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1 As a result both agencies have to continue claiming that Russia is facing terrible threats from the West and therefore that their existence is essential despite the fact that Gorbachev is busily telling the Russian people that co-existence is not only possible but desirable as are many aspects of capitalist society .
2 Teale and Paul McGrath provide the muscle — and their central defensive partnership is already rated the best in the Premier League by big Ron .
3 An important point to remember when injecting solutions is never to put the holding pipette into the drop of label .
4 This is another sign that , so far at least , the Opposition is rather getting the better of the ratings ' war .
5 ‘ Modern research is increasingly demonstrating the close dependence of soils and landforms , and a new discipline ‘ soil geomorphology ’ or pedogeomorphology as proposed by Conacher and Dalrymple ( 1977 ) seems to be emerging , incorporating traditional approaches to soils as well as modern soil engineering . ’
6 Sage is currently re-vamping the online help system to make it context sensitive , and I 'm hoping that they 'll also look at idiot proofing and the application of the Windows interface .
7 The second section of this study is thus to review the possible relations between Islam and the bureaucratic state .
8 The Magnus effect is more pronounced the faster the cylinder rotates .
9 More problems at gigs for THE HOTHOUSE FLOWERS who , as their album is currently hogging the Australian Number One spot , are encountering Corks-Around-Hats mayhem Down Under .
10 If the capacitor is completely discharged the initial current is so a high resistance reduces the charging current .
11 ( The rate of return on an additional investment is sometimes called the marginal efficiency of investment or MEI . )
12 This term is sometimes called the external energy .
13 Thirdly , discounting removes interest rate risk — the discount rate is fixed whereas the alternative is usually to fund the post-shipment credit period from overdraft linked to variable Base Rate .
14 To build a theory of ‘ lawyers as controllers ’ on an examination of their minority work with working class clients is therefore to miss the central point about what lawyers do , and it is this central point which should give them their place in a theory of the social formation .
15 In fact , the equation is more challenging the other way round : Pound thinks Joyce a Phenomenon deserving equal attention with Mussolini — a temperate judgement that the years may be thought to have vindicated .
16 The village is also to enter the Tidy Britain and Britain in Bloom contests .
17 Sand is gradually covering the inert machines . ’
18 Set against the British Rail 's as yet unapproved plans for a single specially constructed high speed line between the Channel Tunnel and London look rather modest although work is underway to electrify the three main trunk routes between London and Glasgow to take trains at up to 225kph .
19 Further work is underway to map the human gene in detail but preliminary results support the localisation to human chromosome 11 .
20 David Chandler is now accusing the British Foreign office of not doing enough to secure his brother in law 's release .
21 Since IBM is also downsizing the basic building block for its MVS mainframes with a view to moving to a moderately parallel mainframe architecture , it seems likely that the planned processor-Taligent combination would also succeed the CMOS ES/9000 chip that the company plans to make the basis of its future parallel mainframes over the next couple of years .
22 Since IBM is also downsizing the basic building block for its MVS mainframes with a view to moving to a moderately parallel mainframe architecture , it seems likely that the planned processor-Taligent combination would also succeed the CMOS ES/9000 chip that the company plans to make the basis of its future parallel mainframes over the next couple of years .
23 Stephen Lacey is currently writing the new edition of Gardens of the National Trust which will be published in 1992 .
24 Foucault is therefore making the subtle and perceptive point that contemporary societies are largely characterised by self-policing and introspective control of feelings rather than the explicit display and use of force and authority .
25 The effect of median smoothing is usually to exchange the jagged peaks for flat lines .
26 ‘ Ethical ’ is to be preferred to ‘ moral ’ because to speak of ‘ moral positivism ’ implies that the role of law is simply to apply the moral rules of society , whereas the theory is that law deals with conflict in a way which at least in part transcends the moral disagreements endemic in societies of men or of nations .
27 In such a habitat is also found the great water dock , food plant of the reserve 's most notable butterfly , the large copper .
28 Millwall is now to join the junior Unlisted Securities Market while Tottenham has a full quotation .
29 For us the key piece of this period is the François vase ( detail , fig. 47 ) , found in an Etruscan tomb at Chiusi ; Athens is now capturing the western market from Corinth .
30 His former personal secretary , Karol Murin , has returned to Bratislava and along with many other Canadian emigres is actively promoting the separatist cause .
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