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1 IBM Corp duly announced a whole string of speech recognition products , ranging from basic personal computer applications to leading-edge speech technology , developed at the Thomas J Watson Research Center .
2 Intel Corp duly launched a new copyright infringement case against Advanced Micro Devices Inc over the latter 's just-announced Am486 parts that include Intel microcode .
3 ( Associated Newspapers did the same , and both groups thereby had a useful cushion when the oil price rises and economic crises of the early 1970s saw newsprint prices quadruple . )
4 The long-term asymptotic rise eventually adds a further increase of 2.1x10 -6 Hz to the rotation rate .
5 At first resisted by conservatives who feared its materialistic implications , evolutionism eventually became a central theme of late nineteenth-century thought , the foundation for a unified philosophy of biological and social progress .
6 The days were getting shorter and colder , and with Christmas approaching there was so much to do in the kitchen Sarah rarely had a spare minute .
7 The rising thereby received a new impetus — and , once begun , aid from Italy and Germany continued to arrive .
8 From her first class in Morden nine members went on to train as teachers , with Jean Parmiter eventually becoming a Senior Trainer .
9 Starting with a blank sheet of paper and using the wisdom accumulated through more than 150 years of life-saving , the designers and operators together specified a new concept in lifeboats .
10 Susan had come up to them , and stood still in horror at the sight of her sister apparently embracing a total stranger .
11 In a public or university library which does not have subject specialists on its staff — or even in those that do — this places an intolerably heavy burden of responsibility on the individual 's judgement , and it is unlikely that any one person called upon to make weeding decisions over a spectrum of subject fields will on the basis of judgement alone achieve a consistent rate of ‘ correct ’ decision making .
12 Rebate-only plans apparently offered a free pension , as all the money came from the Government .
13 You can add objects together to make a complex outline or intersect the shapes to produce holes in one object with another .
14 For example , the private sector at present only provides a limited range of services and therefore no one would be able to opt out entirely from the NHS .
15 The water treatment polymers will open up new markets for FMC , which at present only has a small business in this field based on commodity chemicals .
16 The 1947 variety merely boasted a modest Lion Rampant and was superseded by the classical Jean Cocteau motif in 1961 .
17 The fact that Brolly began work as a barrister last March obviously meant a complete change in lifestyle , and that coincided with a loss in form .
18 Pamela only had a few friends ( 1 year ) .
19 Men such as Syd obviously took a great deal of pride in their work — woe betide a fireman or fitter who did not do a good job !
20 For hand scanning , there 's the facility to ‘ stitch ’ scans together to form a larger image than the standard ‘ 4″ wide by as long as you like ’ , which is automatic , quick , and accurate .
21 Profits are well up , cost reduction obviously played a major part in this and the F T group is er , fifty five percent up on last year and this is against the background of a five percent drop in advertisement volume and we have an eleven percent drop in advertisement volume from the continent of Europe erm , which of course does n't affect other national newspapers .
22 The solution to this problem was for Mrs Whitehouse personally to take a private prosecution of the play 's director , Michael Bogdanov .
23 ‘ This is particularly true of offices , although properties like warehouses and night clubs obviously have a higher-risk record . ’
24 In section 8.2 it was pointed out how for a simple single-section L-R or C-R filter comprising just one reactive component only reaches a maximum rate of fall-off outside the pass band of 20 dB per decade of frequency compared with an infinite rate of fall-off for an ideal filter .
25 Attendance at the careers convention once each year is not enough and will in any case only reach a small proportion of the school children who may be contemplating their future .
26 The stone-floored basement was converted into a huge , communal changing room , one of the first of its kind , and Bernard thoughtfully provided a large leather armchair for bored husbands or partners .
27 The waves and the pebbles together constitute a simple example of a system that automatically generates non-randomness .
28 On Nov. 29 , 1989 , the second reading began in Parliament of a bill which would empower the government to nominate six non-elected members to the 81-seat legislature [ see p. 33403 for introduction of constitutional amendment in 1984 which created three " non-constituency " seats in parliament for unsuccessful opposition candidates thereby ensuring a limited opposition to the PAP ] .
29 Because these relationships rarely form a coherent totality , political cultures themselves , including labourism , are replete with internal contradictions and inconsistencies .
30 If they were relatively inactive and presented their demands through what the councillors defined as the " proper " ( private ) channels then their demands rarely secured a favourable response .
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