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| 1 | More recently , Edward Shorter has made a similar case for improvements in women 's health status generally as a pre-requisite to an active feminist movement . |
| 2 | Northampton-based portable computer peripherals supplier Ranger Computers Ltd has introduced a new version of its RangerDisk3 personal computer compatible floppy disk drive for use with Psion Plc Series 3 handheld computers : it is intended as more convenient means of backing up or transferring Series 3 files than Psion 's Comms Link ; RangerDisk3 has its own version of MS-DOS and connects to the Series 3 via a Psion serial adaptor ; it can be used with the 128Kb and 256Kb models ; the operating software is built in so avoiding the need for program installation on the Series 3 ; file transfer is by the XModem protocol ; it is £200 from Ranger . |
| 3 | Tandem Computers Inc has opened a new subsidiary in Budapest , increasing the company 's presence in Central and Eastern Europe . |
| 4 | Eagan , Minnesota-based Cray Research Inc has introduced a new Y-MP M90 series of supercomputers , claiming that they offer the largest main memories ever , in the hope that they make it possible to solve important scientific and engineering problems that are too large for the memory of any existing computer system to handle efficiently . |
| 5 | San Francisco , California-based Interactive Development Environments Inc has introduced a new Software through Pictures/Information Modelling product , which enables users at a workstation to analyse and customise existing relational database management systems . |
| 6 | Dancing on the podiums at the Milk Bar 's Friday night club Glam has become a hazardous business , due to the frenzied swaying of the Essex Girls that now monopolise them . |
| 7 | The Administration of Estates Act 1925 has provided a uniform method for the administration of all the property of a deceased person . |
| 8 | President Alan Garcia 's socialist government that took office in July 1985 has taken a tolerant view of the informal sector . |
| 9 | The new legislation regarding seat belt wearing in the rear seats of cars which came into effect on 1 July 1991 has had a downward effect on the number of rear seat car passenger casualties . |
| 10 | Encom Cable TV & Telecommunications Ltd has launched a local telephone service in Redbridge , Barking and Dagenham , Essex : the service is offered over the company 's fibre trunk cable , which links to Mercury Communications Ltd 's national network ; the company claims that calls are 10% to 15% cheaper that British Telecommunications Plc 's . |
| 11 | The 88open Consortium Ltd has released a compatibilty test suite for applications — in binary and object forms — running under Unix SVR4 on the Motorola Inc 88000 RISC . |
| 12 | In past interviews the Princess Royal has displayed a distinct lack of enthusiasm for pregnancy , describing it as a very boring nine months . |
| 13 | Xylogics Inc has opened a new office in Munich , Germany , that 'll serve the central European German speaking countries , including Austria and Switzerland . |
| 14 | Over the years this has killed a great many Canberra aircrew . |
| 15 | Clarks International has unveiled a new range of sports shoes called Cica . |
| 16 | Singapore Airlines Ltd has awarded a five-year contract to Datamatics Pvt Ltd of Bombay to write software exclusively for the airline : Datamatics will develop software for reservations , cargo handling and departure control applications , and got the business because the airline found it so hard to recruit and retain computer personnel in Singapore ; no value was revealed . |
| 17 | Hitachi Ltd has developed a high-speed text retrieval system for the company 's 3050 Unix workstations . |
| 18 | Irvine , California-based technology holding company Helionetics Inc has signed a binding letter of intent to acquire Sentinel Systems Inc , which is designing the Sentry-E fault-tolerant computer in Horsham , Pennsylvania and has a ‘ major telecommunications company ’ lined up as its first customer . |
| 19 | Westborough , Massachusetts-based Arch Communications Group Inc has acquired a privately-owned paging company in New Hampshire for an undisclosed amount of cash , adding over 2,000 subscribers to its base . |
| 20 | Here , the introduction of the hybrid maize variety SR 52 has had a dramatic effect on yields of maize . |
| 21 | Oracle UK Ltd has won a 16-year contract with the British Army valued at £4m which will standardise all of the Army 's IT projects around the Oracle database . |
| 22 | Santa Monica , California-based Retix Inc has announced a global technology transfer agreement with Jtec Pty Ltd from somewhere Down Under , through which it will incorporate the latter 's ISDN terminal adaptor technology into the hot new Retix RISC-based RouterXchange 7000 multiprotocol router . |
| 23 | Irvine , California-based , State Of The Art Inc has introduced a new accounting graphical user interface , Momentum . |
| 24 | Former Darlington manager Brian Little has done a superb job in his first season , but Leicester face three promotion rivals in their four-match finale . |
| 25 | Fujitsu Ltd has reported a consolidated net loss for the year to March 31 equivalent to $295.0m against a profit last time of $110.5m , on turnover that rose 0.6% to $31,312m . |
| 26 | McCaw Cellular Communications Inc has reported a net loss of $14.0m , down from a loss last time of $99.1m , on turnover that rose 20.2% at $302.9m . |
| 27 | Milpitas , California-based , Adaptec Inc has introduced a new range of SCSI-II host adapters , the AIC-7770 : scheduled to go into beta test in January , the SCSI-II boards will start shipping later in 1993 . |
| 28 | The advent of Windows 3.1 has caused a minor shake-up in many applications — OLE and TrueType are just two of the features of the environment that software houses have been keen to take advantage of . |
| 29 | Silicon Graphics Inc has taken a worldwide licence for San Rafael , California-based Z-Code Software Corp 's Z-Mail electronic mail management software which runs under Motif : SGI is also to distribute Z-Mail on its entire hardware range — prices go from $300 for a single-user licence . |
| 30 | Silicon Graphics Inc has signed a joint venture contract with five investors through its Hong Kong subsidiary to create Shenzhen Chess Computer Co Ltd , which will manufacture Silicon Graphics ' Iris Indigo RISC personal computer and develop applications for it in Shenzen Special Economic Zone , China . |