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1 Mr Wigley said the company 's banking facilties are sufficient to support activities for the forseeable future while it strives to reduce debt further until rental and retail income covers interest costs and overheads .
2 It has refused to support proposals for a new draft directive , which would specify that waste be treated as any other commodity , and thereby allowed unrestricted movement .
3 wants to see plans for the modified programme in early June , and a first draft is expected by mid-May .
4 To ask the Secretary of State for Energy what he is doing to promote opportunities for the British oil industry in winning orders and contracts overseas .
5 However large or small your business operation , whether you manufacture goods or provide a service , there may be times when you need to borrow funds for the day-to-day financing of your working capital or to tide you over an unexpected cash flow problem .
6 Before the Garden invests further in computer equipment , cabling , and other IT equipment , the Computer Management Group is to advise Management on our existing IT situation , and to provide plans for the logical development of computing and other IT facilities .
7 As it turned out , the time zone advantage was insufficient to compensate traders for the higher cost of doing business in LIFFE 's less liquid markets , so the bulk of the global business has thus remained in the USA .
8 Yet a number of head teachers believe that reluctance on the part of some LEAs at present to prosecute parents for the poor school attendance of their children is contributing significantly to high levels of truancy .
9 Paratroopers ( from the left ) Alex Poole , Eric Sekwalor , John Sowerby and Sean Ollsson came third in the four-man push competition organised by the British Bobsleigh Association to find crews for the new season .
10 It was not always easy for a private householder to find buyers for a large number of packets of soap !
11 MCI Communications Corp reports that the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago awarded it a 10-year multi-million dollar contract to provide circuits for the new FedNet communications system will combine the networks of 12 Federal Reserve district banks and three new centres into one network ; FedNet will offer the banks high speed data services and is responsible for circuit installation and maintenance .
12 By failing to provide stories for a significant proportion of the population , are they not digging themselves a grave ?
13 He approved of Clarkson 's travels to secure witnesses for the Privy Council hearings but not as a focus for popular agitation .
14 Mr Browne told The Scotsman last night that the ending of PRT on new fields could help in efforts to establish prospects for a commercial development in the area .
15 Asking the children to write advertisements for a new teacher provides valuable insights into children 's values : kind , not too strict , gives interesting lessons , does n't shout , all seem to appear frequently in children 's specifications .
16 He has consistently refused calls to military service because his religious beliefs forbid him to bear arms for a secular power or swear on oath of military allegiance .
17 Direct trade with Africa was comparatively small , although the export of trade goods and guns to secure slaves for the New World plantations expanded rapidly after 1780 .
18 ’ Can pay , wo n't pay ’ is shorthand : written out in full , their credo was , ’ We have the money to make our proper contribution to the cost of essential local services , but , because we wish to indulge in political point-scoring , we will withhold that contribution — knowing full well that by doing so we will force local authorities either to increase charges for the great majority of law-abiding citizens , or to cut services . ’
19 Assuming a 10 per cent escalation a year in school fees , if you wanted to provide fees for a new-born infant in thirteen years ’ time , you would have to invest £200 a month in a Personal Equity Plan ( PEP ) .
20 SOARING sales mean workers at car giant Rover are being asked to work Sundays for the first time in living memory .
21 The directive requires member states to establish systems for the national regulation of releases .
22 Section 17(1) imposes a general welfare duty on local authorities and obliges them to provide services for a particular group of children identified as children in need .
23 CCG will continue to provide services for the first year of operation and hopefully into the future .
24 amendment which I hope will financial control which is that the of financial services shall have no discretion to accept claims for the financial year ninety-three ninety-four , submitted after the thirtieth of June nineteen-ninety- four , that effectively means that that two month rule which he does have discretion on he will not have in the case of late claims in this financial year , that means we 'll know exactly what the figures are , by the thirtieth of June .
25 Try to obtain recommendations for a good kennel in your area , either from breeders or possibly your vet .
26 Even the propaganda of the London Labour and Socialist movement , said the provincials , served to provide votes for the Liberal Party machine for the simple reason that London Labour had no organisation that could reap the result of its own propaganda .
27 Large-scale sporting events , such as the Winter Olympics , can also bring about environmental change which is not just a consequence of the sporting events themselves but is also due to the infrastructure necessary to provide facilities for a large number of competitors and spectators .
28 Loughborough University of Technology Library was eventually awarded a grant of £23,600 for three years to provide facilities for the British Library Information Officer for User Education to operate a clearinghouse for user education in the UK .
29 When Hitler took over the rump of Czechoslovakia in March 1939 , Chamberlain was finally persuaded to adopt a stance of resistance to further German expansion , and to open negotiations for a Russian alliance .
30 She believed women should have a sensible working wardrobe and , abhorring idleness , wanted to sell clothes for the working woman .
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