will cool to 5 % by the end of 1989 ./. wsj04:9794 U At the same time , the combined pressures of a rising won , tightened credit , higher wages and lower productivity are cooling the economy after two years of export-led runaway growth ./. wsj05:10289 U More and more , as small investors have cooled to the stock market , brokers , with their national syndicates , have become aggressive sellers of CDs ./. wsj05:2287 U The tax announcement caused both investors and legislators , many of whom own brokerage houses , to call for the resignation of Finance Minister Shirley Kuo , who decided to reimpose the tax from Jan. 1 to cool the market ./. wsj05:2744 U The draconian measures cooled things down -- but nearly ground the economy to a halt ./. wsj05:8817 U Government policy makers have been hoping the economy will cool off so the nation will be spared an acceleration of inflation , and the Federal Reserve has nudged up interest rates toward that end ./. wsj05:9376 U The move is aimed at cooling an overheated economy that has sparked an inflation rate of more than 20 % , the highest level since the Communist Party took power in 1949 ./. wsj06:6569 U `` Estimates of GNP have been cranked down significantly over the last month or so as evidence of cooling appeared in monthly statistics , '' said Irwin Kellner , chief economist at Manufacturers Hanover Bank ./. wsj07:236 U A mountain of debt was built up in the process , and investor enthusiasm is cooling in its shadow ./. wsj07:941 U This spurred the market on Thursday and kept trading strong , until late afternoon profit-taking cooled the momentum ./. wsj08:7632 U So the Fed tightened up , trying to do it gradually , obviously hoping to cool things off without a recession ./. wsj08:9911 U `` Is n't it cool ? ''/'' wsj09:2442 U The Finance Ministry said the tax was needed to cool an overheated market ./. wsj09:2466 N But the latest-quarter results were about flat with the second quarter 's $ 7.2 million , or 17 cents a share , as the rate of new orders cooled a bit from the previous period 's hot pace ./. wsj09:3526 N The latest rumor yesterday was that International Business Machines Corp . , which earlier had been reported to be planning to license certain Next software programs , is cooling to the idea of using the programs extensively ./. wsj11:3310 U The economy cooled in September to post its lowest growth rate in six months , according to the nation 's purchasing agents ./. wsj11:9625 U Analysts said the decision marked an attempt by the government to cool the market: Saturday 's close , at 8789.78 , was the latest in a series of highs and left the index with a gain of 276 % since the beginning of the year ./. wsj12:3827 U Finance Minister Shirley Kuo said the government 's move to reimpose a capital-gains tax on stock profits was n't intended to cool the surging market but to solidify it and make the tax system more fair ./. wsj12:3830 N Observers said the surprise move , just before the four-day midautumn festival holiday , was designed to cool the stock market investment craze ./. wsj12:3948 U `` The other option is that the authorities will have to cool off the economy . ''/'' wsj13:9213 U Yet the category 's torrid growth rate of past years -- averaging 11 % annual gains from 1977 to 1987 -- has cooled ./. wsj14:5046 U Interest rates rose high enough to cool off the economy without pushing it toward recession , yet economic growth remains strong enough to keep employment levels up and earnings strong , she says ./. wsj15:10485 N Nasdaq indexes -- which he says are overrated as proxies for small-stock performance -- `` did cool off since the end of May , but their superior performance in the beginning of the year was so good , that should n't be any surprise to anyone . ''/'' wsj15:10698 U -- A world-wide recession could cool investor attitudes toward the market ./. wsj15:10792 N Foreign central bankers like to think that with U.S. economic growth apparently cooling , the Federal Reserve is less compelled to further tighten monetary policy before the November presidential election ./. wsj15:2839 N But Madison Avenue 's interest in Mr. Tyson is cooling because of the barrage of negative publicity about an alleged suicide attempt and his stormy marriage to actress Robin Givens ./. wsj16:4134 N Britain , expected to be the European growth `` locomotive '' at more than 3.5 % , recently raised interest rates again to cool off its `` overheating '' economy ./. wsj17:10948 U Economists generally expect 1989 growth to cool off a bit , and they warn that even this year 's expansion could be held down if world interest rates climb further ./. wsj17:1533 U The economy appears to be cooling , indicating the Fed 's credit-tightening may be working ./. wsj18:4501 N The Federal Reserve has shown its alarm over wage inflation by nudging interest rates higher in an attempt to cool economic growth ./. wsj18:8723 N The rate increase by West Germany was a surprise , however , because some economists thought the Bundesbank would n't risk cooling its domestic economy ./. wsj19:10266 U In an attempt to cool overheating , the government has directed seven increases in banks ' base rates since early June ./. wsj19:7110 N `` The army would n't be able to cool it down or control it ./. wsj20:3000 U And lingering problems , particularly the prospect of surprise liabilities in its financial businesses , may be cooling the ardor of some prospective suitors ./. wsj20:8731 U Britain 's retail sales rose sharply in July and industrial production slipped in June , prompting speculation that British officials may soon direct an additional rise in banks ' base lending rates to cool inflation ./. wsj21:1137 U It 's possible the Fed could push too hard , he says , but the more probable scenario is for the Fed to ease up on rates as soon as it sees signs that the economy is cooling ./. wsj21:592 U Philip Crosby said the buy-back does n't mean it is cooling its business relationship with GM , noting that the transaction gives the Detroit-based auto giant warrants to repurchase as much as 100 % of the stake it sold if there 's a change in control of Philip Crosby ./. wsj21:7008 U `` The Fed 's goal is to cool the economy and extend the economic cycle , but the fear is they might not know when to let up and will wind up ending it , '' he said ./. wsj22:119 U `` I 'm bullish on the economy , but there 's more danger of it being too good than of it cooling down too much , '' he said ./. wsj22:261 N Several analysts wondered if the rise was ordered to cool down an overheating economy or rather to present a clear signal to the market that British Chancellor of the Exchequer Nigel Lawson is in command of interest rate policy ./. wsj22:4694 N But some marketing consultants see signs that the 1980s new-product boom is cooling a bit ./. wsj23:1224 U American President dropped 3 3 8 to 31 7 8 as takeover speculation cooled following news that the company agreed to sell $ 75 million of preferred stock to investors affiliated with Hellman & Friedman , an investment banking firm ./. wsj23:1341 U The cooling off period , ordered as part of Mr. Reagan 's naming of a presidential emergency board in April to try to resolve the issue , expired today ./. wsj23:1344 N He also said that if the dispute ca n't be settled by the end of the new cooling off period , Messrs ./. wsj23:40 U Mr. Ozal says he will cool the economy this year , aiming to bring growth down to about 5 % from last year 's 7.3 % and 8.3 % in 1986 ./. wsj23:6518 U But the fever cooled yesterday as the shares fell 1 8 to 6 7 8 on volume of only 33 , 700 ./. wsj25:8141 N But profit-taking helped cool the rally ./. wsj26:1046 U To cool down the economy , China has been trying to limit money supply ./. wsj26:2702 N While the 17 male supers who play guards and courtiers cool our heels , we are shoehorned into a room 15 feet square , reading newspapers and exchanging small talk ./. wsj26:6079 U Whatever the case , he and many other analysts expect the Fed to boost short-term rates further in coming weeks to cool the economy and combat inflation ./. wsj26:9204 U Mr. Greenspan said a flattening of the factory operating rate and the unemployment rate are both needed to cool the trend ./. wsj27:6437 N Today 's slogan: `` The fever of war will not cool down while -LRB- Iraqi President -RRB- Saddam Hussein is in power . ''/'' wsj27:6787 U Mr. Grove wants to cool overheated expectations ./. wsj28:1520 U Japan knows it may eventually have to tighten credit to cool off the boom , but presumably it would prefer to base the timing on its domestic needs , not on the buoyant dollar ./. wsj28:1884 U `` More people are leaning toward expecting a discount rate hike '' by the Federal Reserve Board aimed at cooling inflationary pressures on the economy , said Jeffrey Priest , head of fixed income trading with Miller Tabak Hirsch & Co. in New York ./. wsj28:6879 U Still , Mr. Lyski expects a major bond rally later this year or in early 1989 as `` it becomes clear that inflation expectations are in excess of reality and the economy cools off . ''/'' wsj29:8059 N The Boston-area condominium market , for years one of the hottest in the country , has finally cooled off ./. wsj29:8904 U More than 13 % of the OTC market 's rise so far this year was made during a first-quarter rally , which has since cooled off ./. wsj30:10692 U Also cooling the market was a wait-and-see attitude about what the dollar will do against the yen ./. wsj30:1978 N Yesterday 's half-point increase in base rates to 9.5 % is n't likely to be enough to cool inflationary pressures because it did n't trigger a rise in mortgage rates , said Gwyn Hacche , an economist at James Capel & Co . `` Mortgage rates are one of the main mechanisms by which a change in interest rates affects the demand for consumer credit , '' he said ./. wsj30:2824 N Yesterday 's sell-off cooled inflationary fears throughout the financial markets ./. wsj35:9029 N Trying to cool controversies fueled by his visit with dissidents and with Jews denied the opportunity to leave the Soviet Union , he suggested in his news conference that emigration restrictions were largely bureaucratic obstacles that he and the Soviet leader could jointly overcome ./. *literal cluster* wsj02:10172 L Zero makes cases , cabinets and cooling equipment for the electronics industry and industrial and consumer use ./. wsj17:1433 L You have to build up the equipment to a certain power level , test it , cool it down , then possibly repair it , and it may take months to bring it up again . ''/'' wsj19:10790 L For an auto , Mr. Loehrke envisions the warm end of the pipe heated by the radiator and the condenser end cooled by the outside air ./. wsj20:2492 L Then again , other gases might cause a lot of clouds to form , blocking sunlight and cooling things off ./. wsj35:2810 L They can generate such heat they need cooling fans ; trunk-mounting avoids turning the passenger compartment into a blast furnace ./. wsj38:6347 N But , he said , armed troops loyal to the Panamanian dictator `` kind of cooled that down . ''/'' wsj41:160 L Heavy water is used to control and cool the reaction of small research reactors ./. wsj42:2109 L Japanese companies already are at the forefront of development of an older generation of superconductors , those that have to be cooled almost to absolute zero ./. wsj73:355 N When the Detroit Free Press cools down ./. wsj73:6429 L Beer flowed from big pitchers as a cooling obbligato to the hot sounds ./. wsj01:9801 L Engineers in uniforms and hardhats are everywhere , many maintaining the technological heart of the levitating train: its roadbed of specially cooled superconducting magnets ./. wsj05:11026 L The revolutionary gallium arsenide circuits used in a forthcoming model , the Cray-3 , experienced cooling problems that resulted in millions of dollars of added costs ./. wsj05:2737 U Together , they have helped craft a controversial short-term program to cool China 's overheated economy and bring under control the worst inflation since the Communist Party took power in 1949 ./. wsj06:1768 U General Electric said the non-crystalline structure is achieved by rapidly cooling the molten iron , thereby freezing molecules in a random arrangement before they can line up in orderly fashion ./. wsj06:8200 U Moreover , Honeywell 's business that makes controls for buildings , such as heating and cooling systems , is showing signs of slower growth , after posting strong results ./. wsj07:7107 U Los Angeles-based Zero makes cases , cabinets and cooling equipment for the electronics industry and industrial and consumer use ./. wsj09:4092 U Dubbed the Thermo-Air splint , it employs circulating fluid to warm or cool a wounded limb , replacing ice packs and heating pads ./. wsj10:5773 U Inflation has cooled from 10.3 % , and productivity is up ./. wsj12:10591 U Zero , which itself has been mentioned as a takeover target , supplies electronic packaging and makes enclosures , cooling equipment and accessories primarily for the electronics industry ./. wsj12:10610 U They now conduct electricity without resistance -- the hallmark of superconductivity -- only when cooled to very low temperatures ./. wsj12:3768 U Los Angeles-based Zero , which itself has been mentioned as a takeover target , supplies electronics packaging and makes enclosures , cooling equipment and accessories primarily for the electronics industry ./. wsj13:8967 U The new superconductors , discovered last year , conduct electricity without resistance when cooled with liquid nitrogen ./. wsj15:1718 L Normal cooling costs are defined as the expected costs to cool a residence in average August weather , which is based on temperature records for the past 30 years ./. wsj16:11092 U The forecasts indicate auto planners no longer fear that 1989 will bring a recession or that interest rate increases will cool consumer spending ./. wsj16:4935 U Yields on most consumer certificates of deposit continued to rise this week but a drop on U.S. Treasury bill rates led to decreases on some CDs , due to speculation of a cooling economy ./. wsj18:1521 U Under some circumstances , a low-altitude smoke cloud would even warm the earth , not cool it ./. wsj19:10788 U With water as the working fluid , the arm could be cooled to a chilly 45 degrees Farenheit if the two ends are at 120 degrees and 75 degrees respectively , the engineer calculates ./. wsj20:5069 U Two weeks ago , Alabama Power was fined $ 100 , 000 for allegedly failing to fix a hydrogen gas leak in the reactor cooling system of the plant ./. wsj20:5084 U Japan 's ship designs use traditional superconductors: metal-alloys that must be cooled with expensive liquid helium to minus 269 degrees Celsius ./. wsj21:8642 U The cost of home heating and cooling skyrocketed with the price of energy ./. wsj22:10647 L The mold is then cooled and dried and the lid peeled off ./. wsj22:8817 U According to the agency , the problem stemmed from a hydrogen gas buildup in pipes within a reactor cooling system ./. wsj22:8818 U The buildup could have knocked out pumps needed to inject cooling water from one of the plant 's backup systems into the reactor during an emergency ./. wsj25:3356 U The new version has a single heating element and uses a less expensive plastic -LRB- which caused further design problems because when it cools after molding , it shrinks unevenly -RRB- ./. wsj27:177 L Home here is a 12-by-15-foot room , cooled by two portable fans and crowded with three beds and boxes of clothes ./. wsj29:5323 U The Prudential Center turned off the lights in a well-lit lobby and switched a cooling system from electricity to steam ./. wsj32:1098 U Heavy water is used to control and cool the reaction of small research reactors ./. wsj32:2085 U `` Needless to say , we 've cooled on the idea of running customer money , '' he sighs ./. wsj32:4234 U Those pumps are used to inject cooling water into the reactor vessel ./. wsj33:6621 U Heavy water is used to control and cool the reactor ./. wsj34:2980 U The glass blank , which will be ground and polished into a telescope mirror , was spun-cast six weeks ago using centrifugal force , then gradually cooled until a special furnace was turned off last weekend ./. wsj34:8942 L A front is then expected to move in but it will cool temperatures only slightly , to 40 to 50 degrees ./. wsj35:6915 U The head of mergers at a medium-sized Wall Street firm says his ardor for such a move has cooled after dissecting results of the Koppers battle ./. ******************** ***dance*** *nonliteral cluster* wsj45:5056 N `` You 're not going to be able to dance and diddle here . ''/'' wsj47:7234 N He just might dance into the 1990s ./. wsj63:10214 N He proposed what ministers in many countries have only danced around -- movement toward a global fixed-rate system , possibly linked to gold ./. wsj01:7015 U Joy of Movement centers have Nautilus and saunas , but mostly depend on instructors to keep members dancing , shaking or moving ./. wsj01:7128 U Highlights include a trio of Jamison works , among them the hypnotic `` Divining , '' and the divine Ms. J dancing the New York premiere of `` Scene Seen , '' a solo created for her by Garth Fagan. 175 Eighth Ave . -LRB- 212 -RRB- 242-0800 ./. wsj04:8039 U `` It 's our sport , '' says Artur , who is revered because he break-dances on the train ./. wsj04:9805 U Long lines form outside discos that charge $ 20 a head , and $ 5 a beer , to dance to the beat of imported bands ./. wsj10:10717 U At the opening gala , Mr. B dances the Penitent in `` El Penitente '' for the first time , Ms. T. essays the role of `` She Who Speaks '' for the first time , and Ms. P performs `` The Dying Swan '' for the umpteenth time ./. wsj10:4784 N Mr. McMillin doubts a rash of food takeovers will occur , because many companies already are dancing to Wall Street 's tune ./. wsj20:4311 U I choose not to dance on the grave of the UDAG program , but instead mourn the falling of yet another valuable economic development tool to the budget ax ./. wsj27:1855 N He has been in public life a long time , and no large skeletons have come dancing out of the closet yet ./. wsj35:8842 U It 's politics in Lotus-land , the cradle of trends from Hula Hoops to dancing raisins ./. wsj38:8528 U If there is a wrinkle in this raisin success story , it 's the fact that Mr. Vinton had won every major international film award , except for Cannes , but was working in virtual obscurity until he turned out a bunch of singing and dancing raisins ./. wsj43:1345 U Outdoor productions that combine history , drama , music and dance trace their lineage all the way back to Greek theater ./. wsj44:3936 U A West German cartoon , for example , shows Valery Giscard d'Estaing , dressed in a slinky black dress , dancing a tango with Helmut Schmidt ./. wsj47:3499 U Paul Taylor Dance Company: These harbingers of spring kick off their annual Manhattan season tonight with the world premiere of `` Brandenburgs , '' danced to Bach 's Brandenburg Concerti No. 3 and 6 ./. wsj47:9326 U The great 19th-century classics , which she danced in her prime , are beyond her present physical capacities ./. wsj53:5933 U `` You danced around and came up with 15 cents on a gallon of gas , and that there is just a pitiful presentation of the head of the Federal Reserve , '' he said ./. wsj60:3457 N Mr. McVeigh , a seven-year Smith Barney veteran , said his department was profitable until the crash and until Primerica `` started dancing on my head . ''/'' *literal cluster* wsj02:6534 L The picture spans the quarter-century between the mid-'50s and the early '80s , which gives Ms. Lange the chance to frequently change her hair style , to wear a variety of clothes and to dance the Twist ./. wsj05:7301 L They were greeted by dancing pigs , flying pigs and several hundred thousand people pigging out ./. wsj07:8464 L Joffrey Ballet: The bicoastal company dances its first Manhattan season since the death of founder Robert Joffrey , whose own `` Remembrances '' pas de deux will be revived ./. wsj10:4024 L Bill Byron , a regional sales manager for Columbus Wallcovering Co . , danced wildly down the runway in a purple `` country kitchen '' material ./. wsj11:2748 L Twenty-eight thousand buildings were leveled in the quake , but a few years later , 20 , 500 new ones had been built , and people of the reborn city were dancing in the streets ./. wsj17:864 L And for those of you planning ahead , this year the troupe will dance `` The Nutcracker '' Dec. 1-31 . -LRB- 212 -RRB- 870-5690 ./. wsj18:7376 L Anyone can dance the hokey-pokey ./. wsj19:4724 L `` This music is n't meant to be watched , it 's intended to be danced , '' Mr. Gutierrez pleads from the stage ./. wsj19:4726 L At the end of the group 's 40-minute set , the audience members have decided they do n't care about the museum 's rules either , and they 're dancing in the aisles ./. wsj26:10235 L `` I have undergraduate degrees in chemistry and marketing , but I 'm going to law school in the fall and I hope this will pay for it , '' says Sasha , who wears eyeglasses when she dances . -LRB- `` These glasses are fake , '' she explains ./. wsj26:2710 L Most of the rules are left unspoken: Do n't move , do n't talk , do n't laugh , do n't sneeze -- and , definitely , do n't dance ./. wsj26:783 L Then watch women dancing nude at Tattletales , a blue-collar strip joint down the road with trucks outside and a Welcome Democrats sign on the roof ./. wsj27:1963 L Even more inadvertently hilarious is Alexander Godunov , the Soviet defector who used to dance for a living ./. wsj29:856 L Charles Jude , Mr. Nureyev 's partner , danced with a youthful resilience that reflected unfavorably on the latter 's growing infirmity ./. wsj31:4253 L When they 're not in front of the camera , the Toons sing and dance at their version of Harlem 's Cotton Club ./. wsj33:3720 L Even as danced by four of ABT 's most talented males , John Gardner , Robert Hill , Kevin McKenzie and the astonishingly agile Robert Wallace , Mr. Tippet 's latest work is tough going ./. wsj39:7413 L Racism has gone largely unnoticed as images of Brazilians of all shades dancing the samba at Carnival created a sense of racial harmony ./. wsj41:2366 L The leads in the second performance -LRB- Ludmila Lopukhova and Simon Dow -RRB- were better than those at the premiere -LRB- Karin Averty and Jean-Charles Gil -RRB- , but there were more enjoyable performances from younger members of the company , such as Joanna Berman , Wendy Van Dyck and Mikko Nissinen , who danced the first act pas de trois on opening night , and Andre Reyes , who replaced the latter on the following afternoon ./. wsj41:6770 L He tap-danced around the stage to his own falsetto and flopped to the floor to the accompaniment of his booming bass ./. wsj44:629 L When Danny dances with Helen , who is dubious about the whole enterprise , he tells her that it 's all a surprise for her , it 's her Valentine 's Day card ./. wsj48:4641 L Whether these dancers could ever meet the requirements of `` Raymonda Variations '' and `` Symphony in C , '' the ballets they danced in New York , is doubtful ./. wsj49:1246 L Television commercials expected to air in mid-April in New York and Miami will feature the homespun pair dancing the salsa , advertising sources said ./. wsj49:2549 L Khopa and Ticha danced and juggled soccer balls at a Radio City Music Hall press preview announcing an upcoming tour of the Moscow circus ./. wsj55:507 L Mr. Waters sets his sights on the `` hairhoppers , '' the polished amateurs who dance on `` The Corny Collins Show , '' his version of `` American Bandstand . ''/'' wsj57:5187 N The pas de deux danced the past week by Secretary of State Shultz and Senator Sam Nunn has been dreadful political ballet , with the Reagan administration discovering what happens when you choose to dance with your political enemies ./. wsj59:7740 L They began from scratch , amateurs learning to sing and dance and act , working up to 18 hours a day , almost every day ./. wsj60:7997 L Plucking bonbons with a pinkie in the air , or daintily miming a billiard shot , he seems almost to be dancing through the role , a rosy cherub in grownup clothing ./. wsj60:8236 L Upstairs over the bufyet is the ballroom where Natasha danced ./. wsj63:10446 L With their wives and girlfriends in Mexico , it 's common to see men dancing alone here ./. wsj63:4919 L `` I was so happy that I practically danced back into the house , '' Mr. Popejoy says ./. wsj65:10492 N In interviews , he says , `` you 're always dancing , always having to show your best side , every day trying to be up when you already know what the outcome will be . ''/'' wsj70:9770 L Whether these dancers could ever meet the requirements of `` Raymonda Variations '' and `` Symphony in C , '' the ballets they danced in New York , is doubtful ./. wsj71:6367 L Television commercials expected to air in mid-April in New York and Miami will feature the homespun pair dancing the salsa , advertising sources said ./. wsj72:10265 L `` Seems like you 'll never make it to the top unless you know how to dance , '' the announcer intones ./. wsj75:2856 N I , for one , am `` dancing on the ceiling . ''/'' wsj76:6208 L Mr. Waters sets his sights on the `` hairhoppers , '' the polished amateurs who dance on `` The Corny Collins Show , '' his version of `` American Bandstand . ''/'' wsj77:11029 L This three-part `` Nature '' miniseries presents the history of the area and its amazingly rich flora and fauna , including bat-eared foxes , dancing ostriches , shrimp-eating flamingos and leaping bush babies ./. wsj80:9400 L `` Sam is one of a kind , '' Mr. Glass said , adding that he was n't `` going to dance the hula on Wall Street . ''/'' wsj83:2916 N Yet a stroll through any department store makes it plain that `` yuppie puppies '' have visions of dollar-signs dancing in their heads ./. wsj83:5900 L Tomorrow night at New York 's swank Pierre Hotel , 200 advertising executives in black tie will dance to the jazz of Ann Hampton Callaway and dine on grilled salmon , filet of beef Peregourdine and pastry tulips filled with praline ice cream ./. wsj84:10752 L As the wiry Mr. Rios dances with a plump , middle-age woman , he yells in Spanish , `` I 'm legal now . ''/'' wsj84:10754 L With their wives and girlfriends in Mexico , it 's common to see men dancing alone here ./. wsj85:5631 L And a family in adjacent Hamilton County turned to him after it got little response from local authorities to its complaints about people dancing and praying in a nearby graveyard ./. wsj01:577 U They laugh ; Elise sings `` I Saw You Last Night '' ; Martin , the cheerleader , tries to get them to dance together ./. wsj03:2019 L Yet when ordered to dance by his master , he gamely sprinkles a little sand on the ground and shuffles through a series of rapid dance steps ending in a pathetic little pawing motion that symbolizes his entrapment ./. wsj07:5626 L She watched an older couple dancing outside in the restaurant 's courtyard ./. wsj11:7520 L They danced to the funk rock of a live band and grilled hot dogs and ribs ./. wsj11:7523 U They danced and drank until 10 p.m. when the police broke up the festivities ./. wsj18:2959 U Villagers danced in the streets at the news that electric light would be coming to their homes , he recalls ./. wsj18:7390 U She then invites the audience to stand up and dance the hokey-pokey with her ./. wsj19:4721 U He 's dancing the chicken bomba ./. wsj19:4723 U Suddenly , he jumps off the stage and grabs a woman from the audience to dance with him ./. wsj19:4727 U Bomba and plena normally are Puerto Rican community music , played and danced in the streets , at weddings , at wakes , wherever ./. wsj19:5919 U Two men and two women , naked except for some cellophane wrap , are circling the wheelchair , hopping and dancing ./. wsj22:632 U Scholars are still out , however , on whether angels do indeed dance ./. wsj24:10470 U But an industry official says , `` It takes two to dance , '' and firms are n't eager to waltz again ./. wsj25:10789 U And so , night after night , members of Congress , lobbyists , union officials and delegates jam Flamingo Joe 's nightclub , dancing the night away , while corporate America , at $ 20 , 000 a pop , picks up the tab on behalf of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee ./. wsj26:2722 U I tense up , but soon relax: I do n't dance , after all ./. wsj26:838 L `` And there 's Sam Nunn dancing presumably with his wife , '' she says , squinting hard from her distant perch ./. wsj28:139 L In the third `` mansion , '' the lascivious emperor , Diocletian -LRB- Patrick Dupond -RRB- , dances a pas de deux with the youth and then repeats it , almost step for step , with the queen ./. wsj28:8863 U Mr. McGegan habitually grins and dances on the podium , making dramatic points emerge from the orchestra with his whole body , Bernstein fashion , but the effect is not phony ./. wsj33:10921 L Set up on a strobe-lighted stage , Barbie and her buddies appear to move all by themselves , holding guitars and dancing up a storm amid flashing blue and pink lights ./. wsj33:3723 U One of the most memorable events of this sort was the pair of `` Bayadere '' performances danced , with hardly any warning to the public , by two guests from Leningrad 's Kirov Ballet , Altynai Assylmuratova and Farukh Ruzimatov ./. wsj34:6505 L Meanwhile , though , we may ask what will happen to dance back here , where the facilities Brussels has offered Mr. Morris , including a $ 1.5 million annual budget , are apparently not to be thought of ./. wsj35:8069 U Naturally , they 're dancing to the two duets that , with `` Blue Moon , '' make up most kids ' entire piano repertoire: `` Heart and Soul '' and `` Chopsticks . ''/'' wsj37:6654 U Shiva , dancing the dance of life , with a drum in one hand and a flame in the other ./. wsj38:5820 U Denied strong creative guidance , a clear sense of purpose , they have no idea of who they are artistically , and thus of how they should dance in any given work ./. wsj38:8519 U Actors dressed in raisin costumes marched in the Macy 's Thanksgiving Day parade in New York , and a raisin conga line danced at the White House Christmas tree lighting ceremony , even upstaging a certain former actor ./. wsj41:2353 U Characteristic of Mr. Thomasson 's approach is his abandonment of the familiar allegro movement to which the fourth-act pas de deux is usually danced , in favor of the same composer 's languorous `` Serenade Melancolique , '' Op. 26 , for violin and orchestra ./. wsj41:3988 U And she dances away ./. wsj41:4015 U Revelers jam the Uzbekistan , dancing madly under flashing lights to the shriek of a Soviet synthesizer ./. wsj44:8038 L And one of the congregation 's most remarkable and fervent prayers came from worshipers toward the back of the church who began dancing and chanting: `` Come , Tambo , come . ''/'' wsj47:9340 L In company with Susan Jaffe , Christine Dunham and Leslie Browne , Mikhail Baryshnikov , formerly of Leningrad 's Kirov Ballet , and now director of American Ballet Theatre , danced the revised version of Balanchine 's sublime `` Apollo '' with a blend of spontaneity and concentration that charged the entire evening with wonder ./. wsj49:904 U Not the usual selection of czarist zakusky -LRB- the one exception: a perfectly ghastly `` La Sylphide , '' danced without an orchestra to a sickly old tape -RRB- , its focus is modern music and dance ./. wsj50:5419 U Dolled up in a sequinned gown , Dr. Brothers sang and danced up a storm -- but not very well ./. wsj52:10121 U It made me wonder why I 'd never had any trouble accepting the 19th-century cowboys , Arthurian knights and medieval princes who 've sung and danced their way through American musicals: Surely those settings are just as antithetical as 18th-century Japan to the modern feel of musical theater ./. wsj52:10144 L Indeed , the musical 's whole point is expressed through a single climactic , apocalyptic number called `` Rockland , '' in which the cast , suddenly dressed in hip , punky clothes , leather jackets and army fatigues , sings `` We dance together in a bar to the same creeping sense of ennui . ''/'' wsj53:5420 U The Kodo women are , however , permitted to dance ./. wsj54:7856 L Instead of dancing they watch rock video . ''/'' wsj55:505 L In his own weird way , Mr. Waters has captured the gleeful garishness of the early '60s , when high-school girls wore demure bows in their ratted hair and deadened their lips with palest pink lip gloss -- and believed that racial harmony was inevitable if teens of all flavors could dance together on TV ./. wsj56:8656 U As Lionel Richie puts it in his song , they were `` dancing on the ceiling , '' savoring a life filled with opportunities never before offered to women ./. wsj57:7331 L For the group dances , Mr. Morris devised choreography that was more athletic and no less compelling ./. wsj59:3901 U Sam M. Walton , the legendary retailer who once danced the hula on Wall Street when profit waltzed past forecasts , gave up his title as chief executive officer of Wal-Mart Stores Inc ./. wsj59:3974 U `` If you want to get on in Brazil , you 've got to learn to dance the samba , '' he says ./. wsj60:11015 L In the third round , though , Holmes got up on his toes , danced some , and flicked a few punches ./. wsj63:10445 U Nearby , his friend Agustin dances alone ./. ******************** ***destroy*** *nonliteral cluster* wsj01:11069 N Mr. Davis openly has a bone to pick with urban renewal , but this hardly seems a prejudice on his part: Urban renewal did in fact come into Fulton and systematically destroyed the old neighborhood , and there was n't anything subtle about it ./. wsj03:8538 N `` Any company in this market that hiccups is just destroyed ./. wsj36:2959 N The two-year-old program designed principally to stem soil erosion is reducing American exports , destroying jobs , and squandering billions of dollars on a pseudo-problem ./. wsj37:3674 N This destroys cancerous cells but also wipes out the patient 's `` good '' white blood cells that guard the immune system , leaving a patient vulnerable for almost a month to death by infection ./. wsj50:8864 N Excessive rates of income tax destroy enterprise , encourage avoidance , and drive talent to more hospitable shores overseas ./. wsj51:2228 N Claiborne had said in its complaint last month that Avon 's failure to meet its obligation for the Fall and Christmas seasons , which together account for more than 70 % of annual sales for the venture , would `` irreparably harm and likely destroy the business . ''/'' wsj54:2314 N Claiborne says in the complaint that Avon 's failure to meet its obligations for the `` crucial 1988 Fall Christmas seasons , which together account for over 70 % of annual sales , '' would `` irreparably harm and likely destroy the business . ''/'' wsj70:6454 N `` The Jew and the bank now dominate everything: Europe and enlightenment , the whole civilization and socialism -- especially socialism , for with its help the Jew will eradicate Christianity and destroy the Christian civilization . ''/'' wsj71:4180 N `` If Roger had purposely set out to destroy all morale in what was once the most confident and secure company going , he could n't have done a better job , '' Mr. Lee quotes an unnamed GM executive ./. wsj74:5788 N After a recent Barron 's magazine article about the fund 's woes , Kenneth Edlund , a Delmar , N.Y . , investor , groused in a letter to the publication 's editor that for five years he `` watched in disbelief as , during the great secular bull market , David Baker destroyed my young son 's $ 17 , 000 college nest egg . ''/'' wsj04:2080 U The move was designed to encourage them to expand capacity after one of the producers , American Pacific Corp . , saw its Henderson , Nev . , plant destroyed in a series of explosions ./. wsj05:2954 U Hurricane Gilbert smashed into our island on Sept. 12 , leaving nearly half the homes destroyed or damaged , most of them without all or part of their roofing ./. wsj06:2996 U But keeping India in the money is not , as in other lands , just a question of printing , distributing and destroying ./. wsj06:9034 U In fact , they were fulfilling the old prediction of Karl Marx that capitalism would be destroyed by its own contradictions ./. wsj08:2115 U Their nests are now easily found and destroyed by crows , raccoons , foxes , coyotes and magpies . ''/'' wsj12:8231 N The rollback destroyed this steady progress ./. wsj14:6975 N {Ethiopian strongman Mengistu Haile Mariam} has destroyed the traditional farming economy with communist controls on prices , by confiscating all land , and by making the state the sole buyer and seller of food ./. wsj15:3661 U Clearpoint already has recalled and destroyed all copies of a software program that contained portions of Digital 's proprietary VMS software ./. wsj15:7886 U Wind-whipped fires raced through the Sierra Nevada foothills , charring nearly 30 , 000 acres , destroying about a dozen homes and prompting about 4 , 500 people to evacuate ./. wsj17:2378 N In any event , Mr. Dhlomo understands better than do most U.S. congressmen that if the South African economy is destroyed by sanctions , so , too , will be the prospects for revolutionary , or even evolutionary , change ./. wsj17:2406 U Black power in South Africa -- that is , the power to destroy apartheid -- flows not from the barrel of a gun or from Winnie Mandela 's `` boxes of matches '' for the inhuman necklace , but from economic gains ./. wsj17:3853 U As James Paulsen , president of Securities Counselors of Iowa , says , periods of rapid inflation `` destroy '' financial assets ./. wsj21:157 N Mr. Meese of course had good personal reasons for the infernal device he left behind ; Washington 's Democrats have been trying to destroy Ed Meese since the day he arrived in town , for no reason other than that he looked like an easier target than Ronald Reagan ./. wsj21:6113 U But in 1988 with the national debt at the same 53 % of GNP , he sees red ink destroying the economy ./. wsj21:7350 N One man who felt the brunt of Mr. Atwater 's tactics is liberal Thomas Turnipseed , whose bid for Congress was effectively destroyed when Mr. Atwater surreptitiously revived a three-year-old story about the Democrat 's psychiatric treatment for depression as a young man ./. wsj22:10138 U The objection to such communist influence is not that it is anti-American or bad for us ; the objection is that the communists do n't care about South African blacks and will use their power to destroy South Africa if they can not get control themselves ./. wsj22:3514 U It would be a tragedy if stop-go economics were now allowed to destroy that pillar 's foundations ./. wsj23:8958 U Efficiency does n't destroy jobs , it generates the wealth to create new , and usually better , jobs ./. wsj26:9725 U On the CBS News program `` Face the Nation , '' Mr. Jackson said yesterday that previous vice-presidential floor fights `` did n't destroy the party '' and were `` within the best tradition '' of the party ./. wsj27:5401 N Second , the U.S. has tried to squeeze Panama 's economy without destroying it , both to spare ordinary Panamanians further suffering and to permit recovery once Gen. Noriega goes ./. wsj27:9429 N `` It would be much too much to say this will destroy either the parent company or {Cosmos} , '' says Dan Nielsen , an analyst with SBCI Securities -LRB- Asia -RRB- Ltd ./. wsj28:1235 U Proof that these residual cells were true stem cells came when they were injected into mice whose bone marrow had been destroyed by radiation ./. wsj28:4352 N But really it is the day that all four Tyrones come face to face with the ghosts that have haunted them and the demons that have nearly destroyed them ./. wsj29:170 N Public reaction to this melodrama nearly destroyed the administration and solidified the belief that no moderates existed in Iran ./. wsj32:2512 N Finally , that act would streamline procedures , allowing states to set or change individual permits without needless EPA review ; EPA to issue targeted requirements rather than comprehensive federal cleanup plans that destroy local initiatives ; and enforcement to become both swifter and fairer through self-executing citations reviewed by expert administrative law judges , not cases pursued in hundreds of backlogged district courts ./. wsj33:9758 U It was used to carry out the system 's last tests ; Skylite again successfully intercepted and destroyed a target drone. -RRB-/-RRB- wsj34:5472 N And the Australians felt they could tinker with their beer without destroying that image ./. wsj35:3823 N An example: Last fall , Joseph Biden 's campaign was destroyed after a leaked videotape showed similarities between his speech and one given by British Labor Party leader Neil Kinnock ./. wsj35:8413 N Weeks later , `` Penthouse finally realized that Dominion was intentionally destroying the deal , '' sought other financing , failed , and had to abandon the project , the judge said ./. wsj36:2128 U They said the party 's failure to solve economic problems -- including foreign debt , inflation and unemployment -- was destroying the public trust ./. *literal cluster* wsj02:8112 N Pace Industries Inc. was in the process of selling its Rheem Manufacturing Co. unit , a maker of water heaters , when the stock market collapsed last year and destroyed the buyer 's financing plans ./. wsj02:9631 L He said incinerator temperatures of as much as 1 , 000 degrees Celsius are enough to destroy the mineral ./. wsj05:9140 N But a KKR spokesman , saying the RJR-Shearson group would sell more RJR assets in a takeover than KKR , denied any such plan: `` They think we want to destroy Atlanta ?/. wsj05:9203 L Police , meanwhile , raided Arab villages and destroyed the homes of suspected activists ./. wsj10:709 L `` This memo was withdrawn and destroyed and someone got it by going through our trash and resurrecting it , '' the EDS spokesman said ./. wsj13:9510 L A virus is a computer program , often hidden in apparently normal computer software , that instructs the computer to change or destroy information at a given time or after a certain sequence of commands ./. wsj14:6445 L `` You have to destroy another human being , '' Mr. Espinosa says ./. wsj15:6562 L Soybean seed sales skidded last spring in South Carolina , and dealers were forced to destroy tens of thousands of bags ./. wsj15:905 L Horace Furumoto , chairman and chief executive officer , said the company recently has completed its first phase as a public company , which included the development of lasers for removing birthmarks and for destroying kidney stones without surgery ./. wsj16:8333 L R.G. Barry Corp. said that fire destroyed one of its Mexican plants and that as a result projected 1988 sales are expected to be reduced 3 % to 4 % ./. wsj18:2249 L Tropical storm Chris spawned tornadoes that damaged houses , destroyed mobile homes and caused at least one death in the Carolinas before gradually weakening ./. wsj18:7184 N Astrotech went into a deep tailspin two years ago , officials say , with the explosion of the Space Shuttle Challenger , which destroyed hopes of near-term commercial space travel ./. wsj18:8792 N Mr. Berg 's murderers were bent on destroying what they call ZOG -LRB- Zionist Occupied Government -RRB- ./. wsj19:733 L This is also true , I believe , with respect to the famous Buddhist university at Nalanda , India , which too was destroyed by the Moslem hordes , who had no respect for others ' learning ./. wsj19:7820 L But as most of those certificates are destroyed in favor of computer records , the investor who requests a certificate will have to wait until it 's delivered by the city or state that issued the bond ./. wsj23:3565 L Last year , Mexico claimed that the equivalent of 6 , 200 acres of poppies were destroyed , up from 5 , 900 acres the previous year ./. wsj24:6101 L Israel has agreed to develop an interceptor missile for the U.S. that would destroy short-range ground-to-ground missiles , state-owned Israel Aircraft Industries said ./. wsj27:4349 L And Mr. Gorbachev 's proposal to remove aircraft -- which easily can fly back to Central Europe during a crisis -- would be meaningless unless they are destroyed , Mr. Chalmers says ./. wsj27:6067 L Nevertheless , petroleum markets remain stubbornly soft despite recurring signals of a possible turnaround , including major gains in petroleum demand and supply interruptions , such as last week 's explosion that destroyed the Piper Alpha platform in the North Sea ./. wsj30:7964 L They destroyed 450 , 000 acres of sugar beets and other crops ./. wsj30:798 L Mr. Hudson did n't provide any details about who destroyed documents , how they were destroyed or how they might have been related to the investigation ./. wsj33:11027 L So in February 1985 , three years after her paintings were destroyed , Ms. Smith sued Chase in a New York civil court for $ 25 , 000 ./. wsj33:180 N The point of view of the economist here misses the essential by being too technical , namely that the values associated with a free-market economy can be destroyed by the tax system ./. wsj36:2185 L The treaty requires that the Army 's 420 Pershing missiles be destroyed ./. wsj36:6245 L Furthermore , records that were supposed to be destroyed sometimes are n't , and they , too , occasionally surface ./. wsj37:1029 N A person who actually believes in something is likely to have his or her reputation and career destroyed by letting substance get in the way of image ./. wsj37:5653 L The department maintained that fighter aircraft , for example , `` must be fast enough and maneuverable enough to evade and destroy enemy aircraft ./. wsj38:1107 N They are so consumed by their own power , by a Mussolini-like ego , that their willingness to run over normal human beings and to destroy honest institutions is unending . ''/'' wsj38:1987 L He arrived in the U.S. last month after bulldozers and jackhammers destroyed his 80-year-old house in central Bucharest ./. wsj38:4497 L A Soviet Foreign Ministry aide disputed claims by U.S. officials that an explosion last week destroyed the only plant producing rocket fuel for SS-24 intercontinental missiles ./. wsj42:1509 N The CDC report did not deal with the so-called `` good cholesterol '' -- the high-density form of lipoprotein that gathers up cholesterol in the body and carries it to be destroyed ./. wsj43:6205 L After destroying two platforms , the Iranian gunboat the Joshan mounted a failed assault on the Navy ships and was quickly sunk ./. wsj45:9349 L The agreement , to be announced today , marks the first time an industry using chlorofluorocarbons , or CFCs , has voluntarily decided to phase out the chemicals because they can destroy the Earth 's protective ozone layer ./. wsj46:4738 N Indeed , the unrelieved pursuit of sales growth for its own sake , far from creating value , often destroys it ./. wsj47:7155 N `` This case is the next logical step in our efforts to put a halt to Lorenzo 's oppressive and unlawful campaign to destroy organized labor at Eastern . ''/'' wsj48:2415 L Once the people move , these houses will be destroyed ./. wsj48:8549 L Companies still spend billions of dollars printing and storing forms -- - and destroying them when , say , an address changes ./. wsj49:299 L This agreement is the product of the determination and sacrifice of the freedom fighters through years of struggle , including their heroic resistance last week to a Sandinista offensive designed to destroy them ./. wsj49:842 L This was not the first occasion when Sandinistas have pursued Contras across an ill-defined frontier and sought to destroy the Contra bases ./. wsj50:8139 N There is n't any indication that it could destroy the AIDS virus itself ./. wsj52:4835 N Equally important , his Socialist government absorbed and then , in effect , destroyed the French Communist Party ./. wsj53:298 N `` We do n't need the government trying to destroy the industry because of a few bad apples , '' says David L. Ganz , an ANA board member and a lawyer for some coin dealers ./. wsj54:6328 L Then , two days before the scheduled premiere in November , a fire raged through the opera house , destroying the backstage facility , sets and costumes ./. wsj55:8558 N In a test against listeria grown in cole slaw , lysozyme destroyed it without affecting the quality of the food ./. wsj58:7583 N But Mr. Hewett says a prolonged argument in the Kremlin over how and when to introduce market-oriented prices could delay other reforms and even destroy them if the price issue is n't honestly resolved ./. wsj61:2803 N The plan to make Apple into a consumer marketing giant , orchestrated by both Mr. Sculley and Mr. Jobs , was pure lunacy and nearly destroyed the company ./. wsj64:7453 L A federal magistrate in New Orleans accused the brokerage unit of PaineWebber Inc. of relentless `` stonewalling '' -- among other things , permitting potential evidence to be destroyed -- to prevent a customer-complaint lawsuit from going to trial ./. wsj66:9785 L `` What the U.S. should do , rather than destroying those oil wells , is capture them as prizes of war and turn their production over for the benefit of the U.S. and its other allies in the gulf , '' he said ./. wsj67:11208 L Because they 're so accurate , cruise missiles can use conventional bombs to destroy targets that only a few years ago required nuclear warheads ./. wsj68:2340 N This objectivity , however , need not destroy the work 's subjectivity , and Mr. Palmer is wrong in asserting that moral-rights advocates `` claim that a work of art is simply an extension of the personality of the artist . ''/'' wsj68:3084 L The agreement , to be announced today , marks the first time an industry using chlorofluorocarbons , or CFCs , has voluntarily decided to phase out the chemicals because they can destroy the Earth 's protective ozone layer ./. wsj68:9222 N Judges thus destroyed the time frame used in assessing risk ./. wsj69:6589 L `` People destroy coral reefs that take thousands of years to build , affecting all the fish that use it for food and shelter , just for a piece of decoration , '' says Mr. McCloud ./. wsj71:1790 L The chief substitutes will likely be variations on this chemical structure but with less chlorine , the element thought to destroy atmospheric ozone ./. wsj72:1729 L Israeli warplanes destroyed a PLO base in a Druse-held hilltop above Beirut in Israel 's deepest air raid into Lebanon this year ./. wsj73:10273 N Equally important , his Socialist government absorbed and then , in effect , destroyed the French Communist Party ./. wsj73:10443 L The doctor who removed the IUD destroyed Ms. Murdock-Vaughn 's files in 1979 as part of a routine office cleaning ./. wsj74:2317 L He testified that he was ordered by the Robins former general counsel in 1975 to destroy sensitive documents about the Dalkon Shield ./. wsj76:278 L Philippine troops launched a massive `` search and destroy '' operation in the Bicol region of Luzon following a Saturday attack by communist rebels in which 13 anti-guerrilla troops were killed ./. wsj77:2737 N Eric Johnson , the researcher , found that it also destroys certain kinds of botulism ./. wsj83:1878 N Whether that should be welcome news or cause for alarm depends on one 's confidence in the ability of Congress to write rules for markets without destroying them ./. wsj84:9629 N The press release for an upcoming miniseries describes Nina , its heroine , as `` a manipulative woman determined to love and , if need be , destroy the men in her life . ''/'' wsj01:10836 L `` Well over 200 synagogues were burned down or demolished , Jewish cemeteries were laid in ruins , thousands of businesses and homes were destroyed and plundered ./. wsj01:1990 U If next year the Angolans are still bent on destroying Mr. Savimbi rather than talking with him , President Bush should consider supplying him with as much military aid as he needs ./. wsj01:941 L `` We are offering now to free them from their nightmares of security -- we do n't want to destroy Israel , we want to coexist ./. wsj02:10231 U They smashed the display cases , destroying the inventory ./. wsj02:10371 U Current technology for destroying them involves incineration or chemical processes , both of which have severe limitations ./. wsj03:11315 L Conjoining them is like pounding square pegs into round holes , destroying the superconductors ' ability to conduct large electrical current without resistance -- their hallmark and the source of commercial excitement about them ./. wsj03:5378 U Six days earlier the Members had passed the drug bill that so many of them are now promising voters will do something about the murder and violence that is destroying city neighborhoods ./. wsj04:1058 L The indictment also charges that Mr. Frankel , 32 , and Mr. Yagoda , 44 , committed perjury and obstruction of justice when they testified before the SEC in 1986 , and that Mr. Frankel further attempted to obstruct the SEC 's investigation when he directed a co-conspirator at Drexel to destroy certain documents ./. wsj04:7435 L Some 64 % of normally unconcerned Britons recently described their environment as `` destroyed to a considerable extent '' when polled by the Gallup Organization ./. wsj06:6533 U Adoption of Follow-on-Forces-Attack was designed to destroy Soviet units designated to reinforce front-line forces ./. wsj08:9881 L Old clothes are often destroyed and new ones donned ; indoctrination is given in social mores and religious beliefs ./. wsj08:9888 L Bishop de Landa , recalled to Spain in 1568 , went down in history as a book-burner for destroying the Maya codices , an act that seems more understandable as we learn more about their civilization ./. wsj09:5294 U Furr 's Bishop 's also charges that its competitor is trying to destroy its business and has hired five of its management and 16 of its hourly employees in an effort to imitate Furr 's Bishop 's products ./. wsj10:10452 U He was optimistic although one coastal province had recently collapsed in a panic that was a miniature preview of the rout that destroyed South Vietnam three years later ./. wsj11:2747 U As one of the city 's papers put it: `` The business of San Francisco has not been destroyed , merely the business equipment . ''/'' wsj11:6302 U Without a strong shield , all we hope to do socially may be destroyed ./. wsj11:8307 U Freon , the Du Pont trade name for the chlorofluorocarbon known as CFC 12 , is under increasing pressure from environmentalists and regulators because it appears to be destroying the Earth 's ozone layer ./. wsj11:9732 L While the Meadowlands ' share of betting alone pays the interest on the bonds for the entire sports and entertainment complex , three more recent tracks -- Garden State Park in Cherry Hill , N.J . , resurrected after being destroyed in a fire ; Canterbury Downs in Shakopee , Minn . , and Birmingham -- have had losses totaling nearly $ 80 million in just three years after combined investments of $ 320 million ./. wsj13:493 U LyphoMed shut the plant indefinitely and agreed to destroy some of the drugs ./. wsj14:6446 U `` If you do n't have the heart for it , you will be destroyed ./. wsj15:1219 U `` This is a hurricane capable of destroying large buildings in a single bound , so certainly a little soybean plant weakened by the drought could n't hold up to it , '' said Joel Karlin , analyst at Research Department Inc . , Chicago ./. wsj15:4156 L Arsonists in Haiti destroyed a Roman Catholic chapel in a slum in Port-au-Prince ./. wsj15:536 U In a consent agreement filed in U.S. District Court Tuesday , LyphoMed agreed to upgrade or destroy some 24 million units of drugs seized by federal agents at the Orlando plant ./. wsj16:4257 U A President without an electoral mandate is a President the modern Congress will weaken and if possible , destroy ./. wsj16:4846 L He did n't set a deadline for destroying PCBs , but said movable disposal units might be leased from the U.S. to help eliminate those stored in warehouses across the country ./. wsj16:6632 U They even went so far , the SEC alleged , as to `` purposefully destroy '' documents as a result of the `` new environment '' that followed the arrest of former Drexel investment banker Dennis B. Levine on insider-trading charges in May 1986 ./. wsj17:2441 U The president did agree to `` a disciplined formation of a students ' union , '' and said the government would rebuild the students ' union building , destroyed by the government in a bloody 1962 episode ./. wsj17:4957 U I saw one small child whose feet and spine were destroyed ./. wsj18:1314 U The company also said that its Piper field , which is estimated to contain 122 million barrels of recoverable oil , `` has been a significant producer since we began operations there in 1976 , and we expect its production to be important again to Occidental following replacement of the destroyed platform . ''/'' wsj18:4263 U American Health Cos. said a tender offer for the company was extended after a fire destroyed the company 's vitamin , mineral and supplement products manufacturing plant ./. wsj18:733 U Homes and livestock on the outskirts of Helena , Montana , have been destroyed ./. wsj20:10600 L `` Moscow has been 80 % destroyed because Communists do n't like Russia . ''/'' wsj22:7327 U Fire yesterday destroyed what was to be the first black fraternity house at the University of Mississippi ./. wsj23:7631 U In Central Asia , the Kremlin destroyed four nuclear missiles as part of the superpower treaty eliminating intermediate-range weapons ./. wsj23:8481 U The cancellation of policyholders in West Virginia was based on legislation that would have destroyed the ability of medical-malpractice insurers to exercise their own judgment regarding applicants ' insurability ./. wsj25:5065 U Police said yesterday they have destroyed the criminal records of about 38 , 000 people sent to army `` re-education '' camps in a 1980 crackdown on dissent ./. wsj25:6208 L The advertisements featured a letter from the company 's Universal Pictures unit responding to an offer from Bill Bright , president of the San Bernardino , Calif.