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metaphorical | flourished | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
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] | TroFi.o.1505 | 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 . |
literal | destroy | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
86,
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] | TroFi.o.431 | Soybean seed sales skidded last spring in South Carolina , and dealers were forced to destroy tens of thousands of bags . |
metaphorical | attacks | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
137,
144
] | TroFi.o.250 | 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 . |
metaphorical | flourish | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
96,
104
] | TroFi.o.1492 | The clash of goals is rare in postwar Japan , where consensus has enabled banks and industry to flourish . |
literal | danced | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
312,
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] | TroFi.o.380 | 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 . |
literal | eat | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
155,
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] | TroFi.o.835 | 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 . |
literal | attacking | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
14,
23
] | TroFi.o.227 | 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 . |
metaphorical | attacking | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
14,
23
] | TroFi.o.247 | `` We 're not attacking the core assets ; we 're looking at what we consider to be our less-profitable assets , '' the spokesman said . |
literal | dancing | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
105,
112
] | TroFi.o.406 | Television commercials expected to air in mid-April in New York and Miami will feature the homespun pair dancing the salsa , advertising sources said . |
literal | drink | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
46,
51
] | TroFi.o.766 | In seats of supple leather , Belgian students drink wine and listen to personal stereos . |
literal | flying | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
163,
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] | TroFi.o.1668 | 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 . |
metaphorical | poured | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
33,
39
] | TroFi.o.2534 | Kubota Ltd . , for example , has poured about $ 75 million into some of Silicon Valley 's hottest companies , including MIPS Computer Systems and Ardent Computer . |
metaphorical | eat | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
18,
21
] | TroFi.o.842 | By 1993 , it will eat up 10.6 % of all federal spending even if no new benefits are added . |
metaphorical | withering | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
34,
43
] | TroFi.o.3734 | The debate for the rematch was so withering that Nissan Motor Co. used a news clip of Mr. Tucker 's criticisms in its bid to keep the UAW out of its Tennessee plant . |
literal | fly | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
76,
79
] | TroFi.o.1664 | `` It takes time to move them through the training and to get them ready to fly . ''/'' |
literal | besieged | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
52,
60
] | TroFi.o.268 | Thousands of Chinese soccer fans battled police and besieged a rival team 's hotel during a riot Monday night . |
metaphorical | destroys | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
51,
59
] | TroFi.o.515 | Eric Johnson , the researcher , found that it also destroys certain kinds of botulism . |
literal | killed | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
146,
152
] | TroFi.o.1927 | The U.S. added North Korea to its list of terrorist states and announced other sanctions over the November bombing of a Korean Air Lines jet that killed 115 . |
literal | killed | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
3,
9
] | TroFi.o.1897 | He killed 47 in one month . |
literal | eating | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
97,
103
] | TroFi.o.884 | He insists that Ashley 's death was an accident caused by the child tipping over a trash can and eating discarded pills . |
literal | eating | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
37,
43
] | TroFi.o.897 | Wild animals are simply a nuisance , eating up crops and occasionally small children , and competing with cattle for grazing space . |
metaphorical | stumbling | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
183,
192
] | TroFi.o.3513 | What is problematic about the Jersey City takeover is that this strategy may come to be seen as a forceful example of can-do government types trying to solve the ills of a failing or stumbling school system . |
metaphorical | attacked | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
54,
62
] | TroFi.o.169 | 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- . |
metaphorical | wither | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
80,
86
] | TroFi.o.3701 | And Jackson adviser Roger Wilkins warned that `` trust and loyalty are bound to wither '' if the lines of communication between the two camps are not kept open . |
literal | killed | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
129,
135
] | TroFi.o.1950 | Wind shear has contributed to at least five major airline accidents in the past 15 years in which more than 500 people have been killed . |
literal | played | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
16,
22
] | TroFi.o.2438 | Karen Stern has played the harp surrounded by ice sculptures at a restaurant and as part of the display for a three-foot-high cake at a pastry competition . |
