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1 The new administration duly took office on Dec. 10 , marking a return to civilian and democratic government following seven years of rule by successive military juntas .
2 The programme also included information on choke and valve designs for the various types of pressure ranges used on production trees .
3 The tape also gives advice on diet , health , and beauty .
4 From Wolhusen the circular itinerary now continues south on road 10 which has come in on the left ( ie east from Luzern .
5 Hassan 's visit to Spain eventually took place on Sept. 25-27 , 1989 , when three bilateral accords were signed .
6 THE highest ranking North Korean official to defect to the South yesterday poured scorn on Pyongyang 's decision to open its nuclear facilities to international inspection , saying it was a ruse .
7 As a result rates were immediately raised in Austria , Belgium , Denmark and the Netherlands , while France , Italy and Spain also followed suit on Dec. 23 .
8 The passage also includes instruction on management 's responsibility to labour — they are to provide ‘ what is right and fair ’ .
9 The phosphoamino acids were separated by high voltage then layer chromatography on cellulose plates in mixture of pyridine , acetic acid , and water in the ratio 5:50:945 for 1000 volt hours .
10 A meeting duly took place on Sept. 18 , at the " peace village " of Panmunjom within the Demilitarized zone at which North Korea put forward its advocacy of a single UN seat in order to avoid continuing the country 's temporary division .
11 ‘ And yet the banks already earn interest on customers ' money on current account , which they do not pass on . ’
12 The firm staged the one-day boycott yesterday to put pressure on Liverpool City Council to pay up .
13 Wallis further throws doubt on Gusfield 's claim that he had in fact identified a status group .
14 The quarter finals also took place on Saturday and produced a mixed bag of entertainment .
15 In this context , the material before the board indicated — ( 1 ) that investors were persuaded by company representatives employed by the Winchester Group to cancel their existing policies and to ‘ switch ’ to Norwich Union without their best interests and any disadvantages attendant upon so doing necessarily being considered ; ( 2 ) that other undesirable selling practices — for instance ‘ overselling ’ whereby investors are persuaded to take out a range of policies which they may not be able to afford in the long term — have been employed by company representatives selling on behalf of the Winchester Group ; ( 3 ) that the fact find forms completed by the Winchester Group for forwarding to Norwich Union were inadequate for the purposes of ensuring that products were only sold to investors on a ‘ best advice ’ basis ; ( 4 ) that the connections between Mr. Tee and Mr. Kissane ( a former director of the Winchester Group now awaiting trial on charges of theft of client moneys ) and also between the Winchester Group and Mr. Randhir Singh were such as to call into question the extent to which the controllers , directors and senior managers of the Winchester Group could be regarded as being of good character and competent or otherwise suitable to manage the marketing of investment contracts on behalf of Norwich Union and also whether the Winchester Group could be safely regarded as a fit and proper person for the purposes of enjoying appointed representative status ; ( 5 ) that policies had been sold by eight persons engaged by the Winchester Group who had not been appointed as company representatives of Norwich Union or in any other way authorised to sell investment contracts on behalf of Norwich Union and that other individuals who had been appointed as company representatives had not been registered as such with Lautro ; ( 6 ) that certain company representatives engaged by the Winchester Group appeared to be channelling client moneys through their own personal bank accounts .
16 Dissection here takes place on cadavers or using tissue taken from them .
17 Operating schedules inevitably put pressure on aircraft down time and because aircraft manufacturers are operating to maximum capacity producing new aircraft , spare parts may also become difficult to obtain particularly for the more mature aircraft types .
18 The Court then quashed sentence on Narmakhonmadi Khudayberdiyev , Chair of the Council of Ministers in 1971-84 , imposed in 1989 [ see p. 36898 ] .
19 The massacre really took place on Saint Peter 's Field , but a sharp writer on the radical Manchester Observer linked the outrage to the battle of Waterloo , coming up with the headline ‘ Peterloo ’ .
20 Since lions always like to isolate one individual from the herd before attacking , this theory also makes sense on paper , but reality does not bear it out because lions can all too easily single out animals for the kill .
21 The intellectual origins of structured dependency ideas in functionalist social-control theories inevitably focuses attention on employers and the state , and diminishes the importance of choice exercised by elderly people themselves .
22 For further advice on how to stroke people authentically see Praise on page 135 .
23 Trap centres : those where additional energy is required to raise the energy state sufficiently to produce luminescence on transition to the ground state .
24 There would , of course , be a temptation for small partnerships and sole traders to convert to the Limited Company form of operation just to avoid tax on distribution to the proprietors , so it might be necessary to levy a Stamp duty on companies as part of their annual running costs ; this would compensate the national exchequer for any abuse .
25 Occupations always take place on Friday night , so that by the time legal action can be taken , people have already constructed shelters .
26 Relocation company counsellors assigned to families moving to Britain also provide information on activities that may be taken up by the spouse .
27 The racket also absorbs shock on impact by way of its Tri-Level Shock Suppression System .
28 Virtually all competition now takes place on mats , since hard floors are known to present a hazard to the falling competitor .
29 Apart from its wrongness in principle , it is ineffective , since the wrongdoing continues without being subject to public censure , which is the way that society typically brings pressure on individuals and groups to conform to civilised norms .
30 The French government on Aug. 19 ordered its naval commanders to apply sanctions " with firmness " ; France , however , had been among those Security Council members reportedly expressing concern on Aug. 13 over the prospect of individual members , rather than the Security Council , deciding to move to enforce a blockade .
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