-based Campus Crusade for Christ , to pay $ 10 million in exchange for all copies of the film , `` which would promptly be destroyed . ''/'' wsj25:7847 U If someone destroys that secrecy , he or she deprives its owner of the information 's potential value . ''/'' wsj25:8459 L When buried in landfills , the oxidizing agents react with metal salts in the soil , and the links between the polymers are destroyed ./. wsj26:8350 L And instead of reacting to this aggression by destroying Iranian naval assets , defense leaders responded by saturating the Gulf with American military forces that were not supposed to engage their aggressor , but instead were supposed to intimidate him by their mere presence ./. wsj26:8357 U In the `` fog of war '' that followed , we destroyed half of the Iranian navy in a few hours ./. wsj27:1955 L Director John McTiernan -LRB- `` Predator '' -RRB- has efficiently slapped together the ingredients for a big , ear-shattering action film: slick , heavily armed villains ; a wife in peril ; stupid TV journalists who only make things worse ; a renegade cop who singlehandedly destroys the bad guys against impossible odds ./. wsj27:8346 U The university initially told anti-apartheid activists that the wall , which replaced shanties destroyed by arson June 5 , could stay up for only four days ./. wsj28:1045 U Mr. Greenspan , who had close ties to the Republican Party , is certainly not eager to precipitate a recession before the November election -- a development that would probably destroy the election hopes of Vice President George Bush ./. wsj28:1046 U And Fed officials will likewise be eager to avoid a recession early next year because that might destroy the opportunity to deal with the budget problem ./. wsj29:1125 U In the suit in federal court here , one current and three former Northrop employees claim the company destroyed internal audit documents that identified $ 400 million in false labor charges and projected that such charges totaled about $ 1 billion ./. wsj29:5452 U The Iranians know that if they fired Silkworms or Hawks , the U.S. probably would destroy all the remaining missiles and their launchers , says Don Kerr of London 's International Institute for Strategic Studies ./. wsj29:5729 U A computer program destroyed data stored in computers at NASA and other U.S. agencies over a five-month period beginning in January , according to a published report ./. wsj29:6224 U This month alone , fires have destroyed about 7 , 785 acres of Alabama forest ./. wsj29:6225 U That compares to 751 acres that were destroyed last June ./. wsj30:2346 U Nearly five million acres of private and government-owned timber , valued at $ 1.2 billion , were destroyed by fire last year , and the timber industry is bracing for the worst this year ./. wsj31:8827 U `` It could destroy the company , '' says Mr. Coffee ./. wsj32:6478 U It 's a simple little tick-tack-toe game , but if it gets on the board , any computer users who take it off through a phone connection and play it will find all the files in their computers destroyed ./. wsj32:759 U American Pacific Corp. said it is taking steps to build a new space shuttle fuel plant to replace the plant destroyed in an explosion last month ./. wsj32:91 U The gulf has even threatened to destroy projects ./. wsj33:4064 U Production of a critical ingredient for solid rocket fuel has resumed at a Kerr-McGee Corp. plant , five weeks after explosions destroyed the only other plant making the chemical a mile away ./. wsj33:9723 L It actually demonstrated its ability to destroy target drones in flight ./. wsj33:9743 U As a result , the SDI Office had to focus its efforts on delivering a real weapon capable of destroying ballistic missiles ./. wsj33:9744 U Of all of the technologies the SDI Office was pursuing , the only one that seemed capable of being used in a deployable weapon before the end of the century was the hypervelocity kinetic-kill concept , a system that would destroy ballistic missiles with high-speed missiles aimed from orbiting satellites or some other platform ./. wsj33:9748 U In the SDI Office 's priorities , terminal defense and anti-satellite systems take a back seat to space-based systems that will destroy missiles before they approach the U.S . , which is why Skylite is about to go under ./. wsj34:3169 U It is all part of the process of removing and destroying an entire class of European-based nuclear weapons as called for in the new superpower arms treaty recently ratified by the U.S. Senate and the Supreme Soviet ./. wsj34:5035 U Shares in American Pacific , which were hammered in May because of the big explosion that destroyed the company 's shuttle-fuel chemical plant in Nevada , rebounded somewhat yesterday , closing at 3 1 2 , up 3 8 ./. wsj34:5639 U In Europe , U.S. authorities displayed some of the weapons to be destroyed under the superpower INF treaty , including one of America 's most secret , high-technology weapons systems , called Snakebite ./. wsj35:3462 U A Soviet freight train exploded as it entered a station about 240 miles east of Moscow , killing at least 68 people , injuring about 230 others and destroying or damaging as many as 400 buildings , Tass reported ./. wsj37:8184 U Whatever prospects for meaningful reform that remained were destroyed by the public-relations disasters at the Environmental Protection Agency and , later , the Interior Department ./. wsj37:8317 U However , under the current Pentagon plan , the first phase would include an array of space-based interceptors to destroy nuclear missiles minutes after they were fired ./. wsj38:2400 U `` Here we are in an Arab capital destroying homes , '' says an Israeli soldier in Beirut ./. wsj38:6044 U The Soviet accident came on the heels of a similar catastrophe in the U.S. Earlier this month , a plant operated by Pacific Engineering & Production Co. of Henderson , Nev . , was destroyed by a string of explosions ./. wsj38:8148 L So only a direct hit on the concrete hangar or an extremely close miss can destroy the plane on the ground ./. wsj38:9384 U The area was gutted in the 1980 riot , in which 18 people died and about 240 businesses were damaged or destroyed ./. ******************** ***die*** *nonliteral cluster* wsj21:5602 L In small type , the ad does state that just 5 , 800 of the 241 million Americans will die this year of skin cancer and that `` odds are it wo n't be your funeral . ''/'' wsj25:2844 N Long term , he says Newnam will live or die on its efforts to stress quality ./. wsj25:8543 N Thus , while government officials concede apartheid must die , they ca n't bring themselves to kill it ./. wsj29:6167 N There were many who thought that the dream would die with the dreamer , but it continues on ./. wsj34:1712 L About 25 % of those children die of liver cancer or cirrhosis ./. wsj44:1885 L Immune-suppressed children often die of illnesses like chicken pox , meningitis , measles and pneumonia ./. wsj51:5135 N `` We can play democracy until we die of `` democratitis acuta '' and our post mortem will be very democratic , but very dead . ''/'' wsj65:137 N In order to focus federal resources on the SSC , its backers decided that Isabelle had to die ./. wsj69:10581 L And millions of animals will die ./. wsj02:106 U In one ad , a seductive woman , who personifies cocaine , asks a young man if he 's willing to die for her ./. wsj02:107 U `` I 'll die , '' he replies ./. wsj02:2640 U In spite of repeated official denials , powerful evidence indicates that Mr. Wallenberg did not die in July 1947 , at the age of 35 , of a heart infarction ./. wsj03:3175 U One school holds that after six years of economic growth , the expansion will gradually die of old age as consumers and businesses cut back spending ./. wsj03:5338 N Roberto Macedo , president of the Association of Sao Paulo Economists , said in a statement that , `` This pact was born distorted and will die distorted . ''/'' wsj03:8420 N The first time I read an article by humorist P.J. O'Rourke -- `` Among the EuroWeenies '' in Rolling Stone magazine -- I thought I was going to die laughing ./. wsj06:426 N It recently earmarked $ 50 million to patch up the 70-year-old Mustang assembly plant ; both the plant and the car had been scheduled to die ./. wsj07:638 N Recruit Cosmos is turning into the scandal that refuses to die -- but also refuses to spin out of control ./. wsj08:3095 U Mr. Berreth , a tall muscular man and mechanical engineer , figures factories have to adapt or die ./. wsj10:1160 N Neither man is currently a government official , but the idea of a reprise of Mr. Kissinger 's famed opening to China in the early 1970s is so tantalizing that the rumor refuses to die ./. wsj11:1461 U I flew missions in Europe in World War II and I saw young men die ./. wsj12:3093 U The EPA estimates that between 5 , 000 to 20 , 000 people die of lung cancer in the U.S. annually from radon in indoor air ./. wsj12:4390 N Traditions die hard , and the Fed has n't shaken its habit of targeting the real economy -- under the notion that inflation , too much money chasing too few goods , is prevented by curtailing the production of goods ./. wsj13:1932 N A SUMMING UP: Besides rescuing the brokers , the Hong Kong government has had to commit hundreds of millions more in recent years to bail out seven banks , including Hang Lung and Overseas Trust ; though it had no legal obligation to save them , letting them die might have precipitated full-scale panic ./. wsj13:8971 U This has been her home for more than 20 years , and no doubt she will die here ./. wsj14:10766 U But many die shortly afterward as their weakened hearts crumple like woozy boxers ./. wsj14:10786 U With the help of the new VADs , doctors hope to begin chipping away at a depressing health statistic: Each year , more than 265 , 000 Americans die in hospitals from heart attacks ./. wsj14:10791 U Indeed , many heart-attack patients die even with mechanical heart support because their kidneys , livers and brains have been irreversibly damaged by lack of blood before the pumps are installed ./. wsj14:362 U Annual bike deaths average somewhere around 900 , and even if you do n't die playing your favorite sport you might land in the doctor 's office or emergency room ./. wsj15:383 U If untreated , these immune-deficient mice usually die within four months , often with the same lung infection that kills humans suffering from AIDS ./. wsj17:7740 N `` We 're waiting for inspiration , one way or the other , '' one equity salesman said , adding that `` at the moment , there 's absolutely nothing to make the market die a death nor spur it on . ''/'' wsj18:11231 U Whatever his politics , it was hard for an affluent college kid to conceive of leaving the protection of home and family , or alma mater , to go off and perhaps die for Lyndon Johnson ./. wsj19:51 N But Mr. Bergen , still thinking about Dan Quayle , wants most to say in 1992 about a President Bush: `` He did n't die . ''/'' wsj19:9082 U An extensive , six-year study at a Laguna Hills , Calif . , retirement community concluded that elderly women who had taken estrogen therapy at some point were about half as likely to die of stroke later ./. wsj20:1642 U How and why did the two `` die , probably '' ?/. wsj20:3607 N The last clatterings of a standing ovation die down ./. wsj22:10752 U My father happened to die of emphysema ./. wsj26:3304 N But fires that have charred about 675 , 000 acres in Alaska were left to die on their own ./. wsj26:7205 U `` And the differences between those two approaches is one big reason that a construction worker in a federally regulated state is three times more likely to die on the job than one in California , '' Mr. Kinney said ./. wsj26:9214 U At the same time , securities analysts cautioned that IBM 's climb may have an interruption in the third quarter , because it will be going through a transition to new mainframes and minicomputers , and old product lines die out faster than new ones can build momentum ./. wsj29:11024 U And people who reach age 65 have a 30 % to 50 % chance of spending some time in a nursing home before they die ./. wsj29:8860 N Soviet leader Gorbachev , in a second address to the forum , appealed to the 5 , 000 delegates to adopt his restructuring proposals , saying `` socialism will die unless we reform '' the Soviet political system ./. wsj32:1618 U There was , for instance , Mr. Jackson 's visit to the Coming Home hospice in San Francisco 's Castro Street area , where he grasped the hands of patients waiting to die from AIDS ./. wsj36:3338 U `` These children -LRB- on placebo -RRB- will surely die during the course of the experiment , '' asserts Mathilde Krim , a biologist and founding chairwoman of the American Foundation for AIDS Research , noting that the children 's average two-year life expectancy matches the length of the test ./. wsj36:4491 U But a trader termed the meeting a `` do or die '' session for OPEC ./. wsj38:1428 U W.S. White Jr . , AEP 's chairman , reiterated the industries ' position that clean-coal technology `` has the potential for making the nation 's coal supply usable in an environmentally acceptable manner , '' but that the new technology may die if companies are forced by Congress to pay for `` outdated scrubber technology . ''/'' wsj39:2994 N This provides greatly enhanced trouble-shooting capabilities when something does go wrong , and can even be used to automatically switch in a good spare card if something does die ./. *literal cluster* wsj03:9188 N `` If we do n't do something to address the needs of the urban poor , then the core of our cities will die , '' says Frank Lomax , executive vice president of the National Urban League ./. wsj14:57 L He just wo n't die , the untamable , lubricious monster monk from Siberia who darkened the imperial doorstep of Nicholas and Alexandra ./. wsj15:11104 L An estimated 18 , 100 Americans will die from it this year , making the disease the fifth-greatest cause of cancer deaths ./. wsj17:1866 L Many patients still die relatively quickly ./. wsj22:4309 L But the EPA and medical specialists have estimated that , even if schools eliminate asbestos quickly , 1 , 000 to 7 , 000 people already exposed to the substance in their school years would die from asbestos-related diseases over the next 30 years ./. wsj23:1721 L `` But , Doc , I 'm going to die of this , '' you plead ./. wsj25:33 L When the parents die , ownership of the entire property transfers directly to the kids , '' he says ./. wsj27:2618 L A critical 10-day period in which much of the $ 22 billion corn crop must germinate or die sterile is passing without adequate rain ./. wsj29:6210 L Weyerhaeuser Co. said it has budgeted an extra $ 1 million to replace seedlings that may die ./. wsj35:5239 L `` While physicians should never directly cause death , they must always act in the best interest of their patients and that sometimes includes allowing them to die , '' Dr. Sammons said in a statement ./. wsj37:5564 L He adds: `` To die in defense of one 's country is one thing ; to die unnecessarily because of a defect in a product is quite another . ''/'' wsj46:320 N Jack Scowen , a Conservative member of parliament from northern Saskatchewan , said that `` unless somebody wants to stir up a bunch of garbage , '' the language issue should be `` left to die . ''/'' wsj46:6058 L `` If we keep this up , we 'll die with our flag . ''/'' wsj49:2305 L Every day this legislation is delayed , 25 people die in needless pain that could have been relieved with this treatment , which has been used successfully in Britain for years ./. wsj55:9419 L Mr. Mulheren rescued the child from the bottom of the pool and , according to a friend , stood shaking the child as tears streamed down his face , crying , `` Do n't die , do n't die . ''/'' wsj60:5378 L The Kidney Patient Association , an independent group , estimates that some 1 , 500 Britons die every year because of lack of kidney treatment ./. wsj61:2627 N If he and the Senate differ sharply on the answers , the treaties probably will die in the Senate , and the setback to U.S.Soviet relations will be severe ./. wsj61:3427 L `` It is better for a pitchman to die than to be caught alive in a scandal , '' contends Albert Lerman , chief creative officer at D'Arcy Masius Benton & Bowles in St. Louis , whose clients include Anheuser-Busch Cos ./. wsj67:5292 N One reason there 's room for more magazines is because so many die , industry officials say ./. wsj67:5294 N Other magazines may survive five , 10 , even 25 or 50 years and then die ./. wsj68:5421 L We are all afraid to die and all we can do is count the days till we go home . . . ./. wsj68:5472 N Jack Scowen , a Conservative member of parliament from northern Saskatchewan , said that `` unless somebody wants to stir up a bunch of garbage , '' the language issue should be `` left to die . ''/'' wsj69:2557 L And they die anyway . ''/'' wsj72:3673 L And a current red-and-black billboard in Mount Vernon , N.Y . , warns that `` People who do drugs go to hell before they die . ''/'' wsj85:9387 L About 40 , 000 newborns are afflicted each year with the disease ; about 10 , 000 die from it ./. wsj86:3640 L `` Some of these older people would die before they 'd go to a hospital in Huntsville or Decatur , '' says Tony Williams ./. wsj02:9532 U Congress seems to fear aliens would take inherited assets out of the U.S. to escape tax when they die -- even though the estimated three-year tax gain is only $ 60 million ./. wsj03:10581 U `` Given the way the world works , '' Mr. Kanter says , `` the giants gobble up the new industries and get bigger , they do n't die . ''/'' wsj03:2308 U Investors believe that demand for paper would surge if the emperor were to die ./. wsj03:5482 L Should he die soon , the debate would be further sidetracked ./. wsj04:23 U If just one of the three old liberals were to die or retire , President Bush could finish what President Reagan started ./. wsj04:8069 U They do n't want to die , they say , but death does n't scare them ./. wsj05:1524 U Occurring as plants die back in the temperate zones of the Northern Hemisphere , the holiday is a `` thin time , '' when the living draw closest to the dead ./. wsj05:9280 U A 900 phone number set up by DC in September enabled a small group of hard-core fans to vote on whether Robin should live or die ./. wsj06:4717 U The growing worry now is that the scandal 's refusal to die could have a direct impact on the market either in the form of tougher trading and registry rules from the Ministry of Finance or in tougher capital gains taxation ./. wsj06:5221 U He 's afraid that there is a biological clock and that you can be 46 years old and die . ''/'' wsj07:2921 L Now , it is said that Duivree can not die ./. wsj07:6023 U At New York 's Kings County Hospital , 15 of every 1 , 000 children born die in the first 28 days of life , largely because so many mothers show up to deliver with no advance care ./. wsj07:9644 U `` It 's very rare for someone to die without any heirs at all , '' said Debbi Zummoff , legal counsel for Keane Tracers Inc . , another shareholder-search firm ./. wsj08:5596 U About 135 , 000 U.S. women will develop breast cancer this year and 42 , 000 will die this year ./. wsj09:4782 U `` My fear is that , after all these investigations , things will die down and the FAA will go back to business as usual , '' says John Thornton , national coordinator for the National Air Traffic Controllers Association , the union that represents controllers ./. wsj09:5415 L The deity is Col. Lee Kuang-chien , the most senior KMT officer to die in the 1949 battle ./. wsj10:354 L A motorcycle rider is 10 times more likely to die in an accident than an automobile driver. -RRB-/-RRB- wsj10:4148 U The House approved legislation that would require foreigners to disclose significant U.S. investments , but the measure is almost certain to die in the waning days of Congress ./. wsj10:7645 L Nothing dates faster than a business book because trends change , statistics lose meaning , companies get liquidated , executives get the ax , and people die ./. wsj11:3736 U As such , the study 's release -- it was published over the weekend in the current issue of Annals of Internal Medicine -- is expected to intensify sharply the debate over whether the federal and state governments should make public reports identifying the percentage of patients who die at hospitals ./. wsj12:3098 L The EPA 's current emission standard for radium is five picocuries per liter , a standard that corresponds to a risk whereby one of 10 , 000 people exposed to such an emission level over a lifetime would die ./. wsj13:447 U Each year in America , 30 , 000 people will die prematurely from diabetes itself ./. wsj13:448 U Another quarter-million die annually from the complications of diabetes -- often after the disease has caused amputations or blindness ./. wsj14:3672 L In 1347 , Mongols besieging the Black Sea port of Caffa began to sicken and die from the plague ./. wsj14:6923 U Victims of it either recover rapidly or die , in which case the chemicals quickly break down , he explains ./. wsj15:11086 U Men who smoke heavily are nearly twice as likely as nonsmokers to die from a common form of leukemia , concludes a report by the University of Edinburgh ./. wsj15:11093 U Dr. Kinlen found veterans who had smoked more than 21 cigarettes a day were the most likely to die from myeloid leukemia , the most common form of the disease in middle-aged people ./. wsj15:11096 U And men using fewer than 10 cigarettes daily were 31 % more likely to die from leukemia than nonsmokers , according to the report ./. wsj15:8974 L `` He will take up my gun when I die , '' the captain says ./. wsj15:9251 U `` I 'm afraid they 'll be there until they die , '' one official says ./. wsj15:9303 U Senator Phil Gramm: `` The United States must compete or die . ''/'' wsj16:2947 U A University of Edinburgh report found that men who smoke heavily are nearly twice as likely as nonsmokers to die from a common form of leukemia ./. wsj18:11442 U He was willing to have other people die in a war which he himself was not willing to fight . ''/'' wsj18:387 L Civilians die , and the population turns against the mujahedeen ./. wsj19:5257 U The speculation refuses to die -- or the hype artists wo n't let it -- and these days , many analysts are still recommending that holders cling to their shares despite a run that has taken the stock up more than 35 % this year to yesterday 's close of 66 1 2 , down 5 8 ./. wsj19:9841 U `` Man can live without food for two to three months , but he would die without water for two to three days , '' said Ahmed Adel Orabi , deputy director of the regional U.N. Environmental Program , which is based in Bahrain , a Gulf island ./. wsj21:6573 L But thanks to glasnost , people here know that about a dozen people die from mishaps in the factory every year ./. wsj21:936 U `` Thousands suffer and die every day from diseases which are preventable , curable or self-inflicted and millions have no ready access to health care of any kind , '' the declaration said ./. wsj22:1444 U After that , the bill could just die , aides say ./. wsj22:4426 U About 25 , 000 new cases of leukemia are diagnosed each year in the U.S . , and about 17 , 000 people die of the disease ./. wsj24:6369 U Now , though habits die hard in Germany , the halcyon days of Sperrfrist appear numbered ./. wsj24:8324 U If a person dies then , how do you know whether the valve was defective , was put in badly , or the person was just so sick that he was going to die anyway ? ''/'' wsj24:9989 L Quiet pressure from top businessmen combined with British and German threats of more sanctions to convince Pretoria to soften legislation that would cut off overseas funding of opposition groups , and to indefinitely postpone the hanging of the Sharpeville Six , a group of blacks sentenced to die for the mob killing of a black town councillor ./. wsj25:2824 U Admittedly , some may stagger along only to die in the next downturn or with a reversal in currency values ./. wsj26:10664 U Whenever characters are asked to deliver a Significant Thought -LRB- not infrequently on the level of `` there are many ways to die '' or `` the world turns '' -RRB- , the singing stops and declamation starts ./. wsj27:2388 U Boxers have been known to die as a result of blows expertly inflicted during a fight ./. wsj28:1124 U `` There was too much vested interest in getting the bill enacted to allow it to die , '' said a senior Democratic staffer in the Senate ./. wsj30:472 L `` That 's not such a young age to die here , '' she says ./. wsj31:10518 L One of St. Bonaventure 's books ends with the sentence: `` Let us die then and enter into that darkness . ''/'' wsj31:6237 U `` Gone With the Wind '' author Margaret Mitchell wrote to a friend , `` I 'm going to die in a car crash . ''/'' wsj32:2687 U This means not only that no anti-missile defenses will be deployed , but that the research program he created will die the slow death of congressional strangulation , as did the ABM programs of the 1970s ./. wsj32:8209 L It 's not as though the prodnoses care whether people die of lung cancer ./. wsj34:2152 U `` Everybody told him the story would die by itself , '' said one ./. wsj34:4979 L Mr. Della Femina became a fixture on TV news reports about acquired immune deficiency syndrome , for example , after his agency created the line , `` I enjoy sex , but I 'm not ready to die for it , '' for LifeStyles condoms ./. wsj34:6851 L Cardiac-bypass queues grow and patients die before their turn ; hip replacements and cataract operations join a growing list of corrections that are triaged , ostensibly because more serious operations must be performed , but in reality because the resources are being used to continue first-dollar insurance coverage for sniffles and splinters -- and for asphalt laying in the constituencies of members of the government ./. wsj35:5230 U `` However , there comes the time with the terminally ill or irreversibly comatose patient that the physician must step back and , at the patient 's or the family 's request , allow the patient to die with dignity . ''/'' wsj35:6080 U The Senate Labor Committee has n't yet considered minimumwage legislation and , with only a few months left in the current congressional session , the bill could die from inaction ./. wsj35:8256 L Others continue to die in unsuccessful attempts to escape the East ./. wsj36:11056 U Packaged-goods brand managers live or die by monthly sales reports showing the impact of coupons and other short-term promotions ./. wsj36:3214 U Even the Chernobyl fiasco , brought about by an incredibly unsafe Soviet design , killed only 31 people , far fewer than will die this year in the U.S. from coal-industry accidents ./. wsj36:5763 U People die ./. wsj36:6997 U With tears in her eyes , Mrs. Cordero asserted: `` If I have to die for the truth , then I 'll die . ''/'' wsj37:573 U But when your friends die and you 're afraid of dying , you begin to feel differently . ''/'' ******************** ***dissolve*** *nonliteral cluster* wsj10:2973 N In the extreme we have revolution , where the existing social contract is dissolved ./. wsj24:9148 N Puma spokesman Uto Duethorn said Mr. Becker and Puma mutually agreed to dissolve the agreement this month ./. wsj29:9286 N So , as the team investigating the disaster homed in on two top generals , on May 27 President Zia dissolved the civilian side of the government , alleging the civilians were corrupt and that Pakistan needed more religion ./. wsj30:3120 N The Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church was formally dissolved by Moscow in January 1930 ./. wsj50:4789 N `` Of course , the bondholders will have to ask: Is dissolving the company better than reorganization ? ''/'' wsj56:937 N Tennis Lady said that after the sale it expects to `` dissolve the company or invest in new businesses . ''/'' wsj65:217 N He acknowledges that some will see this as a threat to freedom , but he soothes: `` Liberation , however , comes in various forms , either by overthrowing the external compulsion or dissolving the inward objection through a change of will , through sublimation . ''/'' wsj01:3227 N And its matter-of-fact citizens are taking the long view-as befits a place where , in the words of Mr. Dyer 's Boonville history , `` past and present slowly dissolve one into the other . ''/'' wsj08:1628 N This relationship will be characterized by caution and hard-nosed realism about mutual interests , say Soviet and Chinese officials , rather than by the euphoria and stifling closeness of the past that dissolved into suspicion and then bitter border clashes in the l960s ./. wsj08:4574 U He also can dissolve the National Assembly `` if so advised by the prime minister . ''/'' wsj10:282 N The lower court had enjoined the effect of its decision , pending the appeal , but the appeals court dissolved the injunction ./. wsj10:5866 N Many doubt those ties will ever dissolve , and wonder how lasting the Thatcher Revolution will prove ./. wsj13:1289 N But in the intervening years , so much criticism has been poured upon Chamberlain 's failed policies that they have dissolved into caricature ./. wsj18:8946 U The Grand Armee was dissolved after Waterloo ./. wsj19:4755 N Afterward , Enrique `` Quique '' Galarza , Cojunto 's lively , goateed , 40-ish lead singer , explained that he and his colleagues recently dissolved a pre-existing group and started Cojunto , so they do n't have any home turf dates either ./. wsj19:664 N This was one of the lesser-known reasons why President Zia abruptly dismissed the whole cabinet and dissolved the national assembly on May 29 ./. wsj20:1082 N The appeals court 's decision affirmed sanctions of $ 50 , 000 against Ray L. LeFlore and $ 50 , 000 against his former law firm , Pavelic & LeFlore , which was dissolved in 1986 after U.S. District Judge Robert W. Sweet imposed the sanctions ./. wsj22:10230 N Cannons Engineering , a closely held concern that was convicted several years ago for criminally falsifying incinerator reports it filed with the state of Massachusetts , was dissolved as a corporation , EPA officials said , but has been technically `` revived '' for purposes of litigation ./. wsj25:8303 N Yet when Mr. Blackwell asked Ms. Pfeiffer to relinquish her title to Cary Brokaw , the man she 'd hired to run marketing and distribution , she preferred to see the company dissolve ./. wsj28:7912 N We can also see dissolving a central tenet of those who 've long argued that the large budget and trade deficits of the Reagan years have left the U.S. economy tottering on the edge of ruin ./. wsj30:10983 N Four years later he dissolved Parliament , which 13 years after that stripped him of power ./. wsj31:4456 N The Suez group has said it will dissolve the Belgian company 's current 23-member board and create a two-tier management , with a chief executive running day-to-day operations and a management committee that defines strategy ./. wsj33:1152 N An initially orderly crowd dissolves into a melee of people swapping pins , Frisbees , and bubble gum ./. wsj35:3969 N The paved highway abruptly turns into a dirt road , and South Africa , without warning , dissolves into Bophuthatswana ./. wsj36:2114 U Pakistan 's main opposition parties said they would n't participate in an election controlled by President Zia , who dissolved the government and dismissed the prime minister over the weekend ./. wsj36:3403 N The lighting is cool throughout ; the sets are wispily painted scenes of trees and a castle , which dissolve easily from exteriors to interiors ./. wsj37:6318 N Last week after months of litigation , the company was dissolved , and the trademark was sold for $ 8 million to a Stamford , Conn . , investment firm ./. wsj37:9190 N Last week after months of litigation , the company was officially dissolved , and the trademark was sold for $ 8 million to a Stamford , Conn . , investment firm ./. wsj39:2573 N Mitterrand dissolved parliament Saturday ./. wsj39:3863 N Most American cities show to their best advantage when seen from a height or a distance , at a point where the ugliness of the buildings dissolves into the beauty of an abstraction ./. wsj39:527 N Mr. Donovan was fired and the OSS dissolved by presidential order well before the Nuremberg trials came under way ./. wsj40:11058 N And Ronnie Graham was so hip a laid-back comic that sometimes he did n't have to say a word to have the audience dissolve in laughter ./. wsj41:9428 N One result: Mr. Bushkin 's law firm here plans to dissolve ; much of its business was Carson-related ./. wsj44:6650 N Jamie Securities Inc . , once one of Wall Street 's most powerful arbitrage firms , is dissolving because of the continuing legal problems of John A. Mulheren Jr . , its managing partner arrested for allegedly threatening to kill insider trader Ivan F. Boesky ./. wsj44:6657 N Jamie officials said that the firm already has discontinued all investment activities , but that a number of legal and administrative matters must be resolved before the firm and its parent , Caronan Partners , can be dissolved ./. *literal cluster* wsj04:2810 N A state judge in Manhattan ordered White & Case to provide an accounting of the firm 's assets as of June 30 , the day lawyers in the firm voted to dissolve their partnership and re-form without longtime partner Evan R. Dawson ./. wsj04:8442 L In theory , the new technique should dissolve blood clots with less risk of bleeding occurring in other parts of the body , as can happen with current clot dissolvers ./. wsj07:285 L When dissolved in water , the protein acts as a catalyst to aid the freezing process by increasing the effective freezing point of water by 8 degrees to 10 degrees Fahrenheit ./. wsj08:6232 L And while TPA early showed itself far superior to streptokinase in dissolving deadly blood clots , that advantage has n't been transferred to the medical bottom line: better survival rates for patients ./. wsj10:7892 L But some physicians questioned the effectiveness of the drug , designed to dissolve gallstones , and how widely it might be used ./. wsj10:7907 L The Medical Letter , a respected nonprofit publication that evaluates the effectiveness of drugs for doctors , concluded that Actigall can dissolve gallstones in only about half of patients ./. wsj11:1706 N That agreement was dissolved after a regulatory challenge , but Seagram ultimately won Martell with an offer valuing the company at 5.25 billion French francs -LRB- $ 820.6 million -RRB- ./. wsj12:4555 N Haiti dissolved an agency that administered major development projects ./. wsj21:3956 L The large study , involving 17 , 187 patients treated at 417 hospitals in North America , Europe and Australia , provided the strongest evidence yet that the emergency use of a clot dissolving drug can save lives , said researchers involved in the clinical trial ./. wsj21:3958 L Although some research indicates that Activase can dissolve clots faster than streptokinase , there is n't any published research showing that the Genentech product can increase survival but such research may be available soon ./. wsj22:8777 L The potentially fatal clots dissolved within two hours among 82 % of patients given Genentech 's Activase brand of TPA , compared with 48 % who used Abbokinase , Abbott Laboratories 's brand of urokinase ./. wsj30:3408 N In May , Pinnacle said the partnership between SunCor and Mr. Diddy had been `` dissolved '' so that SunCor could control development of the property that the partnership had acquired , but Pinnacle did n't give further details of his departure ./. wsj33:5233 N The chief problem Mr. Wright 's disclosure amendments correct is his previous failure to report on the underlying assets of Mallightco , a partnership Mr. Wright had with Fort Worth developer George Mallick , since dissolved ./. wsj34:10989 N The remaining members have agreed to dissolve the facility , though they say they may form a new , smaller claims agency ./. wsj40:9943 N The partnership was dissolved so that SunCor `` could directly and completely control the development '' of nearly 2 , 000 acres of property the partnership had purchased ./. wsj41:10328 N If not , Mr. Mitterrand would dissolve parliament and call new elections ./. wsj41:4509 L The solvent failed to dissolve non-cholesterol gallstones in two patients , however ./. wsj43:4042 N The announcement Friday follows a court ruling earlier last week dissolving a preliminary injunction that had prevented the IRS from taking such action ./. wsj45:4995 N Mr. Stambaugh then moved to Florida and filed for divorce there ; a Florida circuit court dissolved the marriage but left the financial settlement to be determined elsewhere because the couple 's principal assets were Pennsylvania real estate ./. wsj48:5231 N But a union-company panel later reviewed the pay of workers whose responsibilities had changed as job demarcations dissolved ./. wsj56:5658 N A merger accord between Braniff and Pan Am was dissolved after Braniff failed to get sufficient cost concessions from Pan Am unions ./. wsj57:10546 N In an extraordinary act of courage , the archbishop of Manila , Jaime Cardinal Sin , has just stated publicly that the Philippine bishops ' own social-action organization was so `` highly infiltrated '' that it would have to be dissolved ./. wsj58:8982 L Eminase is given as a single injection over four to five minutes , but appears to dissolve blood clots effectively for several hours ./. wsj66:6727 N JAMIE SECURITIES Inc. is dissolving , firm officials have said , but the company has n't formally announced the move ./. wsj67:10058 N In general , though , as long as the spouse who filed for divorce is a bona fide resident of the state that grants the divorce , the state `` where the marriage is dissolved is where the law -LRB- on financial settlement -RRB- applies , '' says Ms. Gold-Bikin ./. wsj68:2184 N But Mr. Mitterrand has said he would n't dissolve parliament and call new elections unless it voted down his government ./. wsj73:2116 L Previously reported experiments show that the drugs quickly dissolve the blood clot that initially blocked one of the heart 's vital coronary arteries causing the heart attack ./. wsj77:5319 L A few aspirin facts: Aspirin tablets take up to 20 minutes to dissolve in your stomach ./. wsj77:5321 L Do n't take them with orange juice . -LRB- They wo n't dissolve well. -RRB-/-RRB- wsj80:3209 L Eminase is given as a single injection over four to five minutes , but appears to dissolve blood clots effectively for several hours ./. wsj83:1124 N If Mr. Icahn is successful in dissolving that agreement , he could seek Pennzoil 's support for his plan , which , like Texaco 's plan , includes a $ 3 billion settlement ./. wsj83:6385 N The Doles said they had n't known about the gain because it was in a blind trust , dissolved over the weekend , that was set up by Mrs. Dole in 1985 when she was secretary of transportation ./. wsj84:5883 N Carl C. Icahn , Texaco Inc. 's major shareholder , sued to dissolve the company 's agreement with Pennzoil Co. that bars Pennzoil from supporting his reorganization plan for Texaco ./. wsj01:4202 U This is in part because TPA and similar drugs dissolve only the blood clot and not the underlying fatty plaque ./. wsj02:7285 U There , attorneys representing a shareholders ' class action will seek an order either dissolving the pill or forcing Pillsbury to the negotiating table with Grand Met ./. wsj03:5452 U Jordan 's parliament was dissolved as part of a severing of ties with the West Bank , so there is n't a forum for dissent ./. wsj04:8440 U A new way of dissolving the blood clots that cause heart attacks is under development ./. wsj04:8458 U Once activated , plasminogen triggers a chemical chain reaction that destroys fibrin and thus dissolves the blood clot ./. wsj04:8462 U In the test tube , these engineered proteins `` showed increased potency and selectivity in thrombolysis {dissolving clots} in comparison to natural plasminogen activators , '' the scientist said ./. wsj04:859 U The Facility has since dissolved ./. wsj06:4276 U But seven states since have dissolved the orders or let them lapse , according to Allen Finkelson , a New York lawyer representing Grand Met ./. wsj07:4749 U Latest net income included a $ 46 million after-tax accounting reserve for certain real estate acquired in 1986 by SunCor Development Partners , a partnership of the company 's that was dissolved earlier this year ; and a $ 9 million after-tax adjustment of Malapai Resources Co. uranium inventory balances ./. wsj07:5216 U In the past two years , more than 60 midsize firms -- more than 10 % of the total nationwide -- have either dissolved or merged , says Holley Moyer of the legal-consulting firm Hildebrandt Inc. Though midsize firms make up 10 % of all law firms , they accounted for 25 % of the field 's mergers and closings in the past two years ./. wsj07:5248 U Demov Morris was dissolved soon after ./. wsj08:4564 U The National Assembly was dissolved in May by Gen. Zia , ostensibly for corruption ./. wsj08:5854 U If , for example , Ms. Givens proves her domicile is in California , she could get the marriage dissolved there ./. wsj09:1719 U The sensitivity of the Jewish vote is illustrated by the fact that the Bush campaign dissolved an early advisory group on the Middle East in part because it was seen as too pro-Arab ./. wsj09:3621 U Last week , a federal appeals court cleared the way for the bidding to begin when it dissolved a lower court injunction halting the sale ./. wsj09:49 U Chiron Ophthalmics , a unit of the biotechnology concern , said the shield is made of purified bovine collagen and dissolves on the eye within 24 hours ./. wsj09:6550 U Because a major study , announced in March 1985 , indicated that TPA significantly outperformed its predecessor in dissolving deadly blood clots , top management adopted the view that it would be `` unethical '' not to use the drug to treat heart attacks ./. wsj09:7234 L By changing formulas for solvents , he says , UNC `` can take superalloy scrap , dissolve it , and separate out the various metals . ''/'' wsj09:9019 L Some companies had also counted on being able to come up with anti-plaque toothpastes that actually kill the bacteria instead of simply dissolving it or scrubbing it away ./. wsj09:9137 U Under the contract , Collaborative supplies prourokinase , an experimental drug to dissolve blood clots that cause heart attacks , to Sandoz ./. wsj10:3396 U White & Case 's partnership agreement apparently contained no provision for dumping an unwanted partner except by having the other partners vote to dissolve the firm and then re-establish it , minus one member ./. wsj10:7906 U Although Actigall does away with the side effects associated with Chenix , such as diarrhea , both drugs fail to dissolve gallstones completely in many patients , according to some health-care experts ./. wsj10:7912 L Actigall could be used to dissolve the fragments that remain from that procedure ./. wsj10:9690 U If the ' no ' vote wins , the unity of the opposition is likely to dissolve fairly quickly ./. wsj13:3178 U A state district-court judge dissolved a temporary restraining order against the acquisition ./. wsj14:10770 U These devices complement new drugs that rapidly dissolve heart attack-inducing blood clots , as well as older technologies , such as pacemakers ./. wsj17:10847 U Whereupon a strong shot of a toilet-bowl deodorizer called `` Shut '' swiftly dissolves the problem ./. wsj17:4046 L Consumers were n't particularly fond of its taste , and it did n't dissolve easily in cold milk ./. wsj17:7766 U The big chemical maker said that it would continue to supply the drug , which is extremely expensive to make , and that it would financially support studies already in progress , but that it would n't back any further studies after the venture is officially dissolved in mid-November ./. wsj17:7797 U Du Pont 's decision to dissolve its Ampligen venture may well have been sealed following a meeting it called in early August in which the test results were presented to a group of AIDS research experts ./. wsj19:4678 U Justice John Paul Stevens and Chief Justice William Rehnquist , in separate moves , refused requests by Mr. Conn to stay the Indiana Supreme Court 's order dissolving the injunction against his wife ./. wsj20:251 U Du Pont said it dissolved that pact ./. wsj20:3344 U President Zia dissolved the National Assembly and dismissed Prime Minister Mohammed Khan Junejo May 29 , citing a breakdown of law and order and the slow pace of Islamic reforms ./. wsj20:5747 U In a legal announcement to appear in Belgian newspapers , Generale de Belgique will outline its plans to dissolve the company 's 19th-century structure and create a board of directors and other management organs similar to those commonly used by European companies ./. wsj21:3963 U The newest report is the latest in a slew of recent research that has made it increasingly difficult to compare the clot dissolving agents ./. wsj24:1266 U A total of about 100 law firms have dissolved in the past year , according to data collected by the legal consulting firm of Hildebrandt , Inc ./. wsj24:2713 U Technical difficulties have caused some to leak , while others do n't dissolve fully in water ./. wsj24:2734 U In addition , Colgate concedes that Fab 1 Shot has `` minor '' problems dissolving in cold water ./. wsj24:4609 U But union leaders see hard-won national labor packages jeopardized by new competition for jobs as trade and capital controls dissolve and Europe 's 44 million union members become a common labor pool with widely divergent interests ./. wsj28:4650 U SmithKline Beckman Corp. said it canceled separate agreements to jointly develop TPA , a blood-clot dissolving drug to treat heart attacks , with Damon Biotech Inc. and Biogen Inc ./. wsj28:4651 U SmithKline , based in Philadelphia , said it plans to refocus its research related to TPA -- or tissue plasminogen activator -- on `` second generation '' products that are designed to dissolve blood clots involved in heart attacks and other vascular problems ./. wsj30:6830 L The cyanide dissolves , or leaches out the gold , and the water is collected at the bottom of the heap for treatment to remove its precious cargo ./. wsj31:9463 U It was he who dissolved parliament , despite a campaign promise to try first to govern with the old , conservative-dominated legislature ./. wsj31:9703 U But neither cholesterol nor dietary fat can dissolve in the watery part of the blood ./. wsj31:9732 U During any repair process , blood clots are constantly being formed and dissolved ./. wsj31:9733 U It is quite possible , scientists speculate , that during attempts to repair the artery wall , the body at some point tries to dissolve a blood clot ./. wsj33:5234 U As the Speaker disclosed last year in dissolving the partnership and confirms in the amendments , dealing in uncut gemstones was not a mere sideline of the partnership ./. wsj33:7364 U The president , buoyed by his victory and favorable opinion polls , dissolved parliament to seek an outright majority for his party ./. wsj33:8602 U One source close to the transaction said that the Pritzkers began to lose interest in the airline after its proposal to acquire Pan Am Corp. 's Pan American World Airways unit dissolved when wage concessions could n't be reached with the labor unions ./. wsj35:8962 U For example , the investigation found that certain tablets would n't dissolve and had `` stability '' problems ./. wsj36:4133 U That will be the first direct comparison of the two drugs since 1985 , when TPA first was shown to dissolve clots better than streptokinase -- a fact , Mrs. Clayton wistfully noted , some investors seem to have forgotten ./. wsj36:4539 U President Zia dissolved the National Assembly , fired the premier and dismissed the cabinet ./. wsj38:5513 U The British company 's medicine is among a generation of new drugs , including Genentech Inc. 