literal | poured | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
17,
23
] | TroFi.o.2543 | When Mr. Corbett poured molasses on Chief 's feed to make it more appealing , the bored hog merely licked off the syrup . |
metaphorical | fly | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
172,
175
] | TroFi.o.1634 | 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 . |
metaphorical | dissolve | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
158,
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] | TroFi.o.588 | 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 . ''/'' |
literal | dance | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
129,
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] | TroFi.o.368 | 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 . |
literal | flying | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
57,
63
] | TroFi.o.1698 | The problem is that the surging hordes of passengers are flying into the same number of airports . |
literal | withering | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
24,
33
] | TroFi.o.3735 | The dry weather that 's withering much of the nation 's crop land already has sent many commodity prices soaring past the highs set during the 1983 drought . |
metaphorical | targeting | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
22,
31
] | TroFi.o.3583 | However , there is no targeting to areas where soil erosion affects watersheds . |
metaphorical | cool | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
86,
90
] | TroFi.o.301 | 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 . |
literal | rained | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
3,
9
] | TroFi.o.2682 | It rained hard Saturday night along the Gulf Coast , and on Sunday morning the infield at McKechnie Field here was so wet that grounds crewmen were using plastic bottles to scoop up the standing water . |
metaphorical | dissolved | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
34,
43
] | TroFi.o.625 | Mr. Donovan was fired and the OSS dissolved by presidential order well before the Nuremberg trials came under way . |
literal | flown | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
48,
53
] | TroFi.o.1591 | A revenue passenger mile is one paying customer flown one mile . |
literal | flown | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
174,
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] | TroFi.o.1608 | 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 . |
metaphorical | eat | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
97,
100
] | TroFi.o.857 | 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 . ''/'' |
metaphorical | pumping | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
23,
30
] | TroFi.o.2630 | He says he has been `` pumping up the volume '' on his staff . |
metaphorical | sleep | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
90,
95
] | TroFi.o.2979 | `` It 's not very romantic to find out that the wonderful man you married is too noisy to sleep with , '' says Miss Van Buren , the columnist . |
literal | flying | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
87,
93
] | TroFi.o.1672 | 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 . |
literal | killed | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
130,
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] | TroFi.o.1918 | Separately , a Kurdish group claimed responsibility for the downing of a West German airliner in Turkey Saturday in which 16 were killed . |
metaphorical | play | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
200,
204
] | TroFi.o.2429 | Mr. Axinn continued that the defendants want a `` level playing field '' with the plaintiffs , but the judge interrupted and said , `` they -LRB- the states -RRB- have built the field and you want to play on it . ''/'' |
metaphorical | pump | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
78,
82
] | TroFi.o.2583 | France 's Socialist government resurrected the previous government 's plan to pump 12 billion francs -LRB- $ 1.88 billion -RRB- into state-owned auto maker Regie Nationale des Usines Renault , a move that may raise hackles in the European Community . |
metaphorical | targeted | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
103,
111
] | TroFi.o.3556 | Still , the administration proposal is perceived as part of a broader rethinking about venture capital targeted explicitly at minority businesses . |
metaphorical | flooded | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
38,
45
] | TroFi.o.1429 | Smelling new money , U.S. non-profits flooded the foundations with proposals , says Hiroshi Kamura of the Japan Center for International Exchange . |
literal | eaten | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
114,
119
] | TroFi.o.878 | The Pac Man defense is named after the video game in which characters try to eat other characters before they get eaten themselves . |
literal | danced | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
5,
11
] | TroFi.o.381 | They danced to the funk rock of a live band and grilled hot dogs and ribs . |
metaphorical | plowed | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
120,
126
] | TroFi.o.2473 | That was because in Brandon , Fla . , during the waning hours of Aug. 1 , the '84 Olympic silver medalist 's sports car plowed into a group of 30 teens . |
metaphorical | cool | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
86,
90
] | TroFi.o.288 | Since the middle of August , there have been some signs that the economy has begun to cool off . |
literal | drinking | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
122,
130
] | TroFi.o.812 | 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 . |
metaphorical | stumbling | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
24,
