TASK DEFINITION: In this task, a passage will be given and the goal is to generate a question about temporal relations based on that passage. A temporal relation describes the relation between two things with respect to time e.g., something happens/starts/terminates/... immediately/shortly/usually/... before/after/during/... something else.
Your question should include an event, or ask about an event, and should not be a yes/no question.
PROBLEM: Passage: "RJR Nabisco and Planters LifeSavers will concentrate more on our own core businesses," Mr. Gerstner said Friday. Baby Ruth and Butterfinger are both among the top-selling 15 chocolate bars in the U.S., but RJR's overall share of the roughly $5.1 billion market is less than 5%.

SOLUTION: What event has already finished?

PROBLEM: Passage: The anti-Semitism claims -- made by Livingstone during a February 22 response to the controversy -- refer to a leaving party thrown for an outgoing Daily Mail editor in which some guests were reportedly dressed as Nazis. He also referred to the Daily Mail's support for facism and its opposition to allowing Jews fleeing European pogroms to come to Britain in the 1930s.

SOLUTION: What event has already finished?

PROBLEM: Passage: Singapore has doubled the avian flu tests on local and migratory birds from once every two weeks to once a week, Channel NewsAsia reported on Thursday. The measure is to monitor possible bird flu virus among some 20, 000 migratory birds flying into the city state during the winter months and to prevent local birds and poultry raised on farms from getting infected.

SOLUTION:
What event has already finished?