's Activase , that quickly dissolve blood clots blocking arteries to the heart ./. wsj39:1908 U Mr. Mitterrand dissolved parliament Saturday night and called the new vote , for 577 deputies , in two rounds on June 5 and June 12 ./. wsj39:3382 U Now , however , it appears increasingly likely that Mr. Mitterrand will dissolve the National Assembly and call a new election ./. wsj39:3390 U But political analysts said that by naming a Socialist-dominated government , Mr. Mitterrand was clearly trying to provoke a negative reaction from the right to dissolve the National Assembly quickly ./. wsj39:3396 U There 's a lot of pressure from the Socialists to dissolve . ''/'' wsj39:9210 U Electrolux got the case transferred to federal court in Nashville but could n't persuade Judge Thomas A. Wiseman Jr. to dissolve the order ./. wsj40:4282 U `` To seek to dissolve the firm is vindictive and destructive . ''/'' wsj40:5185 U If Mr. Chirac and his allies voted down this government , Mr. Mitterrand said , he would dissolve parliament and call new parliamentary elections , hoping to win a working majority of Socialist and centrist deputies ./. wsj40:9942 U Pinnacle West Capital Corp . , Phoenix , Ariz . , said that a general partnership between its SunCor Development Co. unit and Phoenix developer Gerald Diddy was dissolved ./. wsj41:4504 U Gallstones in seven patients were rapidly dissolved without major surgery by a University of Connecticut researcher ./. wsj41:4505 U The gallstones were dissolved by a solvent flushed through the gallbladder at high speed by a new computer-controlled pump , the university 's health center in Farmington announced ./. wsj41:4506 U The solvent , methyl tert-butyl ether , has been known for some time to dissolve gallstones but has n't been widely used because it had to be pumped into the gallbladder by a hand syringe for several hours while the patient was under general anesthesia ./. wsj41:4507 U The new technique can dissolve gallstones in anywhere from a few minutes to six hours depending on the number and size of the stones , the university said ./. wsj42:3686 U However , the venture was dissolved in 1986 after a unit of PSO was forced to file for protection from its creditors under Chapter 11 of the federal bankruptcy laws after its executives failed to make successful motion pictures ./. wsj42:5532 U The devices , whose development a few years ago was hailed as a revolution in medical care , enable doctors to dissolve kidney stones with shock waves ./. wsj43:4436 U He closed newspapers , organized his own secret police and announced that he was dissolving the National Assembly ./. wsj43:9379 U But the alliance already looked close to dissolving last week , when the Federal Cartel Office declared that Mr. Kirch was `` a good piece away '' from controlling 26 % of Springer 's shares ./. wsj44:6654 U But Jamie officials said that investors and officials of the firm agreed that , given Mr. Mulheren 's continued incapacitation , the firm should be dissolved ./. wsj44:7861 U The company is interested in expanding coal production west of the Mississippi , Mr. Smith said , but it has dissolved its eastern coal exploration group ./. wsj46:1441 U Lawyers voted to dissolve the firm by April 30 after it became apparent that a merger with a smaller more aggressive law firm had failed ./. ******************** ***drag*** *nonliteral cluster* wsj05:10929 N GM 's sales were apparently dragged down by a lackluster performance at its Chevrolet division , which saw sales drop 6 % ./. wsj10:5597 N A late Tokyo rally concentrated in railways and banks helped indexes trim their losses , but electrical stocks , which fell sharply early in the afternoon session and dragged the indexes with them , failed to recover ./. wsj12:6022 N But even though the leaders of the Communist Party have accepted much of Solidarity 's platform , they are dragging their feet ./. wsj13:9427 N Everybody stands up at the session to make sure the meeting does n't drag on and interrupt the day 's routine ./. wsj15:6275 N `` As a result , gold and silver were dragged down more by platinum than by crude oil , '' he said ./. wsj16:6907 N Every four years we can count on a presidential election , the Olympics , and Mr. Schlesinger dragging out his tired old essay on why he does n't like the electoral college ./. wsj20:2579 N `` That would cause Boeing to finally move on the 7J7 and stop dragging its feet . ''/'' wsj20:4564 N That in turn will help drag down growth next year , it adds ./. wsj20:9373 N If the June deficit turns out to have been significantly wider than in May , many analysts expect the dollar to drop sharply and to drag bond prices down with it ./. wsj21:9911 N Big technology stocks , hit hard by yesterday 's downturn on Wall Street , dragged down the main over-the-counter market indicators ./. wsj22:8559 N Oil shares , higher at the end of the morning session on a flurry of merger rumors , gave back most of their gains in the afternoon , while financials such as brokers fell , dragging down the Nikkei index ./. wsj23:6538 N The oil-service business has been dragging the company 's stock price down since the oil industry peaked in 1981 ./. wsj25:6205 L In the latter instance , a man dressed as Christ and dragging a cross was in the demonstration ./. wsj26:11083 N While broadcasting revenue increased 9 % in the quarter , earnings were dragged down by weak national sales and Gannett 's investment in GTG Entertainment , a new TV production company headed by Grant Tinker ./. wsj26:5693 N `` In the long run , that does more for a car 's image than if you drag your feet and wait . ''/'' wsj32:1894 N Sales are dragging for many reasons ./. wsj34:8464 L Last week , though , some of them were dragged off a train and prevented from traveling to Moscow to meet with President Reagan ./. wsj36:5846 N A recently proposed credit for Ecuador has yet to be completed and Brazil 's bank debt talks have dragged on for weeks longer than expected ./. wsj38:1236 N Yesterday , Wall Street analysts said they expect the state-Lilco negotiations to drag on for perhaps another three to four months ./. wsj40:11310 N The U.S. side was angry that talks were dragging ./. wsj42:10430 N And while profits are booming at Capital Cities ' TV stations , ABC 's loss dragged down the broadcast group ./. wsj42:425 N The Japanese government is still reeling from U.S. accusations last summer that MITI dragged its feet in investigating the shipment by the Toshiba unit , Toshiba Machine Co . , of sophisticated milling machines to a Soviet shipyard in 1983 and 1984 ./. wsj45:3987 L -- Last September , 22-year-old Kimberly Isaac of Baton Rouge , La . , was badly scraped over a large part of her body when a 1977 LTD she had just parked in a grocery-store lot backed up , knocking her over and dragging her in circles ./. wsj45:6903 N -- With the only refinery in Panama , Texaco was dragged into a controversy with the Reagan administration over tax payments to the Noriega regime ; it now has stopped making such payments ./. wsj46:8935 N But yesterday it was a dollar-boosting dispatch from a Japanese news service that was primarily responsible for dragging precious metals prices back down , analysts said ./. wsj47:8940 N Failure to pull off the buy-back can only add to problems that have dragged Home Shopping 's stock down from a peak of $ 47 a share in January 1987 and left management with credibility problems ./. wsj52:10655 N That implies production slowdowns , which could result in job losses and weaker consumer spending , which in turn would cause the economy to drag its heels further ./. wsj54:7554 N `` Things are really rapidly falling into place , '' said a Navy official who previously had complained that the Pentagon brass was dragging its feet on the project ./. wsj55:5857 N However , a lawsuit could drag on for years ./. wsj56:6784 N The international debt crisis will drag on ./. wsj57:1840 L Before there was much time for further decorating , the lady was dragged off to the guillotine ./. wsj58:3284 N A recession could trip up the Canadian dollar 's recovery and a resumption of the dollar 's decline against other major currencies would almost certainly drag the Canadian dollar down too ./. wsj61:8117 N In fact , the biggest problem facing a Jimmy Snyder or Gary Hart today is n't the loss of job or candidacy but the likelihood that he will have to drag his offense forever , like a tin bell , all across the land ./. wsj66:9266 N Mr. Bluey 's job is difficult because accounting investigations , unlike insider-trading cases , can drag on and draw little fanfare ./. wsj67:9044 L -- Last September , 22-year-old Kimberly Isaac of Baton Rouge , La . , was badly scraped over a large part of her body when a 1977 LTD she had just parked in a grocery-store lot backed up , knocking her over and dragging her in circles ./. wsj67:9470 N `` Most people can not believe that in the late 1980s this racist stereotype is still in existence anywhere , '' says Dara Demmings , an Interfaith Center executive , who says the company is dragging its feet ./. wsj68:3137 N The U.S. and Pakistan long had sought such a `` front-loading '' of the agreement to ensure that the Soviets do n't reap the political benefits of beginning a withdrawal , and then drag their feet in carrying it out ./. wsj69:279 L Public anger reached its zenith April 30 , 1982 , when angry mobs stopped three taxis bearing margis , dragged them from their cars , bludgeoned and poured acid on them and finally burned them to death ./. wsj70:653 N Cautious bureaucrats drag their feet while progressive colleagues and scientists urge reform ./. wsj74:4851 N That implies production slowdowns , which could result in job losses and weaker consumer spending , which in turn would cause the economy to drag its heels further ./. wsj77:3622 N `` He could n't take being dragged in ./. wsj78:851 L The OSU sled 's No. 1 advantage , he says , is an aerodynamic shape that reduces drag 20 % to 25 % ./. wsj79:8771 N A recession could trip up the Canadian dollar 's recovery and a resumption of the dollar 's decline against other major currencies would almost certainly drag the Canadian dollar down too ./. wsj80:9767 N Mr. McKay has just dragged into the mud the reputation of a former prime minister and current foreign minister of one of this country 's closest allies and in the process spotlighted the political sensitivities of the volatile Middle East ./. wsj81:4607 N Yesterday , Alan J. Brody , Comex chairman , president and chief executive officer , accused Nymex of dragging its feet on the closely watched talks ./. wsj82:10773 N Even so , the biggest issues on the National Association of Securities Dealers automated quotation service did better yesterday than those in the Dow , which was dragged down by disappointing special earnings gains reported by IBM ./. wsj86:3535 N Johnson was then moved in other conversational directions , but the conclusion of his thought was clear: It 's tough to move fast when you 're dragging a tree ./. wsj01:8394 U Though many of Nasdaq 's major over-the-counter stocks rose , weakness in smaller issues and the cellular-telephone group dragged the Nasdaq Composite Index to a 5 1 2-month low ./. wsj01:9517 U `` I have the solution to the drug problem , '' he announces , while dragging on a Pall Mall and tooling down a back-county highway in a slighty beat-up Cadillac Biarritz , at 23 miles an hour ./. wsj02:8077 U I think the dollar is going to fall to a new low , '' dragging bond prices down in the process , Mr. Hunt said ./. wsj04:11253 U And many disagreements drag on and on ; U.S. Trade Representative Clayton Yeutter 's decision Friday to seek a negotiated settlement in a dispute over rice imports rather than to launch an investigation shows how stubborn some issues can be ./. wsj04:5849 U The first section index was dragged down by financial stocks , traders said , which were mostly lower ./. wsj04:8088 U Here , death squads roam , drugs abound , police connive and corpses are regularly dragged from the rivers ./. wsj05:7297 U That hardly allays the fears of the Democratic middle-road and conservative Democrats that Mr. Jackson will drag the party to the edge of disaster ./. wsj06:4716 U The scandal continues to drag on , with another minor disclosure made Monday morning in the press that more shares than originally reported were diverted to supposedly curry favor with politicians ./. wsj06:9531 U But the problem of Premier , he adds , could drag the FDA `` into a legal-resources 'black hole ' that could paralyze new drug approvals . ''/'' wsj08:10136 U Some got so large that their sagging stomachs dragged along the ground , and farmers took to tying aprons round them to prevent belly burn ./. wsj08:1064 U Despite optimistic sounds coming out of Washington after the meeting on Sept. 22 and 23 between American Secretary of State Shultz and his Soviet counterpart , Eduard Shevardnadze , such talks could drag on interminably and result in stalemate and increased acrimony ./. wsj08:10688 U Now Fusion says Mitsubishi is dragging its feet on resolving the four-year patent dispute ./. wsj08:8568 N The Peloponnesian War , that devastating conflict between Sparta and Athens that broke out in 431 B.C. and dragged on until 404 B.C . , has long been regarded as the turning point in the career of the Athenian experiment in democracy ./. wsj09:92 U Shares of Kloeckner-Humboldt-Deutz and Kloeckner-Werke , in which Kloeckner holds sizable stakes , as well as Deutsche Bank tumbled in the first few minutes of trading and dragged the whole market lower , brokers said ./. wsj10:10348 U That could drag on for many years , with claimants ending up with nothing ./. wsj12:10769 N It began to drag us into it , '' says Richard Behar , the 27-year-old magazine writer who founded the group ./. wsj12:9096 N But as the dispute over Nagorno-Karabakh has dragged on , the mood here has grown increasingly anti-Russian ./. wsj13:10334 U `` The whole purpose of these initiatives is to prevent the debt service burden from dragging down a country 's economy , '' says a British diplomat based in southern Africa ./. wsj13:634 U The agency , in announcing the gross national product statistics Tuesday , said the export-slowing effect of the yen 's upturn forced external demand to drag the economy down ./. wsj13:8923 U These countries have successful nuclear programs because plants there can be built much more expeditiously , and thus at much less cost , than those in the U.S. Also , actual usage as a percentage of potential output is about 75 % -- compared with about 65 % in the U.S . , where the average is dragged down by about a dozen plants that are underperforming or closed ./. wsj14:5381 N Though Telepictures was considered a high-flying entrepreneurial company when it merged with Lorimar , Lorimar 's troubles dragged the company down after the merger , and Mr. Garin clashed over strategy and style with Lorimar Chairman Merv Adelson ./. wsj14:5537 U When Ames Department Stores Inc. took over G.C. Murphy Co. in 1985 , Ames concedes , it did n't know enough about Murphy 's potential problems: Employee theft and bookkeeping snags dragged down Ames 's profits and share price ./. wsj15:10496 U Led by bargain-hunting gains in Intel , Apple Computer , Sun Microsystems , Ashton-Tate and other technology issues that have been dragging the market , the Nasdaq Composite Index Friday jumped 1.87 to 381.60 , a 4 1 2-week high ./. wsj17:1069 U In the government bond market , which also was dragged sharply lower last week by the yen 's bumpy decline , yields crept up , after falling Saturday ./. wsj17:4659 U London share prices finished a bumpy session broadly lower Thursday , dragged down by declining prices on Wall Street and nagging concerns that U.K. interest rates may have to move higher over the near term to curb consumer spending ./. wsj17:7778 U Indeed , while AIDS activists and others attack the federal bureaucracy for dragging its feet on AIDS research , the Ampligen affair illustrates that other factors also have hindered the effort ./. wsj18:4125 U Barring a settlement , the fight could drag through the courts for months , spilling out more new revelations about the life and times of Henry Ford II ./. wsj18:6515 N Their recent hostile tender offer for Chicago-based USG dragged on for months before the company defeated them earlier this year with a sweetened recapitalization plan ./. wsj20:9988 U Greeted by a roaring five-minute ovation , Mr. Reagan showered praise on his vice president in a lengthy speech that sometimes seemed to drag and barely moved the huge crowd in the Louisiana Superdome ./. wsj21:3876 U The platform bids voters to `` remember the Carter-Mondale years , '' adding: `` The Democrats would drag us back to those dreadful years when inflation was robbing workers of their earnings , consumers of their spending power and families of their savings . ''/'' wsj21:6403 N They never say excuse me , '' says Jacqueline Yun , a crop-haired Korean-American , as she drags on a cigarette ./. wsj22:5241 U The broadcasting concern cited `` certain isolated transactions '' that dragged down its performance and that are n't expected to recur this year ./. wsj26:5783 U First Bank System profit continued to be dragged down by its huge government bond portfolio , but the banking concern said it expects results to improve in the second half of 1988 ./. wsj26:641 U Rawls and Nozick , it was the politicians who dragged the philosophers into public debate ./. wsj26:7263 U And it still is possible that the Teamsters might decide to call a strike or that negotiations with the flight attendants will drag on ./. wsj27:10209 U James Quinn , who represented the NBA Players Association in its antitrust suit , said , `` It 's in -LRB- the owners ' -RRB- best interest to drag things out to weaken players ' resolve , to weaken the union . ''/'' wsj27:1970 N The usually buoyant muscle man drags his way through the picture , though director Walter Hill probably should share the guilt for Arnold 's apparent lethargy ./. wsj27:3646 U Some analysts say West Germany might increase its interest rates and trigger a more general European move that would drag British base rates higher as well ./. wsj28:10159 U The White House began searching for a successor for Attorney General Edwin Meese , amid indications that the transition -- and the questions about Mr. Meese 's ethics -- could drag on longer than the administration hoped ./. wsj28:11124 N Homework -- `` papers and papers and papers , '' Mrs. Laine says -- drags on for hours ; Finn and Blue wake up early some mornings just to finish ./. wsj29:10902 U Many dealers in recent months have discontinued their franchises , and those remaining , many of whom refused to be quoted by name , say business continues to drag ./. wsj29:4564 N But the bigger companies ' stocks have dragged down the group 's performance ./. wsj29:8754 U Analysts spoke darkly of the inevitability of Iraq 's succumbing to Iran in a war that will soon drag into its ninth year ./. wsj30:1267 U But then the dollar began sinking from its peaks , dragging bond prices down with it ./. wsj30:6244 U Instead , they seem to want to get dragged kicking and screaming into losing market share . ''/'' wsj31:2948 U Sen. Lowell Weicker -LRB- R . , Conn. -RRB- joined Sen. Paul Simon -LRB- D . , Ill. -RRB- in saying the 1986 sanctions have n't been effective in promoting reform in South Africa because the Reagan administration dragged its feet in implementing them ./. wsj32:1659 N `` Advertisers are expected to drag their heels a little bit -LRB- now -RRB- , arguing that , hey , there just are n't that many eyeballs out there . ''/'' wsj32:222 N The lengthy , so-called prudency review is likely to drag into public view the troubled history of the plant ./. wsj32:2765 N And because of a writers ' strike that has just dragged into its 15th week , there have been few movie and television deals to cut ./. wsj32:7539 U Municipal bonds eased one point to 1 1 4 points in moderately active trading , dragged lower by a slump in the Treasury arena ./. wsj32:871 U The requirement not only limits the amount of capital that can be raised , but sometimes can drag down the price of previously issued shares ./. wsj33:7171 U In the eight-month fiscal year ended Dec. 31 , the company had a loss of $ 4.5 million , dragged down by $ 4.9 million in losses from discontinued operations ./. wsj33:7446 U MCA last tried to buy Motown in December 1986 , but talks broke down at the last minute , and this time around , arrangements for the transaction have dragged on ./. wsj34:4551 U Talks between Brazil and its bankers have dragged on for weeks longer than expected ./. wsj34:8739 U `` My reading is , the president does not want to see his old friend dragged into a public forum . ''/'' wsj35:8332 U Mr. Geiger wanted to know why Dominion was dragging its feet on a big loan for Penthouse 's planned Atlantic City casino ./. wsj36:3086 U What galls Mr. Swindle is that some Members are now forcing him to ignore every law in the book so they can drag home EDA funds ./. wsj37:2810 N `` We wanted an arresting headline that would drag people into the body copy , '' says Tambrands spokesman Paul Konney ./. wsj37:7800 U Some searches can drag on four to six months ./. wsj38:10768 U The passage of the New Jersey law was preceded by a bitterly partisan battle that dragged on for more than two years ./. wsj38:5691 U As options , including an all-out hostile bid , kept being debated , the matter dragged on ./. wsj39:11011 U Mr. Seow argues that for all Lee Kuan Yew 's brilliant leadership in Singapore 's early days , the prime minister has for some years now been dragging his country 's political development backward -- toward the very kind of closed society that Mr. Lee himself once abhorred ./. wsj40:10348 U `` I 'm not sure if the Nikkei will hit 30000 , but there are n't many factors which will drag down the market , '' said Michio Takeuchi , president of the Tokyo Stock Exchange in a recent interview ./. wsj41:1414 U Volkswagen AG , Wolfsburg , West Germany , reported its 1987 group net income rose only 3.1 % , to 598 million German marks -LRB- $ 356.2 million -RRB- , as losses from its U.S. operations dragged down results ./. wsj43:11287 U Hughes said in a statement that its earnings and revenue growth in its basic businesses were `` strong , '' but said they were dragged down by `` a reduction in GM production volumes '' and slow defense spending ./. wsj43:2726 U When Tehran quietly made diplomatic concessions concerning a United Nations cease-fire , Baghdad dragged its heels ./. wsj44:43 U One thing remains certain: The dispute will drag on for a long time ./. wsj45:2218 U `` The Korean people do n't want to see the former chief executive dragged through investigations , '' a leading business executive close to Mr. Chun said ./. wsj46:1711 N The statement is enough to drag one back to one 's dog-eared copy of Madison 's 10th Federalist to read again that government sometimes exists to protect imperfect people from one another ./. wsj47:5601 N As negotiations dragged on , Mr. Finkelstein , known as a straightforward man , exclaimed , `` We 're getting nowhere , and it 's getting late . ''/'' wsj47:7867 U The White House 's hard-line stand , combined with difficulties in assembling a new management team to run the agency , suggests that the political battle raging around Mr. Meese is likely to drag on without resolution for some time ./. wsj49:7249 U Then the issue could drag on for a year or more ./. wsj52:10648 U That slackening in new-order growth helped drag the purchasing managers index down 2.5 percentage points to 54.9 % -- its lowest level since April 1987 ./. *literal cluster* wsj14:8153 L One ad in the campaign developed by Lintas: Campbell-Ewald & Co. shows a Chevrolet S-10 compact pickup dragging a Ford Ranger into a `` crater of fire . ''/'' wsj25:10611 L TV viewers saw Mr. Chancellor being dragged out of the 1964 Republican convention in San Francisco when , during a live interview , he refused to clear an aisle ./. wsj27:9966 L The pipe , dragging the sea floor 500 feet below , hit a coral boulder eight feet in diameter and sprang a leak ./. wsj35:5062 N An Aer Lingus spokesman claimed Italy is dragging its feet because Alitalia plans to start flights between Milan and Manchester this month ./. wsj50:6395 L Some already haul in well over $ 1 , 000 worth a week -- better than they can do dragging for scallops or mussels these days ./. wsj55:5444 L About half of Cray 's R & D budget now goes into creating software , a combination art and science that so totally engrosses some Cray designers that they sometimes have to be dragged away from their terminals and told to get some rest ./. wsj05:4055 L He disputes the longheld theory that the Great Pyramids were made of limestone blocks cut , dragged long distances , and hoisted into place , arguing that they were made by pouring long-lasting cement ./. wsj06:5578 L A few years ago , Dr. Zimmerman and his colleagues dragged nests of two different termite species into the lab and measured their methane output ./. wsj07:466 U Another public company probably would n't want its own stock price dragged down by tobacco ./. wsj08:9296 U A widespread expectation that the August merchandise trade deficit will be substantially wider than July 's has dragged down the dollar and contributed to weakness in the bond market ./. wsj09:4952 U But Nasdaq 's backbone , its big technology stocks , continued to drag the composite index down , stung by a series of disappointing earnings reports and analysts ' outlooks ./. wsj10:8897 U Several similar forecasts in the past by Mr. Feldstein have contributed to sharp declines in the dollar , which in turn has dragged down bond prices ./. wsj12:5998 L The government had a change of heart and threatened to drag him off the boat in mid-Baltic , but then relented ./. wsj13:688 L Some of those arrested were dragged from buses that were to take them back to Managua ; others , such as 18-year-old Norman Lenin Cardoza -LRB- who denies ever attending the rally -RRB- and attorney Roger Guevara Mena , were arrested by state security police days later ./. wsj14:1320 L Its black-stained concrete walls and blackened roof of rust make it look as if it were dragged off the back lot of a horror-film studio ./. wsj16:8098 U Results were being dragged down by delinquent loans and foreclosed real estate ./. wsj19:2127 U `` They would n't have dragged in all the peripheral players if there was n't something in the Louvre accord that suggests this is the tops for the dollar . ''/'' wsj19:651 L The Finn thought about it , and then reluctantly dragged a bottle of vodka from his coat and kissed it and dropped it over the side ./. wsj21:2542 L In it , the hero gets dragged to the `` Cave Town '' mall by his mom , gets lost , gets found , and is rewarded with an ice cream cone ./. wsj21:9914 U The technology weakness dragged the Nasdaq composite index down 3.43 to 384.23 ./. wsj24:9366 U Texas Oil & Gas Corp . , hurt by depressed gas prices , continued to drag down earnings ./. wsj25:1015 L Exhausted by my efforts , I paused a moment in a shell-hole ; in a few seconds I felt myself sinking , and struggle as I might I was sucked down until I was firmly gripped round the waist and still being dragged in ./. wsj25:4933 U The question among analysts is whether there will be adequate investment funds available to absorb all the new shares without dragging down the market ./. wsj25:9554 L That 's pretty much it , plotwise , except for coming up with the various modes of transportation the bounty hunter cop has to use to drag the con man accountant across country ./. wsj29:849 L From the start , the women are trodden upon , dragged across the stage , pushed around , used as wheelbarrows ./. wsj30:8989 L He was at first left alone , but was then dragged before a military court and given a 12-year prison sentence ./. wsj36:6062 L Another day , with his arm caught in the window of a student 's car , he got dragged down the block ./. wsj37:10586 U Matters dragged on until Mr. Landow called the speaker 's office and complained to Mr. Mack , who arranged a meeting at the Capitol June 10 , 1987 , which he attended briefly ./. wsj41:1282 L Splashed across local papers was the picture of two burly federal marshals dragging a small woman through the car 's broken window ./. wsj41:8186 U Vegetable prices fell 4.4 % in April , dragged down by sharply lower lettuce prices , the department said ./. wsj45:7365 U If it shows a wider deficit for February than for January , analysts say , the dollar will promptly sink , dragging down bond prices ./. wsj46:9855 L I jump onto the track , heft my bags to the platform and drag them ./. wsj49:5910 L After burying the eggs in the sand , it dragged its body back and forth across the beach until it had eliminated any clues to the nest 's location ./. ******************** ***drink*** *nonliteral cluster* wsj03:11106 L As I drank water and ate for the first time in two days , my determination to continue the opposition crusade was strengthened ./. wsj04:10512 L The upper classes do not take food or water from them nor sit , eat or drink with them ./. wsj21:4793 L It happens every year , says Dusty Saunders of the Rocky Mountain News , in Denver: Reporters put in long and weary days on the tour only to have their editors spot them drinking beer with a starlet on TV ./. wsj26:4151 L It is impolite to drink less than three glasses and , after the third , it is generally impolite for guests to linger ./. wsj42:295 L The trick is that it is midnight , and the ban on eating , smoking , having sex and even drinking water applies only to the daylight hours ./. wsj49:2007 L `` I stayed home and drank for two years after that , '' he notes sadly ./. wsj54:8701 L And true to German tradition , the club has its own Stammtisch , a table at a local beer hall where club members gather once a week to drink and gab ./. wsj55:11142 L You should drink a full eight ounces of water with your tablets ./. wsj71:7128 L `` I stayed home and drank for two years after that , '' he notes sadly ./. wsj75:6226 L In another , they pondered why an observer was `` touched '' by the sight of a woman who took a cup from a fountain , drank water from it and then rinsed it out ./. wsj03:9333 U Thirty-four of the patients had stopped drinking before they were admitted to the hospital , `` frequently because they were too sick to imbibe any longer , '' the doctors said ./. wsj03:9334 U The other patients drank until the time of their admission ./. wsj09:10480 U It 's the condition of a man 's soul when he does n't care who he hurts and he 'd just as soon drink himself to death . ''/'' wsj09:4902 N Ethnic hatred and economic hardship , neither of them new to Yugoslavia , have begun to blend over the past few weeks into a political poison the country 's leaders may be about to drink ./. wsj11:7523 U They danced and drank until 10 p.m. when the police broke up the festivities ./. wsj14:129 U He drank it all to the last drop , quietly lay on his left side and was soon silent forever ./. wsj14:1347 U There is water , water everywhere in Cherrapunji -- but not a lot to drink ./. wsj14:937 U India has a population of 800 million people , and Indians drink about 2.4 billion bottles of name-brand soft drinks a year ./. wsj15:3018 U Mr. Payton 's widow sued not only Mr. James but Brown-Forman , claiming that , among other things , company policy encouraged people to drink before driving ./. wsj16:6042 U That country has one of the fastest-growing middle classes in the world , and one that is eager to drink more sodas , Mr. Moore explained to a reporter in a recent interview ./. wsj19:5887 U Up until I was 15 , 16 , I used to drink and smoke a lot of pot ./. wsj20:3 U Asahi , fearing demand will exceed supply , at one point asked employees to refrain from drinking its `` Super Dry '' beer so that more would be available for sale to customers ./. wsj21:8262 U Most of the lead in water that people actually drink is the result of corrosion in water-delivery systems and home piping ./. wsj23:4861 U Jean Stafford wrote too little and drank too much ./. wsj26:7943 U Actually , there could be big trouble if you do n't drink it , according to Pohnpeian lore ./. wsj27:1998 U Another concern , at least for the beer industry: If the weather stays too hot for too long , people may drink less beer ./. wsj28:10868 U Outside , the `` boys , '' the farmhands , eat their mealie pap and sauce from pails and drink their allotted `` dop '' of cheap wine under the wagons or the eucalyptus trees ./. wsj28:4004 U `` Curfews were strictly enforced , and the women were forbidden to smoke , drink or wear slacks in public , '' Roepke notes ./. wsj31:3996 U I have never tried drugs , I gave up smoking 10 years ago , and I only drink socially and never drink beer ./. wsj32:9130 U `` It 's all people drink , '' he explains ./. wsj33:1820 U Mr. Duberstein , a hockey fanatic and pretzel lover who recently lost more than 20 pounds by drinking vast quantities of water every day , is a veteran Washington operator ./. wsj34:3823 U Too poor to replace it , family members now drink from their donkey 's water trough ./. wsj34:5465 U Britons traditionally drink tepid , flat , dark bitter but are rapidly acquiring a taste for lager -- the cold , carbonated , light-colored beer that now accounts for nearly half of all sales ./. wsj37:2820 U In the spot , a teen-age boy surprises his parents by acting very courteously , drinking a cup of coffee -- without cream or sugar -- and revealing accidentally that he has a girlfriend ./. wsj37:9313 U I notice a big change after they drink one or two chocolate milks . ''/'' wsj38:7025 U She obviously had n't intended to sit at the bar drinking $ 3.15 glasses of zero-octane margaritas ./. wsj38:863 U `` They drink and become quite rowdy ./. wsj40:626 U `` It 's hard to give a logical explanation for why {Icelanders} were allowed to drink whiskey but not beer because there is no logical explanation , '' an Icelandic official said ./. wsj40:7789 U It is impossible to stop a gluesniffer or a hydroholic , who is addicted to drinking gallons of water a day to thin out his blood and thus become inebriated ./. wsj42:300 U The Koran allows believers to `` eat and drink until you can tell a white thread from a black one in the light of the coming dawn . ''/'' wsj43:4731 U `` Here I am drinking 194 cups of tea -- an early stunt . '' -LRB- Kid stuff , his tone implies. -RRB-/-RRB- wsj43:4741 U So in 1976 , on the birthday of India 's first prime minister , Jawaharlal Nehru , he drank 194 cups of tea in 4 1 2 hours ./. wsj44:3986 U He and a handful of white companions drank vast amounts of beer and pursued -LRB- with success -RRB- large numbers of African young women ./. wsj50:3869 U Another common piece of advice is to avoid drinking the water ./. wsj50:7830 U They do that to doctors who drink too much or who get caught using drugs ./. wsj53:6646 U A Chicago man 's comment about Michelob seems quite telling: `` Phil Collins 's tune kept me watching the ad every time , even though I do n't drink beer . ''/'' *literal cluster* wsj04:1663 L `` Tell Dave we 're sorry , '' he says , `` but we 're drinking Bud . ''/'' wsj04:3826 L Now , the pock-marked nightspot is crowded with men drinking arak liquor and slapping dominoes and backgammon pieces on rickety tables ./. wsj07:6376 L As a solid red , however , good pinot noir is so pleasurable to drink , so versatile with food that demand from consumers is increasing rapidly , putting pressure on short supply ./. wsj09:5448 L Mr. Andrews ate rancid mutton fat and drank mare 's milk in the Gobi with the best and worst of them ./. wsj17:3695 L Now , to persuade more men to drink diet Coke , Coca-Cola Co. is enlisting professional football players ./. wsj18:9518 L So the kids gave Mom a watch , said a couple of nice things , and drank a retirement toast in her honor ./. wsj20:8649 L To widen the drink 's appeal , a TV ad campaign was launched two years ago showing punks with fruit-colored , spiked hair drinking Pimm 's ./. wsj21:6727 L Southerners drank more alcoholic beverages than residents of any other U.S. region last year , and households with incomes above $ 35 , 000 drank more than any other income group , a study found ./. wsj25:1025 L He retreats into jolly descriptions of a few days spent behind the front lines in French villages and ruined chateaux teeming with wild flowers ; he records his progress from naive snob to combat veteran horsing around , playing cricket , drinking champagne and port , and thinking of his servant as his `` most valuable possession . ''/'' wsj26:7894 L F.W. Christian , a traveler and writer of the 19th century , said that , after drinking sakau , `` the head remains clear but the legs sometime suffer a temporary paralysis . ''/'' wsj28:1929 L Among those who drink alcoholic beverages world-wide , 8 % consume daily amounts that are damaging to their health and to society ./. wsj30:2950 L But when the rangers drove the girls to the ranger station , the unattended youth sped away , drank heavily , and 10 hours later smashed into a motorcyclist ./. wsj32:9110 L Seated in the bar of the Member 's Club -- horse-racing prints on the wall , piano tinkling softly , ladies from the Jewish Community Club gathering for luncheon -- Mr. Redmond is astonished to be told that Venezuelans now drink more `` national whiskey '' than 12-year-old scotch ./. wsj34:1273 N Ronald Reagan , as popular on Main Street , U.S.A . , as any recent president , expressed his affection for the SBA by marking it for extinction , along with Amtrak , the Export-Import Bank , the Economic Development Administration and other programs deemed to be drinking too deeply from the federal budget trough ./. wsj34:5474 L Lower-alcohol beer is favored by `` session drinkers '' who spend an entire evening in a pub and are accustomed to drinking English beer which , despite its robust taste , generally is less potent than Australian or U.S. brands ./. wsj35:5157 L Another third of the patients at the University of Maryland Shock Trauma Center drank alcohol before being hurt , and 16.5 % had used both marijuana and alcohol , the study said ./. wsj35:7677 L `` Now if one group calls for a demonstration , the others will sit home and drink coffee because they do n't want to share the credit ./. wsj36:9486 L `` We drank a lot of tea . ''/'' wsj37:2823 L Coke is even directly attacking coffee 's breakfast appeal with radio ads urging people to drink something cold to come `` alive in the morning . ''/'' wsj37:3793 L Last year , more than 10 , 000 Soviets died from drinking home brew or spirits , and more than a half-million people nationwide were punished for moonshining , newspaper reports have said ./. wsj38:7008 L You ca n't drink at all if you do n't order something to eat , and you ca n't drink in a restaurant bar , even if you do order something to eat ./. wsj41:9351 L Film clips 30 and 40 years old are used to contrast the `` horrors '' of conventional surgery , radiation and chemotherapy treatments with the ease of drinking a dose of Hoxsey 's tonic ./. wsj46:9751 L In seats of supple leather , Belgian students drink wine and listen to personal stereos ./. wsj46:9843 L Russians in sweat suits drink tea and play cards , repack their crates and collect their linen ./. wsj50:8683 L And it did n't help that law-enforcement officials have reported problems with 19- and 20-year-olds coming to Wyoming from neighboring states to drink ./. wsj54:10419 L My impression is that he does n't drink . ''/'' wsj54:10874 L Others say they still can drink wine even after their livers are too far gone to handle spirits ./. wsj54:10903 L Winos will drink anything if need be , but when they have the money to buy what they want , they tend to hew to the familiar . -LRB- Sales resistance may help explain why the handful of low-end products that companies have tried to launch in the past 20 years mostly have bombed. -RRB-/-RRB- wsj54:7678 L Others are drinking heavily ./. wsj56:8089 L At about the same time , according to senior Hutton officials , Mr. Fomon was drinking heavily , though he says that alcohol never affected his ability to do his job ./. wsj60:1584 L His father , a bootlegger and dance-hall operator , shot and killed his own brother in self-defense , and later drank himself to death ./. wsj60:6070 L `` A German , '' said Mr. Bradford , `` is just not going to drink beer out of a can . ''/'' wsj63:6531 L Some people drank tea brewed at the back of the neoclassical church ./. wsj64:3186 L `` Heineken has been hurt seriously since it became fashionable to drink Corona , '' says Frank Walters , research director for the liquor industry newsletter Impact ./. wsj67:5594 L Schieffelin & Somerset Co. is beginning a boldly different , big-budget advertising campaign that it hopes will persuade more baby boomers to drink its Johnnie Walker Scotch whisky brands ./. wsj67:5598 L The new Johnnie Walker pitch has attractive young women gushing about the wonderful young men in their lives who drink Johnnie Walker ./. wsj71:8906 L Many who live in the zone still seem almost hyper-American: They drink harder , pray more , salute faster ./. wsj76:5136 L Walter Single , a recovering alcoholic , recalls that on a daily diet of nine pints of Wild Irish Rose , he still was able `` to function well enough to panhandle the money he needed to drink all day and still have enough left for a wake-up in the morning . ''/'' wsj78:2281 L At about the same time , according to senior Hutton officials , Mr. Fomon was drinking heavily , though he says that alcohol never affected his ability to do his job ./. wsj81:7016 L His father , a bootlegger and dance-hall operator , shot and killed his own brother in self-defense , and later drank himself to death ./. wsj01:11299 L `` The celebrity could bring more damage to the program and to somebody else 's recovery if they started drinking again , '' says Chris Jorgensen , vice president of communications ./. wsj01:1358 U `` A lot of Americans just want a real easy beverage to drink and that 's what the Shaw nouveau is , '' he says ./. wsj01:510 U Indians drink about 2.4 billion bottles of name-brand soft drinks a year ./. wsj01:895 L The theory behind the strategy: If it 's there , people will drink it ./. wsj03:4738 U `` Buddha taught that a man who takes liquor and forces another to drink will be reborn five hundred times without hands , '' Kenko Yoshida had warned back in the 14th century ./. wsj04:3162 L It is Babe who ends up drinking too much because she never wins her battles against family convention and it is Babe who comes to an early , tragic end ./. wsj08:1520 U After all , alcohol is involved in many murders , but that does n't mean Americans do n't have a right to drink ./. wsj08:9883 L Similar rites are involved in ascending to positions of leadership ; a new shaman , for example , is expected to work , drink or drug himself into a trance ./. wsj09:11243 L Every night at the Dukakis hotel , the Hyatt Regency , the New York and Washington reporters and the Dukakis people intermingled , drinking till three or four in the morning ./. wsj09:9176 L They induced shopper Aileen Schmieder to temporarily stop trying to get her family to drink more milk and juice ./. wsj09:9183 U People are still drinking way more Coke and Pepsi than other brands , says the Coke Enterprises spokesman ./. wsj10:3710 L A Middle Eastern analyst says Lebanese usually drink coffee at such occasions ; Palestinians drink tea ./. wsj10:8744 L `` Young adults tend to drink beer more for refreshment than any kind of connoisseur taste , '' he says ./. wsj12:1667 L If we hesitate to let teen-agers drink until they 're 21 , why entrust them with shaping the fate of the Republic at 18 ?/. wsj13:10135 U The required label would read , `` Government Warning: According to the Surgeon General , women should not drink alcohol during pregnancy because of the risk of birth defects ./. wsj13:7968 L Here his father , a shoemaker , drank vodka , and here his mother nourished her son 's ambitions ./. wsj16:8384 U In Canada , 82 % of all adults drink , while only 65 % of U.S. adults do ./. wsj16:8386 U More than 90 % of young Canadian women drink ./. wsj17:6705 U Amherst has a loan fund originally set up to benefit white Anglo-Saxon Protestant men who do n't drink , smoke or gamble ./. wsj17:7089 U Although overall consumption of wine is declining , consumers have been drinking more better-quality wine ./. wsj18:1341 L After all , like any worthwhile hero , Fred was struggling -- to be a good father , to make movies , to reconcile his fantasy life with the domesticity he 'd settled into , to stay in shape and still drink lots of Budweiser ./. wsj20:8629 L Today , the upper ranks of English society still drink Pimm 's , though in weather that is rather damper and at contests somewhat tamer: the Ascot horse races , the Wimbledon tennis tournament , the Henley rowing regatta ./. wsj21:6730 U The South , when considered as one of four U.S. regions , drank the most alcoholic beverages -- 32.3 % of all consumed -- followed by the Northeast at 24.8 % , the North Central at 24.1 % and the West at 18.8 % ./. wsj21:6732 U Households with incomes of $ 35 , 000 and above drank the most of every type of alcoholic beverage , 35.2 % ./. wsj21:6734 U Men consumed 75.2 % of all alcohol , drinking 81.8 % of all beer , 59.3 % of hard liquor and 47.4 % of wine ./. wsj21:6735 U Women drank 61.7 % of coolers and 52.6 % of wine ./. wsj22:2191 U Last year , Americans imported between 300 to 500 foreign brands and drank 9.4 million barrels of imported beer , or about 5 % of the total U.S. beer market , says Frank Walters , research director at M. Shanken Communications Inc . , the publisher of Impact International , a liquor industry newsletter ./. wsj22:6400 U Of great concern now is the increased number of pregnancies among teen-agers who drink and use drugs ./. wsj23:4525 U They caution , however , that studies showing some positive effects from alcohol should n't be interpreted as supporting the idea that non-drinkers should begin to drink ./. wsj24:2926 L Then it finally comes to him: `` It 's a good reason to drink beer . ''/'' wsj24:853 L Camille 's father , Wolfy , former winner of the Indianapolis 500 , is driven to drink by the exploits of his ex-wife Rose , author of a feminist denunciation of the Daleys and the host of her own talk show ./. wsj25:1012 L Feeling sick and lonely I returned to my tent to write out my casualty report ; but instead I sat on the floor and drank whisky after whisky as I gazed into a black and empty future . ''/'' wsj26:7913 L When sentencing a criminal , the chief justice of the country 's Supreme Court takes into consideration whether the felon has atoned for his sins by drinking sakau with the victim 's family ./. wsj29:61 L Every Oct. 21st since , officers of the Royal Navy gather in formal dress wherever they may be , and drink a toast to `` The Immortal Memory . ''/'' wsj29:9302 L They were ready to embrace anybody who was n't Mr. Bhutto , a populist who had called for land reform and who had nationalized industries as he uttered Islamic pieties -- at the same time that he held vast tracts of farm land himself , drank , womanized and , apparently , rigged elections ./. wsj30:2948 U But even though Mr. Landry was drinking from a cup that contained bourbon , the rangers did n't arrest him ./. wsj30:8260 U Unable to find any glasses on the private plane , they drank the bubbly right out of a common bottle , like old friends after a good football game ./. wsj32:4849 U Or take the case of Australian wine , which Swedes now drink by the millions of bottles ./. wsj32:4859 U Another hurdle the U.S. faces: Ambassador Gregory Newell , a Mormon who does n't drink , wo n't hold wine tastings in his lavish residence , as other ambassadors do ./. wsj32:9100 U `` Never drunk the stuff , '' snorts food industry executive Jorge Redmond ./. wsj32:9114 U Venezuelans traditionally drank 12-year-old scotch such as Johnnie Walker Black Label that never accounted for more than 6 % of the U.S. market ./. wsj35:11218 L The repeal of Prohibition has n't stopped drinking either , and today , as always , there are people who get `` hooked '' on alcohol ./. wsj37:2805 U `` Real men , '' Mr. Holley says , `` do drink beer without alcohol . ''/'' wsj37:2828 U `` They 're only grown up if they start drinking coffee and dating . ''/'' wsj38:7013 U Red wine now can be brought to the table while you are still drinking your mixed drink , but white wine ca n't ./. wsj38:7023 U `` You mean I 've been drinking mixer ?/. wsj39:8596 L U.S. executives in search of global markets have found that the French do n't drink orange juice for breakfast ; that Middle Easterners prefer toothpaste that tastes spicy ; that the Japanese like herbs in their cold medicines , and that laundry detergent is used to wash dishes in parts of Mexico ./. wsj42:10523 L Stealthies like Capt. Marvel , Bill Sweetman , John Andrews and Sam Jones are , nevertheless , a patriotic lot who aim to get as close as possible without breaching national security in pursuit of their passion . -LRB- They are aware that the most fanatic Stealth followers drink their vodka straight. -RRB-/-RRB- wsj44:690 L I drank Vodka , So did you '' and saw the doors opening to the glittering life of an octave-thundering concert pianist ./. wsj44:8048 U Some of the exiles turned to drink or just died , of homesickness really . ''/'' wsj44:8198 L If you had asked Lenin this question when he was drinking coffee in Zurich at the beginning of 1917 , he probably would have said: 'Oh , it will be a protracted struggle. ' ''/'' wsj45:548 U The new Johnnie Walker print ads try to appeal to men by showing stylish women chatting about boyfriends and husbands who drink Johnnie Walker ./. wsj45:562 U But lately , liquor companies have become increasingly concerned about the slump and their inability to lure more young people to drink Scotch ./. wsj46:2268 L Says Mr. Craver: `` They should have painted the anti-smokers as a gaggle of do-gooders who lived in air-conditioned penthouses , ate brie , drank Chablis and were out of touch with ordinary Americans . ''/'' wsj49:5937 L Mr. Redford has assembled a great collection of faces , especially the geezers who look like they 've spent the past half-century drinking the same cup of coffee with the same old pals ./. wsj49:914 U I 'm afraid I might somehow take a loss ! `` says Korobochka , a pig-headed woman struggling , in the best scene of the opera , to understand why the stranger is offering her money for a serf who drank so heavily that he exploded ./. wsj50:8659 U Wyoming could n't afford to stick to its principles any longer and continue to allow 19- and 20-year-olds to drink ./. wsj50:8670 L Last July , Ohio and Colorado raised a white flag , putting Wyoming in the unfortunate position of being the only place in the country where 19- and 20-year-olds could drink legally ./. wsj50:8673 U Without a change , our institutions of higher learning will have the distinction , as would our state , of being the only institutions in the country where 19- and 20-year-olds can drink ./. wsj50:8691 U The right to drink at age 19 did n't go down without a fight ./. wsj50:9714 L The martini ranked second in the publication 's recent survey of what Americans are drinking ./. wsj51:7572 U We believe that once people start drinking hard liquor in low concentrations , they may go on to higher concentrations . ''/'' wsj52:4229 L Its theme -- Peter dragging Russia out of the dank Dark Ages -- is vast and lofty , and perhaps only a man who dreamed and drank too much would have had the gumption to cut so wide and deep a swath into the heart of Russia ./. wsj54:10420 L Others say Mr. Kasparov does drink , but the champion certainly looks sober when he arrives , decked out in tasseled loafers and a spiffy plaid suit -LRB- only a clashing checked necktie mars the ensemble -RRB- ./. ******************** ***drown*** *nonliteral cluster* wsj33:4713 L Mr. Bilirakis 's letter referred to the March 2 death of Airman Recruit Lee Mirecki , 19 years old , of Appleton , Wis . , who drowned during an elite rescue swimmer training program at the Pensacola , Fla . , Naval Air Station ./. wsj36:3410 N Realism might drown it ./. wsj83:7878 L As one breasts the current of this sometimes creamy , sometimes awkward self-regarding style -LRB- it 's obviously catching -RRB- , one inevitably thinks of death by drowning ./. wsj01:4841 U And all of us have encountered the typical squeeze-boxer at weddings , who drowns out everyone else with loud wheezes ./. wsj06:1951 U Here , squalorous Marshalsea Debtor 's Prison , where Amy Dorrit was born and raised , is n't so much dirty and dangerous as claustrophobic -LRB- though the opening shot in Part II dwells on the fat flies drowning in a whiskey glass -RRB- ./. wsj07:3009 N `` Without voodoo , we would drown in our misery . ''/'' wsj08:9405 N Here in Ohio , some Democrats worry that Mr. Bush 's dismissal of his opponent as a Massachusetts liberal may drown out the Democrat 's message on the economy ./. wsj12:9059 U It shows a man drowning in a swamp , his right hand reaching hopelessly for something to grab hold of ./. wsj13:3138 U With some energetic tub-thumping , Air Canada is drowning out critics of the public stock offering it will launch next week ./. wsj14:396 U But you do n't need a whole pool of water to drown in , or even a tub ./. wsj15:3003 U Consider two Louisiana cases: Maintenance worker Joe Dennis Jackson drowned while swimming at an employer-sponsored party ./. wsj15:3004 U Accountant Ronald Palermo drowned while swimming on a company-sponsored recreational trip ./. wsj16:7957 N Meanwhile , GOP nominee George Bush 's day was largely drowned out by union shipyard hecklers at a marine ironworks plant in Portland , Ore ./. wsj17:8343 U To survive , however , the Democrat must maintain its market share , which Mr. Hussman estimates at about 40 % , without drowning in red ink ./. wsj20:848 U But their voices are barely heard here , drowned out by the dominant conservative chorus ./. wsj24:6423 N The long war over , blacks found that they had little more than the freedom to drown in the white world 's misery ./. wsj27:4074 N A rippling of boos at the introduction of Mr. Bentsen was drowned out by organ music ./. wsj32:10367 N This , for many American communities , is the latest alternative to drowning in garbage ./. wsj33:4714 U A Navy investigator is deliberating whether five swimming instructors and a commanding officer should be court-martialed because force was used to stop Mr. Mirecki from leaving the pool where he drowned ./. wsj33:864 U The parents of a six-year-old boy who drowned in May 1987 have settled their suit against Walt Disney World for $ 250 , 000 ./. wsj33:9792 U When Radio Marti , a Miami radio station aimed at Cuba , went on the air in 1985 , he threatened to drown out U.S. radio shows with Cuban broadcasts ./. wsj34:2202 U Embarrassed by the sounds they make in public toilets , Japanese women flush an average of 2.7 times a visit to drown out the offensive sounds ./. wsj39:8062 U Washington is almost drowning in a sea of hypocrisy about Donald Regan 's book-length revenge for his unceremonious sacking as White House chief of staff ./. wsj43:5382 U Andrew Parsons , head of the marketing center at McKinsey & Co . , the big consulting firm , says that electronic scanners -- which give instant information on purchasing patterns -- are producing so much information demanding so many decisions that managers are drowning in it ./. wsj44:5772 N He noted that the Minnesota Twins , accustomed to the deafening Metrodome noise , used visual signs to communicate during critical plays , while the losing Cardinals yelled to each other , and were drowned out . . . ./. wsj47:2558 U UNDERWATER OPTIONS should be allowed to drown , experts advise ./. wsj48:4776 N It reported the cheers for the conservative opposition candidate aimed at drowning out the orchestrated chants for the government party 's man , and how ruling-party followers were taunted with cries of `` sheep '' and `` rats '' as security guards surrounded Mr. Salinas ./. wsj50:7891 N France was drowning in wheat and it needed to get wheat out of warehouses ./. wsj58:2371 N Especially for Sen. Gore , who must worry that all the publicity enjoyed by the winners in Iowa and New Hampshire could all but drown him out ./. wsj62:7585 U As one breasts the current of this sometimes creamy , sometimes awkward self-regarding style -LRB- it 's obviously catching -RRB- , one inevitably thinks of death by drowning ./. wsj63:1690 N `` By lending for reckless deals , some lenders are helping the borrowers drown themselves , '' asserts Dean Dickie , an attorney specializing in bankruptcy law ./. wsj65:3000 U They say they want to stop -- or at least drown out -- what they feel has become a `` feeding frenzy '' of unfair `` GM bashing '' in the press and on Wall Street ./. *literal cluster* wsj05:10705 L Sometimes your computer partner will land one , the terminal chirping away in an apparent imitation of a drowning bass ./. wsj33:7204 L As Teresina , the maiden who is drowned in the Bay of Naples and ends up as a Nereid in the Blue Grotto