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1 Subsequently Foley became a well-known midlands ironmaster .
2 His eyes went a few degrees cooler .
3 The abduction sparked a house-to-house police search in the Willenhall area of Coventry .
4 With some 275,000 employees nationwide , British Telecom faced a massive communications job when they needed to explain the introduction of a new technical system to every manager in the company .
5 The 1983 Act established a Public Accounts Commission .
6 The shocking discovery prompted a massive police operation clearly remembered by a retired policeman who was a young constable on duty in Spennymoor on the night of the slaying .
7 While Jinny served the tea Mrs Bennet brought a tall clothes maiden from the wash house and draped a sheet over it to give Anne and her mother some privacy .
8 No wonder Roman needed a public relations expert .
9 The strikes had taken on an important political dimension when workers formed a free trades union ‘ Solidarity ’ , and in 1981 it seemed that Soviet tanks would be needed to restore order .
10 BOXING : Mexico 's Ricardo Lopez won a unanimous points victory over Domingo ‘ Pretty Boy ’ Lucas of the Philippines in Mexico City last night , to retain his WBC straw-weight title .
11 The Office of Fair Trading recommended a full monopolies inquiry because of the potential impact of the purchase on Bupa 's buying-power when seeking bed-space in private hospitals .
12 The Open Champion described a delayed rules decision as ‘ pathetic ’ after alleging that home favourite and joint halfway leader Ernie Els had breached regulations when he used his putter to brush away a beetle on the second green .
13 Breaking with precedent , Rodríguez named a senior police officer , Commissioner-General Germán Franco Vargas , rather than a member of the military , as the new Chief of Police .
14 The police earned their keep with arrests 20 per cent up at 5,006 , but figures highlighted a varying police approach .
15 Delegates including Western human rights activists and diplomats attended a human rights conference in Tehran on Sept. 9-12 , which was described by some commentators as an indication of the Iranian government 's desire to end its international isolation .
16 The City of London anti-apartheid group claimed that 30 protesters infiltrated a private sports club in south-west London where the South Africans were staying on Sunday night .
17 In August Hi-Tec bought a Dutch sports clothing company Beheermaatschappij Copex in a profit-related deal worth up to £7.7m .
18 BRITISH Airways launched a new fares war yesterday by slashing the cost of winter flights .
19 MICHAEL STOUTE produced a 2,000 Guineas contender to match that of his great rival Henry Cecil when Alnasr Alwasheek made a brilliant seasonal debut at Newmarket yesterday , coming from last to first to land the Craven Stakes .
20 TESL was run as an alternative methods course for a few years , until TEFL/TESL became a combined methods course in 1986 .
21 Relations with Russia worsened after Georgian forces seized a Russian arms depot in southern Georgia on Nov. 2 .
22 The British Labour government introduced a statutory incomes policy in 1966 .
23 A PATIENT who disappeared from her hospital bed sparked a massive police siege last night .
24 He chose a good day to raise the matter , because only yesterday the hospital opened a new out-patients department .
25 In an effort to retrieve the lost ground the Democratic majority within Congress approved a civil rights bill in 1990 which was vetoed by Bush [ see p. 37769 ] .
26 The Western alliance appeared to be in total disarray as the USA supported a United Nations resolution calling for a cease-fire in Egypt , which her allies reluctantly accepted .
27 US Senator Larry Pressler , author of a 1985 amendment to the 1961 US Foreign Assistance Act under which aid to Pakistan had in October 1990 been barred [ see pp. 37764 ; 38726 ] , said in Delhi on Jan. 11 that he would oppose extending the amendment to India as he did not think that the country had a nuclear weapons programme .
28 By half distance in the nine lap race , the handicap had unravelled and although Albert Shaw ( Kings Moss ) and West Down veteran Eddie Crory held a 40 seconds advantage , the rest of the field was back together and baring down on the leaders .
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