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1 This was put right in 1582 by Pope Gregory XIII who left ten days out of the year .
2 In chapter 12 we discuss these points further .
3 In Chapter 12 I give additional clarifications about my use of the word " structure " and try to explain why a structural approach is incompatible with a description of the world in terms of objects and attributes .
4 Social workers are likely to be more interested in chapter three which contains good summaries of the development , organisation and training for social work in six EC countries .
5 FIGURE 5 I add small slivers of light down the windows to show the sun coming in from the right ( when it 's out ! ) .
6 In Chapter 3 we consider other aspects of processor design ; the layout of instructions and how operands may be accessed by an instruction , control and other instructions not dealt with in Chapter 2 , provision for supervisory software , and the concept of microprogramming .
7 We shall confine our discussion in this chapter to such ‘ officials ’ as HM Inspectorate , leaving the observation by ‘ consultants ’ , more common in the USA , to Chapter 6 which considers combined strategies of evaluation .
8 Finally , in Chapter 8 we consider some topics on the border between architecture and implementation ; dealing with faults in the hardware of the computer , ways of speeding up the processor , and the interface between computer and operator .
9 Howden was renowned for centuries as the site of an important horse fair which lasted six days , beginning on 26th September .
10 And he claimed the county council was keeping other homes open which needed more money spent on them .
11 In Chapter 14 we saw that information is a very special economic commodity which frequently causes indigestion in freely competitive markets .
12 On Jan. 24 she announced further proposals which envisaged lifting the state 's foreign trade monopoly , full convertibility for the East German Mark by 1992 , the lowering of tax rates , and the introduction of a commercial banking system .
13 Okay well you put three times twelve that 's what you were going to say so , if Claire puts six times six you put three times twelve and I 'll put four times nine just to be awkward .
14 Back in January 1980 we made ten predictions about the decade ahead — and offered free resubscription forms to all readers if we scored less than five out of ten .
15 It is not clear when his experiments began , but an affidavit made out by Sadler and his assistant Guy Green states that on 27 July 1756 they printed 1,200 earthenware tiles of different patterns in six hours , and that the process had taken upwards of seven years to perfect .
16 a bank enforced its floating charge after the commencement of the company 's winding-up and the liquidator argued that the payment of the proceeds of the realisation was invalid because of what is the equivalent of section 127 of the Insolvency Act 1986 which invalidates any disposition of a company 's property after the commencement of winding up .
17 Central government intervention in local government tendering began with the Local Government , Planning and Land Act 1980 which applied competitive tendering to local authority direct labour organisations ( DLO ) .
18 The mass picket helped justify such subsequent developments as more mobile squads of police , greater mutual aid between forces and the introduction of the Employment Act 1980 which outlawed secondary picketing and allowed the police to determine the maximum size of the picket .
19 There are two Mach 3 devices — the Mach355 which has 96 input-output pins and 96 macrocells and the Mach 365 which has 128 input-output pins and 128 macrocells .
20 The government of the Solomon Islands on Sept. 15 lodged a strong diplomatic protest with the government of Papua New Guinea in response to a seaborne raid by Papuan commandos on Sept. 12 which left two people dead .
21 Shevardnadze in a strong speech at the UN General Assembly in New York on Sept. 25 characterized Iraq 's invasion of Kuwait as " an act of terrorism against the nascent new world order " , and , apparently going further than Gorbachev had suggested at Helsinki [ see above ] , stated that the Soviet Union was prepared to support the use of force against Iraq , in a UN framework , if the Iraqi occupation of Kuwait continued ; on Sept. 30 he confirmed Soviet willingness to join a UN force if necessary .
22 The Director of Public Prosecutions will decide in the next few weeks if BR must face corporate manslaughter charges over the disaster on December 12 which claimed 35 lives .
23 Third , there is a small but important category of provision deriving authority from Section 137 in the Local Government Act 1972 which allowed local authorities to spend the product of a rate of 2p in the pound on anything ‘ which in their opinion is in the interests of their area or any part of it or all or some of its inhabitants ’ .
24 Four alleged militants of the FIS were paraded on television on Oct. 1 and were heard to confess at length to the bomb attack at Algiers airport on Aug. 26 which killed 10 people [ see pp. 39072 ; 39118 ] .
25 On 17 July 1054 he consecrated Godric abbot of Winchcombe , having held the abbey himself since the death of Abbot Godwin in 1053 .
26 ‘ Small , intimate and European ’ is how owner Stephen Flannery describes the ambience of Bar 10 which opened last month .
27 Between June 1958 and December 1960 he made eight trips to Algeria .
28 In February 1946 he appointed thirty-two cardinals from all parts of the world , and twenty-four more in 1953 .
29 Even within the United Kingdom , an Act of Parliament ( the Northern Ireland Parliament , set up under the Government of Ireland Act 1920 which withheld certain powers from it ) has been held to be limited in respect of the range of authority which it conferred ( Belfast Corporation v O.D. Cars Ltd [ 1960 ] AC 490 ) .
30 Reporting first quarter figures for the first time — nothing like good news to encourage such a move — SGS-Thomson Microelectronics NV said net profit for the first quarter of 1993 was $24.4m on sales up 28.1% at $439m ; in the year to December 31 it had net profit of $3m compared with a loss of $102.6m the year before ; first quarter orders soared by 91.2% to $726.8m .
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