before being restored to life by her faithful fisherman lover , Gennaro , Linda Hindberg was too inflexible in body and too stolid in personality ./. wsj02:4568 U Meanwhile , as the schools drowned in red ink , board members continued to arrive at meetings in chauffeur-driven cars and to fly first class to out-of-town conventions ./. wsj03:7630 U The executives also came to terms on business issues that had been drowned out by the emotional static ./. wsj06:9849 L There is also an outsized , shiny , Egyptian-style statue of Hadrian 's catamite Antinous , who drowned in the Nile ./. wsj07:8404 U `` Accountants , '' he ventures , `` are so boring that if they were drowning and their whole life {flashed} before them , they 'd probably fall asleep . ''/'' wsj14:7575 U The Bush campaign , meanwhile , has taken to distributing cases of air horns to supporters that can be sounded whenever the vice president delivers an applause line so there will be a din of enthusiastic cheering on television -- and also can be used to drown out the chants of any Dukakis supporters who might materialize ./. wsj20:4506 U Then , the first vote failed when 50 shouting members of the leftist opposition ascended the rostrum and drowned out the official trying to call the roll ./. wsj25:997 U It was 1917: The British armies had been drowning in French and Belgian mud for more than two years ; casualties were unprecedented ./. wsj27:5556 U When the flood tide of boat people surged out of Vietnam in tens of thousands in 1978 and 1979 , many of these desperate people found themselves pushed off by countries where they sought asylum , and , as a result , large numbers were drowned or lost at sea ./. wsj30:2197 U After trekking overland from southern Vietnam to ports in southwest Cambodia , they take a short boat trip to Thailand , reducing the chances of drowning or being attacked by pirates ./. wsj30:5513 L In the accident , which occurred in the Atlantic Ocean off Virginia Beach , Va . , three crewmen escaped , but a co-pilot drowned ./. wsj37:5573 U Trapped inside , Mr. Boyle drowned ./. wsj42:3348 U On the other hand , it certainly is inequitable to bail out New York banks on two separate occasions , to keep Bank of America afloat at a time when it has major problems , and to continue to preferentially help those who are in favor while drowning others ./. wsj44:1945 U `` I have 27 homes willing and able , but we 're drowning in red tape . ''/'' wsj49:2030 U He said he was n't drowning , just resting . ''/'' wsj63:146 U A medical examiner ruled that 46-year-old Linda Von Bergen drowned in May 1986 ./. wsj63:96 U In May 1986 , the couple joined a group that chartered a fishing boat in Puerto Rico , and while it was at sea , Mrs. Von Bergen drowned ./. ******************** ***eat*** *nonliteral cluster* wsj05:7341 L The Cincinnati Dancing Pigs Jug Band played `` Coney Island Washboard Roundelay '' and I ate cold noodle salad , fried wontons and a big RC ./. wsj07:1541 N `` These guys who are poisoning our youth with drugs and who are making money on it , we 'll make them eat it , '' he said ./. wsj07:6060 L Some pregnant women here do seek prenatal care , eat fairly well , and avoid smoking or using drugs ./. wsj08:10139 L `` He ate and slept until he looked like he was going to break , '' recalls Kathleen Perry ./. wsj10:3578 N Some 16 % of surveyors for Zagat 's restaurant guide said they had felt the pinch and were eating out less often than last year ./. wsj12:5782 N The commissions would eat up my profits . ''/'' wsj12:9827 N Domestic private consumption has been eating up about $ 3 billion or more a year , even during the war ./. wsj20:6043 L You 'll probably want to eat a crab salad . ''/'' wsj28:11118 L At age eight , he wrote a story about people , somewhere far away , who ate stars hatched from purple pebbles ./. wsj28:6267 N A spokesman for Mr. Dingell said , `` The exemptions ate the rule . ''/'' wsj29:3169 L `` Who said , 'No one 's eating any ' ? '' he snapped ./. wsj29:4305 L Richard Boyle , vice chairman of Chase Manhattan Corp . , avoids serious business when eating in with staffers ; `` I do n't want to give people indigestion , '' he explains ./. wsj33:3167 L Another regular , bundled in a brown cape , his feet wrapped in cloth , was seen touching all the bread in the basket `` hoping no one else will eat it , '' says Mrs. Howell ./. wsj47:5249 N Out-of-home entertainment -- such as films , sporting events , eating out , dancing , theater , shopping and amusement parks -- was a leisure-time activity for 43 % of respondents . -LRB- The survey included multiple responses. -RRB-/-RRB- wsj50:6427 L Mr. Hudson hears that the Chinese eat the things , and someone 's looking into it ./. wsj52:7561 L Thierry Liebaut , director of development for a French media group , says if he had to pay top price for it in a restaurant , `` I would make the chef eat the tubes . ''/'' wsj53:6081 N The honor of these Pulitzer-predators will be vindicated only if Mr. Anderson does all sorts of demeaning acts pursuant to article 48a of the Civil Code of California , mostly in the order of eating humble pie ./. wsj57:8162 N `` I thought I was eating him alive , '' recalled a rueful Mr. Bailey of a long-ago debate ./. wsj63:6668 N Washington then all but put the game away by eating more than six minutes of the clock , and caging the Bears deep in their own end , with a drive in which Williams completed two third-down passes ./. wsj68:5419 L I smoke too much , am constantly coughing , never eat , always sit around in a daze ./. wsj71:9594 L The first two days , Dr. Kroll collapsed into his sleeping bag and had to be awakened to eat ./. wsj74:7921 L Here , they can eat gourmet kosher food and swim at a beach that is partitioned with a curtain -- one side for men , the other for women ./. wsj77:6455 L Indiana Rep. Andrew Jacobs , a Democrat who 's neutral in the presidential-nomination contest , says Mr. Gephardt reminds him of a time in his life when he had to eat a lot of dinners at a drive-in restaurant ./. wsj79:1537 L `` We 've got the kids , plus all their teen-age friends who do nothing but eat ./. wsj81:3359 L The Pac Man defense is named after the video game in which characters try to eat other characters before they get eaten themselves ./. wsj85:1374 N `` Suddenly with Monday , they not only had to do an enormous amount of selling , they had an enormous holdover , and the front-runners just ate them alive , '' said Mr. Kirby ./. wsj02:7525 U Practically all worried that inflation and health-care costs would eat into retirement income and living standards ./. wsj04:9082 U The toughest part of dieting is n't watching what you eat -- it 's watching what your friends eat ./. wsj05:3282 U If it sells , I 'll be the first one to eat my hat . ''/'' wsj10:3579 U Only 3 % were eating out more often , while 81 % report no change ./. wsj10:4359 U And they export 100 , 000 a year , on the hoof , to the Italians and the French , who eat them ./. wsj11:318 U Naturally , in keeping with local custom , we eat sumptuously and talk about food ./. wsj13:1575 N The latter cells act normally as scavengers that eat up invading organisms , but also may be responsible for cell-to-cell infection of the AIDS virus ./. wsj19:4548 N They will eat crow for what they have been saying ./. wsj19:7235 N Long renowned with East Germany for its relatively respectable economic performance , Czechoslovakia has lately been displaying worrying symptoms of the ills that have , in fact , long been eating away at its core ./. wsj21:10184 U When the three policemen asked Patrick Nyuka for his notes from a political rally , he did what any reporter for the Saamstaan newspaper would do: He ate them ./. wsj23:3704 N To air fresh shows through June , `` we 'd have to eat the second showing of some episodes , '' he said , which would cause a financial hit ./. wsj24:7338 U `` This is why some animals eat their young , '' she quips ./. wsj24:8850 U General Mills also is eating into the microwaveable cake business , which Pillsbury pioneered ./. wsj25:8456 N Here is how it works: Conventional plastics are composed of repeating hydrocarbon molecules , called polymers , which are derived from petroleum . -LRB- The lengthy chains are too long for micro-organisms to eat ; that is what makes plastic so resistant to decay. -RRB-/-RRB- wsj27:3105 N But for small companies , the costs eat up a much larger percentage of revenue ./. wsj30:2544 N That 's because the auto shop decided to eat its words ./. wsj33:10863 U Owning a small business is like eating our fiery salsa: It can bring tears to your eyes , but it 's also tremendously enjoyable ./. wsj33:3118 U And these come at a time when cutbacks in a variety of other social programs , from housing to medicine , are eating into the food budget of the poor ./. wsj33:4914 U The Pac-Man defense -- first used during the battle between Martin Marietta Corp. and Bendix Corp. in 1982 -- is named after the video game in which characters try to eat other characters before they get eaten themselves ./. wsj33:6336 U More than one-third of smokers said they never ate breakfast , compared with 18 % of those who had never smoked ./. wsj34:10862 N It just eats your soul . ''/'' wsj34:3811 U `` We are ready to eat leaves , '' Mr. al-Khayil says , gesturing at his blossoming grape arbors ./. wsj35:10955 U And here I thought I had a good collection of stories to tell about working and traveling in China: The tasty casserole made of inch-long sand worms -LRB- `` shachong '' -RRB- I ate in rural Guangdong , the dogs , cats and snakes being butchered for wintertime eating at Canton 's Qingping Market , the tapped phones , the disgruntled Communist Party cadre , the rich farmer who built three houses in rural Quangdong -- all were grist for dinner-party conversations ./. wsj35:10993 U But few people know what happens when cows eat chocolate candy bars ./. wsj35:11013 N `` If you put a pile of candy bars out in a pasture , '' Mr. Flickinger says , `` they 'd go eat themselves to death . ''/'' wsj37:9997 U I tell them I sleep , eat and watch TV , and they write it down ./. wsj38:7096 U The '70s had weirdo programs -LRB- `` Real People '' once aired a segment on a man who ate dirt -RRB- ./. wsj39:11441 U He sees Congress eating away at a president 's ability to act decisively on issues foreign and domestic , so he calls for changes: reducing the number of congressional committees overseeing intelligence matters , challenging the War Powers Act and instituting a line-item veto ./. wsj39:5895 U Jeremy says he spends every night of the week at the mall , where he usually eats dinner ./. wsj40:10705 U When Chief Gates plowed into the front room , which also served as a play area , the only people inside were two women and three small children , two of whom were eating ice cream ./. wsj40:7295 U But the West can also act in ways that will make things easier for Mr. Gorbachev to have his cake and eat it , too -- by granting him , in return for no more than that old favorite `` a relaxation of tension , '' concessions and advantages that will serve as functional substitutes for reform ./. wsj41:9035 U Many fish shooters do n't eat what they catch ./. wsj42:4115 U Once assembled , the army ate him out of house and home , consuming up to 10 , 000 pounds of hay and 700 pounds of corn a day ./. wsj42:8811 N With its latest acquisition , Cartier , which is 46.8 % -owned by Rothmans International PLC of Britain , will control more than 40 % of the $ 2.2 billion international luxury-watch market and aims to eat into the market share of the other leader , Rolex , Mr. Perrin said ./. wsj43:6736 U Then , the children ate . ''/'' wsj46:4127 U In New York City , three Russian immigrants -- one man last year and an elderly couple in 1985 -- died of botulism after eating kapchunka , a salted , ungutted whitefish ./. wsj46:6060 U The act was as unnatural for him as eating pork , he told a friend ./. wsj46:9769 U `` Human rights , '' she says , eating a tomato of her own ./. wsj48:2756 N Asked about the resonating valence bond theory of superconductivity , one of the Enquirer 's young female sources comments , `` RVB is like . .. when you eat thallium and your boyfriend eats thorium . .. and then you kiss . ''/'' *literal cluster* wsj01:4022 N Richard DeVane , president of the company 's fossil systems business , said it appears that oxygen in the fresh air combined with either sulfur , zinc or chloride to produce an oxide that ate away the boiler wall 's iron-oxide protective coating ./. wsj09:6288 L At the Houston Petroleum Club , industry officials could n't eat lunch of late without discussing speculation that Exxon was going to walk away with all of the Tenneco properties ./. wsj10:5019 L It started in late August when supporters concerned with Mr. Chavez 's health were urging him to eat ./. wsj12:8527 L But I 'll tell you this: I have n't had a cold since I ate it ./. wsj14:1137 N The chemicals , widely used in refrigerants and styrofoam , are suspected of eating away the Earth 's protective ozone layer ./. wsj16:460 L Bachelor 's diet: You only eat half of everything you cook -- because the other half sticks to the bottom of the pan ./. wsj17:7668 N By 1993 , it will eat up 10.6 % of all federal spending even if no new benefits are added ./. wsj17:8723 L Meanwhile , stay out of the sun to avoid skin cancer and do n't eat shellfish , which may have red tide ./. wsj20:9435 L A Cajun hot dog in one hand , Hurricane Slush in the other , I wander along Bourbon Street in the raffish French Quarter , just another media hound among 15 , 000 unleashed here to hunt down non-stories about the Crescent City -- eat some gumbo , listen to great jazz , buy souvenirs ./. wsj22:7286 L Wild animals are simply a nuisance , eating up crops and occasionally small children , and competing with cattle for grazing space ./. wsj25:10047 L Beyond that , conditions on board were so vile that `` the sailor was at greater risk eating his meals aboard than fighting . ''/'' wsj28:10847 L Paulina and the old man go out to the laundry shed to eat their breakfasts ./. wsj31:8624 L A countywide sewage-treatment plant recently began operations here ; the smell in a nearby neighborhood is so awful that one teen-age girl says she ca n't eat at home ./. wsj42:1744 N Richard Sherlund , an analyst with Goldman , Sachs & Co. said `` the company is going to have to eat crow because it told a lot of people it would be profitable . ''/'' wsj43:4751 L Last October , he surpassed his own record by eating 2.6 kilograms ./. wsj46:4102 L Morty Bennett eats a scallop and shrimp entree at a Chinese restaurant in Miami ./. wsj55:626 L The races mingle in department stores and at downtown restaurants , where city employees all eat between noon and one ./. wsj60:8250 L But the overwhelming mass of Soviet people eat dinner at home , after wasting millions of hours in line buying dreadful food , barely seeing a green vegetable in a state grocery all winter -LRB- although the citrus situation is vastly improved from what it once was -RRB- ./. wsj71:9920 L `` He just tried to eat the propeller , '' says Mr. Fox ./. wsj74:10190 L Another writer goes to Bulgaria , eats bad food , stays at a bad hotel whose name he translates as Rathole Fleabag , and generally has a terrible time ./. wsj74:1729 L Creating the special food solved the problem of what he could eat on future flights , but supplying fare for astronauts seemed limited as a business concept ./. wsj75:6012 L Plus a man who once ate an entire plane piece by piece ./. wsj76:2600 L New Year 's Day , after an afternoon of eating my mother-in-law 's chicken , I weigh in at 175 pounds ./. wsj76:4886 L If someone wants to eat fruits , nuts and organically grown vegetables from the back yard every day , fine ./. wsj80:5536 L They wo n't let her use her own stove or refrigerator , so she cooks and eats meals at a neighbor 's ./. wsj81:6652 L Administrators , who are required by state law to force-feed patients who ca n't or wo n't eat , are wrestling over what to do with one semicomatose tubefeeder ./. wsj84:6111 L Moreover , I have yet to eat a pizza that did n't leave the top of my mouth burned for several days afterward ./. wsj02:53 U They eat lighter , smaller portions ./. wsj02:9639 U He said greenhouse workers using soils with sludge fertilizer could inhale asbestos , as could golfers and cattle eating grass from sludge-fertilized land ./. wsj04:1964 L Parasite infections of people who like to eat raw or undercooked fish are increasing , and the main cause is the rising population of seals and other protected marine mammals , scientists reported ./. wsj05:10487 U `` He ate breakfast here with the state president one day , '' the hotel manager says , `` so we figured his credit was good . ''/'' wsj07:1995 U `` They eat this stuff up like rock music . ''/'' wsj07:2962 U `` They eat their young ./. wsj07:3007 L Spirits may be the only solace in a land where the average person earns $ 350 a year and can never expect to have enough to eat ./. wsj07:9499 L He insists that Ashley 's death was an accident caused by the child tipping over a trash can and eating discarded pills ./. wsj08:10195 L And when various award-winning fruits and animals were assembled for a local TV shot , Chief tried to eliminate the 59-pound watermelon by eating it ./. wsj09:9546 U Since four people must live , eat and sleep in the tiny apartment , rooms and fixtures serve multiple functions ./. wsj10:1735 L He added that the hotel was `` safe enough for you , maybe , but you can understand my own misgivings about eating here . ''/'' wsj11:4828 U `` I had to eat my words , '' he says ./. wsj11:8195 U If scientists have their way , U.S. consumers some day may be eating bacon that has its roots in China ./. wsj11:8319 U Refrigerants are one of several chemical products that contain chlorofluorocarbons thought to be eating away at the ozone layer , which shields the Earth from destructive ultraviolet rays ./. wsj12:2343 L Still , they did n't go quite as far as one Himalayan bear -- it ate the camera ./. wsj13:2644 U Now , employees are encouraged to eat in a company-subsidized dining room , and many trips have been eliminated ./. wsj14:1651 L You ca n't eat these confections , but paper making satisfies the senses all the same ./. wsj16:5140 U `` It is in advanced countries that people eat snails , '' says Mr. Lee , who raises the creatures by the hundreds of thousands in steamy tents in the suburbs of Seoul ./. wsj16:5141 U `` I think Korea is the first country at this economic level to eat snails . ''/'' wsj16:5144 U To eat ? '' asks Chang Mi Ok , an elevator operator in Seoul , wrinkling her nose ./. wsj16:5147 L `` Most Koreans ' stomachs turn when they think of eating snails , '' Mr. Lee concedes ./. wsj16:7228 U Lesley Stahl called him `` the vice presidential pick that ate the Republican convention . ''/'' wsj16:8389 U Only 30 % of all Canadians eat breakfast every day , compared with 55 % of all Americans ./. wsj17:8507 L These waters are full of the fish , mollusks and small crustaceans that lobsters like to eat ./. wsj19:7076 U Legg Mason 's continued expansion also ate into earnings ./. wsj21:2237 U No wonder most commanding officers say , `` Let them eat crackers , '' when their soldiers are out on field maneuvers ./. wsj21:5757 U In its native land , American Indians supposedly ate both the young shoots and pods of Asclepias syriaca and made a brown sugar from the flowers ./. wsj22:6639 U Now her family eats just one meal a day , on a new diet of chicken heads and feet , plus coffee and bread in the morning `` to fool the stomach , '' she says ./. wsj22:8212 U I wanted to eat fried foods and Snickers bars without worrying about how I 'd look in a leotard ./. wsj23:1969 L `` I tried to move and talk but that was impossible , '' recalled an Australian boy in 1973 , after he fell ill from eating puffer fish ./. wsj23:6694 U With total U.S. beer consumption leveling off and light beers eating away at regular brands ' market share , the only premium brand that is growing is Anheuser-Busch Cos. '/'' wsj23:7601 U `` But it eats up the actual engine parts . ''/'' wsj24:31 U The hubcaps fell off , he says , and the tape decks `` had a reputation for eating cassettes . ''/'' wsj24:7344 U It is showing up in jokes and commercials -- husbands who play lousy tennis , eat the wrong breakfast , buy the wrong brakes ./. wsj25:6434 U Mr. Josephson said Chase Manhattan will also provide additional financing necessary to see ICM through the Hollywood writers ' strike , which is eating into revenues it earns from commissions on screenplays and other projects ./. wsj26:7961 U Appetites of the elderly , cancer patients and other ill persons who tend not to eat might be revived by spraying the odorant-binding protein into the air or into the nose when meals are served , he speculated ./. wsj29:11132 L For those who eat only at four-star French restaurants , fajitas are a Tex-Mex specialty -- strips of grilled beef rolled up in flour tortillas with onions , peppers and guacamole ./. wsj30:4027 L They should be eating chocolate cake , instead they are bleeding from their souls . ''/'' wsj30:6399 U Weak cows have bogged down in muddy ponds and died and some ranchers are burning the thorns off prickly pear cactus to give starving cattle something to eat ./. wsj30:7290 U Richard Mercier , a customs official , said there was n't any `` information indicating that anybody became ill '' from eating the cheese ./. wsj31:4319 U Adds Michael Julian , executive vice president of Norfolk , Va.-based Farm Fresh Inc . , another new NutriClean recruit: `` We are n't of the opinion that it is n't healthy to eat the produce in stores now , but we think it can be healthier . ''/'' wsj31:7056 U `` They want to eat a certain kind of food , do a certain kind of exercise to prevent mortality , '' says Harvard 's Dr. Samuels ./. wsj32:5466 L Russians eat awful sausage by the ton ./. wsj33:3131 U For families too proud to eat at the kitchen with its storefront windows , a food pantry was added , allowing them to slip in quietly for bags of noodles , bread and baby formula ./. wsj33:4485 U `` They want the magic pill so they can continue eating pizza , ice cream and whatever junk they want . ''/'' wsj35:11001 U On those farms , the average cow eats four to eight pounds of chocolate a day -- about a tenth of its total diet ./. wsj35:2618 U I believe your editors would find this combination more palatable when it is necessary for them to eat their words ./. wsj35:3947 U At Wally 's Cafe , the white woman behind the counter makes it clear from her expression that Mr. Kgori may order a sandwich but must eat it outside ./. wsj36:2695 L His brother Woody , who 's worth $ 100 million , is a grotesque 250-pound alcoholic moron who spends his time watching Arnold Schwarzenegger movies , eating peanuts , and floating stark naked on a rubber raft in his indoor swimming pool listening to favorites from `` My Fair Lady . '' -LRB- He also has raped and assaulted a showgirl. -RRB-/-RRB- wsj38:418 L `` We encourage our people as much as we can to fly on United Airlines and eat Kellogg cereals , '' says Jack Ryan , executive vice president of Leo Burnett Co . , which also handles advertising for GM 's Oldsmobile division ./. wsj38:419 U `` I just ca n't spot check whether our people are eating Kellogg Corn Flakes or Ralston Purina Wheat Chex in the morning . ''/'' wsj38:8510 U When Will Vinton eats his Raisin Bran cereal every morning , he 'd like to reach into the bowl and shake the raisins ' little hands ./. wsj41:899 L One grandfather had a sugar-cane field , until alternating patrols of Contras and Sandinistas ate it , stalk by stalk ./. wsj42:9954 L Then he packed the fish cavity with plastic bags full of ice to maintain freshness . -LRB- After all , somebody would be eating his models when he was done with them. -RRB-/-RRB- wsj43:4732 U `` And look here: Here I am eating the Guinness Book of Records . ''/'' wsj43:4750 U Mr. Kulkarni won by eating 2.5 kilograms , or 5.7 pounds , of different types of glass ./. wsj44:2479 U `` She needs to try to eat , to exercise her facial muscles , to help with speech , '' says Mrs. Antillon optimistically ./. wsj45:10074 U Some say price cutting and greater competition from IBM will begin to eat away at Compaq 's sales ./. wsj46:4109 L Most seafood eaters never give a second thought to the safety of the delicacies they eat ./. wsj46:8247 L And scraping together the evidence for this often entails investigating a claimant 's personal life , checking such details as smoking , drinking and eating habits , emotional stability and family health history ./. wsj47:10894 U `` Campbell is smart enough to go in with a differentiated product called a Belgian waffle suggesting that 's what yuppies eat , '' said John McMillin , an analyst at Prudential-Bache Securities Inc ./. ******************** ***escape*** *nonliteral cluster* wsj04:3521 N But Mr. Quayle ca n't seem to escape controversy ./. wsj31:4233 N Baby hilariously escapes disaster , over and over , as the camera whips around at a hyperanimated pace ./. wsj44:1837 L Engineers intend to introduce deliberate flaws into two of the motor 's joints to prove that even with these defects , the redesigned motor has enough safety features to ensure that hot gases wo n't escape from it ./. wsj47:709 L The leader of a failed coup in August , who escaped from a Manila prison Saturday , called on his supporters in the military to `` act and act boldly . ''/'' wsj52:4867 L All of this took the extraordinary patience and determination of a man who escaped from a German prison camp on his third try and was elected president , also on his third try , after 23 years in opposition ./. wsj69:5911 L The leader of a failed coup in August , who escaped from a Manila prison Saturday , called on his supporters in the military to `` act and act boldly . ''/'' wsj03:3077 N All agree that the state must diversify its industrial base to escape the recently detrimental reliance on oil , said Ron Jones , chairman of the New Orleans Business Council and president of Louisiana Coca Cola Bottling Ltd ./. wsj03:8215 U Some attorneys general contend that the competing measure would slow the law-enforcement process , allowing swindlers to escape while the states wait for FTC permission to act ./. wsj06:2776 N Kimberlon , the costume maker , tried generic packaging to escape the seasonal trap , even eliminating the word Halloween ./. wsj07:1929 U The three had been holed up in a consulate office since Sept. 13 , when they escaped from the police after lengthy detentions ./. wsj08:51 N However , in her 17-page dissent , federal Judge Carolyn Dineen King said the case raised sensitive issues of international law but that `` U.S. employers should not be allowed to escape liability for discrimination by cloaking themselves in a conveniently acquired concern for the integrity of the sovereignty of foreign states . ''/'' wsj08:5642 U Self-funded plans generally have escaped state taxation because they are regulated by the federal Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 -LRB- ERISA -RRB- ./. wsj09:1161 U `` You use such minute quantities that it always seems like magic when it works , '' says Mrs. Fitzpatrick-Davis , a microbiology Ph.D. who left her research job at Becton , Dickinson & Co. to escape corporate routine and bureaucracy ./. wsj09:9159 U Some industry executives say Coke and Pepsi bottlers are locked in a battle from which they ca n't escape ./. wsj10:319 U These latter weapons are intended to destroy any missiles that escape the first-phase interceptors ./. wsj11:4489 N At the same time , the quest for distinction increasingly includes details -- some of which may escape the average driver ./. wsj12:6134 U Thus , the claim that an individual joins a Reserve Component to escape combat is a paradox in terms since , in fact , the individual is serving his or her country and can be ordered into combat any time our national leaders so decree ./. wsj12:8108 U For years , he said , Cuba `` escaped United Nations censure or even scrutiny . ''/'' wsj13:1010 N One clue will be that the Idaho fescue , blue bunch wheat grass and pine grass growing in fields where fire returned nutrients to the soil will be as much as a foot taller than the meadows that escaped the flames ./. wsj13:1297 U Chamberlain 's was a harrowing vision of `` people burrowing underground , trying to escape from poison gas , knowing that at any hour of the day or night death or mutilation was ready to come upon them . ''/'' wsj13:4386 U Largely in response to that study , Congress included a provision in the 1986 act that was designed to ensure that no company reporting profit to its shareholders could escape tax altogether ./. wsj15:5470 N A plot has taken over St. Louis , from which no citizen , not the city 's ghetto slumlords nor its CEOs , can escape ./. wsj15:7892 U The priest reportedly escaped unharmed ./. wsj18:7999 N Brian J. Luedtke , a technical analyst at Piper , Jaffray & Hopwood , Minneapolis , said he believes investors need further evidence about the economy 's direction before the market will be able to escape from its recent malaise ./. wsj19:1949 U The ruling appears to narrow slightly a loophole through which the Fed has allowed state-chartered banks to escape the Bank Holding Company Act 's bar against insurance sales ./. wsj19:4337 U The importance of this electoral compact seems to have escaped Vice President Laurel , just as it escaped Senator Juan Ponce Enrile when he called for Mrs. Aquino 's resignation almost two years ago -- while serving as her defense minister ./. wsj20:10535 U He has finally escaped the shadow of his father . ''/'' wsj21:6895 U Next week , NASA will test fire in Utah a solid-fuel rocket booster that has holes bored into it to see how well the booster 's backup seals contain escaping gases ./. wsj22:6526 N But Mr. Mulroney is arguing that Canada has escaped the most virulent forms of U.S. protectionism ./. wsj22:6599 U The birds , which bred in the wild after escaping captivity years ago , are charged with damaging property , creating a public nuisance , and other behavior unbecoming to a peacock ./. wsj23:10735 U Every one of the bidders except First RepublicBank management envisioned using the bridge bank not only to duck shareholders and creditors but to escape an escalating number of lawsuits that have been filed against First RepublicBank ./. wsj23:4873 N Young Jean escaped her family into literature and into a fast crowd she found at the University of Colorado ./. wsj23:7826 U Less than three gallons of phosphorous trichloride , a component of the herbicide Lasso , escaped into the air when a `` rupture disk , '' designed to break when pressure built up in the tank , gave way Sunday morning , said a spokeswoman for the St. Louis-based Monsanto Co. unit ./. wsj24:1016 U Mr. Rich 's departure and the collapse of the refinancing plan have raised questions among industry people about the future of MGM UA , which for months has been searching for ways to escape a heavy debt burden and finance an ambitious movie schedule ./. wsj25:4324 N Adm. Hayward 's case , which has escaped public notice since it started in 1985 , is n't part of the current nationwide investigation of Pentagon corruption and bid-rigging ./. wsj25:8759 N Mr. Tennyson said it 's unfair that foreign cigarette manufacturers who advertise through U.S. magazines will escape the ban ./. wsj26:11186 U Whether or not Drexel or the partnership was involved in any wrongdoing , how such suspicious trading escaped serious scrutiny is a story of regulatory ineptitude ./. wsj26:4124 U Along with veiling , Touareg women have escaped many other strictures that often apply to Moslems ./. wsj26:8930 N The arrangement would break new legal ground as a means for an insurer to escape its own potential liability by piggybacking on the Chapter 11 reorganization of a former policyholder ./. wsj27:3080 U The bus burst into flames , and the victims died of smoke inhalation when they could n't escape through a rear door -- one of only two exits on the bus ./. wsj28:2615 U To escape a heavy debt burden and to finance an ambitious movie schedule , cash-starved MGM UA Communications Co. is expected to sell off its Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures unit to three investors and the public , industry people said ./. wsj28:8297 U Both the details and big picture equally escaped Ashland 's attention , '' the report said ./. wsj29:8782 U Having escaped the risk of defeat , Iraq is rewriting history ./. wsj30:5497 U The court ruled , 5-4 , that companies selling equipment to the U.S. government may escape having to pay damages for injuries if the details of their contracts were set by the government and were followed by the manufacturers , and if the manufacturers warned the government of the dangers of using the products ./. wsj31:11130 U Whether it concentrates on business travel or consumer shopping , American Express wo n't escape aggressive competition from the bank-issued credit cards ./. wsj32:195 U The change would allow off-highway fuel buyers to escape the tax altogether , as they did previously ./. wsj34:11356 U Regarding your statement , `` Mass transit and UDAG-like grants have escaped large cuts in the past , despite an abysmal record of performance , '' I suggest you check your figures ./. wsj35:4517 N Money that escapes the pockets of bureaucrats disappears into rat holes ./. wsj36:3875 U `` People do n't want to admit it , but you ca n't escape from it . ''/'' wsj36:6766 N An owner can escape the sanction only by demonstrating that he neither knew nor had reason to know that any drugs were on the conveyance ./. wsj37:6368 U The plane , hijacked en route to Bogota from Medellin , later returned to Colombia , where the gunman , said to be carrying a pistol and hand grenades , escaped ./. wsj38:199 N Among other things , the recently planted soybean and corn crop in the Midwest could escape unscathed if rains return shortly ./. *literal cluster* wsj01:7366 N And so long as one-third of the black population is mired in poverty , blacks will not hear of dismantling programs that enabled so many within their ranks to escape poverty in the first place ./. wsj04:4633 L The escaped convict 's name is not Willie Horton , but Joseph Subilosky ./. wsj04:4749 N CO-OPS CONVERTING to condominiums can escape a tax on assets ./. wsj04:5928 L He escaped with only minor cuts ./. wsj05:3915 N Even Mr. MacKay ca n't escape the national party virus altogether , however ./. wsj05:8997 N Great Western Bank unveiled a bid to escape from the insolvent FSLIC and switch to the FDIC , which would be a blow to the thrift insurer ./. wsj06:3550 N Last summer , escaping an unwanted takeover , USG effected a leveraged recapitalization ./. wsj06:5551 L Fortunately for life on Earth , the nitrogen-oxygen atmosphere is relatively transparent to the long infrared waves coming off the sidewalks , soil and oceans , allowing the day 's solar heat to slowly escape to space ./. wsj07:5307 N Your Sept. 22 editorial `` The Liberal Plantation '' hangs on a badly flawed premise: that workfare can lead to `` steady work '' and help poor people `` escape welfare and lead independent lives . ''/'' wsj08:6631 L Frightened , I tried to escape this hybrid of Samir and Othman , but the faster I ran , the faster it pursued me ./. wsj09:690 L Other regions should escape relatively unscathed , she says ./. wsj10:1086 N He also refused both domestic and U.S. calls to step aside for a compromise plebiscite candidate , who might have benefited from Chile 's economic boom while escaping the stigma of the Pinochet regime 's appalling humanrights record ./. wsj12:6110 N Among the problems that can be addressed , and perhaps resolved , at the joint session is the output currently escaping OPEC 's quotas ./. wsj12:7714 N As a result , Mr. Bhirud said , the market may have trouble escaping from its recent trading range ./. wsj13:3804 N Both France and Italy want to escape the slow-growth effects of Bundesbank dominance of the EMS. West Germans , however , believes it is they that must adapt by showing a greater willingness to employ restrictive monetary and fiscal policies when these are needed to maintain currency stability ./. wsj13:4364 N The study of 250 of the nation 's largest profit-making corporations found that only 16 escaped taxation last year , compared with 40 in 1986 and 39 in 1985 ./. wsj15:10091 N The agreement appears to allow Wilson , a pork processor and producer , to escape the clutches of Doskocil Cos . , a Hutchinson , Kan . , maker of pizza toppings that has waged an aggressive takeover battle ./. wsj16:9128 N Ne Win , however , saw that Burma escaped the Vietnam vortex ./. wsj17:3142 L A new study of Vietnam veterans suggests that most escaped heavy exposure to the poison dioxin , even if they served as ground troops in areas extensively sprayed with the dioxin-containing herbicide Agent Orange ./. wsj18:1968 N If the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission approves the plan , Panhandle will have escaped a total of about $ 4 billion in take-or-pay contract liabilities ./. wsj20:4395 N Before , a corporation owner could give heirs common stock to freeze asset values at that point for them ; future asset appreciation would escape estate tax , and the parent could keep control and income through preferred stock ./. wsj22:7244 N As Jim Wells , head of the pesticide-use branch of the California Department of Food and Agriculture , notes , `` We can not escape one fact: we are living older , healthier and more mentally acute than we have ever lived in the history of mankind ./. wsj24:1370 N Plunging into a market most investors are struggling to escape , Henley spends $ 600 million ./. wsj25:3898 N Sugar tried to divorce itself from soybeans last week but could n't escape price declines as traders continued to play both markets ./. wsj25:5031 L The escaped gas can cause a problem if it mixes with moisture in the air , forming corrosive nitric acid ./. wsj27:5699 N You may withdraw cash temporarily from an individual retirement account and escape a tax or penalty , if you roll it all over into another IRA in 60 days ./. wsj28:8059 N Most patients will not be aware of an expensive test forgone or a consultation not provided -- omissions that can readily escape detection if they are limited in scope ./. wsj29:6924 L The issue first surfaced after Willie Horton , a first-degree murderer on life sentence without parole who had been on 10 successful furloughs , escaped in 1986 and was arrested in April 1987 and charged with the brutal assault of a Maryland couple ./. wsj30:8945 N We are not so advanced as a people that we can escape entirely those fears of shortages and deprivation that gripped our ancestors when nature turned ugly ./. wsj31:6179 L Mr. Cossa 's grain bin may be filling up , but just last month another 100 peasants -- looking for food and security -- moved into the village to escape the fighting in the countryside ./. wsj33:10401 N The Swiss chemical companies have n't escaped profit slowdowns or declines in recent years ./. wsj36:8986 L A drug dealer like Liviel McLellan should not be able to escape a prison sentence ./. wsj37:9232 N Lucky 's widely respected management appeared to have escaped Mr. Skaggs when it announced its $ 61-a-share buy-out plan in April ./. wsj39:10623 N Limited grew so quickly and was such a hit on Wall Street for so long `` that some of us thought it could escape the current fashion retail slump , but that is n't the case . ''/'' wsj44:1838 L In the Challenger accident , hot gases escaping through motor seals ignited the shuttle 's external fuel tank ./. wsj46:7078 N The amendment did n't cover the National Security Council -LRB- a fact that continues to escape Lawrence Walsh -RRB- , so helping the Contras fell to a few workaholics in the Old Executive Office Building ./. wsj47:4934 N The Corolla sedan escaped any price increase ./. wsj49:2666 N The attraction: flexibility , a way to escape the corporate `` glass ceiling , '' and an experienced franchiser to help them learn the ropes ./. wsj51:4582 N It 's little wonder , then , that Susan has taken to escaping into the company of her delightfully charming , exceedingly attractive , immensely rich fantasy family: an adoring husband , a devoted daughter and a frothy younger brother whose only occupation in life is to pour yet another round of champagne -- `` champers , '' as he prefers to call it -- for the four of them ./. wsj52:10767 L But in talking with the FBI agent , the man not only denied he 'd killed anyone , he said that he had n't escaped from prison , that the warden had simply told him to leave one day after more than 20 years behind bars ./. wsj52:4041 N It seems that Mr. Jackson escapes the media 's searching questions of experience , public policy and character that other candidates are subjected to because of the delicate racial issue ./. wsj53:2523 L But war-torn Nicaragua today is freer than under Mr. Ortega 's predecessors , the Somozas , who managed in their 43-year reign to escape both a U.S.-sponsored invasion and your denunciations ./. wsj54:7980 L Testing these waters , he tried to make book on whether Robert Bork would reach the Supreme Court and on how much Oral Roberts would raise in his attempt to escape being called to God , but the Gaming Control Board barred the action ./. wsj60:1813 L Despite the problem , the Daedalus is almost ready for its main mission: a recreation this spring of the flight of the mythological Greek inventor Daedalus , who escaped from prison on the island of Crete by making wax-and-feather wings and flying 70 miles to the mainland of Greece ./. wsj66:9722 L In June 1986 , the Department of Correction announced that killer William Horton had escaped while on a weekend off from prison -- his 10th furlough ./. wsj67:7382 N Because Israel does n't have the luxury of an all-volunteer military force , its army ca n't escape the schisms of opinion that beset the wider society ./. wsj68:8082 L On Friday , another leader of the failed mutiny against President Aquino 's government escaped prison ./. wsj68:8265 L Noting today 's bullishness about the economy and the resurgence of mega-mergers , Mr. DeVoe is reminded of how a diver feels `` when all the reef fish disappear and you become aware of the complete silence , broken only by the escaping air bubbles ./. wsj69:11347 L Generale de Belgique 's 11 directors avoid ostentatious displays of wealth or power , partly to escape undue scrutiny in this small , densely populated country where visible wealth is taxed heavily ./. wsj72:3344 N Some are trying to escape childhoods troubled by missing fathers or drug-addicted mothers ./. wsj73:7481 N A federal judge reversed a decision that had given investors an apparent loophole to escape from the arbitration agreements their stockbrokers often require ./. wsj74:436 N As a result , GM has wrapped up a complicated four-year legal battle over the sale of an earth-moving subsidiary , escaping any additional penalties ./. wsj74:5119 N While public attention in the West remains focused on the recent INF Treaty and nuclear arms control issues , a less dramatic Soviet diplomatic initiative is under way -- a new `` peace offensive '' that thus far has escaped the careful evaluation it merits ./. wsj80:2714 N Sidney Ganis , president of marketing , says the studio tries to remind Academy members of films that may have escaped notice ./. wsj80:3885 N Sears shares escaped with little damage , falling just 1 8 to 34 1 2 in active trading ./. wsj85:9293 L Two young women in the front seat were n't wearing belts , but escaped without permanent injuries ./. wsj86:735 N What seems to escape him is that the central value of the free market is that it is inextricably intertwined with human freedom , both spiritually and materially ./. wsj02:2602 U The hard fact that has seemingly escaped Mr. Luck is that the newly minted top business-school graduates are fast becoming cost-ineffective for the typical and increasingly lean-and-mean American manufacturer ./. wsj03:1178 U The opposition parties argue that Canadian companies would shift their production to the U.S. to escape the taxes that fund such programs ./. wsj05:10485 U Mr. Linda was lucky ; he escaped with his life ./. wsj06:7787 U Gillette Co. 's board adopted a bylaw that would forbid the company from using the tactics that helped it escape the clutches of Revlon Inc. in 1986 ./. wsj07:4834 L Three anti-apartheid activists emerged from a 36-day stay at the U.S. consulate in Johannesburg , where they had sought refuge after escaping from police ./. wsj07:9602 L The pores permit carbon dioxide released by the respiring produce to escape the package , while allowing only small amounts of oxygen to enter . -LRB- Air is 21 % oxygen. -RRB-/-RRB- wsj07:9603 U The packaging industry has had some recent success with plastic films that allow carbon dioxide to escape and minimize the amount of oxygen allowed to enter the package ./. wsj08:6556 U And the ability of the bond market to escape relatively unscathed allowed stocks to move up a little . ''/'' wsj10:1014 L Less than 0.01 millirem escaped into the atmosphere through a facility 's stack , and workers were n't evacuated , a statement from Savannah River said ./. wsj12:1514 U Banking industry spokesmen and key legislators at the time noted the `` moral-hazard '' risk of allowing depositors to escape all responsibility for their investment decisions ./. wsj12:9354 U Some physicians are in rebellion and patients will not escape unscathed ./. wsj13:4455 L A fourth anti-apartheid activist escaped detention in South Africa and took refuge in the U.S. consulate in Johannesburg , where three others have been sheltered ./. wsj13:4466 L The FAA ordered that all planes with 30 seats or more be outfitted with equipment that detects and helps pilots escape wind shear ./. wsj13:58 U And Mr. Bush sometimes seemed to get lost in his own rhetoric-making , repeating , for example , references to `` a thousand points of light , '' a concept he used in his acceptance speech at the Republican convention but which seemed to escape most of the audience at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem , N.C ./. wsj13:7396 U And since these guarantees were little used until recently , they have largely escaped scrutiny ./. wsj13:790 U The company was acquired by Kelso & Co . , a New York investment banking firm , escaping a hostile takeover bid by Razorback Partners , made up of two New York partnerships ./. wsj13:801 L The Federal Aviation Administration , trying to reduce the risk of accidents caused by wind shear , ordered that all planes with 30 seats or more be outfitted with equipment that detects and helps pilots escape the condition ./. wsj13:808 L In addition to warning pilots when they hit unexpected , low-altitude wind shear , the new required equipment will provide the crew with computer-generated instructions on the best path to take to escape the wind shear ./. wsj15:3685 L About 100 , 000 Kurds -- a people not previously known for running -- have fled across the border to Turkey to escape the onslaught ./. wsj15:4723 U Thousands of smaller organizations in the 10- to 500-employee size are terminating pension and welfare plans to escape the onerous administrative cost involved ./. wsj17:3500 U -- Did the recently completed installation of so-called fire-blocking material on commercial aircraft seats give the passengers more time to escape ?/. wsj17:5681 U If yesterday 's accident was linked to any internal weakness at Delta , the problem escaped the notice of an exhaustive internal investigation last year to see whether any of the mishaps were connected ./. wsj17:5686 L At the scene of the crash , survivors said they were able to escape the plane by crawling out at a split in the fuselage and by going through an emergency exit over the wing ./. wsj17:595 U Much of the canola crop is grown in northern areas of western Canada that escaped the drought ./. wsj17:7181 U It also allowed Cordis , a maker of specialized medical devices , to escape with a relatively small fine ./. wsj18:3951 U Thus , service industries in labor-short states can often escape wage pressures by `` borrowing '' workers from high-unemployment states ./. wsj18:432 U But there has been no escaping the drought that has tormented the Midwest this summer ./. wsj20:8814 U Right now , profit earned from gold is tax-free in Australia , allowing Reynolds to escape the normal 40 % corporate tax rate ./. wsj22:9901 L Witnesses then remember hearing a rushing sound similar to steam escaping from a high-pressure valve ./. wsj23:7868 U Gillette Co . , again escaping from a hostile shareholder , agreed with Coniston Partners to end the New York investment group 's long-running battle with the company ./. wsj24:3573 U Is life here so bad that millions of us need to escape by using drugs ?