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{GOVT. DEPARTMENT AS AGENT}
(* State Department officials fear *) overloading
the circuits on Libya, already subject to lighter U.N. sanctions that the
Europeans do observe. (* State WANTS *) the House committee now considering the
law to keep Iran, drop Libya.
[[Text: source]]
{COUTRY AS AGENT}
It has (* SHOCKED MODERN SECULAR STATES,*) overturned prior analyses and sent
splintering tremors through societies around the world, according to an
international team of specialists.
[[Text: source]]
(* Bracken, too, BECAME A MEMORY,*) an especially romantic and dramatic one it is
true, but a memory all the same.
[[Text: source p.583]]
{OBJECT FOR IMAGINED OBJECT: ``her'' refers to a person who isn't there}
He could (* see her *) now, nine months gone with Charles, her small face and
narrow frame contradicted by that awesome bulge. [NP] He (* GROPED OUT HIS
HANDS TOWARDS HER,*) touched only hard wet wood, (* forced his mind back to
plans and timetable.*)
[[Text: source p.128]]
{NOTE: It's clear that he's only seeing her mentally.}
{OBJECT FOR IDEA}
He closed his eyes, tried to plan his overseas campaign. [NP] (* ALL THE
DIFFERENT COUNTRIES WERE RUNNING INTO EACH OTHER, MELTING IN THE HEAT.*)
[[Text: source p.127-128]]
{OBJECT FOR IDEA}
Meanwhile, (* HE WOULD LOCK LYN AWAY WITH THE NOTEBOOKS *) and
get down to a little planning on the book itself.
[[Text: source p.118]]
{NB: zeugma-avoidance on ``lock away'' (?)}
{OBJECT FOR IDEA}
Every time he tried, his mind glazed over or
(* FILLED WITH STUPID THINGS LIKE HOT CROSS BUNS OR WEDDING CAKES.*)
[[Text: source p.32]]
{OBJECT FOR IDEA}
For three kindly years (* HE HAD LET THIS LANDSCAPE DWINDLE,*) shut out all
the memories, ...
[[Text: source p.32]]
{OBJECT FOR IDEA}
He had said all sort of things to Tamar, he told her to (* KEEP THE CHILD WITH
HER,*) not touched, not agonised about, as a sad presence, lived with, not
hated, not feared, not frenziedly yearned for.
[[Text: source p.492]]
{the child is a real dead child}
{CITY AS AGENT}
... (* SPORTS-HUNGRY CITIES BELIEVE *) promoters will fill the need for events
...
[[from: source]]
{COMPANY AS AGENT}
(* MOST NEWSPAPER CHAINS ... BELIEVED *) producers would ...
[[from: source]]
{OBJECT FOR IDEA}
'No, no--' Tamar blushed because (* SOMETHING LIKE THAT HAD BEEN IN HER MIND.*)
[[Text: source p.160]]
{OBJECT FOR IDEA}
(* THE 'ENCOURAGEMENT' WHICH HE IMAGINED HE HAD GIVEN GULLIVER EXISTED LARGELY
IN GERARD'S MIND, AND HAD SCARCELY APPEARED PERCEPTIBLY IN THE EXTERNAL
WORLD.*)
[[Text: source p.13]]
{OBJECT FOR IDEA}
[Rose] (* HAD APPEARED AS PART OF LEVQUIST'S THOUGHT RATHER THAN OF HIS OWN.*)
[[Text: source p.32]]
{OBJECT FOR IDEA}
(* I SHALL BE TIMELESSLY AVAILABLE IN YOUR MIND AS A CURATIVE AGENCY,*) it would
be a pity, would it not, if the real me were to intrude.
[[Text: source p.267]]
{MARKET AS AGENT}
... (* OIL MARKETS ALTHOUGH REASSURED *..) by the news (..* ARE NOT GOING WILD
*) about it.
[[Speech: source]]
We had come out into the open beside the water. Not at Peter Pan [the statue],
(* MY CAREFREE RUNNING STEPS HAD HAD THE AWARENESS *) to avoid that; ...
[[Text: source p.234]]
{COMPANY AS AGENT}
`Oh, wait. Don't tell me. ... I hope the (* INSURANCE COMPANY DOESN'T THINK *) I'm
going to give the money back' [she said]
[[Text: source]]
{THING-FOR-IDEA}
But, as was always the case now, (* THESE THOUGHTS WERE SOON REPLACED
BY SENTA.*)
[[Text: source]]
{THING-FOR-IDEA}
... as Adrian's girlfired I would get a taste of the high life. (* I WOULD BE
THERE ALREADY IN HIS THOUGHTS *) when it came to model bookings.