33
] | TroFi.o.3510 | Many American firms are stumbling badly , and most of their problems appear to stem from their mistaken assumption that what works at home will work in Britain . |
literal | melted | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
200,
206
] | TroFi.o.2190 | The SEC suit alleges that the stock , which was unregistered , climbed to as high as $ 17 a share as a result of the claims , which were bolstered when Mr. Brown bought 209 ounces of gold , which was melted into four pieces and displayed to shareholders at an August 1987 meeting . |
metaphorical | dissolve | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
37,
45
] | TroFi.o.607 | The remaining members have agreed to dissolve the facility , though they say they may form a new , smaller claims agency . |
literal | attacked | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
17,
25
] | TroFi.o.203 | The ship had n't attacked U.S.-flag vessels or been involved in mine-laying . |
metaphorical | stumble | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
73,
80
] | TroFi.o.3448 | For the first century of its existence , the republic somehow managed to stumble along , winning independence , surviving civil war , without any pledge at all . |
metaphorical | flourished | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
125,
135
] | TroFi.o.1504 | 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 . |
literal | danced | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
58,
64
] | TroFi.o.378 | In the third round , though , Holmes got up on his toes , danced some , and flicked a few punches . |
literal | stumbles | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
3,
11
] | TroFi.o.3500 | He stumbles home in the middle of yet another rainy , drugged night and tries to kill himself by guzzling iodine . |
literal | sleeps | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
18,
24
] | TroFi.o.3007 | On the road , she sleeps like a fireman , fully dressed in a sweatsuit , her eyeglasses and keys handy in case a fire alarm goes off . -LRB- She 's been rousted by false alarms four times in the past year. -RRB-/-RRB- |
metaphorical | pour | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
49,
53
] | TroFi.o.2501 | As manufacturers get bigger , they are likely to pour more money into the battle for shelf space , raising the ante for new players . |
literal | fly | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
14,
17
] | TroFi.o.1627 | Air Inter can fly to Ibiza , Spain , in the summer and Madrid in the winter twice a week under an Air France flight number . |
metaphorical | targeted | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
25,
33
] | TroFi.o.3565 | This money would also be targeted to those who truly need it . |
metaphorical | attacking | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
98,
107
] | TroFi.o.240 | These pamphlets were among dozens written just after the Tulipmania by anti-speculative partisans attacking the speculative markets and especially futures trading . |
metaphorical | flourishing | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
31,
42
] | TroFi.o.1532 | Yet Houston Industries Inc. is flourishing , even with a unit operating the $ 5.3 billion South Texas nuclear project . |
metaphorical | targeted | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
36,
44
] | TroFi.o.3564 | They emerged with a 20-year program targeted to three Michigan communities: Battle Creek , an impoverished rural area and a segment of innercity Detroit . |
metaphorical | sleeping | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
29,
37
] | TroFi.o.2986 | But many others constitute a sleeping giant best left unwakened . |
literal | killed | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
26,
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] | TroFi.o.1932 | The guerrillas claim they killed 35 Angolans and 15 Cubans . |
literal | melted | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
157,
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] | TroFi.o.2183 | It was a white New Year in Moscow , but by the time Christmas rolled around last week , unusually high temperatures , in the 30s and 40s day and night , had melted the snow away , leaving streets and sidewalks coated with mud and puddles . |
literal | sleep | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
111,
116
] | TroFi.o.2960 | On a work visit to a small town , she elected to spend the night at the home of a friend 's father rather than sleep on the floor , commune-style , with her colleagues . |
metaphorical | flooded | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
14,
21
] | TroFi.o.1403 | Cancellations flooded in , slashing expected revenues by $ 300 , 000 over the December Jewish holiday of Hanukkah alone . |
metaphorical | targeted | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
140,
148
] | TroFi.o.3570 | We have large deficits because government has been unable to restrain increases in payments to individuals , a large amount of which is not targeted to help the poor . |
metaphorical | attacked | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
36,
44
] | TroFi.o.174 | 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 . |
metaphorical | targeted | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
40,
48
] | TroFi.o.3537 | Federal thrift-industry regulators have targeted it as one of hundreds of failing S & Ls in the Southwest that it intends to merge with other , better-capitalized institutions as part of a broad plan to restructure the industry . |
metaphorical | targeted | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
96,
104
] | TroFi.o.3571 | Wells Rich will handle corporate advertising and `` market image and solutions advertising , '' targeted mainly at other businesses . |
