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1 In factories and workshops , advances in machine technology had deskilled numerous working-class jobs , thus making it possible for employers to replace skilled men with successive relays of unskilled boys , and at lower wages .
2 ‘ It has accelerated progress in changing out-dated organisational attitudes and has reinforced the need for employers to treat equal opportunities as a mainstream business issue , ’ says Lady Howe .
3 A joint money laundering steering group was convened to revise UK money laundering guidance notes for the financial sector and examine how a new statutory requirement for employers to train relevant staff in recognising and reporting suspect transactions will be met .
4 In the past Linfield have declined to take a case to the independent tribunal for they felt it was more appropriate for clubs to settle any dispute between themselves .
5 ’ She lay on her bed for hours leading righteous riots of millhands against languid tophatted fops or hardfaced bowlerhatted men of iron and steel .
6 For example , Lloyd 's Register surveyors invariably decline to be nominated as experts to determine technical disputes during construction , for this very reason ; and the parties usually refer disputes to arbitration rather than expert determination .
7 This practice involves fund managers switching securities between accounts to shield favoured clients from losses to the detriment of others .
8 THERE seems little doubt that for projects involving large distances between villages and existing mains — the current allowance structure must be reviewed if we are to achieve a high penetration into these outlying areas in the future .
9 This suggests a possible molecular basis for the association of HLA-B53 with resistance to severe malaria , and identify LSA-1 as an important antigen for attempts to induce CTL-mediated immunity to this infectious disease .
10 A study of this kind has relevance for attempts to provide new forms of living environments for other client groups .
11 It is estimated that there are 7,000 inmates in Britain 's prisons requiring specific help for mental disorder , and while it is possible for prisoners to receive psychiatric treatment from visiting consultants while in prison , facilities on the whole are poor and the environment is far from conducive to improving a person 's mental state .
12 It is common for solicitors to build cordial relationships with estate agents , building societies and even with the custody officer at the police station , in order to secure referrals .
13 She will be expanding her world travel experience and in between times has many interests in and around Glasgow .
14 As we said earlier , the Health Secretary Virginia Bottomley faced demonstrators angry about plans to close another hospital in the region .
15 One highly visible example of this work is ‘ AEA in Orthopaedics ’ , the point of contact for clients to gain easy access to our comprehensive range of services relating to the design , testing and manufacture of orthopaedic implants , which already has contracts with the Department of Health and all major orthopaedic implant manufacturers .
16 Engineers should take the initiative and look for opportunities to encourage greater awareness of risk issues within their organisation .
17 The programme designed for schools to examine all aspects of the overt and covert curriculum begins with reflection on Catholic school philosophy and goals .
18 Compact should make it easier for schools to find industrial advisers for Mini-Enterprise and to increase the range of activities undertaken .
19 A further unforeseen difficulty for schools doing any kind of agricultural work has been the widespread drought of the mid-1980s , which is still affecting some parts of the country .
20 Nevertheless , the view that the arts can , and should , be assessed is one that has begun to receive widespread support , with the authors of the Gulbenkian Report stating quite unequivocally the need for schools to provide basic information to parents and employers about :
21 So it 's very very easy in that context for adults to exploit children 's compliance and er it 's easy for kids to be able to not refuse adults ' advances and I suppose that 's why there 's this business about erm y'know it 's it 's not possible for kids to give informed consent to sex .
22 These cases about valuers bear some analogy with cases on domestic tribunals , except of course that there need not be a hearing .
23 The exceptions are sufficiently rare to be worth a study on their own ; it was quite a challenge for designers to make effective use of a relatively small circular area with a hole in the middle .
24 The recall instructions were specifically designed to make it difficult for subjects to use previous knowledge in the task and attempts were made to prevent them from mentally retracing the route , a strategy which several of them would otherwise have adopted .
25 The second is a tendency for subjects to recall central details of risky situations at the expense of peripheral details .
26 In complex market economies , where the decision to produce and the decision to consume are taken by different people at different points in time , it is important for manufacturers to have some idea of the likely demand for products .
27 Harriet and I as teenagers bashing each other into the lavender bushes .
28 The criteria for deciding whether the banks would support an application for funds led many banks to the conclusion that , if a case warranted support , the government 's guarantee was superfluous , as a good business proposition was worth considering anyway — some have effectively withdrawn from the scheme .
29 President Bush has announced a new policy for the nation 's wetlands which calls for steps to increase federal ownership of wetlands , increase expand satellite monitoring to identify them , and extend research on and increase protection of their ecosystems .
30 This was also the last opportunity for candidates to press late claims for a place in the third Test at Wigan on Saturday .
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