[[Text: source]]
{THOUGHTS for FEELINGS??}
He fell to fighting again with a supernatural (* levity,*) ... (* HIS
THOUGHTS ROSE HIGHER AND HIGHER *) with the rising roar of the [approaching]
train, ...
[[Text: source p.118]]
{IDEA FOR LARGER IDEA?}
We are wandering, however, from the point ... I take it we should all (*
AGREE WITH *..) the original (..* NOTION OF A BOMB *) ...
[[Text: source p.65]]
{CONTAINER FOR CONTENTS?}
`... Dynamite is ... our best method. ... It expands; it only destroys because
it broadens; even so, (* THOUGHT ONLY DESTROYS BECAUSE IT BROADENS. A MAN'S
BRAIN IS A BOMB,*..)' he cried out, ... `(..* MY BRAIN FEELS LIKE A BOMB,*..)
night and day. (..* IT MUST EXPAND! IT MUST EXPAND! A MAN'S BRAIN MUST EXPAND,
IF IT BREAKS UP THE UNIVERSE.*)'
[[Text: source p.64-5]]
{THING [the debate] FOR IDEA-OF-THING?}
Uppermost in the majority of MPs' minds [was (* THE COMING DEBATE *) on
Europe].
[[Speech: source]]
So far, in fact, there is no clear-cut definition of "victory" in the drug
war. "We've got to be careful here " one Pentagon official confides. "(* THE
MILITARY IS STILL GROPING *) with their final objective." With its prestige on
the line, will the military settle for the "support" role Cheney has set for
it, or will a logic of escalation take hold?
[[Text: source]]
But (* THE DRUG CARTELS, UNLIKE GUERRILLAS, ARE MOTIVATED *) by money, not
ideology.
[[Text: source]]
(* CONGRESS DOES NOT WANT *) to bankroll another
Vietnam or El Salvador.
[[Text: source]]
The ragged (* PERUVIAN ARMED FORCES WOULD LIKE *..) U.S. assistance to help
fight Sendero, but are less than (..* EAGER *) to fight drugs: partly because
Army commanders do not believe drugs are as menacing as the insurgency, and
partly because so many in the Army are on the take.
[[Text: source]]
Ironically, (* THE PENTAGON RESISTED *) the mission for decades, saying the
military should fight threats to national security and the police should fight
crime.
[[Text: source]]
Just last month, (* NEWSWEEK HAS LEARNED,*) U.S. forces wrapped up ...
[[Text: source]]
(* YOUR PIECE *..) debating whether or not to publish the names of rape
victims (..* STUBBORNLY IGNORES *) the only option that makes sense: ...
[[Text: source]]
(* SPAIN IS STILL DISCOVERING ITSELF *).
[[Text: source]]
{or metaphor?? Note the ``itself''}
"The government (* THOUGHT *) Brussels would solve national problems," says
Miguel Herrero, ...
[[Text: source]]
(* A COUNTRY *..) that has been surviving on sunny beaches and
evocations of its history (..* IS DETERMINED *) to typify the modern and
dynamic.
[[Text: source]]
The more pertinent question is whether Chrysler can survive more than a few
years as an independent company. The consensus is no, with most BETTING it will
end up in a partnership or merger. Last February, after extensive analysis,
(* FORD TOOK A LOOK *) and passed.
[[Text: source]]
(* THE CARS, WHICH AIM *) at the lucrative family market and competitors like
the Honda Accord, ...
[[Text: source]]
(* AHIA FLATLY REFUSES *) to insure animals 10 years or older against
illnesses; (* VPI CONSIDERS *) them on a case-by-case basis.
[[Text: source]]
Even as (* ABC IS WONDERING *) whether it wants to renew its ten-year, $24
million TV contract with the WLAF (the USA cable network has a four-year $24
million contract), ...
[[Text: source]]
Never in memory have (* THE NETWORKS HUNGERED *) more desperately for a
hit.
[[Text: source]]
He was playing Beethoven, singing the ideas to himself before an (* AUDIENCE
SITTING MESMERIZED *) in wooden pews.
[[Text: source]]
(*THE STATION *...) stood by her stories but in September (...* DECIDED *)
not to pick up her contract.
