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1 To assist project teams , the Enterprise Centre repeated its successful workshop on project evaluation in March 1993 and issued written guidance on the preparation and structure of project reports .
2 Bush visited Japan on Jan. 7-10 and held several sessions of talks with the beleaguered Japanese Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa , when they agreed on a vaguely worded Tokyo Declaration which expressed the commitment of the two countries to work together in support of a new world order .
3 The assays were validated against high performance liquid chromatography ( HPLC ) for the LTB 4 assay and against gas chromatography and mass spectrometry ( GCMS ) for the TXB 2 and PGE 2 assay .
4 She withdrew Jeremy from the school in January 1986 and began legal proceedings , claiming breaches of the European Convention on Human Rights which safeguards against inhuman or degrading treatment and protects the ‘ right to respect for private and family life ’ .
5 She withdrew Jeremy from the school in January 1986 and launched legal proceedings , claiming breaches of the Human Rights Convention which safeguards against ‘ inhuman or degrading ’ treatment and protects ‘ the right to respect for private and family life ’ .
6 Phase 1 started in July 1980 and lasted 3 years , during which 2.5 million households were visited .
7 Police recovered it from a flat in Hong Kong on December 2 and arrested three men .
8 On the same day the PFKG partially lifted the curfew imposed on Aug. 2 and urged key workers to return to their jobs .
9 The jury retired on 11 February 1992 and took 16 hours to reach a verdict .
10 Philip C. Jessup , Truman 's ambassador at large , visited Seoul in January 1950 and held wide-ranging discussions coveting political , financial and strategic matters .
11 Dalton succeeded Silkin as Minister in February 1950 and initiated another method of organizing arrangements for overspill from the big cities , without quite the extravagant implications of new corporations which Silkin 's schemes had required .
12 A UN-chartered ship succeeded in docking in Mogadishu port on May 3 and unloading 5,000 tonnes of wheat — the first significant emergency food relief for almost six months .
13 Darlington-born Wealands joined his home-town club from Wolves in July 1970 and made 28 League appearances before being transferred to Hull in march 1972 .
14 During a televised national address on July 20 , Roh announced that his government would open the border at Panmunjom for five days from Aug. 13 and allow unrestricted crossings , although a government spokesman later suggested that the country 's leading dissidents would not be permitted to travel to the North .
15 Cavendish 's will was dated 5 July 1628 and proved six days later .
16 This party was formed by Brian Faulkner after the fall of the Executive in May 1974 and fought two seats in the UK elections of October .
17 Abrams did his best to be Mr Clean and avoid direct confrontation with his guttersnipe opponent but to no avail , and just weeks before polling day had been harried into calling D'Amato , a ‘ fascist ’ .
18 GREEN ON RED issue their China single , ‘ Little Things ’ , on March 11 and play three dates in London to tie in with its release .
19 After a public outcry Pérez met with editors on Feb. 10 and announced that censorship had been a mistake and would be lifted .
20 Powell and Cheney arrived in Saudi Arabia on Feb. 8 and held two days of talks with the allied military commander Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf and other senior military personnel .
21 However , he gained the confidence and personal friendship of Pope Pius IX and exercised considerable influence for the next twenty years .
22 As ministers grappled with a quadrupling of oil prices after OPEC 's deployment of the oil weapon in October 1974 and mounting industrial trouble at home , exhaustion and slipshod policy-making accumulated relentlessly , one problem compounding another .
23 The first phase of the village opened in October 1989 and contains thirteen workshop/retail units on the ground floor .
24 It runs Solaris 1.0 and offers full MS-DOS emulation , with single-key switching between the two .
25 Takeshita appeared before the budget committee on Nov. 26 and gave two hours of sworn testimony to the effect that he had not had any dealings with organized crime .
26 The auction was conducted by Harry Phillips , auctioneer of New Bond Street , in July and August 1859 and raised some £95,000 in eighteen days : four pictures were bought by the National Gallery , and others by collectors of the calibre of William Douglas , eleventh Duke of Hamilton , Walter Scott , fifth Duke of Buccleuch [ qq.v. ] , the fourth Marquess of Hertford , and Baron James de Rothschild .
27 These figures include the trading performance of electrical wire and cable distributors , Cables and Flexibles Ltd and Seacoast Electric Co Inc , from March to September 1992 — up until the time Maddox decided to sell them — and the Wakebourne Group from September to December 1992 .
28 There was a local Patels open and doing good business at the end of the street , and I stocked up on orange juice , a couple of meat pies and a packet of chocolate biscuits .
29 Suharto met Chinese Premier Li Peng on Nov. 15 and discussed bilateral relations and international issues .
30 Max Baucus , chairman of the Senate 's international trade subcommittee , talks of ending the Uruguay round and protecting national interests with bilateral agreements , farm subsidies and use of section 301 of America 's trade act to force other countries to open their markets by threatening to close America 's .
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