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| 1 | Recently the army have purchased new , heavier US flak jackets to give protection against the Barrett Light 50 used by the IRA sniper known as Goldfinger . |
| 2 | Describing diplomacy as a " continuation of war with other weapons " , President Menem of Argentina on Jan. 3 appealed to the United Kingdom to settle the dispute over sovereignty of the Falkland/Malvinas Islands through international arbitration , along the lines of the border dispute being resolved between Argentina and Chile . |
| 3 | This page : Rap styles first came to the UK via films like Wildstyle and Breakdance , and is now enjoying new interest from Hollywood after the huge US success of Kid N' Play 's House Party ( left ) . |
| 4 | Chapter 1 looked at the UK in an international context , but the changes that it examined have had major implications for the internal structure and organization of the economy . |
| 5 | While everyone puzzles over how these animals first arrived on the Isle of Man , stories of tailless cats being found in such faraway places as Russia , Malaysia , and China all leading to new theories , nobody seems to have considered that the tailless gene might first have occurred on the Isle of Man itself . |
| 6 | Forty-nine people were killed , but two survived , when a Boeing 707 crashed in the Ivory Coast , and there were nine deaths when a New York to Boston express train crashed near Baltimore . |
| 7 | In the face of the Mohawks ' continued uncompromising stance , the Ottawa government on Aug. 8 agreed to the Quebec government 's request that troops be mobilized , but also appointed Alan Gold , chief justice of the Quebec Superior Court , as a mediator in future negotiations . |
| 8 | Socata 's engineers first looked at the Mooney 301 left , concluding it could never match such performance . |
| 9 | How the Manx cat first arrived on the Isle of Man is hotly debated . |
| 10 | In May 200 struck on the Orlov-Vitebsk line on this account , declaring that instead of devoting its energy to extracting gold from the churches , the government should find ways of paying them better . |
| 11 | When the group first walked into the White Hart pub the whole place went quiet , said landlord Adam Rimmer , 33 , yesterday . |
| 12 | The 29-year-old from Sydney first came to the United States in 1981 for the world junior championship and won it . |
| 13 | The Slavs first appeared in the Balkans in the late fourth century AD as marauders who raided the Romanised settlements south of the Danube from their temporary resting place in Hungary . |
| 14 | The Dobermann first came to the UK in the late 1940s , imported from Holland by a keen ‘ stockman ’ , Lionel Hamilton-Renwick . |
| 15 | Frank Gambale first ran across the Ibanez 540 S series in 1986 . |
| 16 | The contents of the newly-released 1992 Metropolitan Museum of Art Journal ( volume 27 ) is as follows : John Oliver Hand ‘ Salve sancta facies : thoughts on the iconography of the ‘ Head of Christ ’ by Petrus Christus ’ ; Timothy B. Husband ‘ The Winteringham Tau Cross and Ignis Sacer ’ ; Maximilian P.J. Maartens ‘ The epitaph of Anna van Nieuwenhove ’ ; Shirley Neilson Blum ‘ Hans Memling 's ‘ Annunciation ’ with angelic attendants ’ ; Maryan W. Ainsworth ‘ Implications of revised attributions in Netherlandish painting ’ ; Hans J. van Miegroet ‘ The sign of the rose : a fifteenth-century Flemish Passion scene ’ ; Christian Heck ‘ Baldung Grien 's Grunen Worth altarpiece and the devotion of the two St Johns ’ ; Walter Liedtke ‘ Addenda to ‘ Flemish paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art ’ ’ ’ ; Edgar Munhall ‘ A Sevres Biscuit bust of Louis XV acquired by the Frick Collection in memory of Guy Bauman ’ ; James David Draper ‘ Philippe-Laurent Roland in the Metropolitan Museum of Art ’ ; Joseph Baillio ‘ Hubert Robert 's decorations for the chateau de Bagatelle ’ ; and Helmut Nickel ‘ The bride and the cat : a possible source for Overbeck 's ‘ Freundschaftsbild ’ of Franz Pforr ’ . |
| 17 | The 22,000 workers in the Asturian state steel sector and auxiliary industries staged a 24-hour strike throughout the region on Feb. 6 organized by the UGT ( Uniòn General de Trabajadores ) and the CCOO ( Confederación Sindical de Comisiones Obreras ) . |
| 18 | ( ‘ Lautro ’ ) dated 30 October 1990 issued to the Norwich Union Life Insurance Society and its associate companies , Norwich Union Assets Management Ltd. , Norwich Union Pensions Management Ltd. and Norwich Union Trust Managers Ltd . |
| 19 | Provided always that nothing in these restrictions shall preclude Norwich Union from processing any proposal or application form made and dated prior to 31 October 1990 submitted through the Winchester Group or any of its company representatives and entering into any investment contract on the basis of any such a proposal or application form so long as Norwich Union has first satisfied itself that : — ( a ) any such proposal or application form is genuinely made and dated prior to 31 October 1990 ; ( b ) any such proposal or application form is accompanied by a fact find form ; and ( c ) that the fact find form has been fully completed ; and ( d ) that the information shown thereon is sufficient to show that the proposed investment contract which is the subject of the proposal or application form is in the best interests of the investor concerned . |
| 20 | In an effort to meet its 1991 inflation target , the government in October 1990 concluded with the UGT ( General Workers ' Union ) and the Employers ' Association a pact for the following year : average wage increases would be below 13.4 per cent ; the working week would be reduced from 48 to 44 hours ; the minimum monthly wage for industrial and farm workers would rise by 15 per cent , as would most pension and social security payments ; labour disputes were to be resolved through negotiation rather than industrial action . |
| 21 | Co-operation 2.1 demonstrated at the San Francisco bash |
| 22 | Paula last appeared at the Playhouse as Shirley Valentine in a production which later ran in the West End . |
| 23 | of the 4,748,145 list votes cast there in the 1987 general election 2,015,731 went to the CDU list , which comprised some 60 names . |
| 24 | Following a very successful workshop in September 1991 supported by the Nuffield Provincial Hospitals Trust , which representatives of most EC countries attended , the faculty has been active in promoting its model of training to other EC countries . |
| 25 | Included in the exhibition are a Lucas van Leyden ‘ Portrait of the Emperor Maximilian ’ , a portrait of Christian II of Denmark by Jan Gossaert , an album of coloured drawings of flowers and insects by Jacques de Gheyn II made for the Emperor Rudolf II , a number of drawings by Goltzius and two sheets by Dürer . |
| 26 | Dream : Anglers watched in disbelief as a shoal of bream over 100 metres long swam along the Leeds-Liverpool Canal at Melling . |
| 27 | But of course , Medau first appeared in the WEST MIDLANDS and NORTH WEST much earlier . |
| 28 | ‘ It is eight years since the Tall Ships last raced to the Mersey . |
| 29 | After the deluge that decided the first battle of Ypres , King-Emperor George V arrived at the St Omer Headquarters of the British Expeditionary Force in Northern France , and went away again . |
| 30 | Oswald first appeared at the Midland Railway Centre in August and was an immense success . |