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1 SWINGEING UK premium hikes were one of the major reasons for a dramatic profits turnround by insurance giant Commercial Union in the third quarter of 1992 .
2 Building Societies also provide a broader range of services and have moved into areas traditionally viewed as the province of the banks , more so after the recent ‘ liberalisation ’ of their activities through the Financial Services Act ( 1987 ) .
3 ERC discussed the plans for the external relations/Women Chemists joint symposium , A question of food , to be held during the annual congress in Manchester .
4 The inducements for the Victorian police officer to use that strategy were not that different from those of night-beat patrolling between the wars .
5 It is also looking for partnerships with telecommunications operators through a new WorldPartners Association .
6 Developed by Talgarth Estates for the Swedish firms Ake Larson and Enator , the Erskine building will rise , like a submarine breaking the ocean surface , alongside the Hammersmith flyover and London Underground 's Piccadilly and District lines .
7 In addition , the LEA was beginning to establish its own network of evening institutes at secondary schools and J. K. Revans , the Assistant Director for Education , wished to learn how the proposals for the rural areas scheme were to operate in the county .
8 With the relevant data , values for the conjectural variations parameters , and , can be retrieved from ( 15 ) and ( 16 ) .
9 ‘ I am only sorry that my requests for the Public Accounts Committee to investigate royal travel costs as well as the cost of the royal palaces was not agreed to . ’
10 However one particular champion of the potato was Antoine-Augustin Parmentier a French chemist who was captured by the Germans during the Seven Years War and survived largely on a diet of potatoes .
11 Commenting on some much-improved figures ( see page seven ) , Borland International Inc says that the results reflect the introduction during the quarter of Paradox for Windows and dBase IV version 2.0 : ‘ With the release of Paradox for Windows , and sales of our award-winning Quattro Pro for Windows spreadsheet and Borland C++ programming language , sales of Borland products for the growing Windows marketplace accounted for more than half of fourth quarter revenues . ’
12 It has just announced special tools which will allow developers to write products for the unlaunched Windows NT which can run immediately on the new Windows 3.1 .
13 The instability of the horizons in these solutions can easily be demonstrated in that they require very specific forms for the initial functions f(u) and g(v) .
14 Offiah played only 54 minutes for the Eastern Suburbs club before suffering the injury in his debut match two weeks ago .
15 Offiah played only 54 minutes for the Eastern Suburbs club before suffering the injury in his debut match two weeks ago .
16 Offiah played only 54 minutes for the Eastern Suburbs club before suffering the injury in his debut match two weeks ago .
17 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 .
18 Two defendants were lorry drivers for a soft drinks company .
19 Other important measures included ( i ) tax relief for a range of environmental measures ( such as those to combat land degradation ) ; ( ii ) increased tax relief for small businesses and oil exploration ; ( iii ) allocation of additional funds for industrial restructuring ; and ( iv ) increased funds for the Australian Securities Commission , a new body set up to regulate the corporate sector .
20 Roycroft also claims — and many in the health authority agree with him — that relationships between the social services department and the health authority , both managerially and professionally , have long been good and have helped underpin a high level of community care .
21 The strategies and tactics of the public relations service are always sharply focused and aligned to the marketing objectives when brand public relations work is done .
22 The supply vessel Highland Star sustained only minor damage when it collided with one of the legs of the Ula quarters platform on August 30 .
23 This may be a consequence of the precedents of the Disabled Persons Act 1986 which is acknowledged within the NHS and Community Care Act .
24 Radicals hurled petrol bombs at several banks , set alight two offices of the Socialist Workers Party ( PSOE ) in Eibar and Lezo and ransacked the headquarters of a moderate Basque nationalist party .
25 Option 6 allows the librarian to have overdue reminders printed out by the microcomputer and in terms of time saved , this is one of the attractions of a computerized loans system .
26 Although the former heads of the two securities houses added little to their previous statements , Tabuchi admitted on Aug. 29 that Nomura 's links with Japan 's organized crime syndicates , which had been revealed in July [ see p. 38342 ] , were currently under investigation and might prove to have been more extensive than had been initially suggested .
27 Those which are datable , the stalagmites and burnt flints , have low concentrations of the radioactive elements uranium , thorium and potassium , as does the limestone which is also found within the deposits .
28 Partly this was because many of the enthusiastic supporters of the rational expectations hypothesis also tended to subscribe to the market clearing paradigm .
29 The subjects of the great centenaries lectures are , unsurprisingly , as diverse as human achievement , but in at least one respect they can , by and large , be spoken of together with widespread , if not indeed universal , recognition of their greatness .
30 Families were major beneficiaries of the single payments system , which provided one-off payments as a matter of entitlement to claimants who qualified for help .
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