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metaphorical
flourished
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 28, 38 ]
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, 93 ]
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, 318 ]
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, 158 ]
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, 169 ]
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, 166 ]
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, 134 ]
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, 179 ]
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, 136 ]
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, 32 ]
TroFi.o.1932
The guerrillas claim they killed 35 Angolans and 15 Cubans .
literal
melted
TroFi_ORIGSPLIT
[ 157, 163 ]
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, 156 ]
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, 134 ]
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, 151 ]
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 .