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TREC 1 und TREC 2:
<num> Number: 051
<dom> Domain: International Economics
<title> Topic: Airbus Subsidies
<desc> Description: Document will discuss government assistance to Airbus Industrie, or mention a trade dispute between Airbus and a U.S. aircraft producer over the issue of subsidies.
<narr> Narrative: A relevant document will cite or discuss assistance to Airbus Industrie by the French, German, British or Spanish government(s), or will discuss a trade dispute between Airbus or the European governments and a U.S. aircraft producer, most likely Boeing Co. or McDonnell Douglas Corp., or the U.S. government, over federal subsidies to Airbus.
<con> Concept(s):
1. Airbus Industrie
2. European aircraft consortium, Messerschmitt-Boelkow-Blohm GmbH, British Aerospace PLC,...
3. federal subsidies, government assistance, aid, loan, financing
4. trade dispute, trade controversy, trade tension
5. General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) aircraft code
6. Trade Policy Review Group (TPRG)
7. complaint, objection
8. retaliation, anti-dumping duty petition, countervailing duty petition, sanctions
TREC 3:
<num> Number: 168 <title> Topic: Financing AMTRAK
<desc> Description: A document will address the role of the Federal Government in financing the operation of the National Railroad Transportation Corporation (AMTRAK).
<narr> Narrative: A relevant document must provide information on the government's responsibility to make AMTRAK an economically viable entity. It could also discuss the privatization of AMTRAK as an alternative to continuing government subsidies. Documents comparing government subsidies given to air and bus transportation with those provided to AMTRAK would also be relevant.
TREC 4:
<num> Number: 207
<desc> What are the prospects of the Quebec separatists achieving independence from the rest of Canada?
TREC 6:
<num> Number: 312
<title> Hydroponics
<desc> Description: Document will discuss the science of growing plants in water or some substance other than soil.
<narr> Narrative: A relevant document will contain specific information on the necessary nutrients, experiments, types of substrates, and/or any other pertinent facts related to the science of hydroponics. Related information includes, but is not limited to, the history of hydroponics, advantages over standard soil agricultural practices, or the approach of suspending roots in a humid enclosure and spraying them periodically with a nutrient solution to promote plant growth.
Im Laufe der Zeit wurde die Ausführlichkeit der topics variiert. Im letzten Beispiel aus TREC 6 konnten die Teilnehmenden ein Ergebnis, das nur mit der kurzen "Description" erzeugt wurde und eines mit der längeren Beschreibung (Narrative) einreichen.
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