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1 After the FMLN offensive which began 12 days ago and cost an estimated 1,300 lives , the capital was reported calm yesterday .
2 The Royal Bank 's participation was the brainchild of Bill Speirs , a lecturer in management at Sheffield University who has close ties with the Branch .
3 Now I 'm a G P we have ten minutes .
4 ‘ I mean I 'm hoping to sell her a gorgeous blanket chest I discovered two weeks ago in Shropshire . ’
5 In addition to conducting this particular case study I made some visits to another school ( which I have called ‘ Southend ’ ) in the same LEA which had gone through an identical appraisal exercise a year earlier .
6 In June 1991 , I and many more OAPs received a community charge payment card which detailed nine payments .
7 For the first 15 minutes it seemed that Alton would be overrun by an RAF side which included four players who regularly turn out for Alton .
8 Preliminary results indicate that an assessment instrument which links specific aims and the actions necessary to achieve them can help to overcome this problem .
9 Several aspects of the reshuffle , which had been expected for several weeks , were attacked by opposition groups who demanded greater reductions .
10 As a car driver I have conflicting reactions to hitchers .
11 While such tests should ideally sample structural , semantic and pragmatic aspects of language , this is seldom feasible and frequently language screening occurs as part of a more general screening assessment which considers other aspects of a child 's social and psychological functioning .
12 On the revenue side it meant such devices as changing the weighting of the staff mix so that a greater proportion of unqualified staff were employed than might ideally have been desired .
13 The facts involved the sale of a second-hand Mercedes car which developed unusual faults requiring repair for a Mercedes of that age and mileage .
14 There seem to be several reasons for its emergence : a backlog of untrained practitioners ; a desire to certificate practice , for a variety of reasons , including status ; labour shortages which require quick solutions ; and a growth of theory or technology in the field itself , requiring more systematic training than has hitherto been necessary .
15 But although the students ' efforts compared well with other universities and schools , the Bristol team has some distance to go before it can match the efforts of the Japanese motor industry entry which achieved 6,142 miles to the gallon .
16 ‘ Cowboy ’ alert A WARNING has been issued by Dyfed 's trading standards department about itinerant tarmac and building contractor gangs who charge inflated prices .
17 Moreover , many of those laws on the statute books which empowered colonial administrators to control the printed media remained in force and were used by the new governments after independence .
18 Second , the action sequences which constitute social routines may provide the child with the basis for making some initial hypotheses about the relationship between syntax and meaning ( McNamara 1972 ) .
19 , Benjamin Wills ( 1807–1899 ) , Plymouth Brother , was born in Devonport , Plymouth , 12 December 1807 , the only child of Quaker parents , Benjamin Newton , a draper of Plymouth dock who died ten days before the birth of his son , and his widow Anna , a daughter of Roger Treffry of Lostwithiel , with whom Newton lived until the age of twelve .
20 With a boat neck it had short sleeves , and Kate bit her lip as she realised it was going to have a pretty powerful impact .
21 Teague 's career looked all over after the world cup final … but he 's beaten off a shoulder injury and is back at his best … so too is Oxfordshire jockey Richard Dunwoody he rode five winners on saturday … today he won again on the Nicholson trained Now Your Talkin … he 's the top jockey with 40 winners … now he 's talkin … the Williams team from Didcot do n't do a lot of talking apart from Nigel of course but they 've swept the board in formula one this season …
22 Liz Earle 's book Vital Oils ( Ebury Press , £6.99 ) features a healthy eating plan which replaces saturated fats with pure , unprocessed oils — testers found their scalps became less flaky and , in some cases , dandruff cleared up .
23 Bulgaria 's Grand National Assembly on Oct. 24 passed an amendment to the Political Parties Act which debarred all personnel in the Army , police , judiciary , diplomatic service and full-time presidential staff from membership of a political party .
24 Until recently SRC had been owned and operated by Gerald Bull , a Canadian artillery expert who had close links with the Iraqi regime , being a friend of Brig. -Gen .
25 Her achievements are detailed in a section of the Good Health exhibition at the Dorman Museum which charts 100 years of health care in Middlesbrough .
26 Do research assistants count as academic persons ( and should they be entitled to publish as freely as the research directors who carry contractual responsibilities for their research activities ) ?
27 Smaller firms in the UK are more vulnerable to takeovers because of the existence of a sophisticated Stock Exchange which encourages small companies to raise finance by being floated on the unlisted markets .
28 In the F test we have two measures of the degrees of freedom , right , you need to have the degrees of freedom in the numerator N one and in denominator N two .
29 Following the interesting article by Andy Fairgrieve on the realities of high speed skiing I enclose calculated curves which give the order of speeds attained by normal unstreamlined skiers in relation to the distance skied , in a straight line , down slopes at various angles , at about 6,000ft altitude .
30 Each year the department publishes a postgraduate prospectus which contains full details of the degree courses offered , brief information about research work , lists of staff members and lists of students and their projects .
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