/. wsj24:7128 U Boat people will continue their efforts to escape ./. wsj24:8384 U The credit could be used to offset tax liability incurred under the so-called alternative minimum tax , which was designed to prevent wealthy individuals and corporations from escaping taxes ./. wsj25:4128 U Municipal bonds have escaped the deep slump that hit the rest of the bond market this month ./. wsj25:5029 U The tank already has been filled and the tiny leak has allowed only a small amount of the gas to escape ./. wsj26:8287 L A new extermination technique calls for pumping air heated by propane burners into insect-infested houses that have been covered with tarps to keep the heat from escaping ./. wsj27:10922 L The assailants escaped on a waiting speedboat ./. wsj27:1688 L In 1981 , he and his second wife were able to escape Cuba by joining a group tour of Czechoslovakia ./. wsj30:7916 U We escaped from Vietnam on foot ./. wsj31:2715 U The change would allow off-highway users to escape the payments if they registered with federal authorities prior to making non-retail purchases of the fuel ./. wsj32:4119 U They said the railroad has become the latest casualty in Guilford 's two-year battle to escape costly union work rules and manning requirements ./. wsj32:4466 U These politicians have controlled the negotiations with the U.S . , and had preferred a GATT solution to a negotiated one , because that would have helped them to escape blame from the Nokyo for giving in ./. wsj32:9510 U In a footnote , he stated that `` it is difficult to escape a finding that this was an outrageous abuse in management of a public corporation and a blatant violation of fiduciary duties . ''/'' wsj33:245 U They escaped the degree of profit-taking that hit stocks ./. wsj33:6558 L The kinky Keynesians who devised it will be lucky to escape across the Potomac with their pie charts ./. wsj33:8075 U As a result , Neutral Zone production of more than 300 , 000 barrels a day escapes the OPEC quota system and is likely to remain controversial until Iraq is brought back into the system ./. wsj34:11180 U Maxus and Diamond Shamrock R & M , a now-separate refining and marketing operation , were part of the former Diamond Shamrock , which split itself up to escape T. Boone Pickens 's takeover bid ./. wsj34:11364 U To assert that mass transit has escaped large cuts , wasted federal dollars , reduced productivity and turned in `` an abysmal record of performance '' is simply untrueat least here in New York ./. wsj34:6417 U Indeed , in everything but his art Picasso was in most respects the perfect villain , and not everything in his art entirely escaped the taint of his deformed personality ./. wsj36:5575 U And while the strong emphasis on financial services makes analysts cautious about recommending Pargesa 's shares for short-term investors , Mr. Scohier points out that the company escaped largely unscathed from the stock-market crash last October ./. wsj36:9320 L Sean Penn pulls off a reasonably convincing German accent as Guenther , the surprise witness in `` Judgment in Berlin , '' the story of the East Germans who escaped to the West by hijacking a plane ./. wsj38:864 U They feel they can escape their own laws and do anything they want . ''/'' wsj39:7462 U `` We 're the first generation to escape brainwashing , '' says sociologist Lino di Almeida ./. wsj39:809 U Teachers and JMB are the latest players in Southland 's four-year struggle to escape the bailout of Mr. Carpenter 's urban utopia ./. ******************** ***evaporate*** *nonliteral cluster* wsj01:8942 N In race after race , PAC funds evaporated for Republican challengers , even for candidates with political credentials as impressive as those of Mr. Howard , once dubbed `` the conscience of the senate '' for his crusades against state-level corruption ./. wsj04:3504 N While acknowledging that the many hits he has taken have had an impact , Mr. Quayle says it is merely `` a question of when that perception will evaporate . ''/'' wsj05:3979 N Austrian companies , for example , complain that their sales of shoes and clothes to the Soviet Union -- more than $ 100 million in 1984 -- have almost evaporated ./. wsj11:7966 N `` Within a few years , we 're either going to see parents paying significantly higher tuition rates for good-quality care , or there 's going to be no coverage at all and child care is going to evaporate . ''/'' wsj30:5329 N At that point we suspect Jim Wright 's gift to the Democratic convention will turn to dross , as the next administration learns what happens when the U.S. lets seven years of support for a resistance movement evaporate ./. wsj33:10789 N The euphoria of hiring four agents the first month evaporated when the local franchise owners , who earlier sung VR 's praises , revealed their discontent now that he was one of them ./. wsj33:2514 N But the euphoria is evaporating as reality sinks in ./. wsj33:5370 N But the euphoria soon evaporated ./. wsj33:7068 N But party leaders ' hopes of writing a broadly worded document began to evaporate , as early versions of platform planks were cluttered with specific promises ./. wsj35:4437 N Those objections quickly evaporated after the university sophomore , who declared herself `` proud to be a Thai woman , '' was named the pageant 's winner ./. wsj56:755 N `` The specialness evaporates when a hands-on operation becomes a finger on a monolithic hand . ''/'' wsj61:362 N But it 's still a fragile recovery , one that may evaporate with the next U.S. monthly trade figure , some bankers warn ./. wsj77:9745 N And his initial hesitancy about the endeavor has evaporated completely , to be replaced by what might be called historical perspective ./. wsj01:7576 N As to competitive advantages from devaluation , they will evaporate quickly ./. wsj06:3586 U Adam Smith 's quaint notion of market prices set by buyers who care what price they pay has evaporated ./. wsj09:8158 U Its call for talks with the military is rooted in the belief support for Gen. Pinochet will evaporate after his humiliation ./. wsj11:4314 U It refers back to the 16th century , when the cherished ideal of sibling loyalty evaporated as half-brother warlords fought one another fiercely to gain power over regional lands ./. wsj12:7852 U Half of that rationale evaporated with oil-price decontrol , but gasohol subsidies live on ./. wsj18:10135 U At the same time , many banks are seeing demand for new loans evaporate ./. wsj19:2268 U To conform to Shearson 's pricing structure , that redemption charge would evaporate after five years ./. wsj19:8137 N Vista Group 's $ 16-a-share offer quickly evaporated in the controversy ./. wsj22:11207 N Meanwhile , existing jobs have evaporated ./. wsj23:1131 N The new jobs may pay less , but they will also be less likely to evaporate all at once ./. wsj24:8763 N When they repeated the tests with the special precautions , the sensational results evaporated ./. wsj28:9009 U Accordingly , they were among the hardest stung when that market proved to be illiquid and interest evaporated last year ./. wsj30:8017 N That measure assumed surpluses were the problem ; now the surpluses are evaporating ./. wsj35:5920 U Rep. Mickey Edwards , the House GOP leader on the issue , complains that White House attention evaporated as the Moscow summit neared ./. wsj41:9952 N Soviet fears that the U.S. would establish a naval base in Sri Lanka evaporated ./. wsj51:9177 U But Mr. Simon saw his nomination prospects evaporate when his cash-poor campaign skipped Super Tuesday last week ./. wsj57:8985 N A purported $ 16-a-share offer for Superior Industries International Inc. evaporated yesterday after a flurry of activity in which one supposed player , Prudential-Bache Securities Inc . , denied it had authorized such a buy-out offer ./. wsj63:6300 U But it is determined to prove , once and for all , that it can break with the past , when its earnings evaporated almost instantly in virtually every auto-industry recession ./. *literal cluster* wsj01:10941 N In 1984 Acorn was ready but the market was evaporating ./. wsj02:8244 N Analysts said Wall Street 's elation over Bush 's victory evaporated as speculation grew that central banks would no longer prop up the dollar ./. wsj07:7618 N Bond yields initially surged , but as stocks crashed inflation fears evaporated and an explosive bond market rally began ./. wsj09:6331 N Many traders and analysts said they think yesterday 's gains will soon evaporate ./. wsj10:9539 L One proposal calls for gasoline refiners to reduce the volatility of fuel in summer , thus reducing the fuel 's tendency to evaporate and contribute to ozone pollution ./. wsj11:4674 N The market pulled back during the afternoon amid profit-taking , traders said , and then began a fullscale retreat as buying interest evaporated ./. wsj12:7581 N Several issues were still sought after in the wake of last week 's bid for Consolidated Gold Fields , but the majority of the takeover froth has evaporated , dealers said ./. wsj13:2401 N At least one dealer , Mr. Feigen , feels that art as an investment is a fad that could evaporate if the Japanese economy weakens ./. wsj17:3930 N But some of the hopeful signs that fostered such optimism evaporated by spring ./. wsj17:4164 N Trading volume often evaporates just ahead of the monthly employment statistics , which are exceptionally difficult to predict ./. wsj17:4477 L While gas wells usually produce liquid as well as gas , `` it evaporates , '' he said ./. wsj19:10787 L The low pressure causes liquid in the arm to evaporate and to be pulled into the pipe ./. wsj22:5463 N Social Security surpluses also will help make the deficit evaporate within the next five years ./. wsj23:9814 N Long-term interest rates will plummet to their lowest level in 25 years as fears evaporate about swollen budget deficits , rising inflation and an over-leveraged corporate America ./. wsj24:1103 N Futures brokers have seen their wildest business in many years evaporate ./. wsj26:248 L As the water runs down , it leaches salt from the earth and carries it to the Mother of Poisons , where water evaporates in the searing sun , crystallizing the salt in a thick white crust on the surface ./. wsj30:10095 N If widespread window dressing is occurring , then last week 's rally and any upward move in prices this week could easily evaporate after the end of the quarter ./. wsj36:1476 N If dry weather cuts normal production by just three bushels an acre , the nation 's soybean stockpiles could evaporate by next year , says Richard Loewy , senior grain and oilseed analyst at Prudential-Bache Securities Inc ./. wsj38:10313 L But past compositions have included `` absorbed water , '' which evaporates at high temperatures , causing the fluids to break down ./. wsj39:2060 N Weather is dominating the soybean market earlier than usual this year because the nation 's once-burdensome stockpiles are rapidly evaporating ./. wsj40:9667 N Any support for the State Department 's proposals quickly evaporated when the ideas wound up in the press ./. wsj43:9273 N One lamenter of impeccable credentials is Peter G. Peterson , who in a recent Atlantic complains that we have let our infrastructure crumble , our productivity dwindle , our savings evaporate and our foreign markets dwindle ./. wsj47:2537 N Mr. Pickens was badly beaten in last fall 's battle for Newmont Mining , a raid that baffled takeover experts because 26 % of Newmont was already controlled by the ultimate victor , Consolidated Gold Fields PLC. Mesa 's $ 100 million stock profit from the deal -- Mr. Pickens 's estimate -- also evaporated during October 's market crash ./. wsj47:9407 N Tokyo activity was directionless as the heavy trading of the morning session evaporated in the afternoon ./. wsj48:10633 L The problem is partly due to a thermal vacuum switch in the vapor-control system that is supposed to curb release of evaporated gasoline , the EPA said ./. wsj48:573 N But the rally evaporated around midday as rumors began to spread that Wall Street would open lower ./. wsj48:6981 N `` As the amount of copper available for delivery rose above the number of contracts that had to be satisfied , the threat of a squeeze ' in the March contract evaporated , '' said William O'Neill , research director for Elders Futures Inc . , New York ./. wsj51:1594 N But confidence in that forecast began to evaporate on March 4 when the Labor Department reported a much larger increase in employment last month than anyone had expected ./. wsj51:3013 N `` The day that trade pressures evaporate , {Airbus's} interest in McDonnell Douglas cooperation is over , '' says one U.S. aerospace executive ./. wsj53:3689 N But the suit says such rights `` evaporate '' with the sale of his holding ./. wsj59:8245 N Recent fears of a weakening dollar , a sudden surge in inflation and a possible disappearance of foreign investors from the U.S. markets have all but evaporated ./. wsj64:5793 L The Nestle spokesman rebutted the anti-monopoly charge , noting that Perulac has only a 15 % share of the evaporated milk market ./. wsj69:7739 N Mr. Pickens was badly beaten in last fall 's battle for Newmont Mining , a raid that baffled takeover experts because 26 % of Newmont was already controlled by the ultimate victor , Consolidated Gold Fields PLC. Mesa 's $ 100 million stock profit from the deal -- Mr. Pickens 's estimate -- also evaporated during October 's market crash ./. wsj70:5702 N But the rally evaporated around midday as rumors began to spread that Wall Street would open lower ./. wsj71:794 N `` As the amount of copper available for delivery rose above the number of contracts that had to be satisfied , the threat of a squeeze ' in the March contract evaporated , '' said William O'Neill , research director for Elders Futures Inc . , New York ./. wsj07:7900 U Interest in buying cattle contracts at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange evaporated amid growing speculation that the premium of the cattle contract for December delivery had gotten too far above the spot price of live cattle , said Thomas Morgan , president of Sterling Research Corp . , Arlington Heights , Ill ./. wsj14:9770 U Finally , there came the day when the idea of universal service in time of war or near-war evaporated ./. wsj15:1251 U Although the trade report ignited a strong bond rally early yesterday , most of the gains later evaporated as oil prices climbed ./. wsj15:4597 U But buying evaporated later in the day , traders said ./. wsj16:6467 U But the rally quickly evaporated , leaving bonds at about the same levels as Tuesday ./. wsj19:210 U Now , profits are slipping and loan demand is evaporating ./. wsj26:5893 U Farmers have n't been inclined to sell their crops recently , anyway , but what little interest remained evaporated as prices fell ./. wsj26:8646 U A billion in bad loans evaporates in a year ./. wsj33:5133 U The Treasury bond market 's morning rally quickly evaporated yesterday as traders began evening their positions in advance of today 's trade report ./. wsj38:11130 L Tim Thiele , a Saskatchewan area manager for Ducks Unlimited , a conservation group , said thousands of small ponds where ducks nest and breed have evaporated ./. wsj38:7919 U Although the hefty U.S. export surpluses for those goods evaporated during the 1980s , sizeable net exports are expected again by 1990 , partly offsetting the oil and auto deficits ./. wsj46:3082 U Recession fears have all but evaporated , at least for this year , and most economists expect further moderate growth ./. wsj54:9130 U Mr. O'Gorman at Nomura and other traders said the demand for stocks seemed to evaporate as the industrial average moved beyond 2070 ./. wsj59:3071 U Triple-digit inflation returned , and his popularity evaporated ./. ******************** ***examine*** *nonliteral cluster* wsj01:3312 N Although SEC investigators have interviewed Mr. Salsbury , it 's not clear what role if any he played in events being examined in the current probe ./. wsj01:6133 N The GAO was also to examine if the law has caused excessive red tape for employers , and if the law is being implemented well ./. wsj02:2261 U Rep. J.J . `` Jake '' Pickle -LRB- D . , Texas -RRB- , chairman of the Ways and Means oversight subcommittee , said the hearings will examine the participation of pension funds and other nonprofit groups in backing a $ 20.3 billion buy-out offer for RJR Nabisco Inc. and other similar transactions ./. wsj03:5980 U Questions of perjury typically are examined in the later stages of complex white-collar crime investigations ./. wsj06:5284 U However , before we start wringing our hands , let 's examine the matter objectively ./. wsj07:6308 N The discovery has led air-safety investigators to examine a possible link between the Continental craft and two aircraft accidents that involved fuselage cracking ./. wsj10:7620 U Executives at Blackstone , a specialist in friendly buy-outs , are examining a possible bid in the range of $ 13 to $ 15 a share , or about $ 620 million to $ 715.5 million , the sources said ./. wsj10:941 U Analysts and financial advisers said booming base metal producers and other cash-rich cyclical companies in steel or oil , for instance , are also likely to pay out in dividends surplus cash , or examine other ways to return value to shareholders ./. wsj11:10026 U As reported last May , Ausimont retained Morgan Stanley International to help it examine alternatives `` to maximize shareholder value . ''/'' wsj13:7384 U The secrecy has frustrated analysts , reporters and lawmakers who have been anxious to examine the incentives and costs ./. wsj15:9311 U An investor group led by Steven and Mitchell Rales of Washington , D.C . , indicated willingness to sweeten its tender offer for Interco Inc. to $ 72 a share , or about $ 2.76 billion , if it can examine certain nonpublic Interco documents ./. wsj17:5777 N Thomas V. Chema , chairman of the utilities commission said it will examine the utilities ' request , especially trying to determine why an accounting change permitted by the commission did n't meet the utilities ' concerns about possible default ./. wsj18:6333 N `` I 'd like the campaign to critically examine how the candidate spends his time , '' says Richard Wiener , the Michigan Democratic chairman ./. wsj19:8731 U The ratings concern said it is examining the effects of the transaction on Benton Harbor , Mich.-based Whirlpool 's capital structure ./. wsj22:3971 N A Nielsen spokeswoman said the ratings company is examining `` several different approaches '' to measure commercial ratings , and is running `` several test programs '' using passive meters ./. wsj22:6462 N `` I privately examined this company 's ability to deal with Japanese equities , and secretly induced the Ministry of Finance to focus on this point , '' says Mr. Miyoda ./. wsj26:11276 U After mentioning that the names of 37 Otter Creek investors were examined , he said `` no geographic or familial connections were noted . ''/'' wsj27:1055 U `` It does n't surprise me there are a couple of futures funds out of a universe of a couple of hundred that outperform equity funds on both an absolute and on a risk-to-reward basis , though the latter is a little more unusual , '' says Mr. Irwin , who examined the study ./. wsj27:3082 U The National Transportation Safety Board will examine the accident during a three-day hearing scheduled to begin Aug. 2 in suburban Louisville , the agency said ./. wsj28:3191 U Payless Cashways is being examined by a potential suitor , Ward White of Britain , though Ward said its interest in making a bid is `` at a low level '' right now ./. wsj28:7178 U One early study , done in 1974 by William F. Sharpe , professor of finance at Stanford University , examined market data from 1934 to 1972 and found that a market timer with 2 % trading costs choosing once a year between stocks and cash would have to have been right at least 82 % of the time to do as well as someone using a buy-and-hold strategy in stocks ./. wsj29:4862 N Meanwhile , law-enforcement officials said that investigators are examining the fierce competition that developed between military contractors over a $ 168.9 million contract to build a prototype surveillance blimp for the Navy ./. wsj29:6445 U This fundamental difference , almost too obvious to mention , gets lost when experts start examining the Soviet Union with a microscope to study perceived changes and prescribe Western responses ./. wsj30:7045 U Citicorp is examining the books of First RepublicBank of Dallas with an eye toward proposing a federally assisted takeover of the troubled bank ./. wsj31:1584 N The House panel is examining whether Rep. Wright 's 55 % royalties from his book `` Reflections of a Public Man '' amounted to improper conversion of campaign funds to personal use ; the publisher was paid more than $ 250 , 000 by Mr. Wright 's political committees in 1985 and 1986 for campaign work ./. wsj31:4823 N In Taunton , he called together business , labor , political and education leaders to examine the city 's problems ./. wsj31:7215 N Mr. Martinelli 's lawyer , Joseph Sharlitt , said he sees `` dangerous '' implications in requiring publishers to disclose quid-pro-quo arrangements: `` It means all business practices of the press can be examined for any tie-in for ads and reprints about companies . ''/'' wsj32:2020 N Drought concerns are so great that `` they 're examining thunderstorms through a microscope , '' hoping every cloud will bring a downpour , says David Taylor , meteorologist for Weather Services Corp. of Bedford , Mass ./. wsj32:5583 U In an interview yesterday , he said , `` We ought to start examining which countries are n't going to pay us back and cut them off . ''/'' wsj32:5645 U Last month , when Moody 's placed Lilco under review for possible upgrade , the ratings concern said that one thing it would be examining was the possible effect of the lawsuit on the utility 's financial condition ./. wsj33:4340 N British Trade and Industry Secretary Lord Young said he plans to appoint an independent investigator to examine his department 's regulatory oversight of James Ferguson Holdings PLC , an investment-management company whose Barlow Clowes Gilt Managers Ltd. unit is being liquidated ./. wsj34:9695 N Two years later a planning group examined the town 's economic future , leading to the incorporation of the Greencastle Development Center in September 1986 ./. wsj35:11148 U In addition , the committee and its consulting auditors , Coopers & Lybrand , said they are also examining possible overstatement of sales and earnings in prior years ./. wsj35:6133 U In the institute 's basement , astronomers can help point the telescope , videogame-roller-ball style , by rotating a ball from side to side , and examine the exotica of the universe on a video screen receiving transmissions from the telescope ./. wsj35:9231 N A U.S. District Court judge in Pittsburgh , who was examining BNS 's compliance with federal bank-borrowing regulations , has said he would remove his injunction if Koppers and BNS agreed to merge ./. wsj38:1903 U To establish their universality and effectiveness , Mr. Wildavsky examines these strategies , alone and in combinations , in evolutionary , physiological , technological and institutional forms ./. *literal cluster* wsj01:10088 N `` We never openly examined the legacy of the Japanese occupation , nor the days of Syngman Rhee or Park Chung Hee ./. wsj01:3293 N Federal investigators also are examining whether Peck employees may have emulated any improper trading for their own or the firm 's account , people familiar with the investigation said ./. wsj03:7407 L First , they should examine their systems , especially personal computers , research computers and other end-user systems that operate outside conventional data processing departments , to make sure that only authorized programs can be used and that only authorized people can use the machines either directly or remotely ./. wsj03:9735 L In fact , the debate found him at one point cross-examining the senator like a prosecutor ./. wsj05:57 L Other hospitals , she says , routinely admitted patients for a colonoscopy -LRB- in which a tube is inserted to examine the colon -RRB- that could have been performed in a doctor 's office for $ 500 ./. wsj06:1929 L MDT makes sterility-assurance systems and examining and operating equipment for the hospital , medical , dental and laboratory markets ./. wsj07:10996 N Before buying into such a clone , it would be worthwhile to examine the current track record of the fund being cloned ./. wsj07:4003 N The Bank Board is examining various alternatives that would bypass the need for any California state approvals ./. wsj07:6076 L Periodically , a nurse emerges from one of eight examining rooms to bellow out the name of the next patient ./. wsj07:6105 L Even if doctors examine a woman as soon as she comes in , they often have no time to tell if her fetus is sufficiently developed or if a Caesarean section is crucial ./. wsj11:8406 L France will examine these proposals closely -- and `` intends to put forward her own proposals , '' he said ./. wsj13:2632 N But sources inside the company acknowledge that management has examined such options as a restructuring or recapitalization , or a friendly transaction with another company ./. wsj14:5892 L Then , examining supervisors ' performance ratings of managers and professionals in a large manufacturing company , they found the married men consistently drawing higher performance ratings than comparable single men and far more likely to be promoted into higher paying jobs ./. wsj14:9080 L It would be most interesting to see an article that would examine the market value of a college degree by separating out for comparison a group of degreed and non-degreed individuals with similar social and economic backgrounds and levels of intelligence ./. wsj14:9235 N Watch these acclaimed motor-mouths crank it to the max , in order to `` examine all aspects of the electoral process '' in a single hour ./. wsj15:11091 L Dr. Kinlen , who directs the university 's Cancer Epidemiology Unit , examined leukemia deaths from a U.S. study that had tracked veterans ' smoking between 1954 and 1969 ./. wsj15:7256 L City Capital Associates , a group led by Steven and Mitchell Rales of Washington , D.C . , indicated that it would be willing to raise its bid for the company to $ 72 a share from $ 70 if it can examine certain non-public documents ./. wsj15:8357 N The study , they said , will examine the feasibility of selling the sporty vehicle being jointly developed by the companies , which are both affiliated with General Motors Corp ./. wsj16:10424 L `` You could change husbands , but not the situation , '' she thinks as she examines snack foods ./. wsj16:5525 L Still , the divergence of the two candidates ' views becomes clear in examining their proposals for dealing with the strifetorn regions of Central America and Southern Africa ./. wsj17:743 L By filing a complaint , the citizen forces a government investigation , because the Justice Department is required to examine each False Claims suit ./. wsj18:2701 L My late father-in-law , Jean Le Gorre , once recounted an early experience in the French army during World War I where on bivouac he examined his field ration -- a piece of issue `` hardtack . ''/'' wsj18:8930 L In other sections , Col. Elting examines the telegraph , map-making , military intelligence and counterintelligence , the importance of flags and banners and of drums and trumpets ./. wsj22:3329 N It is way past time for us to examine our relationship with Japan , its treatment of U.S. inventors , and our treatment of patent applications sent from Japan or its local companies ./. wsj22:4591 L The researchers called in healthy members of the Mormon family with the cancer clustering and examined them with a fiber optic device inserted through the bowel that produces images of the inside of the colon ./. wsj24:4772 L Before examining them , Mr. Araujo says he has to read the MiG flight manual , an unwieldly volume he discovered was written in Chinese ./. wsj24:5145 L But even though we invested a considerable amount of time in examining and reexamining Coke 's and Pepsi 's consumer research , we could n't find any fatal flaws . ''/'' wsj24:572 L Data rooms opened this week , and for each of the eight packages , at least 10 companies plan to examine the information , Mr. Ketelsen said ./. wsj28:4583 L They examined the death certificates of all children who were killed when hit by a car in Washington state between 1979 and 1983 ./. wsj28:5334 L Mr. McKenzie alleged that the parliamentary committee examining the language bill refused to hear testimony from opponents , a charge also made by civil-rights groups ./. wsj29:10664 L In the Airbus case , pilots and safety officials say the plane 's speed and the speed of its engines before the crash are likely to be examined closely by French authorities ./. wsj29:2857 N `` It can now be examined in more detail if the model for restructuring the aerospace industry will hold water , '' Mr. Reuter said ./. wsj30:11141 L He said these proposals `` ought always to be listened to with great precaution , and ought never to be adopted till after having been long and carefully examined , not only with the most scrupulous , but with the most suspicious attention ./. wsj30:4834 L Jan Workinger emerges from American Airlines Flight 115 and examines the faces around Gate 25 ./. wsj30:7676 N In an even more barbed letter sent earlier in the month , James Miller , director of the Office of Management and Budget , charged that in examining the controversial issue of shareholder voting rights , the SEC `` lost sight of an important value -- that of competition . ''/'' wsj31:8615 L A New York radio real-estate adviser has been touting Camden 's proximity to Philadelphia , and a busload of speculators drove through the city recently to examine homes ./. wsj33:6618 L He urged the Norwegian government to press its rights to inspect the Dimona reactor and examine any materials , such as plutonium , possibly made from using the heavy water ./. wsj34:56 L While Mr. McClean had n't fully examined the materials released by Gazelle , he noted that `` the gallium-arsenide market has really been in a chicken-or-egg situation , '' with prices remaining high in part because they are produced in such small volume , and demand curtailed because prices are high ./. wsj35:3818 N But that has n't occurred ; meanwhile , it may be a healthy thing that politicians are on notice that character issues may be more deeply examined ./. wsj35:6163 L Prompted by news reports of alleged misappropriation of funds , the SEC visited the firm 's New York headquarters last week with the intention of examining business records ./. wsj35:833 L They said the agency 's enforcement division examined suspicious trading with total potential profit of more than $ 1 million in the May 1986 takeover of Sperry by Burroughs ./. wsj36:7005 N During that period I had made a number of wilderness trips into war zones in an effort to examine the reliability of the many conflicting human-rights reports and present an overall picture of the Contra war 's human toll ./. wsj36:7947 N A recent study by HHS for the first time examines how many Americans use such treatments , as well as the kinds of `` cures '' they try ./. wsj36:7955 L Only 15 areas of treatment are examined , and several areas where questionable cures flourish -- the weight-loss catagory , for example -- are n't included ./. wsj37:1951 L `` We ca n't go any further until the commission has in fact examined the application , '' she said ./. wsj37:3672 N Immunex said the study examined patients with lymph cancers such as leukemia ./. wsj39:10503 L Each area gets a general overview , then is examined beach-by-beach , with basic highway directions , a brief history , and lists of cultural points of interest , noteworthy sealife , indigenous flora and fauna , as well as available parking , camping and picnic facilities ./. wsj39:10537 L SEC staffers have just begun examining corporate cleanup disclosures ./. wsj40:4545 N Several aspects of the criminal-justice process have been examined ./. wsj41:9350 L Much is made of Mr. Hoxsey 's assertion that his files were open to doubters , but only a few brief seconds are devoted to the fact that when the files were examined they were found to be so incomplete that it was impossible to tell whether the `` cured '' patients actually had had cancer or whether conventional treatment had been effective ./. wsj42:1478 N A spokesman for Burbank , Calif.-based Walt Disney Co. said the entertainment concern is examining the decision and would n't comment until after its review is complete ./. wsj43:8834 N The officials then began to examine some kind of combination between the two international airlines ./. wsj43:9916 N CNW Corp . , the parent of the Chicago & North Western Transportation Co . , said President Reagan has ordered the creation of a presidential emergency board to examine the issues in a labor dispute over crew size , thus temporarily averting a strike that had been scheduled for tomorrow night ./. wsj46:2063 L David L. Paul , CenTrust 's chairman and chief executive officer , said it has been talking with Florida Federal `` for three or four weeks '' but came to loggerheads over the ground rules for CenTrust to examine Florida Federal 's books ./. wsj46:9371 L Enlarged transparencies of drawings that are lit from behind are hard to examine closely ./. wsj47:1560 N The Boeing spokesman said: `` A concern from a longstanding and honored customer like JAL is going to be examined immediately to see what actions we can and shall take ./. wsj49:2817 N If that sounds like obstinacy , perhaps it 's time once more to examine carefully the forces that have kept the Arab-Israeli conflict boiling so long ./. wsj50:3121 L But some institutional shareholders said they wanted to examine Griffin 's $ 35-a-share offer ./. wsj50:4106 N It said that the companies are examining the possibilities provided within the framework of securities law but that `` all these considerations have n't been in any way concluded . ''/'' wsj52:5524 L It will examine all the data on the economy , together with the best forecasts its economists can dream up , and plan a monetary policy that will fit the need ./. wsj54:334 L The investigators also are examining possible tax-law violations involving $ 11 billion in tax-exempt bonds underwritten by other firms ./. wsj58:7460 N Federated 's board , following an all-day meeting yesterday , is expected to direct its financial advisers to examine alternatives to the Campeau bid , the sources said ./. wsj60:10639 L `` Consumer spending would mean a wider -LRB- U.S. -RRB- trade deficit , '' he said , adding , `` we want to examine the content '' of the growth data ./. wsj61:7072 L Operation Hunger recently studied 28 rural black communities and found evidence of malnutrition in more than half of the children examined ./. wsj62:7563 N A young Oxford graduate comes to Southwest Ireland in 1904 to examine the connections between two incidents in local history that might illuminate the inner logic of a bloody quarter century ./. wsj63:1583 N People familiar with the investigation said the SEC is examining both of these motives in its current investigation ./. wsj63:2736 N Another form of front-running likely to be examined in coming months is trading by Wall Street firms in October in anticipation of massive sell orders by money managers using the computerized hedging strategy known as portfolio insurance ./. wsj64:1533 N The approach is Socratic , using stories , questions and open discussion to allow students to examine these ethical concepts ./. wsj64:5579 N Several Wall Street investment bankers said clients have instructed them to examine the feasibility of topping the Swiss giant 's bid , but emphasized that interest so far is preliminary ./. wsj64:7050 L Similarly , Stephen Lister , a senior vice president of the American Stock Exchange , said that in examining the activities of brokers , the exchange 's investigators sometimes encounter brokers who ca n't explain an investment strategy they 've recommended to customers ./. wsj64:8957 N The study , which examined 50 people who were wearing lap belts during auto accidents , concluded that 32 would have `` fared substantially better if they had been wearing a lap-shoulder belt . ''/'' wsj69:86 N The former president does n't see in Mr. Bush the `` independence '' or the `` drive '' to lead a country whose global leadership is increasingly questioned , a subject Mr. Nixon examines in his new book ./. wsj71:7938 N If that sounds like obstinacy , perhaps it 's time once more to examine carefully the forces that have kept the Arab-Israeli conflict boiling so long ./. wsj72:2366 N Mr. Haraszti , a Budapest dissident and co-editor of the opposition journal Beszelo , examines the intimate and in his view `` symbiotic '' relationship between artists and the state ./. wsj73:10010 L Cabot Medical Corp. said it received approval from the Food and Drug Administration to market a new pump that simplifies a diagnostic procedure for examining the uterus ./. wsj73:1370 N Moody 's said it will examine the effect of such a tender offer , if sucessfully completed , on Facet 's capital structure and debt-protection measurements ./. wsj73:2206 L But a source close to Black & Decker acknowledged that the company had received the information from American Standard and said that the company 's representatives will meet with American Standard officials this afternoon to examine nonpublic information ./. wsj76:3296 L Digging into the affairs of a hypothetical Jones Corp . , for example , Murphy accountants and investigators in many cases will examine each and every document ./. wsj76:331 N A senior First Boston official said yesterday that the firm 's internal auditors were still examining the trading problem and had not yet reached any conclusions about its cause ./. wsj76:8002 L The program is designed to let people using personal computers on a network plan meetings , share comments , track projects and examine libraries of documents ./. wsj77:3544 L First , there is the problem of establishing precisely what `` meaning '' each senator understood concerning every provision of every treaty at the time the Senate gave its consent to ratification . -LRB- From my observation , most senators do not attend treaty hearings , read committee reports on treaties , or even personally examine the texts of most proposed treaties before they are called upon to vote. -RRB-/-RRB- wsj79:10407 L If you wish to examine why college costs rise faster than the cost-of-living index , you can start with our libraries ./. wsj81:6640 N At 9 p.m . , a doctor examines her and orders tests ./. wsj83:3806 N The documents , filed with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration , also indicated that a GM technical committee examining the complaints at one point recommended to GM management that the cars be recalled -- but subsequently reversed itself ./. wsj84:3044 N Another form of front-running likely to be examined in coming months is trading by Wall Street firms in October in anticipation of massive sell orders by money managers using the computerized hedging strategy known as portfolio insurance ./. wsj86:4384 N Most historians of the Tulipmania were so intent on demonstrating the follies of speculative markets and thereby providing a case for controlling market activities that they neglected to examine the market fundamentals of bulb pricing ./. wsj01:4551 U They said that because criminal charges are expected to be filed soon against Drexel and others , there would be few opportunities to examine witnesses against them anyway ./. wsj02:258 U Representatives of the IRS could n't be reached for comment on whether the agency plans to examine the foundations ' returns ./. wsj02:2687 U Says Rafael Rivero Munoz , a private investigator hired by the opposition Social Christian party -LRB- known here as Copei -RRB- to examine the widespread charges of corruption with CVG: `` There are no controls ./. wsj02:3905 U In the same issue , a broader study examining data from 5 , 490 hospitals in 48 states found that , between 1982 and 1986 , the rate of growth in California hospital charges was substantially lower than the national average ./. wsj02:7524 U A New Jersey research firm , New World Decisions , examined attitudes and awareness among 1 , 000 randomly selected men and women , half between 45 and 55 and half over 65 ./. wsj02:9011 U Ransburg Corp. said it is examining alternatives to a $ 15.25-a-share unsolicited tender offer from FLC Financial Corp . , including possible sales of business units and issuing stock to third parties ./. wsj05:1431 U Just how far is reflected in three new studies that examine the buying behavior of the 55-and-over age group ./. wsj05:2636 U Law-enforcement officials said they are examining accounts held at BankAmerica branches in Los Angeles and Concord , Calif ./. wsj05:4574 L Moreover , the SEC would have the right to examine books and records without prior warning ./. wsj06:11031 L The second will examine policies that could lessen current concentrations of gases that contribute to global warming ./. wsj06:9569 U Attorneys and investment bankers for Barclays spent more than a month examining Irving , and Irving expected an offer , the Irving executives said ./. wsj09:1036 U By the early 1990s , it plans to examine how patients fare during hospitalization ./. wsj09:5737 U In addition to examining trusts that held now-defaulted WPPSS bonds , the SEC is delving into trusts sold more recently than 1983 ./. wsj09:6232 U The opinion said: `` Where a massive number of classified documents exists such that the judge and his law clerk simply can not examine them all . .. a master to structure the judge 's review is appropriate . ''/'' wsj09:966 U The Wall Street Journal , in its examination of the joint commission , interviewed hospital workers and government officials , examined hospital records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act , and researched court and other records ./. wsj10:10064 U Maclean Hunter 's chief financial officer , J. Robert Furse , said the company will examine Southam 's announcement , but that it was too early to say whether it 's genuinely interested in making a bid ./. wsj10:5100 L For the standard `` pap '' smear , a technician examines the cells on the swab for visual evidence of abnormalities that indicate pre-cancerous changes in the cervix ./. wsj10:551 U Blood samples from 462 pregnant women were examined using the latest test ./. wsj10:6658 U The commissioners say they are examining the policies because so many consumers have complained about them ./. wsj11:4094 U The Unisys rumor spurred Dean Witter analyst Eugene Glazer Tuesday to examine whether Xerox might fit with Unisys ./. wsj13:1454 U Robert Strauss , the former Democratic chairman , also put the issue into play this week by saying the National Economic Commission will examine Social Security because `` that 's where the money is . ''/'' wsj13:8859 U The General Accounting Office , a congressional watchdog agency , examined the impact of Trans World Airlines ' acquisition of its major St. Louis competitor , Ozark Airlines , in 1986 ./. wsj15:7310 L He has closely examined the works of Hieronymus Bosch , but their crowded worlds of paradise and writhing sinners yielded few medical rewards ./. wsj16:9644 U Executives are examining a long list of business questions , from whether Meritor should manage and sell its own mutual funds to whether it should carry a building-maintenance staff on its payroll or hire an outside service ./. wsj17:10597 U P.J. Johnson , a Nomura spokesman in New York , declined to comment except to say , `` We continue to examine various alternatives as we expand our firm 's business in the U.S . ''/'' wsj17:3164 L It 's a step designed to get around potential subpoena limitations by enabling lawyers to examine Seattle witnesses from here ./. wsj17:4783 U Federal safety investigators here began examining whether engine problems may have contributed to the crash of a Delta Air Lines 727 here Wednesday that killed 13 people ./. wsj18:10608 U Before someone is hired at Thomas Interior Systems Inc . , the president of the Elmhurst , Ill . , office-furniture company has a handwriting analyst examine the candidate 's writing to develop a personality profile ./. wsj19:10285 U Raymark said that the vans traveled to tire plants , where workers were examined and referred to the two lawyers if asbestos-related injuries were detected , according to Judge Kelly ./. wsj19:1740 L A Dr. E `` examined a horse that had warts on its forelegs , '' begins one item in the newsletter , which withholds names of vets and patients ./. wsj19:2398 U In a statement , the ministry said a special committee , which will be led by Vice Minister of Trade and Industry Huh Nam Hoon , would be established early next month to examine the issue ./. wsj21:2697 U Sen. Bentsen 's request to the International Trade Commission is limited to examining the pros and cons of entering into negotiations with Japan and does not address the substance of a possible agreement ./. wsj21:713 U He examined the topic because `` it 's really cool '' ; thus drawing real-world lessons for other companies `` is n't something I have any interest in ./. wsj22:4599 L In Kindred 1002 alone , the scientists have examined 350 members ./. wsj22:9520 U `` We 've wrestled with benchmarks for many years , '' he says , adding that quarterly performance `` is only one of the many variables '' investors should examine when shopping for funds ./. wsj23:6065 U So far , investigators at the SEC , the Amex , the New York Stock Exchange and the National Association of Securities Dealers have identified possibly improper trading in Business Week-related stocks at six brokerage firms and are examining individuals at three others -- Smith Barney , PaineWebber Group Inc. and Integrated Resources Inc ./. wsj23:8899 U The Securities and Exchange Commission and Prudential-Bache are examining whether Mr. Callahan may have shared information on Business Week articles with friends outside the brokerage office , people familiar with the investigation said ./. wsj24:1145 U He declines to comment on whether B.A.T is examining alternatives , saying only that Farmers `` is obviously our first choice . ''/'' wsj25:2253 U Mr. Roll 's sample , which includes stock markets in countries in Asia , Europe , North America and South America , is ideal for examining the relation between stock-price performance and market structure because institutional arrangements and practices vary markedly across countries ./. wsj25:462 L One of the contracts prosecutors are examining -- the development job for the Navy 's carrier-based advanced tactical aircraft -- was subject to a `` best and final offer , '' known as a BAFO , and then a `` best and revised final offer , '' known as a BARFO. Investigators are looking at whether Melvyn Paisley improperly steered the multibillion-dollar job to McDonnell Douglas Corp. and General Dynamics Corp. while he was assistant Navy secretary ./. wsj26:4083 U On June 9 , the House Ethics Committee voted to examine several allegations including: possible improper lobbying of federal savings-and-loan regulators , the financing of his famous non-book , `` Reflections of a Public Man , '' and the use of a Congressional aide to complete it , and Mr. Wright 's use of a Texas condominium that belongs to a business partner ./. wsj26:9314 U Mr. Swift is a proponent of the multisite cracking theory being examined by the safety board as a possible cause ./. wsj27:8810 L Particularly remarkable in this context are Whistler 's lyrical 1864 depiction of an English woman examining a blue-and-white ceramic vase , which mixes Chinese and Japanese themes , and Monet 's astonishingly brash depiction of his wife in a bright red kimono , surrounded by fans ./. wsj28:5488 U The study , published in the Journal of the American Medical Association , examines whether `` proficiency testing '' improves laboratory performance ./. wsj29:10126 L If the Mulheren case does go forward , Mr. Puccio , a partner at Milbank , Tweed , Hadley & McCloy , would likely become the first defense lawyer to cross-examine Mr. Boesky , a role that would guarantee Mr. Puccio enormous media attention ./. wsj30:2871 U Peter Steen , president and chief executive officer of Corona Corp . , said the company remains `` receptive to examining an out-of-court settlement '' with LAC Minerals Ltd. regarding the disputed Williams mine at Hemlo , Ontario ./. wsj30:6741 L But David Bartholomew , an assistant vice president of Merrill Lynch , says that over a 12-year period he examined , Mr. Finckle 's six-month forecasts were 85 % accurate ./. wsj30:7323 L Citibank has examined several Texas banks , but thus far has decided that it did n't have enough confidence in the short-term Texas outlook to take the plunge ./. wsj31:4301 U And Mr. Rhodes says several other big regional retailers are also examining the program ./. wsj31:6888 U The investor group said its `` friendly '' offer to buy Pennwalt shares still stands , but that Centaur is `` examining our other options . ''/'' wsj31:8677 L Herbert Weisberg , a political scientist at Ohio State University , analyzed national election data compiled by the University of Michigan and concluded , `` When one examines voting in the 1984 election , one finds the largest voting differences on the basis of race and income , followed by differences based on marital status , religion , gender , and region . ''/'' wsj32:10273 U A judge of the Alberta Court of Queen 's Bench has scheduled a court proceeding beginning June 27 to examine the fairness of Amoco Canada Petroleum Ltd. 's proposed $ 4.18 billion -LRB- U.S. -RRB- takeover of Dome Petroleum Ltd ./. wsj32:3674 U When he arrived in Texas , some thrifts had n't been examined in as long as three years ./. wsj33:5872 L `` We tried to protect as many people as we could , examining every job , every structure and every expense , '' Mr. Traub said ./. wsj34:1747 U University faculty and public officials will examine such issues as affordable housing , economic development , transportation and decaying infrastructures ./. wsj36:1052 U CNW Corp . , the Chicago-based parent of Chicago & North Western Transportation Co . , said President Reagan 's emergency board created to examine issues in a labor dispute about crew size will report its findings by July 4 ./. wsj36:4183 L The May employment data will be minutely examined by economists who are sifting for clues to the pace of inflation and interest rates ./. wsj38:7194 U Shearson Lehman Hutton Inc . , for example , examines the records of 1 , 200 money managers , sends questionnaires to some 550 , personally visits with about 150 , and recommends only about 100 ./. wsj38:805 U But Judge Cohill disagreed , choosing to examine the substance behind those possible violations ./. wsj39:10565 U Few securities analysts have closely examined it ./. wsj40:4547 U When Raymond Paternoster , in a study published in the fall 1983 Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology , examined the activities of prosecutors in South Carolina over several years , he found evidence that race was a major factor in the prosecutor 's decision to seek capital punishment ./. wsj40:5069 U Mr. Myhren of American Television said the industry research lab will also examine more efficient ways to scramble satellite-delivered television programs to avoid theft , and other security issues ./. wsj41:11036 U `` We want to examine it -LRB- the non-OPEC proposal -RRB- fully . . . ./. wsj41:490 U The actions that primarily need to be examined are those in support of the Contras , and not the arms sales to Iran , since the Iranian initiative had explicit presidential approval ./. ******************** ***fill*** *nonliteral cluster* wsj09:232 L By the time they reached the Inner Court many were beginning to look bleary-eyed as they wandered through a sea of glass cases filled with everything from Han jugs to Ming wall-scrolls and jades ./. wsj12:521 L And Mr. Karnes , a political unknown selected by GOP Gov. Kay Orr to fill a Senate vacancy created by the death of Edward Zorinsky 18 months ago , is followed by the shadow of his rival wherever he goes ./. wsj12:8507 N Stories of dog restaurants being shooed from areas tourists frequent filled the foreign press in pre-Olympic days ./. wsj16:6961 N In an extreme close-up , Mr. Gorton 's face then fills the screen: `` I needed to listen more , and the voters made that point crystal clear ./. wsj18:6956 L Their melanin-producing system keeps the skin constantly filled with the dark pigment ./. wsj27:423 N Levi Strauss & Co. moved from a 13-page booklet `` filled with details and procedures '' to a half-page statement of principles , says a spokeswoman ./. wsj30:10174 N The short-term parking lots at Newark Airport in New Jersey now fill up several times a week -- even though it costs $ 48 a day to park there ./. wsj30:8262 N It was a fight that filled magazines and books and gave professors case histories for business schools ./. wsj31:6179 L Mr. Cossa 's grain bin may be filling up , but just last month another 100 peasants -- looking for food and security -- moved into the village to escape the fighting in the countryside ./. wsj34:4483 N The `` catastrophic illness '' health-care bill approved by Congress yesterday will fill some major gaps in Medicare coverage for the elderly ./. wsj43:4892 N After being widowed at the age of 50 , this heretofore conventional woman began making sculptures , systematically filling her house and yard with her weird creations ./. wsj44:3969 N The generally accepted reason for the softening of TPA sales is that wholesalers filled their distribution pipeline , and hospital usage now is coming out of wholesalers ' stocks of the drug -- not new sales , Ms. Behrens said ./. wsj47:10191 N In 1985 and 1986 , when pictures of rioting blacks and rampaging white policemen filled television screens around the world , the perception was that South Africa 's white-dominated government was losing its grip ./. wsj47:9884 N Last year the movies were filled with babies ./. wsj55:11122 N American life being filled with headaches , aspirin began to catch on ./. wsj57:5111 N His inadequacy , vacillation and -LRB- a favorite -RRB- `` imbecility '' were widely condemned , along with his intellect , or lack of it: `` You can not . .. fill his . .. empty skull with brains . ''/'' wsj63:6538 N The priest , a young bearded man with a flat-topped black hat , wore gold vestments that glistened in the candlelight as he processed around the filled church ./. wsj68:6506 N He is laboriously filling out the cash-flow statement his bank requires for a spring-planting loan ./. wsj70:3568 N Last year the movies were filled with babies ./. wsj83:9365 N But on this wintry afternoon when the air is filled with the smell of homemade cinnamon buns , Doris Van Sickle , once the Boone County Democratic women 's chairman , is surrounded by her new allies -- political novices eager to meet Marlene Elwell , the Michigan housewife who has organized the Midwest for the former religious broadcaster ./. wsj01:579 N Elise holds out empty arms , pleading with Andrew to fill them , but the chasm is too wide , the distance traveled in different directions too great ./. wsj02:568 U Such drastic cuts in production time bring great benefits to companies that successfully achieve them ; their need for large parts inventories is sharply reduced and they are able to fill customer orders much faster ./. wsj05:9675 N But it 's truly disappointing to see him turning to television parodies to fill out the play ./. wsj09:11247 N The stock market 's sideways course this year may fill many investors with frustration , but to one Ohio money manager with a strong track record , it spells opportunity ./. wsj10:10425 N Mr. Vann 's life is a stunning story , its surface brilliance concealing sexual compulsions that filled his private life with lies ./. wsj14:5521 N The subject is Oedipus 's death , and perhaps because death is the one thing that still fills us with awe , the excellence of this scene transmits a shiver of the tragedy 's original force ./. wsj14:848 N STATES MOVE to fill what they see as a void in job training ./. wsj15:9821 N After years of being out of work and on welfare , many of the unemployed now lack the ability or initiative to fill openings ./. wsj16:3597 N Back then in 1876 , Wagner nearly went bankrupt trying to fill up his new theater , and a good many who did attend , among them Tchaikovsky , left word of the boredom they barely conquered listening to this gigantic parable of love , lust , power and greed dovetailed over decades out of quaint Nordic myths and some 200 leitmotives ./. wsj16:4156 N Lillian Vernon Corp . , a mail-order company , said it is experiencing delays in filling orders at its new national distribution center in Virginia Beach , Va ./. wsj17:263 N In the second race , to fill the upperhouse Diet seat vacated by Mr. Sato 's campaign for the governorship , the pro-tax reform candidate , Kentaro Ishihara , won by an even wider margin ./. wsj20:5383 U After the seven main tranches are filled , a little money usually remains -- the `` residual tranche . ''/'' wsj22:10217 N I 've gotten so many invitations , in fact , that I 've stopped filling out the forms , with their requests that I list my `` creative works '' and `` awards , honors , grants . ''/'' wsj24:6966 N After seven years of Republican appointments , the courts of appeals are filled with able judges of a moderate to conservative stripe ./. wsj27:9694 N Soon they 'll also be able to fill their screens with photographs ./. wsj28:6024 N As the U.S . , the world 's largest grain producer , has fewer crops to export , other nations will fill the gap ./. wsj31:3606 N The typical opinion of the Supreme Court is so long and verbose , so filled with legalese synonyms , so encrusted with substantive footnotes , so totally unclear and inconsistent in the use of legal terms of art that only the devoted professional can hope to follow and understand what is going on ./. wsj32:5298 N `` In doing so , it would be filling the wishes of the U.S. government , which also is concerned that the dollar could rise too quickly ./. wsj33:4067 U Officials of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration said last week they had enough of the chemical on hand to fill eight shuttle boosters , enough for four flights ./. wsj34:10163 N Wynfred Joshua of the Defense Intelligence Agency says that if the U.S. does n't seize the opportunity to engage the Iranians , the Soviet Union will fill the void ./. wsj35:4189 N In a city where night life leans toward kids cruising on weekends , Gene Harris and his cohorts have filled a void and then some ./. wsj35:6589 N Their flagship center in Cambridge 's booming Kendall Square has filled all 44 openings , and 90 children are on the waiting list ./. wsj35:9041 N The Soviet leader gave vent to his criticism of Washington 's policies in general toward Moscow , which he described as filled with contradictions ./. wsj36:635 N To keep from wresting top executives from the driver 's seat , Runzheimer says , more companies are trying to fill fleets with less expensive models ./. wsj41:896 N Locusts fill the eerie silence of old battlegrounds ; peasants give live locusts to their babies as toys ./. wsj42:5615 N It no longer fills its stage with second-rate English aria-mongers ./. wsj42:6200 N He now says that specialty retailing fills the bill , but he made a number of profitable forays in the meantime ./. wsj42:8846 N Critics argue that Barclays 's expansion simply will fill its loan book with bad debts nobody