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1 IBM Corp duly announced a whole string of speech recognition products , ranging from basic personal computer applications to leading-edge speech technology , developed at the Thomas J Watson Research Center .
2 Intel Corp duly launched a new copyright infringement case against Advanced Micro Devices Inc over the latter 's just-announced Am486 parts that include Intel microcode .
3 The long-term asymptotic rise eventually adds a further increase of 2.1x10 -6 Hz to the rotation rate .
4 At first resisted by conservatives who feared its materialistic implications , evolutionism eventually became a central theme of late nineteenth-century thought , the foundation for a unified philosophy of biological and social progress .
5 The rising thereby received a new impetus — and , once begun , aid from Italy and Germany continued to arrive .
6 From her first class in Morden nine members went on to train as teachers , with Jean Parmiter eventually becoming a Senior Trainer .
7 Susan had come up to them , and stood still in horror at the sight of her sister apparently embracing a total stranger .
8 In a public or university library which does not have subject specialists on its staff — or even in those that do — this places an intolerably heavy burden of responsibility on the individual 's judgement , and it is unlikely that any one person called upon to make weeding decisions over a spectrum of subject fields will on the basis of judgement alone achieve a consistent rate of ‘ correct ’ decision making .
9 For example , the private sector at present only provides a limited range of services and therefore no one would be able to opt out entirely from the NHS .
10 The water treatment polymers will open up new markets for FMC , which at present only has a small business in this field based on commodity chemicals .
11 The 1947 variety merely boasted a modest Lion Rampant and was superseded by the classical Jean Cocteau motif in 1961 .
12 Pamela only had a few friends ( 1 year ) .
13 Profits are well up , cost reduction obviously played a major part in this and the F T group is er , fifty five percent up on last year and this is against the background of a five percent drop in advertisement volume and we have an eleven percent drop in advertisement volume from the continent of Europe erm , which of course does n't affect other national newspapers .
14 In section 8.2 it was pointed out how for a simple single-section L-R or C-R filter comprising just one reactive component only reaches a maximum rate of fall-off outside the pass band of 20 dB per decade of frequency compared with an infinite rate of fall-off for an ideal filter .
15 Attendance at the careers convention once each year is not enough and will in any case only reach a small proportion of the school children who may be contemplating their future .
16 WEST HAM have paid £225,000 for Partizan Belgrade central defender Budimir Vujacic after the central defender successfully completed a ten-day trial at Upton Park .
17 The Civil Service Department eventually lost a running battle with the Treasury and was disbanded in 1981 , with some of its functions returning to the Treasury .
18 The director also seems to be trying to satirise the fashionable filmmaking of the day by having Cleavon Little play a French-speaking director with a hand-held camera .
19 His breathing had become rather quick and heavy , and the car suddenly swerved a few feet , as if he was no longer paying any attention to the road ahead .
20 I could get a few Copt bankers to club together to find a sufficient sum .
21 In the present study distention of the oesophagus alone caused a significant increase of 12 mm Hg , and concurrent acidification had not added effect .
22 In Fox 's case , practice obviously goes a long way to making perfect .
23 For example , almost all sources of silver naturally contain a little gold , and ancient silver artefacts typically have gold contents in the range of 0.1 to 1.0 per cent .
24 Had labour suddenly become a local authority , or did the S S A simply fail as an accurate way of assessing our spending needs ?
25 The coin belongs to the Persian period , bears the inscription " Judaea " ( YHD ) , and shows a figure on a winged throne or on a chariot : this figure apparently confronts a Dionysiac mask ( B. Kanael , The Biblical Archaeologist 26 ( 1963 ) , 40 and fig. 2 ) .
26 But the attempt to assure us that directors are controlled by their shareholders must fail , for no matter how far the law goes in strengthening the powers conferred upon shareholders to monitor the managers of their company the reality is that where each shareholder only holds a tiny proportion of the share capital of the company none of the shareholders will avail themselves of the powers given to them to monitor the management .
27 The young Yorkshireman apparently has a good temperament and a complete all-round game .
28 The study merely shows a positive relationship between market share and ROI and this is not necessarily a causal connection .
29 That photographic plates stored away uninspected at the end of an experiment only acquire a definite image when someone opens the drawer to have a look at them ?
30 That farewell to the coaches was going to be ‘ Hello ’ until a few minutes ago when the British Olympic Association suddenly cancelled a meet-the-press day .
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