literal | withered | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
148,
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] | TroFi.o.3708 | Because of crop failure , farmers are expected to abandon 14 million acres this fall , considerably more than they wrote off in 1986 , when drought withered crops in the South . |
metaphorical | stumbling | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
87,
96
] | TroFi.o.3504 | All this has left Theodore Levitt , the Harvard professor who popularized the theory , stumbling on Madison Avenue . |
literal | drink | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
26,
31
] | TroFi.o.773 | Others say they still can drink wine even after their livers are too far gone to handle spirits . |
metaphorical | flooded | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
77,
84
] | TroFi.o.1432 | 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 . |
metaphorical | cooled | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
97,
103
] | TroFi.o.305 | 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 . |
metaphorical | pour | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
111,
115
] | TroFi.o.2511 | Re your page-one story `` To Mark Year 2000 , Some Events Will Be Out of This World , '' June 27: I 'd hate to pour water on anybody 's millennial observance , but 2000 is the last year of the 20th century . |
metaphorical | destroyed | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
112,
121
] | TroFi.o.466 | 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 . |
metaphorical | flourish | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
157,
165
] | TroFi.o.1487 | 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 . |
metaphorical | attacking | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
29,
38
] | TroFi.o.214 | And , to slash costs , he is attacking United 's slow-moving , free-spending ways , even banning fresh flowers from his office . |
metaphorical | withered | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
125,
133
] | TroFi.o.3721 | That , analysts say , is largely because most of the banking and financial issues went into the crash at low prices , having withered from their highs in the summer of 1986 . |
literal | melting | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
91,
98
] | TroFi.o.2203 | In a joint venture with a Japanese company this fall , Nucor Corp. of Charlotte will start melting steel in a new 500-worker I-beam mill at Blytheville , Ark . , on the Mississippi . |
literal | attack | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
63,
69
] | TroFi.o.131 | His antics once provoked an elderly ruling-party legislator to attack him with a cane . |
literal | flew | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
130,
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] | TroFi.o.1380 | 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 . |
literal | planted | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
18,
25
] | TroFi.o.2405 | There 's the tree planted in his honor at Freedoms Foundation in Valley Forge , Pa . |
literal | plowed | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
44,
50
] | TroFi.o.2467 | Later they were burned as railroad fuel and plowed under as fertilizer . |
literal | killed | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
145,
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] | TroFi.o.1914 | News accounts told of thousands of Iranian soldiers at the Iraqi front suffering severe burns and damaged lungs from mustard gas , a poison that killed or maimed over a million people in World War I . |
metaphorical | plow | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
22,
26
] | TroFi.o.2452 | TNT also says it will plow a hefty 80 % of its revenue back into programming -- some $ 250 million over its first three years . |
metaphorical | planting | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
49,
57
] | TroFi.o.2422 | The moles were just doing what comes naturally , planting a micromanagement time bomb in another massive piece of legislation . |
metaphorical | wither | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
123,
129
] | TroFi.o.3700 | After sketching a realistic scenario of a prolonged U.S. invasion of Nicaragua , in which hostile media coverage begins to wither initial public support , Mr. Rusher asks whether controls -- even prior restraint -- ca n't legitimately be invoked by the commander-in-chief in order to maintain `` morale '' at home . |
literal | killed | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
137,
143
] | TroFi.o.1948 | West German police are seeking a West Berlin woman working for Palestinian terrorists in connection with a 1986 discotheque bombing that killed two U.S. soldiers . |
metaphorical | flying | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
86,
92
] | TroFi.o.1689 | Parker was a musical pointillist who turned melodies into dots of sound and sent them flying like machine gun fire . |
literal | destroy | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
75,
82
] | TroFi.o.430 | So only a direct hit on the concrete hangar or an extremely close miss can destroy the plane on the ground . |
metaphorical | targeted | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
61,
69
] | TroFi.o.3558 | The Agriculture Department announced late Monday that it had targeted the Soviet Union for an additional one million metric tons of subsidized wheat , bringing to 8.8 million metric tons the amount of U.S. wheat offered to the Soviet Union since October . |
metaphorical | targeted | TroFi_ORIGSPLIT | [
47,
55
] | TroFi.o.3534 | But to improve its profitability , it recently targeted mid-sized businesses as well . |
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