else wants , a contention bank officials dispute ./. wsj46:7627 N The executives ' positions at their previous agencies have n't yet been filled ./. wsj46:9819 U They are filling sacks with bottled beer , handing familiar green bills to the chef ./. *literal cluster* wsj01:4057 L Leasing defers more of the profit from filled orders to the future , he said ./. wsj02:7772 L The regional carrier said load factor , or the percentage of available seats filled , decreased to 43 % from 44 % in October 1987 ./. wsj07:9428 N The county also got two letters of reference , filled with praise for Mrs. Guba ./. wsj08:3593 N Mostly , the controversy leaves a black hole in the Hispanic political firmament that wo n't be filled for some time ./. wsj11:6500 L Also , Charles L. Magee , formerly deputy general counsel , was named vice president , general counsel and secretary , filling vacancies created when Richard Stewart resigned to pursue private law practice ./. wsj12:4122 L Allen J. Krowe , 56 years old , leaves his job as executive vice president and a director of IBM to fill the positions at Texaco currently held by Richard G. Brinkman , who at 61 , will retire early ./. wsj14:3883 N Compaq Computer Corp. is expected to unveil today a long-awaited line of laptop computers , filling a gaping hole in the company 's product line ./. wsj14:6670 L Fern C. Portnoy was named to the board of this membership warehouse chain , filling a vacancy ./. wsj15:1029 N While filling movie houses and exciting donors are both honorable tasks , the facts do n't support the histrionics ./. wsj16:27 L The appointments , filling vacant posts , are the first since the company 's top officers resigned at the end of May ./. wsj16:3475 L The airline said its load factor , or the percentage of available seats filled , was 60.4 % in August , unchanged from a year earlier ./. wsj17:2431 N And with no individual or group coming forward to fill the vacuum , `` no one knows how or when order and government will be restored . ''/'' wsj17:2946 L Wo n't fill a cardboard box ./. wsj20:7486 L The three board positions will be filled by Michael Tun Zan , executive vice president of Pacific Bank ; Khateeb Lateef , an investment adviser ; and Theodore M. Bell , an attorney ./. wsj22:8569 N But the rumor was embraced by the market as it helped fill in the paucity of news on which to trade , according to participants ./. wsj25:8479 N `` We 're evaluating and talking to our customers , '' a spokesman says , `` but it is not clear what role biodegradable plastics will fill . ''/'' wsj27:6361 L Arden L. Bement Jr . , vice president , technical resources , of TRW Inc . , was named a director of this maker of electronic test and measurement instruments , filling a vacancy ./. wsj28:8629 L He fills a vacancy created by the resignation of Henry W. Lorin ./. wsj34:10888 N Although the office towers filled up quickly -LRB- they 're still 96 % occupied -RRB- , the tony stores -- including Cartier and Mark Cross -- foundered ./. wsj34:2006 N THE NEW YORK OFFICES of Simulations Publications Inc. looked like a poorly financed college fraternity house: shabby furniture , maze-like corridors , rooms filled with mountains of paper ./. wsj34:6146 L Department stores nationwide are cutting back on apparel from such designers as Calvin Klein , Ralph Lauren and Liz Claiborne and instead filling racks with store brands ./. wsj37:8853 N Conceivably , either the Federal Land Bank of Columbia , S.C . , or the Federal Land Bank of Texas , based in Austin , or both , could extend their operations to fill the lending void after the liquidation , said Mr. Naylor , the system 's chief regulator ./. wsj39:1114 L He fills positions that have been vacant for more than a year ./. wsj40:4347 L The NWA Inc. unit 's load factor for the month , or percentage of available seats filled , dropped to 64.6 % from 65.8 % ./. wsj42:4401 L Agency officials said that it could be weeks before Mr. Meese can announce his choice to fill the deputy attorney general 's spot and that the work of the department 's top budgetary group -- previously headed by the deputy -- has come to a near standstill ./. wsj43:7820 L The regional carrier , which has three DC-9 aircraft and uses two of them for charter flights , also said William E. Lindsey , its chairman , was elected to the additional post of chief executive officer , filling a vacancy created by the resignation in February of Thomas Volz ./. wsj47:6466 N Mr. Tassin 's new team will be filled out by Stephen Gardner , 28 , and Christopher Kreidler , 24 , who were hired during the past year to work with the group ./. wsj52:9803 N About 80 separate documents had to be filled out , many of them in an effort to reassure institutional money managers about the company 's credit-worthiness and prospects , Mr. Koch says , adding , `` There were times I wanted to kill . ''/'' wsj53:10283 L Two executive vice presidents resigned from First Chicago Corp. to take other jobs , and the banking concern shifted some officers to fill the vacancies ./. wsj53:5719 L An examiner last May described Sasson 's records as unorganized , scattered and incomplete -- `` suitcases . .. filled with canceled checks and bank statements . ''/'' wsj54:2312 L Now , in a suit filed in State Supreme Court in Manhattan , Claiborne alleges that Avon failed to keep an agreement to continue filling orders for the former venture , which had 1987 sales of about $ 27 million ./. wsj55:2642 L Since then , Mr. Cahouet has filled nearly every major spot in Mellon 's upper management with executives from New York and West Coast banking centers ./. wsj56:5395 L Passenger loads , the number of seats filled per plane , increased to 58.8 % from 56.1 % ./. wsj56:7349 L Christman Air System , with just 30 % of its seats filled on a typical flight , is losing money ./. wsj57:1752 L Johnson & Johnson , caught off guard by the sudden surge in demand , says it is several weeks behind filling orders ./. wsj57:3992 L The airline said its January load factor , or the percentage of available seats filled , fell to 49.3 % from 52.8 % ./. wsj57:757 L The airline said load factor , or the percentage of seats filled , was 39.3 % , up from 37.7 % a year earlier ./. wsj57:8491 N Ad agency J. Walter Thompson Co . , moving to fill what is widely viewed as a critical management gap , hired a senior executive from rival Omnicom Group Inc. to become its top financial officer ./. wsj58:3187 L The Nihon Keizai Shimbun , Japan 's leading business daily , reports that U.S. companies take an average of six months to a year to fill orders for Japanese buyers ./. wsj59:11015 L A spokesman for the real estate investment trust , which was set up a year ago to lease properties to American Medical International Inc . , a health-care concern , said there is n't any immediate plan to fill the chief executive position ./. wsj59:9392 L James Thornton and Irvin Kupper were elected to the board of this operator of drugstores , home health centers and dry cleaning stores , filling vacancies ./. wsj60:1132 N But this is an institution , filled with patients who 've lost their health and some who 've lost their minds ./. wsj62:5744 L Formerly senior vice president of the international division of the New York Stock Exchange , he fills a vacancy created by recent resignations ./. wsj62:7831 L One young man , out of work for two years , says all the jobs he applies for are being filled by blacks ; another man , nearing retirement , bitterly complains that the wages of his black colleagues are rising faster than his ./. wsj63:6837 L The load factor , or percentage of seats filled , for the month declined to 54.6 % from 55.7 % a year earlier ./. wsj64:1114 L Load factor , or percentage of seats filled , was 56.5 % in December , down slightly from 56.6 % in the year-ago period ./. wsj64:1121 L Its load factor , or percentage of seats filled , rose to 47.4 % from 41.8 % ./. wsj64:2201 L The new chairman has been a board member since Nov. 1 , 1985 , filling a term that expires Aug. 27 , 1990 ./. wsj65:7389 N To fill these growing gaps , Congress increasingly has turned to employers to expand coverage to even more employees and non-employees ./. wsj67:6906 N She filled out a report right away ./. wsj69:10612 N Instead , `` They should expel all the people living in the {British} countryside and allow secondary forests to grow and fill these new forests with wolves and bears etc. so you can study them before studying tropical animals . ''/'' wsj69:11199 N Though they may fill some of the same military needs , the missiles are quite different from any arms the Saudis have sought from the U.S ./. wsj70:2646 N IBP was harshly critical of the report , charging that the portions referring to IBP are `` filled with innuendo and gross overstatements '' and that the hearings were held `` to serve the egotistical needs of Congressman Lantos . ''/'' wsj71:3124 L `` We believe the person who is working on the line , making our ice cream , filling the pints , is a very important person , '' Mr. Cohen says ./. wsj71:7566 L But to take this often-repeated mistake as a basis for the misleading conclusion that our streets will be forever filled with happy motorists , secure in their bliss because of endless oil supplies , is so naive as to border on irresponsibility ./. wsj73:3386 N Clergymen , philosophers , sociologists and political scientists have filled the pages of scholarly journals about the subject ./. wsj74:10657 L Fred J. Kupel , chief financial officer and vice president , finance and administration , at this forest products concern , was named a director , filling a vacancy and returning board membership to 11 ./. wsj74:7499 L Merrill O. Burns , an executive vice president of Manufacturers Hanover Corp . , was named a director of this utility , filling a vacancy ./. wsj79:3829 L Skywest said its load factor , or the percentage of seats filled , decreased to 38.3 % from 41.5 % ./. wsj80:2123 L The company has n't filled the board vacancies ./. wsj81:3626 L John E. Overmyer , president of this maker of petroleum dispensing equipment and systems , was named to the additional post of chairman , filling a vacancy ./. wsj81:3839 N In addition to those delicately written billets-doux of musical modernism , `` Pelleas et Melisande , '' `` Afternoon of a Faun '' and `` Claire de Lune , '' the composer also left sheafs of correspondence in a minor key , notes to friends and foes filled with hapless chords and lonesome measures ./. wsj82:8853 L Baaron Pittenger , a long-time USOC aide who had served as acting executive director after Mr. Miller left , was named to fill the vacant post until year end , when Mr. Schiller 's contract expires ./. wsj85:2345 N Mr. Choi , filling three pages with computations , offers this stern -- and unsettling -- advice to one American business reporter: `` Do n't write about investing this summer ./. wsj85:4513 N In addition to filling a hole in United 's top management , the action marks the first big personnel move by Mr. Wolf , who was named to his posts last month ./. wsj85:4550 L David L. Meister was named president of this provider of cable television programming , filling a vacancy ./. wsj86:3580 N And if occupancy ran low , the administrator would just let the doctors know and the beds would fill up ./. wsj01:125 U As president , Mr. Gumucio , 50 years old , fills a post that has been vacant for at least the past six years , the supercomputer maker said ./. wsj01:1450 U Not only are the Saudis now aggressive marketers , they also are developing strong refining links abroad , such as their just-concluded purchase of a half interest in Texaco Inc. 's refineries and filling stations in the Eastern U.S ./. wsj01:2094 U He will also fill Mr. Senn 's unexpired term as a director ./. wsj01:6879 U He fills a vacancy left by the resignation of Joseph Vita Jr ./. wsj01:7274 U And since 99 % of incumbents are re-elected , he says , Congress is filled with big spenders who have little incentive to demand a balanced budget ./. wsj01:9948 U The appointment fills a vacancy on Perry 's eight-member board ./. wsj03:3673 U The parties agreed that following the Nov. 22 annual meeting , when shareholders will vote on a director for the existing seat , Ronson would increase its five-member board by adding one member and that Mr. Fenzel would be elected to fill the vacancy until the next annual meeting ./. wsj04:4324 U For all the general 's propaganda against privilege , party regulars still fill 900 , 000 of them ./. wsj05:2079 U In this campaign , issues have played second fiddle to a bitter battle of advertisements filled with allegations and misrepresentations ./. wsj05:5003 U `` And since you 're buying these properties at half their replacement cost at a time when the demographics indicate bodies moving in to fill them , there is some downside protection , '' says Mr. Hess ./. wsj05:610 U The airline 's load factor , or percentage of available seats filled , rose to 36.7 % from 25.7 % ./. wsj06:656 U In 1985 , the banks set up an Association of German Stock Exchanges , filling its board with senior bankers , and set about linking up the eight German exchanges with a trading network similar to the U.S. Intermarket Trading System ./. wsj06:9019 U Four directors were named at this insurer of manufactured homes and recreational vehicles , filling one vacancy and increasing board membership to 12 ./. wsj07:3459 U WASHINGTON -- The campaign of 1988 , filled as it is with one-liners and television sound bites , apparently has no room for discussion of a harsh prescription for the U.S. deficit problem ./. wsj09:7052 U Eastern 's load factor , the percentage of seats filled , was 53.4 % , compared with 58.5 % in September 1987 ./. wsj10:677 U There was only one man on the stage last night who can fill that bill and his name was Lloyd Bentsen . ''/'' wsj11:4795 U Amoco Corp. makes gasoline in Texas but recently quit selling it there , except at the lone outlet where refinery employees can fill up ./. wsj11:6501 U Charles E. Lasseter , formerly senior vice president and controller , was named group vice president , finance , and chief financial officer of this natural-gas pipeline concern , filling a vacancy ./. wsj11:7636 U Mr. Heil is presently executive vice president of the defense-electronics group for Singer Co. C.R . `` Chuck '' Farmer Jr . , 58 , was named senior vice president and group executive of the electronics-systems group , filling a vacancy ./. wsj11:8242 U `` This will fill out the labor agenda and the political agenda ./. wsj15:4950 U The regional carrier said load factor , or percentage of seats filled , dropped slightly to 43.3 % in August from 43.4 % during the same month in 1987 ./. wsj17:158 U Mr. Worley ran a traditional , open-bar hospitality suite , which was filled with UAW staffers flown in from Solidarity House headquarters to try to work some last-minute miracles ./. wsj17:2069 U A company spokesman said it has n't determined yet whether a successor will be named to fill Mr. Guinn 's positions of president and chief operating officer ./. wsj17:4287 U Helping to fill city coffers are its military complexes and tourism , much of the latter centered on the Alamo mission , where the U.S. was defeated by Mexico when Texas was still part of that nation ./. wsj17:9876 U Robin E. Garland was elected to the board of this appliance manufacturer and processor of limestone , filling a vacancy ./. wsj18:5209 U `` You stopped hearing airline executives talk so much about filling up their planes , '' says David Sylvester , an analyst with Kidder , Peabody & Co ./. wsj19:10044 U Consolidated-Bathurst said the chief executive post would be filled by T. Oscar Stangeland , 59-year-old president and chief operating officer ./. wsj19:3487 U The post of chief executive wo n't be filled immediately ./. wsj21:10706 U `` I ca n't get rid of them , '' she says , as her eyes fill with tears ./. wsj21:8600 U The airline said July 's load factor , or the percentage of available seats filled , rose to 72.7 % from 68.5 % ./. wsj25:5028 U Its sole purpose is to vent excess air when the nitrogen tetroxide oxidizer tank is being filled ./. wsj26:1349 U In addition , an opening for president of the shipboard and ground systems group , which includes that division , was filled with a non-Sperry person to make sure those running the operations have no connection with the matters under scrutiny ./. wsj26:2799 L But industry lobbyists argued successfully that reconstituting spent plastic containers into such alternative products as flower pots , drainpipes , synthetic lumber , and filling for pillows and sleeping bags should count against the recycling targets ./. wsj26:5869 L The situation for soybeans does n't become critical until next week , when the crop 's need for moisture soars as its pods begin to fill with beans ./. wsj27:5722 U WAYS AND MEANS adds Clay Shaw -LRB- R . , Fla. -RRB- to fill a vacancy caused by the death of the House committee 's ranking minority member , John Duncan -LRB- R . , Tenn. -RRB- ./. wsj27:8171 U Load factor , or the percentage of available seats filled , increased to 49.1 % from 44.9 % ./. wsj28:2606 U Its June load factor , or percentage of seats filled , fell to 65.4 % from 68.2 % ./. wsj28:284 U Load factor , or the percentage of available seats filled , climbed to 56.1 % from 46.5 % in June 1987 ./. wsj28:8354 U `` But if you start a plant with lots of room for expansion , over time you fill it with different types of sensitized products . ''/'' wsj29:3300 U John LaWare , a Boston banker , has been nominated to fill it , and the Senate Banking Committee has scheduled a hearing on his nomination for Thursday ./. wsj30:10165 U Parking lots are filling up faster ./. wsj30:11073 U Rowntree 's Mr. Dixon would fill a new seat on the Nestle management committee , and his management team would steer the combined company 's world-wide candy operations if the bid succeeds , Nestle said ./. wsj32:8494 U It 's admirable to strive to lead a life filled with moral significance , though less so to call repeated public attention to the effort ./. wsj33:6547 U In May , the load factor , or percentage of available seats filled , fell to 66.3 % from 68.3 % ./. wsj34:4058 U Donald S. Howard was named chief financial officer of Salomon Inc . , filling the position left vacant by Gerald Rosenfeld 's resignation in February ./. wsj34:9561 U May 's load factor , or the percentage of seats filled , rose to 59.29 % from 55.31 % a year earlier ./. wsj35:3675 U Not only are youth and older people working together , but there are advertisements for employees to fill vacancies at wages well above the minimum wage ./. wsj36:3285 U A. Gary Ames , president and chief executive officer of U S West Inc. 's Mountain Bell unit , was named a director of this supermarket operator , filling a vacancy on the 13-member board ./. wsj37:7882 U The election fills two vacancies , created by retirements , and expands the board by one , to 19 directors ./. wsj39:10076 U The load factor , or percentage of available seats filled , fell to 61.9 % from 68.3 % ./. wsj39:4367 U Mr. Keating , who has been nominated by Attorney General Edwin Meese to fill the third-ranking slot at the Justice Department , is expected to formally pass the documents on to Mr. Baker -- with the recommendation that he approve them -- before leaving the Treasury Department ./. wsj39:7001 U After he filed an MX suit last year , Air Force officials asked him to turn over 80 boxes supposedly filled with missile parts that Northrop employees had brought to him ./. wsj40:383 U Some managers may already have good records , while others with poorer records might have had few if any job openings to fill ./. wsj40:5849 U They fill two vacancies on the board from a resignation and a retirement ./. wsj40:9040 U Though he plans to spend more time trying to revitalize the Rangers and helping Republicans , he 'll keep his board seat and his 10th floor corner office in Western 's headquarters , filled with Ranger memorabilia and framed letters from President Reagan ./. wsj41:1399 U Law enforcement officials said Attorney General Edwin Meese recently talked with Mr. Christensen about filling the post of deputy attorney general , and Mr. Christensen yesterday put out a statement confirming that the White House is considering him for the post ./. wsj41:1868 U The government charged that Mr. Geoghegan and Marathon knowingly violated the law when in 1986 it filled in five acres of a wetland in Seekonk , Mass . , to construct a shopping mall parking lot ./. wsj41:5008 U Dr. Zapanta , a neurosurgeon , fills one of two vacancies created by the departures of Albert V. Casey and Roger W. Heyns . . ./. wsj41:8198 U William C. Leone and Ezra G. Levin were named directors of this aluminum producer , filling two vacancies ./. wsj42:8189 U But Mr. Meese 's own missteps and much-publicized difficulties in filling the Justice Department vacancies heightened the administration 's embarrassment ./. wsj43:6348 U John LaWare , chairman of Boston-based Shawmut National Corp . , has emerged as the leading candidate to fill the vacant seat on the Federal Reserve Board ./. wsj43:6356 U If nominated by the president and confirmed by the Senate , Mr. LaWare would fill a seat made vacant in December 1986 by the resignation of Henry Wallich , a Nixon appointee , who left for health reasons ./. wsj43:6447 U The six central-bank governors appointed by President Reagan are , for the most part , strong-minded individuals pursuing differing theories about how the economy works . -LRB- John LaWare , the chairman of Shawmut National Corp . , has emerged as the leading candidate to fill the remaining seat on the Reserve Board. -RRB-/-RRB- wsj43:7512 U Shawmut National Chairman John LaWare has emerged as the leading candidate to fill the vacant seat on the Federal Reserve Board ./. wsj43:9161 U Paul J. Rizzo , the 60-year-old dean of the Graduate School of Business Administration at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill , was elected a director of this packaging-materials maker , filling a vacancy ./. wsj43:9459 U They are filled with ideas , if often of a weird sort , and they do n't know how to run anything ./. wsj44:276 L `` They say it 's demeaning to the steer , but how would they know that ? '' asks Mr. Souther , who compares it to `` wild-cow milking '' -- an event in which one person tries to calm a wild cow while another tries to fill up a Coke bottle with wild-cow milk ./. wsj44:9913 U The regional carrier said its March load factor , or percentage of available seats filled , rose to 41.7 % from 36.6 % ./. wsj45:10684 U He fills a post left by Patrick Shaughnessy , who resigned to buy the broadcast unit ./. wsj47:10305 L I found that the journalists were delighted to find a young person interested enough in their trade to come in and go through the press clippings in those fascinating metal drawers that filled the morgue ./. ******************** ***fix*** *nonliteral cluster* wsj02:8892 N In a prepared statement , Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Charles Schwab said , `` We 're taking responsibility for what happened , for fixing it , and for making sure that it does n't happen again . ''/'' wsj05:6616 L So , a few months ago he paid the equivalent of about $ 800 to get his nose fixed ./. wsj08:6428 N Meanwhile , Congress is turning up the pressure on the FAA to fix O ' Hare 's problems ./. wsj09:9589 L In late May , a rumor spread through the city that the government would raise the price of rice , which has been fixed for years at 14 U.S. cents a pound ./. wsj12:9177 N It also vindicates Pratt 's efforts to fix problems in customer service that contributed to its loss of dominance in the commercial jet engine field to General Electric Co ./. wsj13:8316 N But Mr. Sherlund said he thinks the company has taken steps to fix that problem ./. wsj41:3835 N The improvements have `` been a catalyst for other owners nearby to fix up their buildings too , '' adds David Fiederlein , the building agent ./. wsj42:5214 L The non-OPEC group 's proposal fixes different cuts for each participant for the months of May and June -- then to be re-evaluated -- as follows: Mexico , 68 , 000 barrels a day ; Egypt , 22 , 500 ; Oman , 27 , 500 ; China , 30 , 000 ; Angola , 20 , 000 , and Malaysia , 15 , 000 ./. wsj46:10205 N `` The Saudis always have been careful about fixing something that is n't broken . ''/'' wsj48:7623 L With exchange rates credibly fixed , only slight British gold losses were necessary to increase British short-term interest rates sufficiently -- say , less than 50 basis points -- to keep the funds on deposit in London until gradually disbursed to finance the evolving U.S. trade deficit ./. wsj54:2692 N Now it falls to William H. Spoor , the 65-year-old former chairman , to fix things ./. wsj54:3955 N It is `` Hotlanta '' : capital city of the South at a time when the South has risen ; city of myriad services at a time when the service economy rules ; city of the 1980s , more suburban than downtown , more footloose than fixed ./. wsj55:3942 L Also , growing competition is forcing many utilities to lower rates , though costs remain fixed , thus squeezing profits ./. wsj56:4433 N The question is , do you fix some of these problems by spending more on them or by divesting ? ''/'' wsj59:1803 L Dealers said the volume of selling orders made it impossible to fix the closing prices ./. wsj65:10956 L Under prospective payment , the charges are fixed in advance , and hospitals can no longer play Robin Hood ./. wsj69:2196 N If he eventually wins the war -- curbs Eastern 's costs and fixes Continental 's service problems -- his airlines , with their exceptional size and market dominance , may become for him a kind of mass-production profit machine ./. wsj81:538 N `` I 'm quite sure there was someone within the IBM structure that could have just reached in and fixed it . ''/'' wsj82:8267 N The growing consensus in the computer industry is that midsized products are the weakest part of IBM 's business right now , and that IBM needs to fix that problem in 1988 ./. wsj03:7261 U Exhausted , they left at 3:30 , knowing they had a problem but not how to fix it ./. wsj04:10014 N Your Oct. 18 international-page article `` Lawson Accused of Miscues on Economy: British Chancellor Strayed From Strict Monetarism '' illustrates that a country can not radically reduce marginal tax rates without a deterioration of its current trade account ; nor can it continue to simultaneously keep exchange rates fixed without suffering an inevitable increase in its inflation rate ./. wsj04:11067 N The consulting firm of Data Resources Inc. expects business fixed investment this year to top the 1987 outlays by 11.1 % ./. wsj04:3847 N `` I fix it too many times already , '' he says , adding that he is waiting for a formal treaty ./. wsj05:4828 N The study does have several major assumptions -- the biggest being that Medicare expenditures are fixed ; the figures reflect a simple shift of money from one doctor 's pocket to another ./. wsj05:8286 U Mr. Mitterrand 's `` new Bretton Woods '' speech of 1983 did not call for simple imitation of the New Hampshire parley that produced the postwar monetary system but saw as urgent the `` restoration of the conditions for a stable monetary system , with currencies fixed to an adequate degree . ''/'' wsj07:945 U Nippon Telegraph & Telephone closed at a record low after the subscription price was fixed Wednesday at 1.9 million yen in the third public offering of 1.5 million of the government 's NTT holdings ./. wsj08:8297 U The dollar has gained 11 % against the lira since it was fixed at 1 , 653 lire Oct. 3 , when the latest attack on the Turkish currency began ./. wsj09:3881 U Some price declines for the NTT ahead of Oct. 19 , when the price of the third offering will be fixed at 3.5 % below the close that day , will make it easier to sell the latest issue , he said ./. wsj09:6317 N `` They could probably buy the whole Tenneco refinery for what they 'd spend fixing up the other , '' said Thomas Manning , vice president of the consulting firm Purvin & Gertz Inc . , Houston ./. wsj11:9526 N All eyes are fixed on 18 television sets showing the changing of the guard at Buckingham Palace ./. wsj13:5109 U Stanford Prof. Ronald McKinnon and most supply-side economists have argued that fixing the exchange rate at the long-run PPP level will result in stable long-run prices ./. wsj13:9070 N The evidence showed he had helped fix two juries , and threatened to choke to death a woman witness against him ./. wsj14:9884 N Scott fit in well here , buying youngsters ' prize animals at the county fair and helping fix up the high-school football field ./. wsj15:2328 N The indictment alleges that Ms. Myerson gave Justice Gabel 's daughter a $ 19 , 000-a-year city job in exchange for fixing Mr. Capasso 's 1985 divorce case ./. wsj16:7854 N Bush and Dukakis should be asked to clarify where they stand on this important distinction , for it 's clear that the real work of fixing the schools will fall to local politicians and school boards ./. wsj19:9013 U The lead managers wo n't fix the price of the issue until next month , but analysts at banks and securities companies familiar with the transaction said they expect the bonds to pay annual interest between 1.5 % and 2 % ./. wsj20:10242 N `` It 's like they 're bleeding from the carotid artery , and we 're having to fix it with a Band-Aid . ''/'' wsj20:1441 U When in the first week of January the central banks moved to fix the dollar , the financial crisis went away ./. wsj21:10543 U It costs 30 cents to fix an error during error-resolution processing -- but $ 4.19 after a taxpayer gets a notice ./. wsj21:203 N General Cinema has announced plans to fix up and expand the 22-store flagship chain , an undertaking estimated at more than $ 100 million ./. wsj23:3674 U `` The more sales dollars you have to spread those fixed costs over , the better it is , '' he said ./. wsj25:5534 U He wants to fix things , and he wants to be recognized . ''/'' wsj26:1700 U As Japanese companies reduce domestic production , the burden of their fixed costs increases -- even faster than in the U.S. because the Japanese rarely lay off employees ./. wsj26:7758 U It had been expected to break the artist 's record of # 7.37 million -LRB- $ 12.3 million -RRB- , but the highest offer of # 6.2 million was short of the minimum fixed by the owner , Evelyn de Rothschild ./. wsj27:4824 N He added that neither the Fed , nor any other U.S. government agency or international body should try to fix exchange rates ./. wsj27:9952 U Instead of building a conventional , and immense , $ 300 million oil platform fixed to the sea floor , like Shell 's Bullwinkle platform in the Green Canyon , Placid completed a $ 20 million remodeling of a semisubmersible drilling rig and used so-called off-the-shelf technology for most of its system ./. wsj28:9932 U Owners who have already fixed the problem will be reimbursed , Ford said ./. wsj29:10685 N In a statement , Mr. Kennedy announced that the raise would `` fix '' the promise of a living wage made 50 years ago when the minimum wage was created -- a promise he says was broken by the Reagan administration ./. wsj30:5687 U The airline simply fixed the problem by moving the flight to another departure gate ./. wsj30:7460 N Delta Flight 943 from Cincinnati to Jackson , Miss . , is an example of a flight `` fixed '' by schedule changes ./. wsj30:8534 U `` We have the ability to take broke real estate and fix it , '' Mr. Rice says ./. wsj31:10947 N Florida Attorney General Bob Butterworth said that past and present officials of Velda Farms Dairy of Miami , formerly a unit of closely held Dallas-based Southland , acknowledged that Velda conspired with other milk companies to fix prices in the sale of milk to Florida public schools ./. wsj33:10064 N Investors , analysts and members of the local banking community generally view Mr. Hillas as an able manager with a solid knowledge of the capital markets , a keen eye for evaluating banking companies and their businesses , and a knack for helping fix ailing firms ./. wsj33:4001 N -- The justices refused to hear an antitrust appeal by actor Paul Newman and director George Roy Hill in a suit charging that MCA Inc. and its Universal City Studios Inc. unit conspired to fix the percentage of film revenue paid to artists ./. wsj34:6371 N Details of the plan have n't been fixed , but the outline calls for shareholders in both banks to exchange their stock for shares in the new bank on a basis of parity ./. wsj36:1097 U By February , fixed rates on mortgage loans had declined about two percentage points , helping stimulate a rush to borrow and buy ./. wsj36:4082 U With a de facto fixed exchange rate policy among the major central banks , `` Inflation pressures here get exported overseas because commodities are rising in price effectively at the same rate in dollars as yen , '' he says ./. wsj36:4656 U The two cases also underscore a peculiarity of the airline business , and possibly a dangerous one: When a design feature is called into question , the remedy usually is n't to recall and fix the plane but to let airlines rely on increased checking and maintenance if they choose ./. wsj36:4724 U Maintenance had n't addressed whether the patches could adequately fix the overall corroded and cracked state of the fuselage , it said ./. wsj39:5689 N Mr. Guy , a N.M. Rothschild & Sons director , said his bank and four other London bullion houses -- Mocatta & Goldsmid Ltd . , Sharps Pixley Ltd . , Samuel Montagu & Co. and Mase Wespac Ltd . -- will continue to carry out the 60-year-old tradition of fixing the price of gold twice a day ./. wsj40:30 U But Securities and Exchange Commissioner Joseph Grundfest said , `` This is n't in and of itself going to fix the market 's problems ./. *literal cluster* wsj09:2358 L Ford will recall 103 , 000 1986 Aerostar , Bronco II , and Ranger SuperCab vehicles to fix an electrical problem in vehicles equipped with front power lumbar seats ./. wsj10:6936 L The truck manufacturers , bidding on 15 , 000 trucks rather than 5 , 000 , were able to offer a better price because of the greater quantity and the ability to spread their start-up and fixed costs over a larger base ./. wsj11:11154 L `` If you 're an engineer , it 's better to get out and run an air-conditioner repair company -- or fix kettles , '' a European diplomat says ./. wsj13:5127 L A domestic price rule will result in stable exchange rates over the long run , just as Prof. McKinnon 's proposal to fix nominal rates or put them within a band would do ./. wsj14:1701 L `` If there be any fixed star in our constitutional constellation , '' the court ruled , `` it is that no official , high or petty , can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics , nationalism , religion , or other matters of opinion . ''/'' wsj18:2014 L Currently , the company is fixing only 200 to 300 units a day , far below TRW 's goal of 2 , 000 units a day ./. wsj19:6056 L The Founders , however , not only indicated that the monetary unit should be a standard -LRB- that is , somehow fixed -RRB- , but also told us what that standard is by explicitly referring to the `` dollar '' in the Constitution and the Bill of Rights ./. wsj20:3039 L `` If it is n't working , we 'll fix it , '' says Mr. Teets , promising further restructuring if the dog is n't running right in the next few years ./. wsj23:3537 L Mechanics have stripped one airworthy helicopter down to its skeleton for parts to fix three others ./. wsj23:4695 L The West German Bundesbank 's decision to boost its rate on securities repurchase agreements by 0.25 percentage point to a fixed 4.25 % rate came as no surprise , traders said , and lent little or no support to the mark against the dollar ./. wsj24:10173 L We begged his mother for months to let us take him into Nha Trang and have it fixed ./. wsj25:6681 L The debentures will carry a rate that 's fixed , but can increase based on natural gas prices ./. wsj32:4542 N Well , back in 1983 , a special bipartisan commission was given the assignment of `` fixing '' the Social Security system , then perceived to be headed for bankruptcy , for the next 75 years ./. wsj33:7030 N Senate negotiators last week tried to persuade the House to at least include a fallback provision that would fix the problem in case Justice is right and the agreement is found unconstitutional ./. wsj34:1136 L He arranged for a new working part to be airlifted in 12 hours to Houston , fixed the dish , and the remainder of the tournament was carried by ESPN ./. wsj44:5022 L But the commission 's most controversial recommendation by far would remove the FAA from the Transportation Department and re-establish it as the independent and renamed Federal Aviation Authority , complete with an administrator and a `` safety czar , '' both of whom would serve fixed terms of seven years ./. wsj44:658 N Edward A. Brennan , chairman and chief executive officer , repeated to analysts something he said he recently told his managers about Sears 's businesses: `` If it is n't achieving its expected return on capital , their mandate is to fix it in a timely fashion , or exit the position and redeploy assets . ''/'' wsj44:9700 L The jump in rates in the bond market last week means many lenders will increase fixed mortgage rates further this week ./. wsj45:4002 L Automatic transmissions of all makes are sometimes mis-shifted by careless drivers , it says , adding that its later models were n't fixed , just refined ./. wsj45:9963 L These grants are the public finance equivalent of a lottery for state and local governments that continually fix the odds in their favor of obtaining one ./. wsj47:89 L The U.S. sales arm of Honda Motor Co. of Japan said it is recalling approximately 66 , 000 Honda Prelude cars to fix a defect that could cause smoke or fire under the hood ./. wsj48:7602 L Because exchange rates were securely fixed , the strength of international arbitrage in markets for tradable goods was remarkable ./. wsj56:7073 L A group of containerized-waste customers charged that Waste Management Inc. and Browning-Ferris Industries Inc. conspired on a nationwide basis to fix prices for container-refuse service ./. wsj59:9373 L So far this year , investors have snapped up $ 2.12 billion of Eurobonds carrying Japanese equity warrants ; warrants let investors buy an issuer 's stock at a fixed price within a set period ./. wsj65:4711 L Brokerage rates are fixed by the finance ministry , so discount brokerage is n't possible , unlike London where the fixed commissions were abolished in 1986 ./. wsj65:6232 L Compact disk players are comparatively simple , mostly a motor to spin the disk and a fixed laser to read it ./. wsj67:830 L But unit trusts -- unmanaged portfolios with a fixed set of securities , often municipal bonds -- have slipped through the regulatory cracks ./. wsj68:2482 L When federal Medicare officials fixed rates for hospital reimbursements five years ago , executives at 3M and Abbott Laboratories separately began to worry about how their sales to hospitals would be affected ./. wsj71:1415 L Because exchange rates were securely fixed , the strength of international arbitrage in markets for tradable goods was remarkable ./. wsj71:7157 L But , according to the EC Commission , the GATT panel agreed with the EC 's contention that Japan 's monitoring has the effect of improperly fixing prices paid by third-country users ./. wsj73:7798 L It is for this reason that the advocates of a gold or commodity standard want to tie the dollar to a fixed price in relation to gold or other metals -- a horizontal restraint ./. wsj74:982 L Sir Nicholas , who presided over many changes at the exchange , helped lay the foundation for the `` Big Bang '' deregulation of Britain 's securities markets by agreeing to end fixed commissions and other rules ./. wsj78:1265 L A group of containerized-waste customers charged that Waste Management Inc. and Browning-Ferris Industries Inc. conspired on a nationwide basis to fix prices for container-refuse service ./. wsj82:35 N The company did n't fix the problems fast enough ./. wsj83:8408 L Less fortunate are cotton growers in Chinandega , ranchers near Leon and other private producers who must operate in the government-controlled formal economy that is ensnared in the red tape of paper work , acreage allotments , distribution regulations and fixed prices ./. wsj85:758 L We certainly do not need price limits ; Washington wo n't be any better at fixing stock prices than it was at fixing gasoline prices ./. wsj02:5542 U `` We tried to fix it ./. wsj03:1602 U Foreign employers are using part-timers even more aggressively than U.S. companies to trim fixed costs , says Richard Belous , a labor economist with the National Planning Association ./. wsj03:1684 U Now , he continued , the challenge of fixing the financially ailing institution was essentially over: `` The management is in good shape , there is no deficit , they have an endowment . ''/'' wsj04:4881 U This is the first bill Congress got around to passing to fix some obvious and serious problems , including typos , in the 1986 tax bill ./. wsj06:3070 U At the moment , Japan 's short-term prime lending rate is fixed to the official discount rate , the interest rate at which the central Bank of Japan lends to commercial banks ./. wsj06:7902 U `` If we do , I 'm confident that -LRB- the scientists at Genentech -RRB- can fix it . ''/'' wsj07:1679 U While that rate has remained fixed , all of the world 's other democratic industrialized countries have raised main official rates , and as recently as last month economists were predicting that Japan would have to follow soon ./. wsj07:947 U Subscribers may buy at the fixed price again Friday ./. wsj09:3207 U In an effort to keep pressure on Mr. Griffin to close the deal quickly , Resorts yesterday said its board fixed its own deadline of Oct. 31 ./. wsj10:2530 U Takeover bids for Macmillan and others have fixed traders ' attention on the new game in international media , which is to pay premium prices for proprietary data bases and publishing assets ./. wsj10:2840 U `` My first computer was a Sanyo , and it took two months to get a drive fixed ./. wsj10:5268 U Pillsbury itself recently has been making a more dedicated effort to fixing Burger King ./. wsj10:5580 U Some plans call for a never-changing portfolio makeup , such as the widely publicized `` fixed mix '' of equal investments in U.S. stocks , U.S. bonds , foreign stocks , real estate and cash equivalents recommended by the San Mateo , Calif . , investment firm of Bailard Biehl & Kaiser ./. wsj11:4358 U But some senior corporate executives are paying for that loyalty out of their own pockets: Because the number of company shares reserved for employee compensation is usually fixed -- and asking stockholders to approve increases can be touchy -- some executives are settling for fewer options than they used to get ./. wsj13:2571 U Billions of such bucks have been made , notably a decade ago under former Finance Minister Jose Martinez de Hoz , when the currency was grossly overvalued through a fixed exchange rate , and domestic interest rates were high ./. wsj13:3734 U Enhanced international economic coordination builds on the strengths of both floating and fixed rates , while seeking to avoid the weaknesses of each ./. wsj13:5591 U A handful of the hazards was fixed while others are being treated as unavoidable risks , the company said ./. wsj14:4365 U In fact , although the show is barely past the snazzy opening credits , the question already is whether `` USA Today 's '' makers can fix it in time ./. wsj14:8243 U Katharine R. Tarbox , vice president , investor relations , explains that Colgate was aiming for 5 % annual volume growth , 5 % lower fixed costs and an increase in net income to 5 % of sales from 3.5 % ./. wsj15:6820 U He promises to fix flaws in the new fleet of B1 bombers , a task that would run into the billions ./. wsj16:8059 U Wherever the bond market heads now -LRB- yesterday it was down a fraction -RRB- , the financial terms of the rescue agreement remain fixed ./. wsj17:10391 U Plant engineers determined that the previous problem was caused by loose wiring , which has been fixed , the company said ./. wsj17:7702 U He and the senior Republican on the subcommittee , Rep. Willis Gradison of Ohio , are even studying the Canadian approach , where the government negotiates with doctors to fix a ceiling on total government payments to physicians ./. wsj17:9928 U He noted that a proposal to fix the long bond problem is attached to technical correction tax legislation facing uncertain prospects ./. wsj19:3413 L The suit had asserted that Thiokol was wrong in telling the National Aeronautics and Space Administration that the rocket defect could be fixed ./. wsj20:10920 U Not one Soviet national is yet on career status in the Secretariat ; all of them work on fixed , short-term contracts , subject to control from home ./. wsj20:5069 U Two weeks ago , Alabama Power was fined $ 100 , 000 for allegedly failing to fix a hydrogen gas leak in the reactor cooling system of the plant ./. wsj21:2192 U A recent article in this paper fixed some responsibility for the state of our economy on large , heavily protected entrepreneurs ./. wsj21:2804 L One of the funniest scenes in the play comes near the end , when Frank visits Sylvester 's apartment to fix a leak in the ceiling ./. wsj22:7580 U Half-way through that recall , Ford called the ambulances back again because it said it found a better method to fix the problem ./. wsj22:7588 U Mr. Forbuss also complained that many of the ambulances have n't been fixed under the first recall , and he blames Ford for insufficient notification ./. wsj22:8824 U The utility has since temporarily fixed the malfunction by ventilating the system more frequently , and has promised to make a permanent repair , he added ./. wsj23:279 L BMW of North America Inc. and Chrysler Corp. are recalling a total of 22 , 000 cars in California to fix faulty anti-smog devices , according to California officials ./. wsj23:4256 U And in Malaysia , Mr. Takeda was put off by antagonism between the ethnic Chinese and Malays , and by the government 's rules that he hire fixed proportions of each ./. wsj23:47 U `` Turkey , '' says a Westerner who worked on South American debt problems , `` is light years ahead of the Latins in terms of confronting its problems and taking steps to fix them ./. wsj23:8477 U Insurance rates are developed exactly as state laws require , and no state requires -- or permits -- insurers to fix prices ./. wsj24:2671 U Even if the leak is fixed , the shuttle must also pass a critical engine-firing test Monday and a solid-rocket-booster test next month ./. wsj25:3089 L Medserv also signed a $ 10 million licensing agreement to provide equipment , training and raw materials for a dental-technology facility that will be able to produce enough fillings to fix 50 million Soviet cavities ./. wsj25:5013 L This approach is just one of several being weighed to fix the small leak on the launch pad and avoid rolling Discovery back to a hangar for repairs , which could delay the planned early September launch by as much as two months ./. wsj25:9367 L `` But there are some things we can fix right now ./. wsj28:5592 L She demanded that he send an engineer to fix it ./. wsj30:2551 U Four big insurance companies -- Cigna Corp . , Aetna Life & Casualty Co . , Allstate Insurance Co. and Hartford Fire Insurance Co . -- are outraged that 19 state attorneys general have accused them of conspiring to fix prices and limit the availability of some coverage ./. wsj32:2488 U Such rules are set by identifying available emission-control techniques , estimating the reductions they 'll yield at `` model plants , '' and fixing emission levels that most plants installing these controls will meet ./. wsj32:6145 U This means that nearly 15 % of Saudi Arabia 's current production of about four million barrels a day would be traded on the basis of rapidly fluctuating market prices rather than under the `` fixed '' OPEC pricing system ./. wsj33:10832 L Mr. Schlachter was drawn to Maaco after talking with a franchisee who fixed a friend 's car ./. wsj33:195 U Therefore perhaps `` high church and low church '' monetarists alike should have a closer look at a simpler rule , a price rule that would require the dollar and other currencies to be convertible at a fixed price in gold ./. wsj34:4924 L As the Army pressed Oshkosh to fix the trucks , says Col. Ronald Cundrick , an Army lawyer , `` we had them stacked all over the place . ''/'' wsj34:5262 L The new method of temporarily fixing them involved installing an overlay of sheet metal with screws and liquid adhesives ./. wsj35:1097 U In a speech similar to one he delivered last month in Paris , Mr. Baker implicitly rejected proposals to move toward a fixed exchange-rate system similar to the one set up after World War II ./. wsj35:21 U Each # 5 , 000 bond carries one warrant , exercisable between July 6 , 1988 , and June 1 , 1993 , to buy company shares at an expected premium of 2 1 2 % above the closing share price when terms are fixed on June 9 ./. wsj37:10896 U `` The traditional analysis is that housing is the first -LRB- market -RRB- to get hit by interest-rate increases , but that totally ignores '' the adjustable-rate mortgages , Mr. Jacobe said , adding that when fixed rates rise , `` home buyers just substitute '' adjustable-rate mortgages ./. wsj37:3965 U To attract business , the fixed annuity also offers an option for the company , at its discretion , to add `` excess interest . ''/'' wsj37:8299 U Such problems have evolved over two centuries in Congress and ca n't easily be fixed by a group whose members know little of that history ./. wsj37:8300 U Even if the commission could fix the process , it still would n't have solved the fundamental budget problem ./. wsj38:5993 U Mr. Hobbing said the link was to have been fixed last night ./. wsj41:2035 U Mr. Rostenkowski and Senate Finance Chairman Lloyd Bentsen -LRB- D . , Texas -RRB- have said they are committed to passing a bill fixing typographical and drafting errors in the 1986 and 1987 tax laws ./. wsj41:2112 U It sets fixed employment levels at each site that can only be reduced by half the level of any attrition ./. wsj41:3401 U `` We do n't have any fixed course of action right now ./. ******************** ***flood*** *nonliteral cluster* wsj02:7675 N But in June 1987 , two doctors affiliated with Ueno Fine Chemical Co. reported that in test-tube studies , dextran sulfate was an effective antiviral agent against AIDS. Almost overnight , desperate American AIDS patients flooded Kowa with demands for the drug ./. wsj03:5942 N `` Dog cases were flooding the court system that 's flooded already , '' Mr. Margolis , the animal behaviorist and expert witness , says ./. wsj15:2508 N Mr. Davis says he has been flooded with requests for berths on future flights since announcing the October launch ./. wsj22:4693 N THIS YEAR marketers are again flooding supermarket shelves with new products -- everything from Cajun popcorn to ketchup in spray cans ./. wsj22:80 N A synthetic version , prepared by means of recombinant DNA , is to be given in an intravenous infusion in the hope that flooding the body with false targets would mop up virus particles and prevent them from infecting cells of the body ./. wsj28:7723 N Others are flooding their local television broadcasts with press releases and advertising that stresses the quality and safety of the vehicles ./. wsj29:10472 N Smelling new money , U.S. non-profits flooded the foundations with proposals , says Hiroshi Kamura of the Japan Center for International Exchange ./. wsj30:10438 N During most of this decade , apparel prices rose slowly , because low-priced imports flooded into the U.S. and domestic manufacturers tried to stay competitive ./. wsj34:2214 N The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office is flooded with them ./. wsj53:2475 N Cancellations flooded in , slashing expected revenues by $ 300 , 000 over the December Jewish holiday of Hanukkah alone ./. wsj64:10481 N The court has been flooded with briefs by manufacturers and the insurance industry , which argue for limits on liability and damages , and by consumer groups and plaintiffs ' lawyers , which oppose limits ./. wsj64:5912 N The protein , called CD4 , mimics the virus 's natural targets in the body , thus flooding the system with false targets and diverting the virus from its normal course of attack ./. wsj76:652 N The fact that Japanese applicants obtained nearly 25 % more awards than they did in 1986 has raised apprehensions in the Reagan administration that Japan is `` flooding '' the patent office with applications in the anticipation that it will gain a commercial advantage over U.S. firms in coming years ./. wsj85:10788 N The court has been flooded with briefs by manufacturers and the insurance industry , which argue for limits on liability and damages , and by consumer groups and plaintiffs ' lawyers , which oppose limits ./. wsj01:11390 U But the U.S . , with a far more open system , changed , and imports flooded in regardless of the cost to small retailers ./. wsj04:10182 U U.S. negotiators would not shortchange American business by focusing on the sale of aluminum baseball bats to Japan , when Japanese telecommunications equipment was flooding our market ./. wsj06:6030 U When they flooded that market and the major underwriters temporarily shut it down , many began issuing convertible bonds at home ./. wsj06:7862 U Test-tube studies suggest that by flooding the body with copies of the site , the virus will bind with the decoys and the infection of human cells can be blocked ./. wsj08:2091 U Mr. Tomb fondly remembers day after day when limits were filled in minutes as flock after flock flooded into his decoys ./. wsj08:5333 U In the past three weeks , more than $ 5.5 billion of new issues flooded the Euromarket , including multimillion-dollar issues from such borrowers as Campbell Soup Co. and Ford Motor Co. 