TASK DEFINITION: Indicate a text span in the passage about which an inquisitive question is asked. (note, don't answer the question).
PROBLEM: Sentence: Prospect Group Inc . , whose recent hostile tender offer for Recognition Equipment Inc . failed for lack of financing , apparently has gained a measure of control over the troubled company anyway .<sep>Question: How did Prospect Group Inc. gain any control, over Recognition Equipment Inc?

SOLUTION: gained

PROBLEM: Sentence: However , most people , having been subjected to news footage of the devastated South Bronx , look at the borough the way Tom Wolfe ' s Sherman McCoy did in " Bonfire of the Vanities " - - as a wrong turn into hell .<sep>Question: is this a nickname?

SOLUTION: " Bonfire of the Vanities "

PROBLEM: Sentence: However , most people , having been subjected to news footage of the devastated South Bronx , look at the borough the way Tom Wolfe ' s Sherman McCoy did in " Bonfire of the Vanities " - - as a wrong turn into hell .<sep>Question: is this a nickname?

SOLUTION:
" Bonfire of the Vanities "

