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1 What they definitely do indicate are the extremes of weight problems ; where your weight falls higher than the amount given under the large-frame weight for your height , or lower than that given for the small-frame weight for your height , then you have problems .
2 That goes for the well-meaning GPs , health visitors and breastfeeding counsellors as well as the woman down the road who fed four babies herself until they were two years old !
3 She wrote to me saying that in this place she found it possible to forgive for the first time and then return home to seek reconciliation .
4 The Programme will be the same as that organised for the 9th Jan .
5 What this illustrates is that , notwithstanding the progress made in the past two years , the reforms in themselves have done little to compensate for the long term underfunding of the NHS .
6 Phosphorus accumulation reached a maximum during the deposition of unit VI ( Table 1a ) when the per capita output of 0.31–0.54kgyr -1 was similar to that reported for the Classic Maya .
7 ‘ Does all this account for the proposed development at the pottery ? ’
8 His own depression was compounded now with this global malaise , a process he found paradoxically satisfying ; it was acceptable to weep for the dusky seaside sparrow , but not for oneself .
9 Nevertheless , supply-side doctrine provided a theoretical underpinning for the main thrust of his economic strategy .
10 Men are in voluntarily unemployed if , in the event of a small rise in the price of wage-goods relatively to the money-wage , both the aggregate supply of labour willing to work for the current money-wage and the aggregate demand for it at that wage would be greater than the existing volume of employment .
11 Oh and yes … a chap from Conservative Central Office rang up to say they 'd like to know if you would be prepared to stand for the European Parliament .
12 When called to go to the gentiles , he was able to manage the change of understanding that this involved for the whole group .
13 did before or after the events we are told of in the tales , and this holds for the great majority of the fabliaux .
14 The data from Study 2 for the 60 films was compared with the new ratings to see whether this holds for the full set of 60 films .
15 This allows for the careful construction and editing of search statements and profiles , before block transmission at optimum speed to the host computer .
16 This instigated for the first time the right of appellation in the form of the Appellation d'Origine Controlée ( AOC ) and regulations were imposed including a cunning proviso which dumped the entire issue of the Aube wines and the controversial ‘ Champagne Deuxième Zone ’ firmly in the lap of the judiciary .
17 Was this did this occur for the whole hosiery industry not just
18 President Ramiz Alia of Albania on Sept. 2 called for the substantial body of ethnic Albanians in Yugoslavia to be represented at the peace conference .
19 10.30 : Prepared to leave for the junior school .
20 There were those who admired Lewis 's moral courage in being thus prepared to testify for the Christian faith , but not everyone found the spectacle altogether edifying .
21 What does all this imply for the feminist struggle around housing ?
22 She 'd never retire ; but she could fix up the house , put in some extra loos and bathrooms , have the kitchen completely refitted — get her business on a sound footing for the first time in her life .
23 More simply , this striving for the clear assertion of ‘ fundamentals ’ is an age-old and pandemic aspect of humanity : the striving for certainty and predictability .
24 The quality of consular services was improved in a number of cases , notably in Britain where a departmental committee of 1903 introduced for the first time recruitment of consuls by limited competition ( instead of as hitherto purely by nomination of the secretary of state for foreign affairs ) and a rationalised salary structure .
25 What relevance does this have for the social scientist ?
26 In this time it became clear that the military and state security forces were not all solidly behind the coup , especially in the face of popular resistance , with Russian Federation ( RSFSR ) President Boris Yeltsin setting himself at the head of protesters apparently willing to fight for the new freedoms brought about by the reforms of perestroika .
27 Aristide left for exile by air late on Sept. 30 bound for the Venezuelan capital of Caracas .
28 This accounts for the small size of the Taos microkernel , which provides memory and process management , load balancing and precious little else .
29 This accounts for the small size of the Taos microkernel , which provides memory and process management , load balancing and precious little else .
30 Probably this accounts for the greater part of the increase in sede vacante presentations made by the king , but he and his clerks pushed their claims to the limit .
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