's credit subsidiary and a $ 1 billion issue from Italy ./. wsj09:1451 U The American Automobile Association and the Highway Users Federation have flooded its offices with 1 , 000 letters opposing the idea ./. wsj09:5667 N But Cameloot was just another loser among the entries that flooded the offices of Circus Circus Enterprises Inc. during a contest to name its planned $ 290 million castle-theme resort ./. wsj09:7025 U The Brussels offices of MITI and the Japan External Trade Organization , or Jetro , are flooded with inquiries ./. wsj11:6661 N That point was rammed home during his recent visit to Siberia , where he was flooded with complaints about awful living standards , a lack of basic foodstuffs and bureaucrats who were blocking improvements ./. wsj11:9122 N Meanwhile , state and private testing laboratories were flooded with thousands of grain samples as merchants and farmers sought reassurance that their commodities were safe ./. wsj13:4001 U When the London market opened itself to all comers in late 1986 , says R. Keith Williams , an associate at accountants Peat Marwick in London , financial institutions `` flooded in and bought everything under the sun without really knowing why . ''/'' wsj14:9316 N In the following decade , the Federal Reserve flooded the banks with reserves , providing the raw material for BankAmerica 's profligate lending policies while also creating a spiraling inflation ./. wsj16:10302 U Researchers hope that if the body is flooded with synthetic CD4 through intravenous infusion , the AIDS virus could be tricked into binding with the impostors , rendering the virus harmless to healthy cells ./. wsj18:10954 N `` It floods the area instead of having hot pinpoints of glaring light . ''/'' wsj20:4762 N `` We 're already being flooded by inquiries from many major companies as to how -LRB- the board -RRB- can do this . ''/'' wsj23:4241 N Mr. Takeda , for one , thinks the Thais turned away from communism after the Vietnamese invaded Cambodia in 1979 and Thailand was flooded with refugees from its communist neighbors ./. wsj26:3189 N While investors generally reacted either indifferently or negatively to the dozens of quarterly earnings reports that flooded the market , there were a few exceptions ./. wsj26:7014 N Refugees from Romania have been flooding into Hungary by the thousands ./. wsj33:4512 N The company says it now is flooded with requests from state and private health agencies and hospitals seeking their own P.R. bonanza from the cholesterol craze ./. wsj35:6512 U In general , the race to study the CD4 protein is based on the theory that flooding the body with synthetic copies of CD4 will cause the virus to bind to the copies and not to infect the cells of the immune system ./. wsj37:10271 N Since Taipei lifted a travel ban in November , residents of Taiwan have flooded into China to visit relatives ./. wsj38:3354 U The issue is extremely difficult to settle because influential Japanese politicians , with close ties to agricultural interests , do n't want cheap imported beef flooding the market ./. wsj39:798 N Now its 12 , 000 acres of manmade hills , soaring granite towers and glistening plazas linked by Venetian canals are flooded with almost a billion dollars in debt ./. wsj45:3451 N White-collar Indians and Pakistanis flooded into the U.S. in the 1960s , and many of their children have reached marriage age ./. wsj48:9517 U Last week , in what analysts said appeared to be an orchestrated campaign aided by the Roh government , allegations of wrongdoing by Saemaul officials , particularly Mr. Chun , flooded Korean publications and broadcasts ./. wsj49:3026 N Santa Clara , Calif.-based Intel -- which makes a broad line of semiconductor products -- along with most other big U.S. chip makers , quit making so-called DRAM , or dynamic random access memory , chips after Japanese chip makers flooded the U.S. with cheap memory chips earlier in the decade ./. wsj49:9467 U He floods the district with free mailings , regularly beams broadcast interviews back to the district by satellite , and periodically encourages constituents to call him collect ./. wsj53:2431 N Shortly afterward , Bob Adams Inc. in Boston flooded 21 universities nationwide with 10 , 000 copies of its annual two bits of advice , a publication called `` Careers and the M.B.A . ''/'' wsj53:3903 N His public-relations people have flooded reporters with copies of his speeches ./. wsj55:2761 N Designers there have n't any intention of flooding the U.S. with Siberia-made , scratchy woolen socks or a line of apres-bowling wear ./. *literal cluster* wsj01:1372 N The glutted oil market could soon be flooded with even more Persian Gulf crude ./. wsj04:4579 N So far , the outside money has n't flooded in ; Owens-Illinois and affiliates still account for 95 % of the mutual funds ' total assets of $ 267 million ./. wsj07:3903 N Mr. Applegate said he sees the third-quarter earnings reports now flooding the market as the best results that can be expected for some time ./. wsj10:7581 N Saudi Arabia is expected to continue flooding the market with oil for at least two more weeks , until two OPEC committees meet to consider how they might rein in production and prop up prices ./. wsj10:8037 N The specter raised by economic nationalists is that the country will be flooded with foreign materials ./. wsj10:9978 N Saudi Arabia is expected to continue flooding the market with oil for at least two more weeks , until two OPEC panels meet to consider ways to curb output and prop up prices ./. wsj11:542 N Saudi Arabia openly declared war on the rest of OPEC , vowing to continue flooding the market with crude oil until the cartel 's members honor their production quotas ./. wsj12:801 N Indeed , research is being slowed because state laboratories have been flooded with requests by veterinarians for tests on livestock feed ./. wsj12:9808 N In the weeks that followed , South Korean television sets , Taiwanese cassette players and imported clothes flooded shop windows -- apparently the harvest of a new policy that allows businessmen to import goods with foreign currency held abroad ./. wsj16:10469 N With so many people earning free tickets so easily , the market is flooded with coupons , depressing their value ./. wsj18:238 N PRESS RELEASES about lawyers are flooding newspaper offices as the profession becomes more aggressive about marketing ./. wsj20:5262 N This has given a sheepskin a rarity value unimagined in the 1970s , when the well-educated flooded the labor market and the cabbie with a doctorate drove his way into national folklore ./. wsj22:6188 L Most of the land will be flooded when the project is finished ./. wsj27:1822 N He said that in the wake of the airliner incident , U.S. intelligence agencies have been flooded with warnings , many of them of questionable reliability , of possible Iranian-sponsored attacks ./. wsj30:5814 N Ronald Simmons , the board 's president , said the meeting was scheduled because the board has been `` flooded with phone calls '' for several weeks about rumors of a sweeping IBM cut of the Boca Raton work force ./. wsj30:9692 N The department 's Commodity Credit Corp. has flooded the market with corn `` to contain the damage to the livestock sector from rising prices or a shortage of feed , '' said Ewen Wilson , assistant agriculture secretary for economics ./. wsj31:111 N `` We 've tried to set up a barrier against such people , '' says an official at one institute that has been flooded with applications ./. wsj31:190 N The situation shows how the 1985 farm legislation , which flooded the farm economy with cash the past three years , also expanded the government 's exposure to losses ./. wsj32:6591 N But after the proposal was announced , members of the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association flooded Congress and the FAA with 80 , 000 letters -- a record number for an aviation issue ./. wsj33:10299 N `` This is serious because the financial community is getting flooded with these things , '' said Robert Siller , an FBI agent investigating the Ohio incidents ./. wsj36:8783 N Fusion charges that shortly after it sold a high-intensity microwave lamp to Mitsubishi in 1977 , the Japanese company `` reverse-engineered '' the product and flooded the Japanese Patent Office with 200 separate claims to this type of technology ./. wsj37:4765 N When it was first dedicated , residents flooded local newspapers with letters saying they hated it ; they likened it to a banana or a kid relieving himself from a bridge ./. wsj38:5471 N While much of the world points to a still-stubborn 8 % unemployment rate , and argues that providing jobs for these 2.2 million Germans would create a new consumer demand , German officials insist that flooding the economy with money wo n't necessarily create jobs ./. wsj39:2091 N Supermarket chains are n't willing to pay much for beef because they 've been flooded with cheap poultry ./. wsj41:67 N Letters flooded in to Social Work , most of them chastising both the authors and the respected journal , which has a circulation of 116 , 000 ./. wsj44:9711 N Moreover , savings and loan associations , the main housing lenders , have been flooded with deposits since the stock-market crash ./. wsj45:1397 N `` If the S & P would 've closed , sell orders would 've flooded New York '' and sent the stock market sharply lower , said one harried trader overlooking the raucous S & P trading pit ./. wsj46:1992 N Carole Pfeffer put an ad seeking them in a trade publication and was flooded with close to 1 , 000 pictures ./. wsj56:4361 N Researchers at the University of Illinois , which Mr. Harvey said may have found a chemical that prevents the disease , were also flooded with phone calls ./. wsj60:1514 L If the area were flooded , these mud-embedded bombs might loosen and float to the surface ./. wsj60:6998 N The vice president 's confrontation with Mr. Rather also has raised further questions about the media 's performance this political season , as CBS and its affiliates were flooded with phone calls , mostly critical of Mr. Rather ./. wsj67:6454 N `` If the S & P would 've closed , sell orders would 've flooded New York '' and sent the stock market sharply lower , said one harried trader overlooking the raucous S & P trading pit ./. wsj68:7144 N Carole Pfeffer put an ad seeking them in a trade publication and was flooded with close to 1 , 000 pictures ./. wsj70:7151 L And gang killings -- though still occurring at the rate of several a week -- have declined sharply since the police flooded the streets ./. wsj82:1052 N The vice president 's confrontation with Mr. Rather also has raised further questions about the media 's performance this political season , as CBS and its affiliates were flooded with phone calls , mostly critical of Mr. Rather ./. wsj01:10240 U Mr. Cooke declined to discuss his asking price , but said price is n't an issue and he is `` flooded '' with attractive offers ./. wsj03:2863 U Continuing high unemployment levels have flooded insurers with workers ' compensation and health claims , making it much tougher to turn a profit these days ./. wsj03:4964 U Nov. 22 marks the 25th anniversary of the Kennedy assassination , and , all month long , the airwaves will be flooded with JFK retrospectives , JFK analyses , JFK assassination theories ./. wsj06:10434 U Honduras , meanwhile , says it fears hundreds of thousands of Nicaraguan refugees flooding its country ./. wsj06:5599 L Mr. Cicerone and his colleagues slogged into flooded rice paddies a few years ago to take methane measurements ./. wsj06:6019 U Earlier this year , Japanese borrowers flooded the European market for equity-warrant bonds ./. wsj06:9765 U Shoppers also may find manufacturers flooding areas with coupons for brands that retailers have boycotted ./. wsj08:4111 U Ever since your scoop ran on the wire , the stock market has been flooded with buy orders ./. wsj10:3920 U House incumbents , now flooding the mails with taxpayer-financed election propaganda , seldom have trouble getting re-elected , but appeals to xenophobia , we suppose , are always in season ./. wsj10:5667 U Rather than just flooding the market , he added , marketers are looking for more efficient ways to reach consumers who use coupons ./. wsj11:2041 U Saudi Arabia vowed to continue flooding the market with crude oil until other OPEC members honor their production quotas ./. wsj12:9806 U Iraqi leaders greeted the cease-fire by flooding local shops with goods they had been saving in warehouses for years to reward their 16 million people ./. wsj13:9420 L One morning , he finds that the staff was able to turn back young fans trying to get up to Mick Jagger 's suite and that a pipe broke and flooded room 928 , which luckily was unoccupied ./. wsj16:739 U Meanwhile the PAC has greatly increased its activities , flooding conservative mailing lists with fresh appeals for cash ./. wsj17:3632 U The Washington-based NASD , which runs the Nasdaq , its automated quotations , over-the-counter stock market , was flooded with phone calls about its new requirement that any firm dealing in low-priced or lightly traded stocks quoted in the Pink Sheets report volume and price data in issues in which its aggregate activity exceeds 50 , 000 shares or $ 10 , 000 ./. wsj21:11179 U But news of the trade had fans flooding the phone circuits at the Kings box office here , hungry for season tickets ./. wsj21:1238 L Osman Geragandi Koko looked at the mounds of mud above the surface of water covering the flooded shanty town of Jebel Kusha ./. wsj21:9717 U `` People are flooded with direct mail , '' he says ./. wsj23:6657 U State-owned banks are so flooded with cash that they pay lower interest rates to customers with big deposits ./. wsj24:1844 U `` There are no clear signs that the market should go up from here , '' Mr. Lesutis said , although he added that second-quarter corporate earnings reports that have flooded the market over the past couple of weeks `` offer plenty of support for stock prices . ''/'' wsj25:2317 U The Tenneco sale , expected to reap $ 5 billion to $ 7 billion , may have hurt Enron 's auction by flooding a market in which there already were a large number of properties for sale ./. wsj25:3877 U In previous droughts , culling temporarily flooded grocers with cheap beef ./. wsj32:10959 U The 13-nation Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries still is split 8-to-5 over many issues -- with the minority consisting of Saudi Arabia and four other Persian Gulf Arab countries capable of flooding the world with oil from their enormous reserves ./. wsj32:4059 U Tempers flared even more after China State 's early efforts to dig ponds flooded residents ' yards ./. wsj33:3374 U `` We are just flooded with money ./. wsj33:5438 U Like most Taiwan banks , they are flooded with deposits ./. wsj33:9222 U The argolla first flooded the country with propaganda accusing Arena of fraud and demanding that the Central Election Board re-count the results ./. wsj34:5076 U Investors flooded into the stock and bond markets yesterday as rain in the Midwest doused inflation fears ./. wsj35:5841 U When it recently placed an advertisement in a local newspaper for several engineering jobs , it was flooded with 700 applicants ./. wsj37:4049 U Outraged letters flooded congressional offices ./. wsj38:9770 U Some licensees say the market is being flooded with marginal products ./. wsj42:10010 U By flooding America 's least competent farmers with easy credit and perpetual bailouts , Congress and the Farmers Home Administration have proved they are no friend to American agriculture and the American taxpayer ./. wsj45:1934 U Rep. Dan Rostenkowski is being flooded with taxpayer mail , a deluge reminiscent of his highly publicized 1985 invitation to `` write Rosty '' for simpler tax laws ./. wsj54:3696 U As the deadline approached , late applications from businesses big and small flooded into the SIB and several self-regulatory organizations , which together will police the investment industry under the 1986 act ./. wsj57:9078 U Analysts said yesterday 's decline was due largely to technical factors that have temporarily flooded the banking system with reserves ./. wsj60:10300 U The Bush campaign claimed that its offices around the country were immediately flooded with telephone calls supporting the vice president ./. wsj60:11153 U That delay is indispensable if we are to avoid flooding the market with drugs whose efficacy is unknown or nonexistent ./. wsj60:7374 U CBS and its affiliates were flooded with phone calls , mostly critical of Rather , following the interview ./. ******************** ***flourish*** *nonliteral cluster* wsj20:4159 N As a sport , though , sea kayaking suddenly has begun to flourish on both coasts of North America and far beyond , to the point where you can take sea kayak tours in such wet Edens as Belize , Baja California , Puerto Rico , Hawaii , Fiji , Tonga , the Maldive Islands and Patagonia , or go on `` full-moon paddles '' off the star-strewn beaches of Malibu , where I first took the plunge ./. wsj26:8644 N A giant bank , once rumored to be failing , suddenly flourishes ./. wsj48:6092 N Billion-dollar offerings could flounder or flourish on what Mr. Rudloff said ./. wsj03:2205 N The calm way in which she discards some of the more unlikely legends and willful misinterpretations that flourish among Bronte scholars is admirable ./. wsj04:1166 U He quit two months ago to join Algeria 's flourishing underground economy ./. wsj06:3064 N The clash of goals is rare in postwar Japan , where consensus has enabled banks and industry to flourish ./. wsj09:7374 U The Catholic male unemployment rate is 2 1 2 times higher than the Protestant rate , and the job scarcity fosters an atmosphere in which Catholic and Protestant armed groups flourish ./. wsj14:1704 N And the court rejected the attempt to foster patriotism through compulsion as an insult to the American tradition: `` To believe that patriotism will not flourish if patriotic ceremonies are voluntary and spontaneous instead of a compulsory routine is to make an unflattering estimate of the appeal of our institutions to free minds . ''/'' wsj16:4847 N In this isolated valley where peasants furrow their cornfields with mule-drawn wooden plows , archaeologists are unearthing a cradle of ancient Mexican civilization -- an Olmec settlement that flourished between 1200 and 600 B.C ./. wsj17:1990 U But Eurocontrol never was allowed to flourish ; its only remaining center , in Maastricht , controls only the upper airspace of the Benelux states and northern West Germany ./. wsj19:4381 U Despite a general slump in much of the women 's apparel business these days , the prospectus indicates that Gitano has been flourishing , aided by new product lines and expansion of its retail distribution network ./. wsj20:5775 U During his long illness , his colleagues say , Mr. Williams made careful plans to ensure that Williams & Connolly , the law firm he established and which is considered among the nation 's best , would continue flourishing after his death ./. wsj20:6406 U `` The dollar is still very attractive to investors when we know that it 's not likely the flourishing {U.S.} economy will come off its course . ''/'' wsj20:8596 U In a hearing before Judge Cholakis following the search of Turbine Services , Mr. Katsh , the GE lawyer , flourished two drawings ./. wsj22:11117 N The message Mr. Welch says he is sending , however , is that by cutting management layers and delegating responsibility , `` we are trying to create an atmosphere where people want to work , a nonbureaucracy where people have a chance to flourish ./. wsj23:4613 U Much of the growth comes from flourishing exports , despite Bonn 's assurances that it will try to help reduce world trade imbalances ./. wsj31:7254 U After years of benign neglect , the Dutch government began a campaign to rein in price-fixing and market-sharing by cartels allowed to flourish in nearly all sectors of the economy in the Netherlands ./. wsj33:7457 N Stickball -- a street version of baseball that has flourished here since the Depression -- has never been a social climber 's game ./. wsj34:1368 U Temporary-Help agencies flourish as more corporations commit to austerity programs and workers with specialized skills seek independence from a traditional career ./. wsj36:9584 U Some Western analysts believe it will take years for the sector to flourish because of continued deep misgivings about private enterprise throughout Soviet society ./. wsj37:9432 N But entertainment flourished , with audio and video items logging the biggest quarterly increase in consumption -- $ 23.2 billion ./. wsj39:5644 U Yet official corruption has nearly always flourished ./. wsj39:6723 N Escapism is said to have flourished ./. wsj49:2561 N As Amsterdam flourished , once powerful Antwerp declined under Spanish rule , though this is n't readily evident from the colorful oil sketches prepared by Rubens for the grand triumphal arches welcoming a new Catholic governor-general in 1635 ./. wsj52:2362 U When the same system is adopted by our trading partners , international fluctuations in currencies also tend to disappear , thus enabling international trade and investment to flourish , as confidence builds in the stability of future monetary relationships ./. wsj58:7939 U But industry insurance-purchasing groups , also established under the act , are flourishing ./. wsj58:8221 N Mr. Shamir spent Tu Bishvat planting a tree at a Jewish settlement on the occupied West Bank , where he said he expected the settlement movement to grow and flourish ./. *literal cluster* wsj01:10981 N Even before Mr. Grosz took over , smaller private companies , still called cooperatives here , were beginning to flourish ./. wsj01:9925 N In the U.S . , software has flourished as something of a cottage industry ; in Japan , companies have set up software factories with 1 , 000 employees or more ./. wsj06:4136 N For starters , factoring has flourished because many merchants are so willing to do it for a share of the telemarketer 's proceeds ./. wsj09:7434 N In many of these countries , voters are restive as democracy fails to ease the problems of economic stagnation , onerous debt and the massive corruption that accompanies the flourishing drug trade ./. wsj09:7500 N British farmers flourish under the EC 's Common Agriculture Policy , and its food companies have grown to global giants , in part because of EC markets ./. wsj09:8406 N In the classic model , a bull market flourishes when money flows into the market ./. wsj10:9190 L To their astonishment , the alfalfa plants flourished , doubling their foliage and weight ./. wsj11:90 L The astronauts also grew samples of proteins used in AIDS and cancer research that are difficult to make on Earth , but which may flourish under near-weightless conditions ./. wsj16:4969 N `` Pacifism flourished under absolute U.S. protection ./. wsj17:7293 N These and other figures from a 62 , 000-household survey conducted by the Census Bureau describe a flourishing economy in which the fruits of prosperity are n't equally shared by all Americans ./. wsj19:9846 L The reservoir , used mostly for agriculture , is the source of the artesian wells that allowed oases to flourish along the coast for hundreds of years ./. wsj23:1860 N Christian and Jewish scholars flourished in the Moslem courts ./. wsj23:702 N Because of continuing uncertainties associated with the stock market and inflation , he said consumer demand for CDs will flourish if interest rates get nearer to 10 % ./. wsj24:4098 L By 1981 the lower end of the Pawtuxet , into which Ciba-Geigy had been pouring 1.2 million gallons of waste each day , could support only those organisms that flourish in sewage and toxic waste ./. wsj26:11187 N It may help explain why insider trading could have flourished unchecked for so long on Wall Street ./. wsj27:10296 N Baseball flourished in certain parts of England and Wales before World War II ./. wsj27:9431 N The company flourished in Japan 's roaring '80s by diversifying into niches that much of the country 's staid business culture dismissed ./. wsj28:6318 N The unit 's soda ash business is flourishing , analysts say ./. wsj29:4080 N Another problem facing Mr. Gorbachev is the growing nationalist sentiment among the Soviet Union 's ethnic minorities , sentiment that is flourishing in the current political climate ./. wsj29:4957 N The explanation seems to be that Mr. Linh , though born in the north , spent most of his life in the south , where capitalism flourished until the Communists took over in 1975 ./. wsj29:7072 N It reveals that while PACs are flourishing , political competition is n't ./. wsj32:8499 N A talent like his would flourish best in a relatively genteel and restrained political culture -- or , failing that , in a parliamentary system where he could be handed a safe seat and told to stop worrying ./. wsj34:8399 N Indeed , the one truly revolutionary asssumption at loose in the world now is economic: Economies flourish in free markets ./. wsj35:7458 N Despite these problems , Western officials are optimistic that the superpower relationship has a unique opportunity to flourish because of both nations ' economic problems , need for defense cuts and desire to concentrate on domestic affairs ./. wsj36:7955 N Only 15 areas of treatment are examined , and several areas where questionable cures flourish -- the weight-loss catagory , for example -- are n't included ./. wsj42:4900 N Buyers ' clubs flourish in Manhattan and San Francisco to help the infected and the sick obtain experimental drugs like dextran sulfate , imported from Japan , where it is available over the counter as a way to reduce blood cholesterol ./. wsj50:8360 N At the beginning of the book , Mr. Haraszti asks , `` Is freedom really necessary for art to flourish ? ''/'' wsj51:3078 N `` With Henry 's departure , these people are going to flourish , '' says Salomon President Thomas Strauss ./. wsj52:8388 N Yet Houston Industries Inc. is flourishing , even with a unit operating the $ 5.3 billion South Texas nuclear project ./. wsj53:2682 N A senior administration official says Gen. Noriega , who has been indicted by two U.S. grand juries on drug charges , is only `` the most obvious product but not the cause '' of the country 's weak civilian leadership , rampant corruption and flourishing money-laundering operations ./. wsj54:7211 N And the black middle class has flourished in the past 20 years as opportunities in various professions have opened up ./. wsj55:11299 N The thesis already has been broadly bruited -- that over the past five centuries the great empires -LRB- Spanish , Dutch , French , British -RRB- have risen , flourished and won their wars because their effective military power was backed by a superior economic force ./. wsj55:2304 N Industry consultants predict groupware will flourish because personal-computer software that helps individuals work better has n't noticeably increased the productivity of groups ./. wsj56:4286 N Spanish-speaking television is flourishing as well -- providing better opportunities to reach the Hispanic audience ./. wsj60:10894 N The broad argument of Mr. Levin 's book , within whose parameters all his wonderful analogies flourish , is considerably overstated ./. wsj60:1436 N Imports grew at a fast rate , he said , because of the flourishing re-export trade and , to a lesser extent , because of strong domestic demand ./. wsj63:3378 N China , also an ally of North Korea , is sure to come , and `` unofficial '' trade with Beijing , despite the lack of diplomatic relations , is flourishing ./. wsj68:4836 N McDonald 's is flourishing in 11 other nations in the region ./. wsj69:2248 N A Texas Air spokesman declines to say what income , if any , the parent company is drawing from this flourishing new unit ./. wsj72:2389 N At the beginning of the book , Mr. Haraszti asks , `` Is freedom really necessary for art to flourish ? ''/'' wsj72:6181 N For that , Dillard needs to study hard , retailing analysts and consultants say , because the small cities where Dillard has flourished are n't much of a training ground for the markets it wants to enter ./. wsj76:1475 N And the black middle class has flourished in the past 20 years as opportunities in various professions have opened up ./. wsj76:8005 N Industry consultants predict groupware will flourish because personal-computer software that helps individuals work better has n't noticeably increased the productivity of groups ./. wsj78:11017 N Boston is flourishing , office space in the South End is still cheaper than in nearby business districts , and deregulation of deposit rates allows banks to compete in new ways ./. wsj80:7400 N For entrepreneurship to flourish , it must be clear to all Poles that money-making not only will be permitted but also will be fostered ./. wsj81:6770 N International collaboration flourishes between the major laboratories ./. wsj83:6455 N The three pairs of lovers are members of the European planter class ; the mechanicals are Brazilian workmen ; and the fairy folk are practitioners of the voodoolike religion of Macumba , the African-based cult worship that flourished outside the law in Brazil 's jungles ./. wsj06:5588 L Methane-making bacteria flourish first in the stomach of ruminants like cattle , where they aid their hosts by digesting carbohydrates , particularly the cellulose-rich plant stalks and leaves ./. wsj06:6373 L Another major Japanese concern is that any mold that slips throught U.S. screening procedures would flourish during the long passage to Japan ./. wsj06:9509 U We believe that there are strong arguments for starting a new laboratory for the SSC. New labs have flourished in the U.S . , drawing in both enthusiastic young people and key personnel from established laboratories , thus creating an exciting , creative , productive environment in which to push the frontiers of knowledge ./. wsj12:10545 L It flourishes in dry weather , occasionally infecting peanut and cottonseed crops in the Southeast ./. wsj16:686 U The U.S . , which permits both standard and proprietary protocols to flourish within its borders , says let the market decide ./. wsj16:7182 U But though the writing of speeches is a flourishing profession , that does not mean there are not great problems with its becoming a publicly recognized profession ./. wsj17:405 L To keep the bananas flourishing in winter , you need a $ 3 , 400 heat blower and $ 5 , 500 of diesel fuel ./. wsj21:10694 U Others have confused Japanese-Americans with Japanese nationals , contending that Japan 's economy has flourished at the expense of U.S. jobs , so why should American taxpayers pay any redress to internees now ?/. wsj24:10478 U AS SOCK SHOPS and other one-item or one-design retailers flourish , demand for managers doubles in a year , says search firm Thorndike Deland ./. wsj24:1525 U Marxism-Leninism was flourishing , they noted , the West was on the run and the `` correlation of forces '' was shifting in Moscow 's favor ./. wsj29:5381 U Tracing the story of six women , aged 65-75 , Ms. Aviad set out to show how their lives have not only continued , but flourished -- growing into acting , writing , community service ./. wsj30:10607 U What has happened , Soviet and Western officials believe , is that Mr. Gorbachev has purposely allowed the national debate to flourish so he can push his own program as more acceptable to the conservatives , who fear he is going too far , too fast ./. wsj30:544 U `` Competition in the ice cream market is flourishing , '' the judge wrote ./. wsj30:8604 U It should , because it also describes the procurement system that has flourished ever since ./. wsj31:3490 U Unfortunately , the East End slasher 's identity was never learned , which opened the way for a century of speculation as well as making it possible for various small-scale entrepreneurs to flourish in the Ripper business ./. wsj32:4497 U As Mr. Mobutu and his cronies used the power of the state to amass personal wealth , corruption flourished ./. wsj32:5652 U In the South , big cafeteria chains have flourished , beneficiaries of a culture that emphasizes family-style eating , after-church family outings and conservative spending ./. wsj34:3163 U This is unfortunately all too true for the corporations that flourish because of our capitalist economic system as well as the legislators charged with protecting our nation 's economic health ./. wsj36:3857 U It was a time when limited private economic initiative was permitted to help rebuild the country after the civil war , and the arts flourished ./. wsj36:5669 U A fair and simple game that took no skill and few props , two-up flourished on the gold fields and in the outback ./. wsj36:8941 U The obvious reason that the drug trade is flourishing in New York , as in other urban areas of the country , is that profits are high for sellers and risks are low for buyers ./. wsj41:11379 L As they flourish , they provide food and hiding places for little fish , which in turn provide food for bigger fish , and so on ./. wsj47:3674 U Komatsu cited increased public-works spending in Japan and `` flourishing private-sector housing investment . ''/'' wsj49:3793 U `` And it flourished right there under the American flag . ''/'' wsj52:578 U And the microorganisms that cause botulism can flourish in an oxygen-free environment -- precisely the kind of packaging used for many of the new products ./. wsj53:2820 U Like other groups that until recently have been repressed and excluded from the media in the Soviet Union , they used to flourish in that vast below-the-reach-of-the-media world , the realm of word of mouth ./. ******************** ***flow*** *nonliteral cluster* wsj14:8883 N The focus on takeover issues provided market players with a chance to `` keep the juices flowing without going to sleep , '' said Edward P. Nicoski , a market analyst at Piper Jaffray & Hopwood , Minneapolis ./. wsj24:741 N On June 15 , the Senate passed by a vote of 96 to 0 a resolution -- sponsored by two Democrats , Sasser of Tennessee and Bradley of New Jersey -- urging the President to place the issue of the impact on Western security of credit flows to Warsaw-pact countries on the formal agenda at Toronto ./. wsj38:4864 N But Mead kept the information flowing to all bona fide customers of its service ./. wsj48:7877 N `` That would have an impact on aid flowing to El Salvador . ''/'' wsj48:9766 N The people who make the decisions -- directors and big institutional investors -- seem prepared to keep the money flowing to the top so long as the return to shareholders is deemed adequate ./. wsj62:8662 N As late as Wednesday night , jets carrying signatures were still touching down at the airport in Brasilia , and motorcades were flowing into town ./. wsj66:5678 N If Europe should be a region where merchandise moves freely , why should n't people flow freely ?/. wsj71:1408 N As in 1913 , private capital flows among the principal industrial economies are now huge relative to official reserves and to the underlying flow of commodity trade ./. wsj73:9654 N The music was really flowing , finally ./. wsj01:3530 U `` In terms of overseas investment flows into U.S. stocks , the future looks bleak until we have concrete policies to deal with the budget and trade deficits , '' says Mr. Green of James Capel ./. wsj01:9018 N Even now , the cash flows of Federated , owned by Robert Campeau , provide relatively thin coverage of debt charges , says one analyst ./. wsj02:2147 N From the seminars flowed requests for help in updating substandard tanks ./. wsj02:8903 U That extra profit flowed to the brokerage concern ./. wsj03:5958 N By tapping the precision of the official U.S. timekeeping device , county officials say they can improve the timing of stoplights on major roads to allow traffic to flow more smoothly at posted speeds ./. wsj03:735 U After the U.S. election , Mr. Hodge foresees a tightening of credit by the Japanese that will cause capital to begin flowing toward the yen and away from the dollar ./. wsj04:4037 N The emotions in it flow between the playwright and his audience ./. wsj04:788 U He takes credit -- and deserves it -- for battling his own Republican administration and keeping cash flowing into programs for the disabled and the handicapped . -LRB- His own son , 10-year-old Sonny , is a Down 's syndrome child. -RRB-/-RRB- wsj05:6884 U The $ 30 billion in cash that will flow into investors ' hands in the next few weeks as the current crop of deals close `` is one and a half times the {uninvested} cash in all the equity mutual funds , '' he says , `` and it will be allocated among fewer shares ./. wsj05:9165 U They require large cash flows to service the debt , and if interest rates on the debt are variable , the debt-service cost is subject to sharp increases ./. wsj06:2686 U Mr. Beckwith said , `` The conventional wisdom has been that commodity industries like chemicals are n't amenable to leveraged buy-outs because the cash flows fluctuate so much ./. wsj07:2061 U The money is flowing into the U.S. largely on its own volition because foreign capital can be better employed here than in the home countries ./. wsj07:2160 N I beg the tribunal to understand that my zeal did not flow from sympathy with the goals or behavior of most of my clients ./. wsj07:605 N With huge amounts of debt needed to pay for megadeals , buyers are seeking targets with rich cash flows to cover interest costs on that debt ./. wsj07:9138 U American multinational companies with extensive sales overseas improved their cash flows by converting stronger currencies to dollars ./. wsj08:11065 N `` Our suspicion is that very pessimistic views on trade are paying insufficient attention to the dynamic factors -- namely , the investment flows that are likely to result from the improved competitivenes of U.S. industry , '' said John Lipsky , a director at Salomon Brothers ./. wsj08:4868 U Euphemisms flow thick and fast in these upbeat analyses ./. wsj09:5500 U The company 's recent acquisition of Sterling Drug Inc. was a strategic move to obtain a world-wide marketing operation , and experience in obtaining regulatory approvals , so as to more quickly bring to market the products flowing out of Eastman 's labs ./. wsj10:3479 N `` And from it flow many of the phenomena which we find disturbing in the Kremlin 's conduct of foreign policy: the secretiveness , the lack of frankness , the duplicity , the wary suspiciousness and the basic unfriendliness of purpose . ''/'' wsj10:3480 N And , `` These characteristics of Soviet policy , like the postulate from which they flow , are basic to the internal nature of Soviet power , and will be with us , whether in the foreground or the background , until the internal nature of Soviet power is changed . ''/'' wsj10:6715 N By 9 a.m . , the cadets are off to class , batlike figures in dark , flowing rain capes , black briefcases clutched with precision in their left hands ./. wsj13:1806 U Plenty has flowed to those countries that have allowed incentives to work ./. wsj14:4856 U Economic Planning Secretary Solita Monsod said the Central Bank may favor a free-floating exchange rate , but it also intends to make sure that the peso 's rate of exchange against the dollar `` flows in a smooth and nonviolent manner . ''/'' wsj14:5017 N The economic statistics flowing out of Washington last week were almost too good to be true ./. wsj15:4524 N For the past eight years , all the pious high-mindedness has been flowing in one direction ./. wsj15:4775 N `` Day by day the opportunity was flowing away like blood draining out of my arm . '' -RRB-/-RRB- wsj15:7321 N `` We do n't know which he painted first , the deformity or the sweep of her flowing hair , '' he says firmly ./. wsj16:1598 U `` Three channels inside the helmet allow air to flow out the back , '' so back pressure does n't develop ./. wsj16:85 N Considering the gold flowing into this town , it might do a little better by its patron saint ./. wsj18:3217 U With today 's global capital markets , however , an increase in American saving could flow into investments abroad if returns are higher there ./. wsj18:6759 U Commenting on monetary policy , the annual report said , `` It became increasingly plain -LRB- in the quarter ended March 31 -RRB- that there was a need to dampen demand before it flowed too heavily into import volumes , prices and wages ./. wsj18:7139 U More than $ 50 billion flowed out of Germany in the first sixth months ./. wsj19:3304 N Bellini 's flowing line is served only by the conductor , Alberto Zedda ./. wsj19:9271 U But he does expect modest increases in demand , which flow quickly to the bottom line , because the company has reduced costs so effectively ./. wsj20:9222 U Thomas Marsico of Janus Capital says he ignores distortions in reported earnings , because Mr. Murdoch 's properties produce hefty cash flows to service debt and to invest ./. wsj22:10510 N Mr. Marino said the the mechanism calls for debt service to be met from property and sales tax revenue that flows through the state comptroller 's office before being diverted to city coffers ./. wsj22:4568 N By following a trait as it flows through several generations and across vast branches of a family , scientists can see whether it is the result of chance or whether it `` segregates '' in a pattern that is probably due to the inheritance of a gene ./. wsj22:7217 U In a day when ribbon-cuttings have largely been replaced by flashy press conferences announcing the newest and grimmest health risk yet discovered , agency resources flow not toward the most toxic dangers , but to those sporting the highest television ratings ./. wsj22:8361 N Capital has been flowing out of West German investments at an unprecedented rate , helping to explain why the Bundesbank has been raising interest rates in a bid to prop up the mark ./. wsj23:8035 U But mostly he calls to edit material that flows into the service in a steady , sometimes none-too-clean stream each day ./. wsj24:4843 U After an access charge is paid to the Argentine government , BellSouth said the remaining profit will flow to the consortium ./. wsj24:641 U Since 1980 the proportion has been about 12 % of total net flows ./. wsj26:553 N The bolt and trigger flowed silently and smoothly as a river down its banks ./. wsj27:5415 N Yet U.S. trade with and corporate activity in Panama continues , as do most flows from non-U.S. sources ./. wsj28:2572 U `` In a modern industrial economy , energy tends to flow through with more impact than agriculture , '' says Federal Reserve Board Governor Wayne Angell , who is himself a farmer ./. wsj28:3794 U The spokesman for the Economische Controledienst said that although gains in the Netherlands aginst securities fraud have been substantial , complaints about stock salesmen continue to flow in ./. wsj29:12 N If not for the intimacy between the U.S. and Royal navies that enabled missiles , intelligence and much else to flow instantly through long-established channels and liaison groups , Britain would not have prevailed in the Falklands ./. wsj30:8891 N By the 17th century , fashion had replaced utility , and cavalier Frenchmen donned ornate linen and lace cravats , knotted in the center with long flowing ends that accented their moustaches ./. wsj31:1694 N In a letter to Robert W. Page , assistant Army secretary for civil works , the Illinois governor called the situation on the rivers `` a navigation emergency '' and requested the corps to divert Great Lakes water at Chicago to get river traffic flowing again ./. wsj33:8141 U He says that capital equipment stocks often do well at times when the overall market suffers from reduced liquidity as funds flow into new plant and equipment rather than stocks ./. wsj34:8269 U `` The market 's energy just seems to have flowed into these issues , '' said one trader ./. wsj35:2857 N Although a study for the Justice Department found that more than 99 % of all telephone traffic flows through the local networks , the Bell companies fear that a significant portion of their business could be drained off ./. wsj35:4499 U Consequently , investment decisions in LDCs were centralized in the state , and development funds flowed primarily into socialist enterprises ./. wsj35:7235 U `` There 's a drastic unwinding of all speculative positions that flowed in during the -LRB- Prime Minister Margaret -RRB- Thatcher- -LRB- Chancellor of the Exchequer Nigel -RRB- Lawson brouhaha , '' said Trevor N. Cass , foreign-exchange manager for Barclays Bank ./. wsj36:2415 U For much of the Constitution 's interpretation has flowed from suits in which public officials , seeking to test matters of power and responsibility , have taken positions vindicated by history even if not by the lawsuits themselves ./. wsj38:9144 U The junk bond new-issue pipeline is about to flow freely again ./. *literal cluster* wsj05:10674 N The government 's obsession with winning hearts and minds on the local level flows from its failure to entice black leaders into token participation at the national level ./. wsj06:5048 L The well flowed at a daily rate of 225 barrels of oil and 1 , 000 cubic feet of natural gas from a depth of 8 , 596 feet in a pump test ./. wsj12:9779 N During the 45 minutes that followed , Sen. Dole and other Republicans complained that too much business money is flowing to Democrats ./. wsj13:1836 N Nobody , however , could have foreseen the chain of events that would flow from this one ./. wsj13:2342 N So it should n't come as a big surprise that the world 's art is now flowing to Japan ./. wsj14:4720 N For decades , U.S.-Japan relations have more or less flowed from the last broad agreement most people remember the countries signing -- on the deck of the Battleship Missouri in 1945 ./. wsj14:483 N `` Money does tend to flow into the best-performing funds rather than the bottom funds that are poised for recovery , '' says Fidelity 's Mr. Litvack ./. wsj17:5466 N For the most part the events flow swiftly , from the decision by the gamblers to bribe the players , to the players ' decision to accept the bribe , to the games , to the newspaper expose , to the trial ./. wsj19:1135 N From the answer to the Vietnam issue , should it ever be conclusively decided , will flow the prevailing view of America 's world role ./. wsj22:5916 N `` Germany is being regarded more and more as a high-cost producer of goods , and money will flow more and more to countries that produce more efficiently , '' said Christopher S. Bourdain , a senior financial markets adviser at BankAmerica International ./. wsj26:9172 N Instead , improved earnings flowed in large part from last year 's decision to reintroduce a five-stick , 25-cent pack of sugared gum ./. wsj28:2966 N `` It 's capital that would otherwise not flow into the industry , '' says Charter One 's Mr. Koch , who also is head of the National Council of Savings Institutions ./. wsj28:5891 L Steps were being taken , Occidental said , to remove natural gas from the pipelines that flow into Piper ./. wsj31:412 N The Investment Company Institute , a Washington-based trade association , said the increase partly reflected money flowing back to the funds from longer-term debt instruments amid this week 's uneven bond-market performance ./. wsj31:9605 L The well flowed at a rate of seven million cubic feet of gas a day through a 14 64-inch opening at depths of 12 , 500 feet ./. wsj32:6004 L The well flowed at a rate of 153 barrels of oil per day with no water , at depths of between 7 , 618 feet and 7 , 638 feet ./. wsj35:1095 N He said global capital flows that once primarily went from the Northern to the Southern Hemisphere `` now flow within the golden triangle of London , New York and Tokyo . ''/'' wsj35:4730 N By contrast , continuing to let foreign oil producers buy equity in U.S. refineries would help the U.S. economy by allowing these plants to operate at closer to maximum capacity and encouraging additional capital to flow into the U.S ./. wsj37:1786 N Dollars flowed from automated teller machines ./. wsj38:5637 L The company said oil and gas flowed from two zones ./. wsj40:2715 N Between the two friends , money flows both ways ./. wsj44:1740 N The moves may also signal that more of the marketing clout at Coca-Cola may flow out of the domestic soft-drink division and upstairs to corporate headquarters , according to both insiders and industry experts ./. wsj46:3175 N In February , money flowed out of stock funds for the first time since October ./. wsj55:9760 N Up to $ 2 million of Dal-Tile 's money flowed through First Republic daily in payments received and bills paid ./. wsj56:7543 L Tears flowing , he stares at the picture till dawn ./. wsj59:1351 L `` As these -LRB- new fat substitutes -RRB- flow through the body , they may have laxative properties , '' he says ./. wsj60:1520 L Bombs and other debris flowing into the lake will be gently trapped and later removed ./. wsj61:6586 L Of the three intervals tested , it said one flowed 5 , 325 barrels of oil a day , a second flowed 23.5 million cubic feet of gas a day and a third flowed 44 million cubic feet of gas a day ./. wsj73:6429 L Beer flowed from big pitchers as a cooling obbligato to the hot sounds ./. wsj75:6476 N What I can say is that these things are inexplicably beautiful , as is almost always the case in Mr. Wilson 's work ; that Mr. Muller 's text , in the translation of Carl Weber , keeps finding new ways to express the contradictions of the human spirit ; and that `` Quartet '' seems to flow through its two-hour running time like a shifting stream of hot lava -- you do n't know where it 's going next , but you want to be sure and leave it plenty of room ./. wsj76:1262 N Gifts flow from commodity brokers , Wall Street houses , developers , insurance firms , Pentagon suppliers , oil companies and labor unions , including the Teamsters ./. wsj77:9687 N But if he is viewed after New Hampshire as the genuine right-wing article , it may start to flow ./. wsj02:2898 L The ventilation system is designed to keep air pressure inside the building 's 12 laboratories slightly below normal , so that air from the hallways always flows into the labs to keep microbes from being carried out ./. wsj02:5879 U While RJR Nabisco has steady cash flows to service debt , some steel companies had losses of $ 3 million a day in 1982 's slump ./. wsj02:6951 U At Augusta , ITT also plans to build a slurry wall that will prevent groundwater from flowing off the plant site ./. wsj03:2589 U Even though new money is flowing into venture-capital partnerships at almost $ 5 billion a year , the return on venture funds established since 1981 is far worse than on those established in the late 1970s ./. wsj03:3745 U `` If the merchandising segment had some {sales} growth that could flow down to the bottom line , that would be bullish as heck , '' he contends ./. wsj04:83 U The well flowed at a rate of 334 barrels of oil and 45 , 000 cubic feet of gas a day through a pump at a depth of 5 , 350 feet ./. wsj04:9966 U The only difference is that in Massachusetts we settle our obligations in 30 days , ensuring a good rate of return for pension funds that flow through the cash-management account ./. wsj05:8873 U That 's because when the dollar weakens , investment funds tend to flow more into marks and Dutch guilders rather than francs and Italian lira ./. wsj09:8408 U As prices rise , the process intensifies , with additional stock issues and frenzied buying until all the money that can possibly flow into the market has done so ./. wsj10:2942 U It flowed 7 , 500 barrels of oil a day through a one-inch opening from a depth of 13 , 193 feet ./. wsj10:5490 U Oil prices continued to plunge in trading wracked by rumors and growing evidence that additional barrels of Saudi Arabian crude oil are flowing into the market ./. wsj11:4391 L So far , the rare discovery of aflatoxin in the Midwest two weeks ago has only served to slow the normal drop in corn futures prices that comes as the harvest flows into hundreds of grain elevators , and they in turn sell futures contracts at the Chicago Board of Trade in order to hedge their purchases from farmers ./. wsj11:4696 U Mr. Lynam said a Dukakis victory would discourage foreign capital flows because of his protectionist attitudes , and he would be more amenable to using a lower dollar to solve the U.S. trade imbalance ./. wsj12:1563 U The problem is that most funds likely would flow out of them to non-regulated , non-insured competitors , and the basic banking system would be left weaker than today ./. wsj12:9996 U Because so many other economic indicators flow from the employment numbers , the series is currently in vogue ./. wsj14:2924 U The well , about seven miles southeast of the Maureen oil field , flowed at a rate of 24 million cubic feet of natural gas and more than 1 , 800 barrels of condensate a day through an opening of three-fourths of an inch in a lower sand zone ./. wsj18:10772 U He cites a jumble of nagging concerns , including the paucity of money flowing back into the stock market , companies ' eagerness to buy back their stock rather than invest in their businesses , and speculators ' search for quick profits through takeovers ./. wsj18:4061 U It is led by 39-year-old Edsel , who is also a trustee , and includes Henry 's six grandchildren , to whom the trust is to flow upon Kathleen Ford 's death ./. wsj19:10783 U The warm vapor flows back to the pipe 's cool end where it condenses to a liquid , releasing its heat , and starting the cycle over again ./. wsj19:10786 L When the warm vapor flows through the narrowed midpoint , it speeds up and its pressure drops ./. wsj20:1669 U A test from the intervals of 7 , 012 feet to 6 , 995 feet and 6 , 913 feet to 6 , 900 feet flowed through a half-inch choke at a rate of 817 barrels of oil and 83 , 400 cubic feet of gas a day ./. wsj20:9630 U As delegates to the Republican National Convention began their proceedings yesterday , running-mate rumors swept the Superdome like the great `` waves '' that flow through football crowds ./. wsj21:1865 U Houston-based Conoco said the well flowed at a daily rate of 4 , 730 barrels of oil from three different levels ./. wsj22:2329 U The Medicare money started flowing in 1981 ./. wsj22:9211 U Capital has been flowing out of West Germany at an unprecedented rate , explaining in part why the Bundesbank has been raising interest rates to try to prop up the mark ./. wsj24:11088 U The energy exploration and development concern said the well was drilled to 12 , 120 feet in 474 feet of water and flowed at a rate of 10 , 350 barrels of oil a day through a 3 4-inch opening ./. wsj24:3423 U The oil and gas exploration and production concern said the discovery flowed at a rate of 2 , 735 thousand cubic feet of gas a day through a 14 