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1 At the close of the 1990–91 season 's business , Phil Barber was Palace 's longest-serving current player and had joined the select troupe of men to have played over 250 games for The Eagles some fourteen months previously , so that is fair to say that there has seldom been a more popular fellow to wear the Palace colours .
2 Between the bars wary golden eyes stared out .
3 What was it about the stocks various licensed dealers traded in that seduced clients ?
4 Through the ages these western seaways have been used as a highway by settlers and saints , pilgrims and pirates and traders and travellers .
5 Here I encountered some of the problems indefatigable Indian breeders deal with .
6 In a recent ACCOUNTANCY survey of the financial directors of The Times Top 100 Companies , over 70% of the respondents were found to be trading electronically .
7 ‘ So we have developed Travel Management Services , which is used by 70 per cent of the Times top 100 companies , ’ John Petersen says .
8 In a survey carried out at the end of October of a sample of 100 of The Times top 1000 companies , it found that 61 per cent of companies were experiencing worse bad debt problems .
9 It will audit 175 out of The Times top 1,000 companies and 67 out of The Times top 500 financial companies .
10 Serious cruising yachtsmen might consider hedging their bets by using a hybrid system as used on many of the trans oceanic racing yachts .
11 People are rational , so rational in fact that they can not understand the random nature of the decisions such senior executives make .
12 This did not take on , but from the time of the Pioneers some red-figure artists sometimes draw in outline on a white slip , most often on the interior of a cup where there was not the problem of the receding surface .
13 To this day Devon Loch 's collapse remains one of the Turfs greatest unsolved mysteries .
14 The big question is how the interests of the lines many long-distance commuters , travelling to London from towns like Swindon and Didcot will be protected .
15 Being apart all week means you 're doing none of the things young married couples normally do — building up a joint lifestyle , going out , having friends around and generally enjoying yourselves together .
16 Now they tired to enlist the CIA Kermit ( Kinm ) Roosevelt , grandson of Theodore , veteran of the OSS and the head of the Agencies Middle Eastern operations , was invited to London to discuss the British plan .
17 The Collegium of the CIS Joint Armed Forces Command decided on April 4 to ban military units and command bodies from participating in any commercial structures and from selling military property and ordnance through military organizations .
18 The strategic forces on RF territory were part of the CIS joint armed forces .
19 A second group of issues , on which a protocol was signed , concerned collective security , including missile early warning systems , space control , anti-aircraft defence , a collective security council , the composition of CIS strategic forces , leadership of the CIS joint armed forces and the protection of state borders .
20 An ITAR-TASS news agency report on Aug. 31 stated that the High Command of the CIS joint armed forces would take up its duties as of Sept. 1 " for the period of transition " , as agreed at the July summit .
21 After the removal of the tumours all these patients had been followed up by gastroscopies every six to 12 months .
22 To the surprise of the police all eight panels from Weimar were recovered , together with eleven paintings stolen from a private home near Stadthagen .
23 Why not try one of the worlds greatest fun games .
24 At the edge of the marshes four tall trees stretched up to the heavens .
25 In some of the wrecks other young women were sitting : Miranda only saw then one naked girl in dark glasses leaning back on the banquette-style front seat of a big old Rover , thin white legs in heels just touching the cinder-strewn wasteground .
26 As Forbes Magazine testified they include most of the Fortune 500 U.S. companies , including MOBIL , GENERAL MOTORS , FORD , IBM , GENERAL ELECTRIC , ARCO , SHELL , ITT , PHILLIPS PETROLEUM , — 9 out of the nations 15 largest companies .
27 Would any ex-members of the Queens Royal Irish Hussars , 8th Kings Royal Irish Hussars , or 4th Queens Own Hussars , who are interested in forming a home counties branch of the regimental association , like to contact me at the address below ?
28 Depending upon the relative bargaining powers of the parties many commercial contracts either contain set-off clauses permitting set-off of cross claims between the parties , or clauses forbidding such set-off .
29 During some of the assessments 20 other variables may also be measured .
30 The one with the handbags all different colours ?
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