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metaphorical
attacked
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 30, 38 ]
TroFi.o.159
But international groups that attacked Mr. Jenninger 's remarks may find themselves among the losers .
metaphorical
destroy
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 43, 50 ]
TroFi.o.449
`` 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 .
metaphorical
targeting
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 118, 127 ]
TroFi.o.3581
Federal prosecutors in Texas , California and Florida are particularly burdened with bank fraud investigations , many targeting savings and loans that failed after speculative lending binges .
literal
kill
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 153, 157 ]
TroFi.o.1867
Police said managing partner John A. Mulheren Jr . , whom they arrested Feb. 18 carrying a loaded rifle outside his home in Rumson , N.J . , intended to kill arbitrager Ivan F. Boesky , who has implicated Mr. Mulheren in Wall Street 's insider trading scandal .
metaphorical
flooding
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 33, 41 ]
TroFi.o.1458
PRESS RELEASES about lawyers are flooding newspaper offices as the profession becomes more aggressive about marketing .
literal
rain
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 90, 94 ]
TroFi.o.2666
The dual rallies were touched off by falling commodity prices , which came in reaction to rain in the parched Farm Belt .
metaphorical
dissolved
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 57, 66 ]
TroFi.o.630
The Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church was formally dissolved by Moscow in January 1930 .
metaphorical
attacked
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 19, 27 ]
TroFi.o.208
U.S. conservatives attacked the accord , but it helps clear the way for an upbeat superpower summit in Moscow at the end of May .
metaphorical
cool
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 25, 29 ]
TroFi.o.276
But profit-taking helped cool the rally .
literal
flying
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 55, 61 ]
TroFi.o.1666
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 .
metaphorical
flourished
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 193, 203 ]
TroFi.o.1506
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 .
metaphorical
destroyed
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 95, 104 ]
TroFi.o.453
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 .
literal
sleeping
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 125, 133 ]
TroFi.o.2990
I have to tell you I 've been through many periods in my life where I have n't slept at night , where I had a very hard time sleeping at night .
literal
pumping
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 172, 179 ]
TroFi.o.2629
Harvey D. White , an Auckland cardiologist , found that `` no dramatic difference '' emerged from a small study comparing TPA with streptokinase in preserving the heart 's pumping power and in prolonging survival following a first heart attack .
metaphorical
flooded
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 160, 167 ]
TroFi.o.1407
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 .
metaphorical
melting
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 38, 45 ]
TroFi.o.2206
Support for the shipyard strike began melting away when workers across Poland ignored Solidarity 's call for sympathy stoppages .
metaphorical
plant
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 76, 81 ]
TroFi.o.2346
A bomb would have required `` a bribable '' Pakistani soldier or officer to plant it , an administration official said .
literal
flying
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 141, 147 ]
TroFi.o.1706
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 .
metaphorical
attack
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 17, 23 ]
TroFi.o.126
Dukakis plans to attack Gephardt for taking special-interest money .
metaphorical
poured
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 28, 34 ]
TroFi.o.2530
Foreign and domestic buyers poured into the market at the outset of trading on continued strength in the dollar and the widely held belief that interest rates are headed lower , said Frederick Leiner , a futures analyst with Prudential-Bache Securities Inc . , Chicago .
metaphorical
plowing
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 24, 31 ]
TroFi.o.2484
As a result , Drexel is plowing more money into leveraged buy-outs , employee buy-outs and other friendly transactions .
metaphorical
stumble
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 69, 76 ]
TroFi.o.3452
The short-sellers have come bounding in , waiting for the company to stumble .
literal
planted
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 169, 176 ]
TroFi.o.2385
Many had believed that the heavier-than-expected weekend rains would dampen for at least several days a rally that has been based primarily on conjecture that the newly planted corn and soybean crops were too dry to start growing .
metaphorical
cooling
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 76, 83 ]
TroFi.o.330
But some marketing consultants see signs that the 1980s new-product boom is cooling a bit .
literal
killed
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 15, 21 ]
TroFi.o.1916
One person was killed -- an engineer on one of the trains .
literal
slept
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 7, 12 ]
TroFi.o.3012
I have slept through Minsk and past Smolensk .
literal
rained
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 16, 22 ]
TroFi.o.2684
When it finally rained , it was a letdown . ''/''
literal
drink
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 81, 86 ]
TroFi.o.761
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 .
literal
drinking
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 130, 138 ]
TroFi.o.805
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 .
literal
melt
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 108, 112 ]
TroFi.o.2173
The plant in Osuka , about 150 miles southwest of Tokyo , will finish glass melted in Corning , N.Y . , but melt facilities may be added later , the company said .
metaphorical
stumble
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 72, 79 ]
TroFi.o.3449
Holly Farms ' experience is a classic example of how a food company can stumble in launching a product .
literal
danced
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 8, 14 ]
TroFi.o.374
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 .
metaphorical
cool
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 53, 57 ]
TroFi.o.287
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 .
metaphorical
flourishing
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 31, 42 ]
TroFi.o.1526
It reveals that while PACs are flourishing , political competition is n't .