64-inch choke ./. wsj25:9318 U These funds eventually flowed back to the U.S. through the banking system and were recorded as a private capital inflow ./. wsj26:8387 U -- The Japanese , who receive more than half the oil that flows out of the Straits of Hormuz , have declined to help us in the Persian Gulf , other than to parcel out a few million for navigational aids , and to offer vague bribes if we will escort their ships ./. wsj27:10375 L These electrons then flow back and forth from one silicon layer to the other , creating an electric field whose current can be tapped ./. wsj28:6546 U The well , Raia-1 , flowed at an average rate of 2 , 880 barrels of crude oil a day through a half-inch opening below 8 , 494 feet ./. wsj28:7363 L To hold the property-tax rate low , Addison never built a system to process the sewage flowing from its many developments ./. wsj29:2069 U However , the Tropicana complaint alleged that Coca-Cola 's current advertising campaign also shows `` dripping fresh orange juice flowing from an orange '' on Premium Choice cartons ./. wsj29:6214 U The river is flowing at only about 25 % of its annual rate of as much as 200 million gallons a day , and the plant , which makes writing paper , has already had to draw heavily on its private reservoir ./. wsj32:260 U So , for each 1 % increase in menu prices at the franchisees , an estimated profit of $ 5.7 million , or three cents a share , flows through to McDonald 's bottom line , Mr. Rohs says . -LRB- He expects the company to earn $ 3.45 a share this year , up from $ 2.89 in 1987 before a gain from an accounting change. -RRB-/-RRB- wsj32:6032 U And fund specialists caution that if the stock and bond markets turn around and head lower again , money quickly will flow back into money funds ./. wsj33:3305 U Funds also regularly flow from the Asian Development Bank , the U.N. Development Program , European donors , and Japan -- the latter , in fact , is expected to provide India with $ 1 billion in easy credit this year ./. wsj33:3383 U The well , drilled to a total depth of 7 , 800 feet , flowed 32-degree API gravity crude oil at a gross combined rate of 1 , 498 barrels a day through two-inch tubing from three tested zones in the Oligocene Pematang Formation at depths between 4 , 270 and 4 , 372 feet ./. wsj35:11364 U Previously , all information in the Soviet Union flowed from one faucet ; now , under `` glasnost , '' it seems to run almost whimsically -- sometimes openly , sometimes not at all ./. wsj35:234 U Mr. McDonald contrasted the current atmosphere with the early days of the redesign , when funds flowed freely ./. wsj36:1714 U The energy concern , which owns a 37.5 % working interest in the well , said that in tests the well flowed at a rate of 265 barrels of oil and 150 , 000 cubic feet of natural gas a day through an 18 64-inch choke ./. wsj38:4585 U The importer said , however , that it also agreed to buy the spring from which Saratoga Mineral Water flows and the brand 's production facilities in Saratoga Springs , N.Y ./. wsj38:5638 U During a three-and-a-half hour test , oil flowed at a rate of 1 , 320 barrels of oil and 7.3 million cubic feet of gas a day through a 20 64-inch opening from the first zone ./. wsj39:10321 U The energy concern said the well flowed at a rate of 8.1 million cubic feet of gas and 623 barrels of oil a day through openings ranging from 20 64 of an inch to 48 64 of an inch ./. ******************** ***fly*** *nonliteral cluster* wsj02:1834 L Mr. Tyson was in London on business and had to fly back this weekend ./. wsj03:10863 N By endorsing bank authority to underwrite corporate equities , the senators gave the Fed a defense against claims that such a move would fly in the face of congressional opposition ./. wsj03:365 L Sunworld had recently been operating as a charter airline flying 120 flights a month ./. wsj05:5698 L In a discussion on board his Air Force jet as he flew to a speech here , Mr. Bush also indicated that he would attempt to have it both ways in budget negotiations with Congress , saying he is willing to negotiate deficit-reduction steps but wo n't want to include new taxes in the negotiations ./. wsj11:6219 L It 's a great fare , but there 's a slight problem: Eastern does n't fly that route ./. wsj11:7918 L The new calculations showed the shuttle could fly safely , he said ./. wsj14:4263 L With more carriers flying abroad , airlines are pressuring the FAA to allow them to use foreign repair stations to perform major maintenance work ./. wsj17:1931 N To keep those flowerpots from flying , companies more and more try to prepare employees for working with AIDS patients ./. wsj17:6737 L Three former scholarship winners now fly border patrol for the U.S. Customs Service ./. wsj18:4991 L Under a temporary restraining order entered early this month , Judge Parker barred Eastern from eliminating the jobs , but specifically permitted the company to cut its flying ./. wsj19:1482 L Ever since President Reagan in February 1986 called for U.S. development of an `` Orient Express , '' a futuristic aircraft that would fly from New York to Tokyo in two hours , MITI 's aerospace mavens have been itching to get Japan into the action ./. wsj21:5790 L In return it got to shape the festivities , glamorizing things with a sprinkling of film and rock music personalities -LRB- Jane Seymour , Pierce Brosnan and Ringo Starr supplied this year 's dazzle -RRB- and flying in a roster of writers and photographers for publicity ./. wsj23:2008 L Unfortunately , `` Phantasm II '' also concerns a flying metal ball with speed-drill attachments , which affixes itself to one 's forehead and then drains the brain ./. wsj26:1087 N A slick young marketing executive at the firm chastises him: `` I told you it would n't fly ./. wsj26:1653 N As a first step , the phone company offers a recorded message reproducing what is purported to be the sound of a flying saucer taped in Europe ./. wsj27:4349 L And Mr. Gorbachev 's proposal to remove aircraft -- which easily can fly back to Central Europe during a crisis -- would be meaningless unless they are destroyed , Mr. Chalmers says ./. wsj29:8324 L Using cameras that shoot up to 44 , 000 pictures a second , and then turning them into slow-motion movies , the Boston photographer has helped customers solve problems with baseball pitchers ' throwing arms , high-speed factory machines , flashlamps that trigger lasers and a wide array of things that explode , fly , break apart or otherwise move too quickly to be seen clearly ./. wsj37:3723 L When the chairman of Santa Fe Southern Pacific Corp. flew into town a few months ago in the corporate jet , a small group of trainmen here knew they had struck a raw nerve ./. wsj39:1542 L Eastern has made elaborate preparations to keep the airline flying with non-union workers ./. wsj41:2003 L Orion , a contract carrier which formerly flew for United Parcel Service , had agreed to replace Eastern pilots if they followed the machinists on a walkout ./. wsj47:1323 L He added , `` Hal -LRB- Riney -RRB- flew into Miami this morning and offered us certain reassurances about the relationship that led us to the decision . ''/'' wsj52:4834 N Already , he has changed the French political landscape in a way that may be more long-lasting than the Reagan Revolution in the U.S. Building the Socialist Party from scratch in 1971 , Mr. Mitterrand went on to prove that a leftist could get elected without France 's flying apart ./. wsj54:5192 N But even if this plan does n't fly , Mr. Robinson sees advantages in announcing it ./. wsj56:1670 L `` If you fly with five connections , you can earn 15 , 000 miles , '' says William Byrnes , a Boston-based free-lance writer who has devised several ways to make so many connections ./. wsj56:2143 L As previously reported , Eastern , locked in a longstanding labor-management feud , has contracted with Orion Air , a unit of Primark Corp . , to provide pilots to fly Eastern aircraft should contract talks end in a strike ./. wsj60:5503 L In ground tests , parts keep fracturing and flying apart ./. wsj65:10589 L There are some indications that people who take sedatives do n't necessarily have to fly to forget ./. wsj69:5116 N Selecting , keeping and replacing the personnel necessary to run the U.S. government is a lot closer to baseball than to flying ./. wsj71:9770 L `` On silent nights , great flocks of white birds fly formations past the Camino 's Lobby Bar . . . ./. wsj73:1781 N Rumors fly at Smith Barney that its parent , Primerica , is disgusted and ready to sell the firm , though Primerica denies it ./. wsj77:7624 L As previously reported , Eastern , locked in a longstanding labor-management feud , has contracted with Orion Air , a unit of Primark Corp . , to provide pilots to fly Eastern aircraft should contract talks end in a strike ./. wsj79:9735 L During 1987 , America West added 2 , 900 employees , boosted its fleet of aircraft to 69 from 46 and added 11 cities to the 34 it flew to in 1986 ./. wsj81:10935 L In ground tests , parts keep fracturing and flying apart ./. wsj82:231 L Can Congress encourage democracy in other countries by flying foreigners here to watch it fight over the budget ?/. wsj84:8750 N That he can play the hawk , given his 11-year record in the House and Senate , shows what a dovish flock he 's flying with ./. wsj85:9358 N In early 1984 , some officers at New York 's Bankers Trust Co. devised a way for Mexico to shed some of its huge U.S. bank debt -- a plan remarkably similar to one embraced last week by Morgan Guaranty Trust Co. and Mexico -- but it did n't fly ./. wsj02:4543 U For instance , some pilots would receive 6 % annual increases in a five-year contract if they fly additional hours , while many of the former Republic pilots , who have continued to work under the lower Republic contract rates since the merger , will receive as much as a 34 % increase annually , based on the type of aircraft they fly ./. wsj04:1834 N Parker was a musical pointillist who turned melodies into dots of sound and sent them flying like machine gun fire ./. wsj05:9707 N Cohen and Kravis was described as cordial , angry charges flew like hail behind the scenes ./. wsj09:2084 U He bought a boat , learned to fly so he could take aerial infrared photos , and did extensive research ./. wsj09:4720 U And he flew the fellow down to Washington with him so that the Arena actors could meet him also , and watch him talk ./. wsj10:3983 U Both European routes still require an agreement between Japan and the Soviet Union that would permit flying over Soviet territory ./. wsj14:4208 U It adds that most pilots flying South American routes already have had the training ./. wsj16:8088 U Mr. Bass , who had flown in from Fort Worth hoping to strike a final deal , told Mr. Wall he was heading home , although some of his aides would remain in Washington ./. wsj19:3548 U Meantime , allegations are flying that the Good Government Commission itself has gone bad ./. wsj20:2845 U Re your stories on the launch preparations of the space shuttle Discovery suffering repeated delays: Ultimately the problems will be resolved , and sometime this autumn Discovery will fly and return safely ./. wsj20:7662 N Not surprisingly , Helsinki is most appealing when things are kept Finnish , be it architecture , artifacts or sailors . -LRB- Finnish sailors , who train on one of Helsinki 's bucolic islands , sport blond hair , tans and jaunty white caps that look like flying saucers. -RRB-/-RRB- wsj21:8437 U Even Israel 's legendary air force pilots speak nervously of the skills their Iraqi counterparts have attained , flying more-sophisticated aircraft on forays over Iranian territory and the Persian Gulf ./. wsj22:3541 N Back in the early 1970s , when Mr. Trudeau created `` Doonesbury , '' he was able to invent quirky countercultural characters that allowed his delicately accurate barbs to fly in all directions ./. wsj26:8027 U He took his region 's United Parcel Service workers out on strike to protest their 1976 contract , a move that , for the Teamsters , `` is like flying to the moon , '' according to Mr. Paff ./. wsj27:4011 U Locked in labor contract talks , the company believes strong cash reserves are necessary to keep the airline flying in the event of a strike ./. wsj28:7350 U To study theaters similar to the one Addison plans for its troupe , Mayor Redding flew to Canada and Colorado by Lear jet , rented with city funds , according to the investigative report and other city records ./. wsj28:8190 U Someone flying straight and level at 9 , 000 feet ai n't hostile . ''/'' wsj29:6356 N Gary Lynch , the director of enforcement at the SEC , recalls some investment bankers who passed their polygraph tests with flying colors during insider-trading probes ./. wsj32:5512 N In a flying start last year , checkers gave thumbs down to junk priced at $ 10 billion ./. wsj36:9997 U Furthermore , pilots who fly American 's large fleet of 767s will be certified to fly the new 757s as well ./. wsj40:10827 N I can see the memos flying from one faceless bureaucrat to another ./. wsj44:1822 U Mr. Nelson , who flew on a shuttle flight , heads a subcommittee that oversees NASA ./. *literal cluster* wsj01:954 L The fare restructuring , aimed at tying prices to mileage flown , apparently will wipe away many of the bargain-basement fares currently available to leisure travelers , and make it likely that those travelers will pay $ 10 to $ 30 more on most fares ./. wsj03:766 N Lawsuits and lawsuit-threats are flying ./. wsj06:9886 L A revenue passenger mile is one paying passenger flown one mile ./. wsj07:3129 L Smugglers countered by flying low and slow ./. wsj11:6222 L `` There are a lot of fares to clean out , '' says a spokeswoman for Eastern , which stopped flying from Los Angeles to San Francisco earlier this summer ./. wsj14:4231 L The FAA found that Northwest was requiring international flight crews to fly a domestic leg as well before going off duty ./. wsj15:41 L But are airports being used by people who are flying more often -- or by people who simply are taking more connections ?/. wsj15:9960 L But the Warsaw Pact is only 15 minutes flying time from Switzerland , and Swiss skies thus represent a self-contained defense sector at Europe 's core ./. wsj17:475 L From next Monday to Oct. 15 , it will let passengers qualify for triple mileage if they fly a round trip between Newark , N.J . , and Kansas City , Mo . , or between Newark and Minneapolis St ./. wsj18:3629 L The route generates about $ 120 million in revenue for United , which has been flying it since 1983 ./. wsj18:5013 L Eastern 's cutbacks have benefited Continental in other ways , the affidavit claims: Roughly 4 % of Eastern 's flying capacity competes with Continental , it says , compared with 9.3 % in January 1987 ./. wsj18:5217 L Airlines say they have lessened the risk by focusing increases on business fliers , who often must fly at any price ./. wsj21:11065 L The 47-year-old spaceman , who flew aboard a Soyuz capsule last December , reportedly was preparing for the first manned flight of a Soviet space shuttle ./. wsj22:2927 L A revenue passenger mile is one paying customer flown one mile ./. wsj22:3732 L For the first seven months of 1988 , the small regional carrier flew 3.94 billion revenue passenger miles , up 30 % from 3.03 billion a year earlier ./. wsj22:6562 L For the year to date , the airline said it flew 9.51 billion revenue passenger miles , up 27.6 % from 7.45 billion miles a year earlier ./. wsj23:3569 N Mexico verifies crop destruction by flying over sprayed sites ; it calls on-ground inspections too risky ./. wsj24:4709 L He is part of a growing air force of amateur aces around the country who rebuild and fly aging warplanes , indulging in weekend flights of fantasy like Mr. Deakins 's Battle of Stuart . -LRB- He won , he says , by keeping Mr. Stephenson , 48 , in his gun sights for 10 seconds ; the planes are unarmed ./. wsj25:8978 L But the resolution probably rests more on politics than on flying skill and commercial expertise ./. wsj25:9008 L Air Inter can fly to Ibiza , Spain , in the summer and Madrid in the winter twice a week under an Air France flight number ./. wsj26:966 L When the U.S. expanded its gulf fleet a year ago to protect Kuwaiti tankers flying the U.S. flag , it left little doubt that it was siding with Iraq and the other Arab nations against Iran ./. wsj27:6659 L The senator was so eager to appear with the governor at a campaign event July 1 that he awoke at 4:30 a.m. and flew his own twin-engine airplane to Dayton ./. wsj27:8329 L The young aviator from Oceana , Calif . , was scheduled to fly to Greenland Sunday , then stop in Iceland before arriving in Paris on Wednesday ./. wsj30:5684 L When flights from Chicago to Islip , N.Y . , started falling behind schedule , the airline discovered that the Federal Aviation Administration had changed the flying route , making the trip 70 miles longer ./. wsj30:8207 L Although it never saw combat , the Fortress flew photo mapping missions in Europe ./. wsj30:8258 L Alain Minc , Patrick Ponsolle and Maurice Lippens were flying from Paris to Brussels last Monday night when they uncorked a bottle of warm champagne and toasted the future of Societe Generale de Belgique S.A . , the giant Belgian holding company ./. wsj30:9567 L But other officials , who asked not to be identified , said the helicopter was an MH-6 flying from one of two large barges moored in the northern Persian Gulf ./. wsj32:1812 L Foreign visitors marvel at the $ 35 steaks in the stores here , but that 's only because most of them fly here on round-trip tickets purchased back home at rational prices ./. wsj33:6044 L A revenue passenger mile is one paying customer flown one mile ./. wsj33:6548 L For the first five months of the year , the NWA Inc. unit flew 14.9 billion revenue passenger miles , down 7.5 % from 16.1 billion miles a year earlier ./. wsj34:9560 L A revenue passenger mile is one paying passenger flown one mile ./. wsj36:37 L The problem is that the surging hordes of passengers are flying into the same number of airports ./. wsj39:7140 L A revenue passenger mile is one paying passenger flown one mile ./. wsj43:7704 L The U.S. also is considering whether to officially change its gulf policy of protecting only U.S.-flag ships , which consist mainly of 11 Kuwaiti tankers flying U.S. flags ./. wsj44:3330 L The body of al-Wazir was flown to Damascus for burial today ./. wsj46:9272 L A revenue passenger mile is one paying passenger flown one mile ./. wsj47:1119 L A revenue passenger mile is one paying passenger flown one mile ./. wsj48:8808 L U.S. airlines are applying under the same rules allowing Pan Am to fly here ./. wsj48:8826 L Perhaps hoping to keep the newcomers out , Pan Am and British Air applied to fly on each other 's German routes ./. wsj50:4068 L Mr. Petee said one man was so afraid his boss was going to ask him to fly that he started his own business ./. wsj52:5141 L Although most of the major airlines have such affiliations , they generally are n't involved in the operations of the smaller airlines-even when the commuters are flying under the big airlines ' logos ./. wsj53:11106 L A revenue passenger mile is one paying passenger flown one mile ./. wsj57:4536 L A revenue passenger mile is one paying passenger flown one mile ./. wsj58:1836 L A revenue passenger mile is one paying passenger flown one mile ./. wsj63:6834 L Delta Air Lines said it flew 3.94 billion revenue passenger miles in December , a 26.7 % increase from the 3.11 billion miles it flew in December 1986 ./. wsj63:9322 L When we first encounter Nina , she is blaming her kindly old Dad for succumbing to fatherly jealousy and blocking her marriage to a handsome flying ace named Gordon , who is subsequently killed in World War I ./. wsj64:1626 L A revenue passenger mile is one paying passenger flown one mile ./. wsj65:935 L Like everyone else in this movie , he 's in the grip of his family , superstition and fear of death ; right after he asks Loretta to marry him she drops him at the airport so he can fly to Italy where his mother keeps lingering on her deathbed ./. wsj69:6323 L For the first three months of 1988 , the airline said it flew 2.95 billion revenue passenger miles , up 15.2 % from the 2.56 billion miles a year earlier ./. wsj72:8823 L A revenue passenger mile is one paying passenger flown one mile ./. wsj73:3412 L Air Midwest said it flew 12.7 million revenue passenger miles in February , a 5.3 % decrease from 13.4 million a year earlier ./. wsj73:567 L Mr. Paulson also flew over China ./. wsj73:5794 L It said the U.S. is prepared to rule out other routes that would fly over land in the U.S. or Canada `` except in the case of aircraft emergency . ''/'' wsj74:4276 L A revenue passenger mile is one paying passenger flown one mile ./. wsj78:6327 L A revenue passenger mile is one paying passenger flown one mile ./. wsj78:9436 L A revenue passenger mile is one paying passenger flown one mile ./. wsj78:9981 L A revenue passenger mile is one paying passenger flown one mile ./. wsj81:330 L `` It takes time to move them through the training and to get them ready to fly . ''/'' wsj83:2283 L The other two aircraft will seat 150 people and fly 7 , 200 miles ./. wsj83:4654 L Cats can fly ./. wsj84:7143 L A revenue passenger mile is one paying passenger flown one mile ./. wsj85:1412 L USAir , a unit of USAir Group Inc . , said its December traffic rose 14.2 % to 1.11 billion revenue passenger miles from the year-earlier 972.5 million revenue passenger miles , or one paying passenger flown one mile ./. wsj85:4918 L Others fly them out as personal luggage ./. wsj01:9545 L He flew off in one of his three 707s for long weekends in places like Australia with people like John and Bo Derek ./. wsj03:2519 L Chairs fly , Geraldo is bloodied , the governor is yelling `` outta my face , Noriega-breath ! `` while the vice president screams `` Read my lips , liberal man ! `` -RRB-/-RRB- wsj03:8003 L It even regulates where kites can be flown and how candy should be displayed in markets -- and fines offenders ./. wsj04:10888 U The end of flying had made us mortal . ''/'' wsj05:8688 U Pan Am began flying the shuttle about two years ago , and made great inroads into Eastern 's business by presenting itself as a luxury shuttle ./. wsj06:6952 L They included fixtures required by the company and the salaries and expenses of four assemblers who flew in from Italy to set up the store ./. wsj07:10137 L When a triumphant Michael Dukakis flew to Erie from the Democratic National Convention in July , they lined the exit from the airport and Perry Square downtown with signs -- not handmade but professionally printed -- saying `` Dukakis Wants Taxes For Abortion . ''/'' wsj07:3128 U Ground-based radars for defense and air-traffic control were designed to spot planes flying high and fast ./. wsj07:3139 U `` We can fly in position about here , '' Lt. O'Leary says , indicating a spot south of Andros Island ./. wsj08:4387 U The carrier said it flew 656.6 million revenue passenger miles for the month , up from 588.1 million a year earlier ./. wsj09:4376 U A revenue passenger mile represents one paying passenger flown one mile ./. wsj09:6874 U `` Fewer and fewer companies are allowing their people to fly first class , '' an Eastern Airlines spokesman says ./. wsj10:4282 U A revenue passenger mile is one paying passenger flown one mile ./. wsj10:7835 U For example , he says , if airlines are flying with lots of empty seats , a drop in crude prices will be passed through to customers in the form of lower ticket prices ./. wsj12:1916 U The movies show that the furcula , as the wishbone is known technically , acts like a spring when a bird is flying , report Farish Jenkens and Kenneth Dial of Harvard and Ted Goslow of Northern Arizona University in the current issue of the journal Science ./. wsj14:4182 U To save money , most carriers have increased the hours pilots fly ./. wsj14:4229 U A recent FAA inspection found that Northwest Airlines was requiring crews to fly more than eight hours without a rest period ./. wsj14:4256 U Finally , after more than a year of complaints , United decided to allow its pilots to fly either the old or new versions of the plane , but not both ./. wsj14:4288 U `` I do n't care who is flying the plane , that 's a long time to go on one engine 25 , 000 feet over water , '' says Gary A. Wagner , an Air Canada pilot who has studied the issue for that airline ./. wsj14:4297 U Last year , an FAA inspection found maintenance deficiencies at Aloha Airlines , which had a special exemption to fly twin-engine jets from Honolulu to Christmas Island ./. wsj15:11061 U A revenue passenger mile is one paying passenger flown one mile ./. wsj15:5026 U A revenue passenger mile is one paying passenger flown one mile ./. wsj16:10914 U Meanwhile , a 16-year-old senior at the Bronx High School of Science in New York proves you do n't have to fly all that frequently to get hooked on the programs ./. wsj16:6736 U A revenue passenger mile is one paying passenger flown one mile ./. wsj16:6857 U For the year to date , the airline said it flew 11.28 billion revenue passenger miles , up 29.8 % from 8.69 billion miles a year earlier ./. wsj16:9296 L Flying to Slovenia from the Yugoslav south is n't unlike flying to the Midwest from the Mideast ./. wsj17:9572 U And the saga also shows that resourcefulness has n't flamed out in the airline business -- that in an age of oligopoly , small but shrewd carriers might be able to fly into the openings left after the giants carve out their markets ./. wsj17:9647 U With new capital , seasoned management and a hub far away from the fierce competition of American and Delta Air Lines in Dallas , Braniff will have a better-than-even chance to fly through the storms that once grounded it , Mr. Chodorow contends ./. wsj18:5189 U In Phoenix , travelers can still fly to Los Angeles , Las Vegas , San Diego and three other cities for $ 19 each way ./. wsj19:5604 L Shortly after Mr. Bush 's solo appearance , GOP strategists hastily arranged for Mr. Quayle to fly here from Washington to address the VFW banquet last night ./. wsj19:9717 U She flew into the Guinness Book of World Records as the world 's most frequent flier ./. wsj21:5479 U The regional air carrier said its traffic increased 2.4 % in July to 27.6 million revenue passenger miles compared with the same month last year , but its planes flew with more empty seats ./. wsj22:1252 L As usual , Ms. Larsen strove to avoid the obvious by focusing on her emotional response rather than the natural phenomenon itself: `` I want to give the listener not the sound of a bird as much as the feeling of flying . ''/'' wsj22:8120 L The locust-control organization said five swarms were seen flying near Asmara , capital of Eritrea , between July 21 and 24 ./. wsj22:9595 U For the first seven months of 1988 , the airline said it flew 16.79 billion revenue passenger miles , up 15 % from 14.60 billion a year earlier ./. wsj23:4412 U A revenue passenger mile is one paying passenger flown one mile ./. wsj24:10460 L Hawaiians welcome long weekends to fly to the mainland ; `` I 've done it myself , '' says Fidencio Mares , a vice president of Pacific Resources , Honolulu ./. wsj24:9956 U Passengers who fly between the coasts as members of the joint frequent-flier program of Continental and Eastern , for instance , might now be more apt to select connecting flights through Continental 's hub in Denver ./. wsj25:9010 U Air Inter really wants the government to change its charter so that it can fly outside of France ./. wsj25:9016 U We want to fly in cooperation with Air France . ''/'' wsj26:10895 L And party chairman Paul Kirk never bothered to call him at all on Tuesday , Mr. Jackson 's aides say , though he could find the time to fly to Boston to extol Mr. Bentsen ./. wsj26:7144 U Most of the passengers who fly Air Wisconsin connect to or from United 's jets at both Chicago 's O'Hare and Washington 's Dulles airports ./. wsj27:5821 U They were then flown by DC-6 to a narcotics cartel in Colombia ./. wsj28:278 U A revenue passenger mile is one paying passenger flown one mile ./. wsj28:2793 U A revenue passenger mile is one paying passenger flown one mile ./. wsj28:5837 L Armand Hammer , chairman of Occidental , planned to fly to Scotland to check out the situation for himself ./. wsj28:7587 U A revenue passenger mile is one paying passenger flown one mile ./. wsj29:10641 U According to a rescuer , the pilot said the plane did n't respond to his commands to boost power ; some French officials suggested he was simply flying too low ./. wsj29:10645 U For instance , spool-up time can hamper a pilot 's ability to fly through wind shear or abort a landing ./. wsj29:774 U This was the concern behind last week 's meeting in Seoul of government security officials from eight Asian nations and the U.S . , and representatives of 13 airlines that fly into South Korea ./. wsj30:7201 U His deputy said that the 150-seat , twin-engine plane was flying too low before the incident at an air show near the border with Switzerland ./. wsj30:9249 U Air-traffic liabilities mostly involve tickets that have been sold and not yet flown upon ./. wsj31:4234 L Poor Roger , however , gets zapped and bammed and splatted over and over again , ending up on the floor with little birds flying around his head ./. wsj31:6130 L But I think it would be wise for all Americans to remember that the British were ruthless colonial masters wherever the Union Jack flew . -LRB- We fought the Revolutionary War over the issue. -RRB-/-RRB- wsj32:1841 U JAL 's current management is struggling to reverse this situation , prodded by the government , which is finally moving to denationalize JAL and to allow other Japanese carriers to fly overseas routes ./. wsj32:6575 U In February , the FAA proposed that small-plane pilots be required to use the devices , which provide air traffic controllers with aircraft altitude and position , whenever they fly within a 40-mile radius of 254 U.S. airports ./. wsj33:1186 U An airline spokesman says Soviet officals have informally suggested , `` Gee , would n't you like to fly somewhere else '' in Siberia , to a larger , perhaps livelier location ?/. wsj33:4507 L Next it flew them -- in its corporate jet and accompanied by the company 's chairman , Joseph Williams -- to Anaheim , Calif . , where they spoke to a big cardiologists ' meeting ./. wsj33:5816 L He is now economic adviser to Said bin Ahmed Al-Shanfari , the oil minister of Oman -- a role for which he was handpicked by Mr. Deuss , who flew him to Oman to introduce him to Mr. Al-Shanfari ./. wsj33:6075 U For the year to date , the company flew 2.75 billion revenue passenger miles , up 17 % from 2.36 billion a year earlier ./. wsj35:1252 U A revenue passenger mile is one paying passenger flown one mile ./. wsj36:103 U In addition to the commercial airlines ' scheduled flights , La Guardia 's 27 air-traffic controllers must keep tabs on an odd assortment of other flying objects: blimps , single-engine airplanes and traffic helicopters ./. wsj36:4688 U At the same time , lower fuel prices have kept it economical to fly older planes like the 737 and given them unexpected longevity ./. wsj37:5577 L The Navy , which began flying the A-6 in 1963 , has 340 in service and is buying more ./. wsj37:7566 L Secretary of State Shultz recently flew to Geneva , for example , to `` resolve ambiguities '' over INF verification ./. wsj37:8818 U All the 737s acquired with AirCal have continued to fly West Coast routes ./. wsj38:418 U `` We encourage our people as much as we can to fly on United Airlines and eat Kellogg cereals , '' says Jack Ryan , executive vice president of Leo Burnett Co . , which also handles advertising for GM 's Oldsmobile division ./. wsj38:8218 U Inside , you have to go through a further checkpoint to get out onto the flying areas , but on my visits security was negligible ./. wsj39:9233 U One revenue passenger mile is the equivalent of flying one paying passenger one mile ./. wsj40:10685 U A revenue passenger mile is one paying passenger flown one mile ./. wsj40:3502 L Seeking new tactics , Mr. Corella last summer flew to the Philippines to meet leaders of the popular uprising that ousted the Marcos regime in 1986 ./. wsj40:4136 L For example , investigators learned that the takeoff warning sounded when the crew landed in Saginaw , Mich . , before flying on to Detroit ./. wsj40:4750 U Eastern flew 2.65 billion revenue passenger miles in April , down 21.8 % from the same month a year ago ./. wsj42:10536 L He had heard that on a corner of Nellis Air Force Base nearby , a squadron of Stealth fighters was housed in hangars during the day , out of sight of Soviet satellites , and flown only at night ./. wsj42:10541 U After deciding to fly to the site of the 1986 crash , which had killed the pilot , he called air-traffic controllers and learned that an off-limits area had been established with a five-mile radius , below a 7 , 000-foot altitude ./. wsj44:3135 L Those convoys currently protect only Kuwaiti tankers flying U.S. flags , but in Washington , Pentagon officials are discussing whether to extend protection to all neutral ships ./. wsj45:1978 U For the first three months of 1988 , the regional airline said it flew 20 million revenue passenger miles , up 12.4 % from 17.8 million miles a year earlier ./. wsj45:6454 L In Washington , where both the film and the feast opened last week to rave reviews , Chef Yannick Cam of Le Pavillon had to fly in fresh black truffles -- at $ 335 a pound -- from France ./. ******************** ***grab*** *nonliteral cluster* wsj04:5220 N Meanwhile , the discounters and specialty stores that have grabbed sales from Sears in recent years are n't likely to stand still while it tries to catch up ./. wsj30:1448 N So far , no one is grabbing the first Concorde out ./. wsj43:4193 N `` Competitors are kept out , and carters ' costs are kept down , '' says Mr. Kossler , who testified publicly in 1983 about one incident: A New York businessman got into the garbage-hauling business and quickly tried to grab customers from other carters by underbidding them ./. wsj57:10458 N National Broadcasting Co. 's `` Main Event '' won the ratings race for the 8 p.m.-to-9 p.m. time period Friday -- and grabbed the highest NBC ratings for that time slot so far this season ./. wsj59:7765 L And they did n't just grab the clothes , they were trained to grab the flesh . ''/'' wsj64:4906 L When she hears that prisoners sometimes carve their names into logs that float downriver , she grabs her child and runs with her to the river ./. wsj71:10846 N And he still knows how to grab an audience: Yesterday , he made people sit up with his announcement of a $ 225 million offer for Resorts International Inc . , although it was rejected within hours ./. wsj71:9967 L At one point , the shark disappears , then roars up from the deep to snatch a big chunk of horsemeat on the surface , the way it might grab an unsuspecting sea lion ./. wsj74:8837 N He adds , `` We 're trying very hard to avoid the Halley 's comet syndrome -- where you grab everything in sight and then you vanish . ''/'' wsj78:8506 N And expense-account fliers , who learned long ago to construct elaborate flight schemes to earn extra mileage , now are battling to pick up dinner tabs to grab mileage linked to charge-card purchases ./. wsj80:9435 L His one spectacular crime came in the wee hours of Aug. 8 , 1963 , his 34th birthday , when he and his pals grabbed 120 sacks of well-worn bank notes being sent to London for pulping ./. wsj01:9810 N `` Ten years ago , it was enough to latch onto something 100 % proven , '' says Shoji Kumagai , general manager of technical development at giant Sumitomo Corp . `` Today we have to grab it at the idea stage . ''/'' wsj03:10881 N Steelworkers will press for a share of the higher profits ; lower-cost minimills and emerging Third World producers will grab markets of integrated U.S. steelmakers , and alternative materials -- aluminum , ceramics and high-tech metal composites -- will wrest away business ./. wsj04:2327 N `` A strong opening in platinum coupled with a weak dollar just grabbed gold by the horns and took it on up , '' he said ./. wsj04:4842 N With gold demand slack and more governments than ever issuing gold bullion coins , he says , `` They 're grabbing for scraps . ''/'' wsj07:4297 N They fear Philip Morris could grab a huge portion of the retail shelf and stifle innovation by muscling out smaller and regional concerns where new products are often born ./. wsj08:1005 U Mr. Swavely predicted that Compaq would eventually grab more than half the laptop market , but he would n't say how long that might take ./. wsj08:9493 U Industry groups see such packaging eventually grabbing 10 % of the plastic-container market and using more than 2 % of the U.S. harvest ./. wsj09:5771 U `` This is a product that people are grabbing me by the lapels to get , '' Mr. Skier says ./. wsj10:10937 N While manned launches , such as that of the space shuttle last week , still grab occasional headlines , industry observers are focusing more and more on the moves of trade negotiators ./. wsj10:9194 N The new routes do n't have the normal stop-and-go chemical signals , so the rhizobia and their host go all out , grabbing and using twice as much nitrogen from the air as normal ./. wsj11:940 N Since introducing its first cooler in late 1985 , Seagram has grabbed a 36 % market share and with eight flavors on the market has kept increasing its revenue at the expense of others ./. wsj11:9582 N `` European electronics companies would invent a new product , and then six of them would each make it and kill each other , while the Japanese grabbed the market , '' says Mr. Salzmann , President Mitterrand 's adviser ./. wsj12:2826 N As Elle grabbed market share , other fashion magazines quickly revamped , redesigned and repositioned themselves ./. wsj12:9059 U It shows a man drowning in a swamp , his right hand reaching hopelessly for something to grab hold of ./. wsj13:3597 N Just as Reuters and Telerate want to grab a piece of Quotron 's territory by offering U.S. equities quotes , Quotron is eyeing their turf and mulling ways to offer pricing information on fixed-income instruments and foreign currencies ./. wsj14:3002 U It mapped out a `` tunnel to the U.S. Treasury , '' a way to grab public money for its own purposes ./. wsj15:52 U The pricing game has changed because smaller rental companies have been grabbing too much business from the major companies ./. wsj16:7203 U Of course , there are those who grab texts from writers and then give the speeches caring only for the pretty sounds of the words as they roll off their tongues ./. wsj18:3792 N As a longtime trade-association executive in the petroleum industry , I have seen scores of upper-level managers grab the brass ring of early retirement ./. wsj19:4723 U Suddenly , he jumps off the stage and grabs a woman from the audience to dance with him ./. wsj19:7889 U About 20 group members who sought to hand out leaflets or address a large crowd in Pushkin Square were immediately grabbed and bundled off into unmarked police vans ./. wsj21:10187 U Infuriated , the policemen grabbed for all that was left: the reporter himself ./. wsj22:11118 N Now , do all of them absorb it and grab it ?/. wsj22:3688 N Difficult as it was , young Miss Mills managed to grab some of the spotlight from her Papa Bear mentor ./. wsj22:5959 U Still , some observers wonder whether the debt load will be especially burdensome for Mr. Murdoch , who has been on a multibillion-dollar media acquisition binge , grabbing up television stations , a book company and a Hollywood studio ./. wsj23:8862 U The greedy few grabbed the ring , then found they did n't have political support ./. wsj24:8905 N A Nomura investment would reflect the growing desire by major Japanese financial institutions to grab a bigger piece of the mergers and acquisitions activity taking place between Japan and the U.S ./. wsj26:1074 N Like soap operas , the spots try to grab the viewer with heavy doses of drama and emotion ./. wsj27:2826 U A genetically engineered version of the drug could quickly grab a significant share of the market , he added ./. wsj28:431 N The suspension likely will accelerate inter-union warfare , as the electricians step up their recruitment drive at new sites , while other unions try to grab electricians ' members in factories where they represent the minority , Mr. Metcalfe says ./. wsj31:9734 N But it mistakenly grabs protein -LRB- a -RRB- instead of plasminogen , pulling it , with its bag of fat and cholesterol , into the artery wall ./. wsj32:5438 U A woman grabs five bags ./. wsj33:10962 U A 1987 independent-TV spot for one of Mattel 's Masters of the Universe dolls , for example , showed the toy appearing to pick up other figures automatically , while a voice-over intoned , `` When Monstroid gets wound up , it grabs . ''/'' wsj33:2874 N Midland Bank PLC , hoping to grab a bigger share of Britain 's lucrative and highly competitive retail market , has begun giving products brand names and marketing them like chocolate bars ./. wsj33:6449 U `` I 'm not very optimistic at this time that the companies will grab our proposal , '' he said ./. wsj34:1166 U STARS began `` encryption '' services -- scrambling signals for the pay-per-view industry , mostly for boxing and horse-racing events , and has grabbed 90 % of the domestic market for such services ./. wsj34:1880 U He grabs the rubber chicken by the legs ./. wsj35:6922 U Shearson 's move was the most daring example to date of how far investment and commercial bankers are willing to go to grab a big chunk of the lucrative mergers and acquisitions market ./. wsj37:5177 U Once the primary U.S. broadcaster is selected , however , cable entities will be scrambling to grab some events ./. wsj39:4593 N When his friend Mr. Peterson , who had introduced Mr. Stockman to Salomon Chairman John Gutfreund , offered him a place at Blackstone , Mr. Stockman grabbed it ./. wsj39:8238 N Neither company has a big presence in the other 's businesses , and their alliance is aimed at grabbing a larger share of the converging computer and telecommunications markets ./. wsj40:6930 U Meanwhile , the arrival of faster scanning systems at many grocery checkout counters means magazines have a little less time to grab the attention of shoppers ./. wsj40:6953 U That 's why magazine executives say covers have to reach out and grab buyers ./. wsj41:2824 U U.S. television shows: football games , sitcoms , porn flicks , anything it can grab from U.S.-based satellite-delivered television services ./. wsj43:3103 U Mr. Grinberg dropped out at $ 21 , 000 after his wife grabbed his bidding paddle from him ./. wsj43:4656 N The New York Times is already rehabilitating Michael Dukakis as a `` centrist , '' but if that 's true why are Democrats now grabbing every reporter in town to whisper , `` Sam Nunn for vice president '' ?/. wsj46:1723 U Ardshiel , which said it seeks a friendly acquisition , wo n't have an easy task grabbing its target should Quaker State resist ./. wsj46:9285 U But this did n't daunt customers at the downtown Detroit store who , during a single lunch hour last week , grabbed up more than three dozen jars and cans of butterscotch and chocolate sauces -LRB- in regular , milk , bittersweet and swiss varieties -RRB- ./. wsj47:2055 U Smart opponents try to do one of two things about this weapon: grab the hand to deflect it , and tuck their heads so that if the blow does land , it hits their helmets ./. wsj49:2028 U I 'm at trackside , and when he did n't move for a minute or so I ran out , grabbed him by the shoulders and pulled him up ./. wsj50:3627 U Huber prefers local cuisine -- `` wandering through the stalls in South Korean streets and grabbing a dish of this or that , '' for example -- but his local staff likes to impress him. -RRB-/-RRB- *literal cluster* wsj06:435 N It grabbed 21.7 % of U.S. car sales in the first nine months of this year , up from just 16.6 % in all 1981 ./. wsj37:8704 N Japan has long fended off accusations that Japanese companies use U.S. and European technologies without permission to grab a market lead , most recently in semiconductors ./. wsj47:10908 N Riney grabbed headlines late last year when it resigned as the advertising agency for Modesto , Calif.-based E . & J. Gallo Winery , after a brush with the Gallos ./. wsj61:1919 N Japanese , West German , Taiwanese and other foreign machine tool builders grabbed business away from U.S. machine builders , both in the U.S. and abroad ./. wsj62:2864 N Yamaha is grabbing for prestige more than sales -- Steinway makes 6 , 000 pianos a year , compared with Yamaha 's nearly 200 , 000 ./. wsj66:6665 N By grabbing captive outlets in consuming countries , OPEC members win guaranteed customers ./. wsj71:9970 L Shortly after 6 p.m . , the shark grabs a final tuna-head snack off a line and glides off into the gloom ./. wsj02:3046 U Mr. Baker will want campaign issues director Bob Zoellick nearby as counselor , unless Mr. Bush grabs him for the White House ./. wsj02:3860 U Although Mrs. Aquino and Mr. Manglapus have both been more circumspect about the recent tension between Manila and Kuala Lumpur over alleged border violations , the president and her foreign secretary have been unable to restrain other officials , especially those who tend to use any opportunity to grab publicity ./. wsj02:9216 U The tourists grab for cameras ./. wsj03:3104 U Glancing at a personal-computer screen , he grabs the phone to find a seller ./. wsj03:9676 U And when you do , Quentin Burdick 's gnarled right hand grabs your wrist -- bending it , hard enough to hurt ./. wsj05:11243 L He says it was the Koreans who grabbed the knife , wielded the fabric softener like a club , and , what 's more , beat up Ms. Clark 's 67-year-old mother , Ivy King , who was standing nearby , for no good reason except that she is black ./. wsj05:2787 U Party leader Andries Treurnicht said the Conservatives now will set their sights on grabbing national power in the next parliamentary election , which may be held next year ./. wsj05:4711 U But company officials decided that the TV spot might do a better job of grabbing the attention of customers ./. wsj05:6428 U He contends Metropolitan started playing hardball , imposing harsh restructuring terms and trying to grab the management contracts on two other hotels he ran ./. wsj06:2511 U But Mr. Reagan 's 1980 crusade for lower taxes , cuts in government , stronger defense and more assertive foreign policy provided substantive coattails for other GOP candidates to grab ./. wsj09:11045 U Mr. Reiss is unfazed by the challenge of grabbing his share of the 15.8 billion disposable diapers sold each year ./. wsj09:8436 U Near the top of any major bull market the professionals and the corporations are offering stock and the institutions and individuals are grabbing it ./. wsj10:2503 L Most-Remarkable Explanation -- `` Some players did n't recognize that different behavior is required on a commercial flight than on a charter , '' said Jim Ferguson , publicity director for the Cincinnati Reds , after team members grabbed stewardesses and threw food on an April 13 Continental Airlines flight to Houston from San Francisco ./. wsj10:38 U And he 's enough of a force on the Armed Services Committee that Chairman Sam Nunn felt he had to steal Mr. Quayle 's questions about the INF Treaty lest the junior Republican grab the headlines ./. wsj10:5572 U Brokers see it not only as a way to beat the bushes for new business , but also as a chance to grab a bigger share of current customers ' business ./. wsj11:11030 U Spotting it through two video cameras , the robot reaches out and grabs the cylinder with a mechanical claw ./. wsj11:7993 U Nevertheless , child-care industry specialists familiar with the liability-insurance issues stress that some insurers , especially smaller ones , may withdraw from the market , especially if a major sexual or physical abuse case were to grab national attention ./. wsj11:9296 U She grabbed hold of his shirt , led him off the bus , and handed him over to a security officer inside the bus station ./. wsj13:7023 U Now the Air Force , spooked by NASA 's earlier attempts to grab all military payloads for the shuttle , wants to eliminate as many shuttle flights as it can ./. wsj14:1259 U It seems that Mr. Adams had been suspended from the boxing association for six months for grabbing the throat of the federation 's controller during an altercation in the federation 's headquarters ./. wsj15:8688 U They have been able to grab a large share of the market , because unlike some American banks , they have a triple-A credit rating , and they can offer letters of a credit at a better rate than their domestic competitors ./. wsj16:4317 U Its share of U.S. car sales through mid-August dropped to 9.5 % from 10.5 % a year ago , well below the 13.3 % it grabbed four years ago ./. wsj16:8209 U The latest disclosure grabbed the nation 's attention when a secret videotape of a meeting between Mr. Narazaki and Mr. Matsubara was aired on television Monday night ./. wsj19:2281 U Securities laws require that a firm `` know '' its customers , so when Mr. Pessin sees a new account form listing only a post-office box , he grabs his handcuffs and heads for the firm 's trading floor ./. wsj19:9637 U First , it failed to grab U.S. Spanish-speaking audiences ./. wsj21:1370 U Funds say they 're looking to grab the attention of investors still spooked by the stock market 's uneven performance who would n't consider buying a fund because of steep loads ./. wsj25:1016 L The leg of a corpse was sticking out of the side , and frantically I grabbed it ; it wrenched off , and casting it down I pulled in a couple of rifles and yelled to the troops in the gunpit to throw me more ./. wsj25:5110 U But they say Dukakis may suffer in the long run because he failed to grab the convention spotlight early and was overshadowed by Jackson ./. wsj26:11150 U `` We had to get something that grabbed attention , '' said Phil Smith , general manager of Dick Smith Suzuki in Kansas City , Mo ./. wsj26:5452 U Compared with the titanic , gut-grabbing issues of past Democratic conventions -- civil rights , the Vietnam War -- all this is pretty pallid stuff ./. wsj27:6303 U General Electric Co. 's NBC is likely to grab more than $ 1 billion of the prime-time pie , with ABC and CBS Inc. jockeying over the remainder ./. wsj29:2501 L All of a sudden you 're grabbed . ''/'' wsj31:3649 U A foreman from Mr. Gravitt 's shop grabbed his arm and tried to yank him back into his seat ./. wsj31:5151 U The public , too , was beginning to forget the scandals of the early 1980s -- an era when members of Congress grabbed headlines by disclosing Pentagon payments for thousand-dollar hammers and toilet seats , and by exposing corporate directors who billed the Pentagon for dog-boarding fees ./. wsj31:7681 U The common barely lost altitude on the first trading day after Carl Icahn lost his battle to grab five board seats ./. wsj33:2481 U Merrill used its financial clout to absorb losses as it cut margins and traded big positions , soon grabbing an estimated 20 % market share and luring major British institutional clients ./. wsj34:1776 L Airborne , he grabs a roll of money from his back pocket and punches it toward the camera ./. wsj35:4461 L One also-ran , Naruemol Sillapee , grabbed the tiara from newly crowned Saengravi Wan wilai 's coiffure , and clapped it on the curls of first runner-up Duangduan Chithaisong , while other contestants applauded ./. wsj35:5597 U When the first German-language edition of Moscow News went on sale in April , customers grabbed 120 , 000 copies ; the publisher had to rush out extra printings ./. wsj40:11260 L Suggest someone else grab a mitt and squat awhile ./. wsj41:6595 U While the No. 1-rated network would be acquiring a cable rival and possibly furthering cable 's inroads into network audiences , NBC executives have decided they would rather own a piece of the cable business and grab part of the defecting audience ./. wsj41:9380 U Although some executives who lose their jobs may be dead wood truly deserving the ax , the fear thus engendered even in able officials may encourage them to grab for excessive compensation ./. wsj42:5645 L Mr. Pavarotti sounded like a young man as he grabbed the hand of his old pal from Modena , Mirella Freni , and they both seemed to soar through the sets like the Chagall creatures , levitated by the force of Carlos Kleiber 's baton ./. wsj43:1677 U Safeway 's possible return from its $ 4.2 billion management-led leveraged buy-out also could be proving a spur to management at competitor Lucky Stores Inc . , which is considering going private to avoid being grabbed by American Stores Co ./. wsj43:2663 U The Supreme Court 's decision on municipal bonds grabbed the headlines last week , but securities analysts gathered here said a growing push for increased disclosure by bond issuers will have a more immediate impact on investors ./. wsj43:2731 U The U.S.-Iran naval skirmish grabbed last week 's headlines , but a more significant event took place on the ground ./. wsj44:7417 U First , Japanese imported cars edged up to 21.3 % of the U.S. market in 1987 from 20.7 % in 1986 . -LRB- Imports as a whole grabbed a record 31.1 % of U.S. car sales , up 2.8 percentage points from the year before. -RRB-/-RRB- wsj46:7414 U You may or may not like these views -- I disagree with all of them except perhaps the first -- but they grab your attention ./. wsj50:3594 U Elbowing his way through the airport crowd , he grabbed a cab to search for a nearby hotel ./. ******************** ***grasp*** *nonliteral cluster* wsj39:4541 N The new Clore-backed directors viewed their counterparts as stodgy pillars of the San Francisco establishment who failed to grasp KaiserTech 's financial quandary ./. wsj04:10119 U The Rockefeller foundations have managed to go ahead with a pilot plan in private agriculture , and the regime is now grasping for economic life rafts of almost any shape ./. wsj07:10847 N They `` may have a hard time grasping '' that their offspring was n't `` somehow responsible . ''/'' wsj09:225 U `` It 's very ambitious -- and for the man on the street , not easy to grasp . ''/'' wsj13:430 N As has been the pattern in other standardized tests recently , younger students showed big strides in grasping basic information ./. wsj