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1 In the mid-1980s the government tried , disastrously , to deal with the labour shortage by increasing employers ' contributions to the Central Provident Fund ( the compulsory government-run pension scheme ) .
2 The library is at the Copthall Avenue end of Chartered Accountants ' Hall , Moorgate Place , London EC2 .
3 Although the funded consultant posts for junior doctors ' hours will help , these have been concentrated in a few specialties , and the recession has provoked concerns that the rate of consultant expansion may even fall .
4 The Tribunal hears appeals by prospective residential home owners against local authorities ' refusal to register .
5 Effect of NHS reforms on general practitioners ' referral patterns
6 Editor , — In their paper on the effect of the NHS reforms on general practitioners ' referral patterns Angela Coulter and Jean Bradlow state that ‘ the overriding impression is that referral patterns remained strikingly similar among both fundholders and non-fundholders . ’
7 In particular , the partitioning requirements for governing bodies ' accommodation which will be provided on a cellular basis need to be determined now .
8 The financial benefits of the merger of these two apparently disparate companies were heavily stressed by Mr Lagardère at separate shareholders ' meetings on 29th December .
9 Attention is drawn to the statement in TR794 that ‘ the tax consequences of pensions can not be accounted for in isolation from potential deferred tax effects from other sources ' , as , for example , ‘ deferred tax arising from sources other than pensions may enhance the prospective recoverability of tax arising in respect of pension payments ’ .
10 Often you even come across portraits of Kurt Cobain in teenage girls ' weekly mags .
11 A European Central Bank would operate a lender of last resort facility for individual nations ' central banks , and would aim at stability of the European economy through interlocking economic policies within the EEC .
12 THE court case over Allied Carpets ' bogus sale did not surprise me .
13 There were , there were two erm boarding schools for Methodist ministers ' children .
14 The subsequent stages are again the same as in the case of Government Bills except that there is a special standing committee for Private Members ' Bills .
15 And perhaps , though he doubted she 'd agree , they could sit once more in the back seats for old times ' sake .
16 She was the driving force behind last month 's Mozart evening at Chartered Accountants ' Hall in aid of the Chartered Accountants ' Benevolent Association .
17 Musically the interim was not unproductive : he compiled several keyboard concertos from other composers ' music collected in Paris and London , and made his first foray into vocal music , with a couple of Italian arias ; he composed a comedy in Latin for Salzburg university entitled Apollo et Hyacinthus , a piece of Passion music , and the first act of a sacred Singspiel , Die Schuldigkeit des ersten Gebots , written in collaboration with Joseph Haydn 's younger brother Michael ( who since 1762 had been music director to the Archbishop of Salzburg ) and another local composer , Jacob Adlgasser .
18 Delegation of management responsibilities will be needed : ( 1 ) to avoid having to take day to day problems to full partners ' meetings for decision ; ( 2 ) to free individual partners from onerous administrative tasks so as to allow them to concentrate on fee earning ; ( 3 ) because it is inherently more efficient .
19 Chris Gray , strategic development manager in United Distillers ' Asia/Pacific region , raised over 12,000 for cancer research by running the Macau marathon .
20 In 1985–6 , the government transferred a quarter of the overall funding for work-related FE courses in further education colleges from local authorities ' budgets ( by deducting it from the rate support grant , the predecessor of the revenue support grant ; see Chapter 8 ) to the MSC .
21 As Hood notes , however , they came into ‘ high fashion in the 1940s and again in the 1960s when the Fulton Committee endorsed the idea of government growth outside Whitehall by ‘ hiving-off ’ units from civil service departments to non-departmental bodies ' ( 1981 , p. 100 ) .
22 These intermediaries are immediately faced with questions about how to distinguish consumer preferences from professional carers ' judgements of need and of which , among them , to give most weight to .
23 The Centre for Health Economics at the University of York has published a discussion paper on District Health Authority assessment of local populations ' need for health services , and of priority setting .
24 The most wide-ranging in implications of the four concerns Coloroll Group and questions of retrospection , trustees ' liability and sex discrimination in determining members ' benefits .
25 It is when you get on to the more high tech aspects of English Hops ' work that small and muted alarm bells begin to ring .
26 Salomon Brothers yesterday placed with City institutions the US chunk of British Airways ' £320m convertible bonds rights issue .
27 Yields in the Swiss capital market for Japanese firms ' bonds are already beginning to reflect the range of issuers ' credit ratings .
28 These reports are a valuable aid to our Information Department in answering Members ' enquiries about resorts , and to the guide 's editor , Chris Gill , in compiling the new edition .
29 CIA International has negotiated a $1m pan-European advertising deal with National Magazines ' Cosmopolitan .
30 But his claim the government had increased the provision for the Children Act in local authorities ' budgets by 14 per cent was greeted with derision from the floor .
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