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1 FIFTEEN years ago few would have picked out the blue-collar Industrial National Bank of Rhode Island to emerge in the 1990s as the pre-eminent banking power in patrician New England .
2 Pitt introduced income taxes to pay for the Napoleonic Wars .
3 The pressure on computer manufacturers to provide for the proper disposal of used computer equipment , which goes beyond dumping it into approved landfills , continues to build from both within and without the industry .
4 Negotations are proceeding with a view to obtaining grant aid to help with the considerable setting up costs which will be involved and advice taken with regard to design and layout of exhibits .
5 Dorling Kindersley , publisher of sparkling non-fiction guides to dinosaur , is launching a Dinosaur Club to cater for the large number of junior dinosaur fanatics .
6 But , undaunted , FitzGerald was back on the right track again last Saturday sending Trainglot out to easily win the £20,000 Tote Jackpot Hurdle at Sandown Park to add to the remarkable haul so far this year .
7 Conversely , Halliday uses the term function to refer to the formal encoding of meaning within a grammar ( see , for example , Halliday 1985 ) .
8 There 's Hawaiian Tropic Aftersun Moisturiser , with tropical oils , and aloe rich , Cool Aloe Gel to apply through the long tropical evenings .
9 This climate severely limited the ability of opposition groups to mobilize within the existing vertical structure , although they did have some success in getting their candidates elected as workplace representatives and as members of the company council .
10 amd next week we 'll be back on the football trail to see in the new season
11 His European contacts have given him ideas — such as the Dutch government 's research projects to look into the specific health needs of the country 's future .
12 With this in mind he has established a small scientific strategic and research programme to look at the analytical programme from a broader perspective .
13 It was Brainsby 's idea for Richard Branson to arrive at the inaugural press conference wearing a brown leather aviator 's helmet , à la Biggles , in an attempt to lend the launching of an international airline something of the savour of a Boys Own adventure .
14 The report prompted opposition parties to call for the immediate resignation of the Finance Minister , Manmohan Singh , and the governor of the Reserve Bank .
15 First , to identify the contributory factors of success in the use of Strategic Decision Support Systems in order to provide research data to assist in the further development of such systems .
16 Two associated berths , one equipped with two pneumatic grain elevators were also completed allowing vessels drawing up to 9.6 metres ordinary spring tides to discharge to the new facility .
17 They were given immensely long platforms , like their military counterparts , some of the longest in the world , and huge circulation areas to cope with the great press of travellers at significant pilgrimage periods .
18 In 1971 , while the war was still going on , a group of unarmed scientists and I risked our lives and crossed into the fighting zones to check on the environmental effects of the war .
19 Above : The many physical similarities between pigs and humans means that people can use the pig body to learn about the human body in ways that , to say the least , would be unethical with the human body itself .
20 ENGLAND skip John Bell and his Cumbria partners Ian Carruthers , Stephen Farish and Andrew Baxter , beat off a spirited recovery from a young Ely team to scramble to the fours title by a single shot at the Manchester Unity National Indoor Championships at Melton Mowbray .
21 In the sixtieth minute he burst between Shepherd and Webb before drawing Shepherd before drawing Richardson from his goal to square the ball across the penalty area for Neil Owen to shoot into the empty net .
22 The 23-year-old Tynesider , now recovered from a serious pelvic injury , came on as substitute against Ipswich Town on Tuesday night to lay on the second goal for record signing Don Goodman .
23 While their three sons were young , a favourite treat was being taken by their father , one by one , to Paddington Station to listen to the Great Western Railway Band which played there on Sunday mornings .
24 In 1970 Mr Heath had established the Central Policy Review Staff to deal with the long-term strategy matters and provide briefs for the Cabinet as a whole .
25 Causal path models are excellent devices for forcing the data analyst to look at the appropriate marginal relationships in tables .
26 I am aware that the association has provided a review paper to OFFER on the perceived barriers to the development of CHP , and the issues raised are primarily matters for OFFER .
27 The table also shows that , in the fifteen years from 1960–75 , there was a tendency for female labour force participation to increase in the industrialised world and decline elsewhere , except Oceania .
28 They came back from a surprise David Currie opener to level in the second half through Steve Walsh .
29 Tambrands , the makers of Tampax , have launched the talk line to coincide with the new school term which , they claim , is an appropriate time to raise the sticky subject of growing up .
30 Ann Marie moved from the Holgate End to propose before the 19,000 crowd .
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