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1 But its fame survived , and Solomon and his temple became for the Middle Ages symbols of divine kingship and royal ( and indeed heavenly ) opulence .
2 ‘ If they had been involved in the kind of ideas that led to this distinctive industrial policy of '73 –'74; they would have demanded as a quid pro quo for the successive incomes policies of 1975–6–7 the other side of the social contract , that these various aspects of industrial policy and worker participation in its various forms should be implemented ’ ( 1980 , p.7 ) .
3 Thus if the data satisfy the restrictions implied by equations ( 3.14 ) and ( 3.16 ) it can be taken as support for the rational expectations model of consumption : the observationally equivalent non-rational expectations model is ruled out on theoretical grounds .
4 It would add 60 plus heavy trucks to the traffic for the five years plus of the construction .
5 These included inner-city offices for the Small Firms Service of the Department of Trade and Industry ; grants for inner-city Local Enterprise Agencies ( see Chapter 8 ) ; higher loan guarantees for small business in the Task Force ( see Chapter 4 ) ; and investment of about £10 million in managed workshops by English Estates — a development agency of the Department of Trade and Industry .
6 In particular , the technical panels set up to consider workplans for the administrative networks component of telematics are currently in suspension , but the Commission has urged that replies to the questionnaires should still be sent in since these will be worked on and evaluated in the meantime .
7 In thanking the Prime Minister for his statement , may I first confirm our welcome for President Yeltsin 's visit to London and for the United Nations Heads of Government meeting ?
8 For the monastic reformers Odilo of Cluny and Richard of St Vanne were renowned for their consolidation of monastic demesnes , their determination to ensure that what had once been granted to their houses should remain their inalienable property .
9 Mr Li has made it plain that there will be no more special economic zones in the next ten years , and the praise in the communiqué for the Dengist reforms smacks of insincere ritual .
10 This was considered to be a scenario ideally suited for the soft systems element of the FAOR approach , and it was hoped that the exercise would not only reveal where the problems lay , but also produce a requirements specification to show how technology could provide solutions .
11 As for the human rights record of Saudi Arabia , Amnesty reports the detention of political prisoners for long periods without trial — eleven have been incarcerated since 1979 .
12 As for the human rights record of Saudi Arabia , Amnesty reports the detention of political prisoners for long periods without trial — eleven have been incarcerated since 1979 .
13 Details of joining fees for the respective sports sections of the club may be obtained from the Personnel Department .
14 I had taken a package tour to Moscow and Leningrad primarily for the White Nights Festival of the Arts in June — an annual event of Soviet cultural life when the sun hardly sets for a fortnight and old men sit in the public gardens for half the night playing speed-chess .
15 After the break I 'll be speaking to the Gloucester rugby player , Mike Teague , about his selection for the British Lions Tour of Australia .
16 The practice of underwriting before the reforms of October 1986 has been described as a method of compensation for the high transactions costs of fixed commissions for large institutional clients .
17 It would take at least a generation to find and train effective top management cadres for the English regions Reorganisation of the management of English government on this scale would cause a decade of chaos in local services . ’
18 Well we could try and do that my I 've got a workload that would choke a camel at the moment because I 'm also the admin officer at the moment for the Public Relations flight of the R A F E R.
19 First Lieutenant Jaroslav Oudran was sentenced on March 14 to 4 1/2 years ' imprisonment and stripped of his rank by a military court , having been convicted of using force in an " inadmissible " way during the violent police dispersal of a demonstration by students on Nov. 17 , 1989 , which had set in motion the events which led to the removal of the communist regime [ see p. 37026 ] .
20 During the two intervals presentations of those running the Sadler 's Wells Royal Ballet , and those generously supporting it , on both sides of the Atlantic , were made to her Royal Highness .
21 During the 1970s and 1980s , especially during the United Nations Decade of Women ( 1976–1985 ) , the international women 's movement made media producers , communication planners , and others aware of the need to think about women and the media in the context of development .
22 It was the victories won during the Seven Years War of 1756–63 much more than any intrinsic merits of the British constitution which forced a revision of disparaging estimates of this kind .
23 However , Paletz and his colleagues remain critical of the journalists ' over-reliance on official sources of information about the riot ( i.e. the mayor and chief of police ) which helped to frame the event as the successful police suppression of a naked spree of lawlessness .
24 International , or transnational , studies deal with those institutions and phenomena which cross national boundaries , such as the industrial relations aspects of multinational companies or the international labour movement .
25 And hundreds of steam fans who see diesels as the soulless railways ogre of the modern age certainly had the last chuckle at Holyhead .
26 The factual content of most education programmes defines basic human rights according to major contemporary statements such as the United Nations Bill of Human Rights .
27 As the Public Accounts Committee of the House of Commons had demonstrated , however , neither the Government nor the health authorities had accurate information on the exact numbers employed or any sensible means of controlling numbers .
28 A partner will pay a flat rate Class 2 contribution of £267.80 together with a Class 4 contribution of 6.3% of profits between the lower earnings limit of £5,900 and the upper earnings limit of £20,820 which gives a Class 4 contribution of £905.94 .
29 Still , there is a relationship between the public relations functions of distributing information and persuading people and the same functions at work in the media .
30 Laurie Mains was busily talking with John Dowling , a New Zealand Rugby Football Union councillor from Dunedin , about the public relations side of his new position as All Black coach when , all of a sudden , a smile moved over Mains ' face .
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