metaphorical
planted
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 87, 94 ]
TroFi.o.2407
There was no immediate claim of responsibility , but police said the bomb was probably planted by Sinhalese extremists in retaliation for the restaurant owner 's defiance of a call for a general strike .
metaphorical
cool
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 36, 40 ]
TroFi.o.279
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 .
metaphorical
attacked
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 4, 12 ]
TroFi.o.170
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- .
metaphorical
attacking
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 147, 156 ]
TroFi.o.219
Indeed , Richard Gephardt , Jesse Jackson and Michael Dukakis have all made public appearances in support of Eastern 's union -- sometimes sharply attacking Mr. Lorenzo .
metaphorical
stumbled
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 40, 48 ]
TroFi.o.3472
For Latin America , which has generally stumbled through years of stagnation or low growth since it became mired in foreign debt in 1982 , Chile 's economic record is enviable .
literal
rain
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 46, 50 ]
TroFi.o.2670
`` When it does n't rain on my land , it will rain on my brother 's , '' says Antonio Avina .
metaphorical
flooded
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 40, 47 ]
TroFi.o.1433
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office is flooded with them .
metaphorical
flooding
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 30, 38 ]
TroFi.o.1463
THIS YEAR marketers are again flooding supermarket shelves with new products -- everything from Cajun popcorn to ketchup in spray cans .
metaphorical
destroy
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 130, 137 ]
TroFi.o.439
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 . ''/''
metaphorical
plowing
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 56, 63 ]
TroFi.o.2489
He was tested for drugs after running a stop signal and plowing his freight train into a passenger train , killing 16 people .
metaphorical
cool
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 46, 50 ]
TroFi.o.298
Today 's slogan: `` The fever of war will not cool down while -LRB- Iraqi President -RRB- Saddam Hussein is in power . ''/''
literal
flying
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 44, 50 ]
TroFi.o.1684
In ground tests , parts keep fracturing and flying apart .
literal
killed
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 52, 58 ]
TroFi.o.1933
The latest truce in the week-old battle , which has killed 188 and injured 534 , was arranged by Syrian President Assad and Iranian President Khamenei .
literal
dancing
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 142, 149 ]
TroFi.o.410
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 .
literal
evaporates
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 110, 120 ]
TroFi.o.1048
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 .
literal
dissolve
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 37, 45 ]
TroFi.o.598
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 .
literal
rain
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 127, 131 ]
TroFi.o.2659
And , he says ominously , there is always the problem of what to do if the Army diverts water into the rivers and it starts to rain .
literal
killed
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 141, 147 ]
TroFi.o.1952
`` Fat and cowardly generals had a good chance of being kicked out ; company commanders who were n't any good have either been kicked out or killed in battle .
metaphorical
withering
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 186, 195 ]
TroFi.o.3731
Indeed , thanks to a well-oiled political machine and skilled manipulation of Panamanian nationalism and class rivalries , Gen. Noriega may well remain in charge for months , even under withering pressure from the U.S .
metaphorical
flourished
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 12, 22 ]
TroFi.o.1514
`` Pacifism flourished under absolute U.S. protection .
literal
flown
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 48, 53 ]
TroFi.o.1592
A revenue passenger mile is one paying customer flown one mile .
literal
planted
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 163, 170 ]
TroFi.o.2382
Kim Sang Up , a 51-year-old ginseng farmer here , says some of his 5 , 000 pyong of ginseng land are now as far as two hours from his house , and only 2 , 000 are planted in ginseng at any one time . -LRB- A pyong is about four square yards. -RRB-/-RRB-
metaphorical
dissolve
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 59, 67 ]
TroFi.o.592
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 .
metaphorical
targeting
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 36, 45 ]
TroFi.o.3579
Carnival seems ahead of the pack in targeting younger customers .
metaphorical
pouring
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 29, 36 ]
TroFi.o.2568
`` As long as the rains come pouring down on our land , we have hope . ''/''
literal
destroy
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 81, 88 ]
TroFi.o.425
He testified that he was ordered by the Robins former general counsel in 1975 to destroy sensitive documents about the Dalkon Shield .
literal
flown
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 49, 54 ]
TroFi.o.1604
A revenue passenger mile is one paying passenger flown one mile .
metaphorical
destroyed
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 166, 175 ]
TroFi.o.470
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 .
metaphorical
destroy
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 42, 49 ]
TroFi.o.438
There is n't any indication that it could destroy the AIDS virus itself .
metaphorical
dissolve
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 100, 108 ]
TroFi.o.606
The lighting is cool throughout ; the sets are wispily painted scenes of trees and a castle , which dissolve easily from exteriors to interiors .
metaphorical
stumbling
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 109, 118 ]
TroFi.o.3505
But , he suspects , something may be happening: a steady disillusionment with Mr. Bush that grows out of his stumbling explanations of his role in the Iran-Contra affair , `` his loss of grace under pressure '' with TV 's Dan Rather and other factors .
literal
planting
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 220, 228 ]
TroFi.o.2415
Just as the American romance with the English garden has come to full bloom and Americans finally are pronouncing Jekyll properly -- Jeekill -- we get reliable intimations of an infinitely droughty future and must begin planting against the imminent desertification of our Anglo-style gardens .