[[Text: source]]
(* MEXICAN INDUSTRY WILL BE LOOKING *) TO expand; ...
[[Text: source]]
(* SOUTHWESTERN BELL *...) is key partner in the investment group that recently
purchased TelMex, (...* WITH AN EYE TOWARD *) upgrading Mexico's antiquated phone
system.
[[Text: source]]
... yet the proposed free-trade agreement (FTA) has (* WORRIED ORGANIZED
LABOR *) and many environmentalists.
[[Text: source]]
...there was speculation that the Bulgarians had acted on behalf of (* THE
SOVIET UNION, WHICH FEARED *) that the Polish pope was a threat to its East
European empire.
[[Text: source]]
Back home, (* CONGRESS IS LOSING PATIENCE.*)
[[Text: source]]
If (* CHINA SHOWS "NO WILLINGNESS *) to work with us on those kinds of
issues," says a senior administration official, "that's going to make it
tough."
[[Text: source]]
(*HEAVILY INFLUENCED *...) by Mubarak and Bandar, (* THE ADMINISTRATION ALSO
OVER-ESTIMATED *) the capacity for internal change in the Arab states ...
[[Text: source]]
If (* WASHINGTON FELT THAT *) it had some debts to collect from them, they
[Arab statesmen] were more interested in seeing what new goodies--arms,
cash--they could tease out of the United States administration.
[[Text: source]]
Perhaps (* THE ARAB STATES UNDERSTOOD IT *) implicitly, but the delicacy of
Bush's approach permitted (* THEM TO PRETEND THAT THEY DIDN'T.*)
[[Text: source]]
Was (* THE ADMINISTRATION *...) a victim of its own (...* WISHFUL THINKING?*)
Bush officials did not (* delude themselves *) that the fundamental nature of
the Middle East would be transformed. They (* did expect,*) though, that Arab
and Israeli gratitude for the American military achievement in Kuwait would
boost the administration's postwar plans.
[[Text: source]]
(* THE ISRAELI GOVERNMENT OF YTZHAK SHAMIR IS UNREPENTANT *) about building
more settlements on the occupied West Bank.
[[Text: source]]
(* WASHINGTON STILL HOPES *) for a breakthrough in the Middle East.
[[Text: source]]
Whites, who in 1960 represented 91 percent of the population, have become a
minority (49 percent). (* NO GROUP IS SURE HOW *...) it fits into this
sunbaked mosaic--so most (...* CHOOSE *) to stand alone.
It is a (* CITY *...) racked by chaos and (...* SELF-DOUBT.*)
[[Text: source]]
The topic of the day was police brutality, but the jammed
auditorium (* RANG WITH WIDER FRUSTRATIONS.*)
[[Text: source]]
"The blacks are (* jealous *) that we are taking away their jobs," says Diaz,
"and (* THE HISPANIC COMMUNITY IS CONSCIOUS THAT *) we [have not] achieved
political power yet."
[[Text: source]]
...its function as a nerve center for conservativism within the Beltway and
(* THE MOVEMENT'S CURRENT MOOD OF NOSTALGIC UNCERTAINTY.*)
[[Text: source]]
That might not make him president, but it might (* PUT THE COUNTRY A LITTLE
MORE AT EASE.*)
[[Text: source]]
Conservative columnists rallied to the cause. The vice president's men (*
hoped *...) for a public backlash against the Quayle-bashers in the press, and
(...* THAT THE MEDIA ITSELF WOULD DECIDE THAT *) denouncing Quayle was an old
story.
[[Text: source]]
{NB: nesting}
Most voters (* thought that *...) he should be dropped from the Republican
ticket in 1992. (...* SO DID SOME 50 NEWSPAPER EDITORIAL PAGES *) around the
country.
[[Text: source]]
...on how (* THE ADMINISTRATION KNEW *) the public was on its side on
gulf-war press restrictions ...
[[Text: source]]
(* THE DRUG'S MAKER HAS BEEN RELUCTANT TO *) pursue FDA approval for fear of
anti-abortion boycotts.
[[Text: source]]
(* SEOUL, TOKYO AND BEIJING ALL VIEW *) the nuclear standoff not as a crisis but
rather as a negotiation.
[Text: Newsweek, 27jun94, p.40]
Last Tuesday (* THE NATION, TOO, AGAIN SAID *) clearly [in its voting] that
it is comfortable with divided government.
[[Text: source]]
But (* COLLEGES REALLY HAVE LITTLE IDEA *) what will work.
