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| 1 | NCR Corp has won a $2m contract to provide Dutch tour operator Arke Reizen NV with one of its massively parallel System 3600 systems : the machine will serve 800 terminals at Arke Reizen 's head office and 9,000 additional remote terminals in offices across the Netherlands , it will also handle some 500,000 bookings a year and calculate and maintain Arke Reizens 's financial accounts ; it is believed to be the first time massively parallel technology has been used to handle day-to-day travel transactions — although a number of travel agents use it to analyse marketing data . |
| 2 | Thus in the UK the Natural Environment Research Council had initiated a series of working groups to advise on the needs for future research . |
| 3 | The Economic and Social Research Council has established a series of Regional Research Laboratories to promote the wider use of data collected by academic researchers , commercial organisations and government departments . |
| 4 | ARTIST David Mach has won a £12,000 prize for his sculpture of a rock star made from coathangers . |
| 5 | They also confirmed that an American named David Lovejoy had made a series of calls to Hussein Niknam , the Iranian chargé d'affaires , about a team of American agents , led by Charles Dennis McKee and Matthew Kevin Gannon , who had arrived in Beirut on a mission concerned with the hostages . |
| 6 | Now Thomas and scores of other North-East bikers have imposed a 50cc speed limit . |
| 7 | During subsequent interrogation it was revealed that Ann Lynn had made a rendezvous during the night with a Dutch cargo vessel , had stowed the contraband below for later disposal , and calmly taken out the anglers for a day 's fishing before unloading the loot . |
| 8 | Apart from the evidence of bloodstained items such as the fender , the flat iron and the shoes , the Surrey Police had retrieved a pair of Shill 's bloodstained trousers from John Turner 's house . |
| 9 | NEC Corp 's NEC America has formed a Data Communications Systems Division to be responsible for all the company 's internetworking products : it was formerly included in its Data and Video Communications System Division and has joined NEC America 's Transmission Marketing & Sales Division , Herndon , Virginia . |
| 10 | RAF MUSEUM have announced a series of changes to their ‘ fleet ’ that involve some intricate ‘ ins ’ and ‘ outs ’ at Hendon . |
| 11 | Digital Equipment Corp has won a $3m contract from China 's Baoshan Steel to link the mill 's computers into the largest network DEC has sold in Asia , regional president Edmund Reilly said : a 40-mile optical fibre system will link all of Baoshan 's existing and future computers into a single , integrated enterprise network , Reilly told Reuter , and will provide videoconferencing services for the plant outside Shanghai ; DEC was chosen because of its well-established Chinese sales and service network that includes licenced local partners and offices in Shanghai , Peking and Guangzhou , Reilly said . |
| 12 | THE Sedgefield office of Fairclough Building has won a £900,000 contract to build student accommodation at Durham University , designed by Newcastle architect Faulknerbrowns . |
| 13 | IBM Corp has filed a $7.3m federal lawsuit against Nutri-System Inc , saying the debt-ridden diet company failed to make payments on 500 personal computers it had leased — but it sounds as if the Armonkeys will have to sing for their money : the suit accuses the Blue Bell , Pennsylvania , company of making no payments since December and of refusing to allow IBM to repossess the machines , but some of Nutri-System 's major franchisees have filed an involuntary bankruptcy petition against the company under Chapter 7 of the bankruptcy laws — Chapter 7 means curtains — and last week , banks seized all its cash and bank accounts , forcing the company to close its 283 company-owned weight-loss centres across the US ; while Nutri-System has failed to pay only $965,380 due under its lease with IBM , a default entitles IBM to recover the full lease sum of $7.3m . |
| 14 | THE Somme Association has received a £100 , grant from the Northern Ireland Tourist Board towards new facilities for visitors to the Ulster Memorial Tower at Thiepval in France . |
| 15 | The Textile industry has undergone a 5% fall in exports compared with 1989 and the Footwear and clothing industry has suffered an even larger decline of 13% in the value of its exports . |
| 16 | Though Coleman found out nothing more about him from Franks/Schafer and his friends , he would remember his conversations with them later when , after the Lockerbie disaster , it emerged that US intelligence agencies had intercepted a series of telephone calls to the Iranian Embassy in Beirut from an arms dealer and presumed double agent by the name of David Lovejoy ( Loo Choy ? ) advising the chargé d'affaires of the movements of the American intelligence team who died on Flight 103 . |
| 17 | The Institute Librarian has negotiated a 15% discount with Executive Grapevine . |
| 18 | In September 1989 , it was reported that the Home Secretary had begun a series of private discussions with public officials including the Lord Chancellor , the Lord Chief Justice ( who had hitherto been reluctant to participate in such discussions lest they were seen as prejudicing judicial independence ) and the senior Lord Justice of Appeal . |
| 19 | LONDON & SOUTH EAST has won a £3.9 million contract to build student accommodation for the University of Hertfordshire . |
| 20 | Detectives investigating the murder of the prostitute Carol Clark have issued a series of sketches of people they want to talk to . |
| 21 | ICL Plc has won a $3m contract , from the Hungarian National Bank . |
| 22 | WILD West researcher Donald Clerk has put a 30ft totem pole on his lawn at Zelah , Cornwall , to ward off evil spirits . |
| 23 | Mr Owen has prepared a £100,000 plan to make the building , which dates back well into the last century , safe by partial demolition , repairs and site clearance . |
| 24 | NIRVANA star Kurt Cobain has launched a £20,000 bid to beat a rare sleeping disease after falling asleep … half-way through a concert . |
| 25 | A US federal appeals court has upheld a $155 million award of damages against the Amoco Corporation over the 1978 oil spill from the Amoco Cadiz oil tanker off the coast of Brittany in France . |
| 26 | Coventry , UK : Courtaulds Engineering has won a £750,000 contract in connection with a new cellulose flake plant for Courtaulds Chemicals at Spondon . |
| 27 | A daily newspaper ( 26 February 1988 ) reported ‘ Despite the losses Sir Jeremy has sanctioned a 10% increase in the dividend which will be paid from reserves . |
| 28 | The Whitbread Education Partnership has organised a series of ‘ French Fiesta ’ events with their prestigious Landsbury Hotels providing the setting for a three-day French food project . |
| 29 | The Whitbread Education Partnership has organised a series of French Fiesta events with their prestigious Landsbury Hotels providing the setting for a three-day French food project . |
| 30 | EUROPE 's video war has taken a series of bizarre new twists as the European Community 's new rules on imports of video recorders from Japan produce results in the market place that nobody predicted . |