metaphorical
flourished
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 30, 40 ]
TroFi.o.1501
Christian and Jewish scholars flourished in the Moslem courts .
metaphorical
targeting
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 67, 76 ]
TroFi.o.3588
More sophisticated groups of pickpockets and scam artists are also targeting airports , police say .
literal
destroy
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 85, 92 ]
TroFi.o.424
He said incinerator temperatures of as much as 1 , 000 degrees Celsius are enough to destroy the mineral .
metaphorical
attack
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 164, 170 ]
TroFi.o.124
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 .
metaphorical
evaporated
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 69, 79 ]
TroFi.o.1036
Soviet fears that the U.S. would establish a naval base in Sri Lanka evaporated .
literal
cooled
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 36, 42 ]
TroFi.o.312
Home here is a 12-by-15-foot room , cooled by two portable fans and crowded with three beds and boxes of clothes .
literal
flew
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 8, 12 ]
TroFi.o.1390
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 .
metaphorical
stumbles
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 91, 99 ]
TroFi.o.3495
A sales representative , who is trying out as an announcer , first talks too slowly , then stumbles when asked to speed up .
metaphorical
planted
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 20, 27 ]
TroFi.o.2390
Next to it the firm planted a sign: `` Little things like this will never come between us . ''/''
literal
killed
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 9, 15 ]
TroFi.o.1931
The fire killed a building engineer trapped in an elevator and injured 40 custodial workers and firefighters .
literal
dissolve
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 82, 90 ]
TroFi.o.596
Eminase is given as a single injection over four to five minutes , but appears to dissolve blood clots effectively for several hours .
literal
kill
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 108, 112 ]
TroFi.o.1847
According to Mr. Gage , Mr. Mulheren later told police , several of whom are friends of his , that he would kill Messrs .
metaphorical
pump
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 32, 36 ]
TroFi.o.2588
Nevertheless , they continue to pump money into the market .
literal
pumping
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 13, 20 ]
TroFi.o.2648
The heart 's pumping power three weeks after treatment , as measured by the fraction of blood ejected with each heartbeat , was `` exactly the same '' -- 58 % for both groups , Dr. White said .
metaphorical
cool
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 116, 120 ]
TroFi.o.291
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 . ''/''
metaphorical
stumbling
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 204, 213 ]
TroFi.o.3514
While insiders at Time and Warner did n't rule out a resumption of talks , they acknowledged that difficulties in structuring a transaction and valuing the various assets of both companies have presented stumbling blocks .
metaphorical
besieged
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 29, 37 ]
TroFi.o.258
Ever since , Banner has been besieged by hundreds of thrill-seeking callers .
metaphorical
targeted
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 47, 55 ]
TroFi.o.3535
But to improve its profitability , it recently targeted mid-sized businesses as well .
literal
fly
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 164, 167 ]
TroFi.o.1633
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 .
metaphorical
sleep
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 8, 13 ]
TroFi.o.2956
I would sleep better knowing Dan Quayle was in the National Guard than on the national ticket .
literal
eat
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 75, 78 ]
TroFi.o.877
`` 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 .
literal
flying
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 154, 160 ]
TroFi.o.1696
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 .
literal
danced
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 7, 13 ]
TroFi.o.376
He tap-danced around the stage to his own falsetto and flopped to the floor to the accompaniment of his booming bass .
literal
dance
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 81, 86 ]
TroFi.o.369
`` Sam is one of a kind , '' Mr. Glass said , adding that he was n't `` going to dance the hula on Wall Street . ''/''
metaphorical
pouring
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 43, 50 ]
TroFi.o.2564
Thousands of delegates and reporters start pouring into the OMNI , soon to be featured in a Japanese horror movie with large flying insects winging out of the pods where Dan Rather and Peter Jennings are fighting the battle of the bores .
literal
drink
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 274, 279 ]
TroFi.o.778
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-
literal
flying
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 111, 117 ]
TroFi.o.1676
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 .
literal
attacked
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 199, 207 ]
TroFi.o.168
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 .
metaphorical
flooded
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 69, 76 ]
TroFi.o.1405
Carole Pfeffer put an ad seeking them in a trade publication and was flooded with close to 1 , 000 pictures .
literal
flew
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 36, 40 ]
TroFi.o.1385
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 . ''/''
literal
destroying
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 64, 74 ]
TroFi.o.504
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 .
metaphorical
targeted
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 35, 43 ]
TroFi.o.3550
One reason for success: Proponents targeted only companies held largely by institutions , says John Wilcox of proxy solicitor Georgeson & Co .
literal
melts
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 51, 56 ]
TroFi.o.2211
Chaparral is a mini-mill only in the sense that it melts scrap in electric furnaces , a type of operation that has made steady headway in the U.S. as the huge facilities that employ coke and iron ore and the traditional blast furnaces have declined .
metaphorical
stumbled
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 29, 37 ]
TroFi.o.3492
The once high-flying company stumbled in 1986 when competition intensified in the mainframe market , and it has been revamping its product line since then .