[[Text: source]]
Years ago (* THE ARMY DIDN'T WORRY *) too much about the problems of spouses
and children on the home front. There's an old saying: if (* THE ARMY WANTED
YOU TO *) have a wife, it would have issued you one. That (* ATTITUDE *...) is
a luxury (...* THE ALL-VOLUNTEER ARMY CAN NO LONGER AFFORD.*)
[[Text: source]]
(* THE ADMINISTRATION HOPES *) that Saddam's Arab foes would settle for a
policy of containing him within Iraq. ..... (* THE UNITED STATES WILL WANT *)
some restraints on Saddam's chemical- and nuclear-war potential. .....
(* THE UNITED STATES HOPES *) that (* ISRAEL WILL ACCEPT *) some limits on nuclear
weapons.
[[Text: source]]
(* THE KREMLIN WOULD LIKE *) to be seen as the peacemaker, and (* TO THAT
END,*) Soviet envoy Yevgeny Primakov has been shuttling between Moscow,
Washington and Baghdad.
[[Text: source]]
(* WASHINGTON WOULD LIKE *) to win a United Nations resolution authorizing
such action to use a psychological club against Saddam. But (* SOME ALLIES,
NOTABLY THE SOVIETS, SEEMED TO WANT *) more time before taking a step that
could make the way to war a little too clear.
[[Text: source]]
Johannesburg sources say (* MCDONALD'S IS CONSIDERING *) entering that market
by franchising black entrepreneurs once U.N. economic sanctions are lifted.
[[Text: source]]
U.S. officials say that the operation is not meant to
provoke a conflict with Iraq, but (* WASHINGTON WANTS *) ...
[[Text: source]]
He has earned (* THE NATION'S TRUST *) and, almost as important, he has (*
THE NATION'S ATTENTION.*)
[[Text: source]]
The (* LEFT WANTS *) strong government to engineer social change.
[[Text: source]]
{`left' in lower case}
... proved that the Soviet Union often can be as irrelevant as
(* AMERICA WANTS *) it to be.
[[Text: source]]
To a (* NATION OPPRESSED BY THE SENSE *...) of decline, (...* JADED BY TWO
DECADES *...) of failed presidencies and political scandal, Bush's performance
(...* SEEMED *...) like deliverance. Even more so because it was (...*
UNEXPECTED,*) coming from a man who had been widely dismissed as a wimp and a
lapdog.
[[Text: source]]
So far, (* KUWAIT AND SAUDI ARABIA WANT *) Iraqi wrongdoers to stand trial;
other allies, such as Egypt, do not.
[[Text: source]]
If (* BAGHDAD WANTS *) those restrictions lifted, ...
[[Text: source]]
Instead, (* WASHINGTON WANTS *) a small tripwire force to be put into place
.
[[Text: source]]
... (* WASHINGTON WANTS *) to retain the U.N. arms embargo indefinitely.
[[Text: source]]
(* AMERICAN INTELLIGENCE THOUGHT *) he [Saddam] might head for Mauritania,
.
[[Text: source]]
... when she told Saddam just days before the invasion that (* THE United States
HAD NO INTEREST *) in "Arab-Arab conflicts."
[[Text: source]]
Interviewee: "The Constitution's (* EDITORIAL PAGE HAS ALWAYS BELIEVED *) that
"The (* ANSWER xyy *..) allows that the two strings are to be perceived in opposite
alphabetic directions ... but (..* REFUSES TO GIVE UP THE IDEA *) that the
strings have the same spatial direction; ...."
This Facility Permits Smoking and Tobacco Smoke is (* KNOWN TO THE State of
California *) to Cause Cancer.
...while (* FEDERAL AND PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENTS AND THE Red Cross CONTEMPLATED *)
what should be done.
(* Ottawa KNEW *) Blood Tainted .... Leading Canadian health officials were aware
that HIV-infected blood was administered ...
Because these values are in flux, (* SCHOOLS SEEM UNCERTAIN *) of what stand
to take and the vacuum invites contradictory cries of censorship from left,
right, and middle.
With this (* IN MIND, THE CHILDREN'S COMPUTER WORKSHOP (CCW), *) a division
of the Children's Television Workshop, is working on educational software with
action-game formats and nonviolent themes.
[later:]
Interviewer: "How does (* YOUR PAPER FEEL *) about ..."
[[Speech: source]]
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{Probably metonymy: THINK-PRODUCT-FOR-THINKER??Possibly a metaphor??}
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