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1 Drexel successfully pioneered a mezzanine layer of financing between equity and bank debt for medium-sized American companies .
2 The CME and SIMEX also obtained the exclusive licence to trade Nikkei stock index futures contracts outside Japan , but while this has been fairly successful on SIMEX , it has been less so in Chicago ( 881,000 contracts on SIMEX as against 61000 on the CME in 1990 ) .
3 After staring around and grunting a lot , Spunk reflexively saved a drunken girl from being roughed up in a sidewalk fracas outside a singles ' bar .
4 Tess bravely made a little cross and put it at the head of the grave one evening , when she could enter the churchyard without being seen .
5 Ill-health does not appear to have been a long-lasting problem , for , with John Field , Moorcroft soon established a flourishing practice , eventually with stabling for 63 sick horses , in Oxford Street , and a further 20 stalls at a branch in Hammersmith .
6 Merrick also considered the absolute deviations from the no-arbitrage price , where is the futures price actually observed , and F t is the no-arbitrage futures price calculated from , but with continuous compounding .
7 Born into the challenging world of mid-19th century Britain , Punch soon displayed a robust originality .
8 The Foreign Languages at Work ( FLAW ) scheme also experienced a good year , with candidate numbers up by 38 per cent .
9 If you are using a multi-tasker try not run a large number of programs at the same .
10 The Tower of London was William 's first and most important care and in 1080 he built the stone keep now called the White Tower .
11 Albert , she had remarked — Rose had n't known Twitch even had a Christian name — is like pummy stone , whereas Naseby ( who had had a definite smirk on his face when he saw her new hat ) is like Irritating Plaster , he causes irruptions .
12 Robert Plant recently released a great solo album Jimmy Page released a rather disappointing album with David Coverversion That 's all I know .
13 Stress undoubtedly proved a major problem for social workers whose responsibility extended beyond investigation of child sexual abuse referral to a determination of child care outcomes .
14 Wade also rebuilt the existing barracks at Ruthven and Bernera , already described , and over the next ten years or so a total of more than 30 other forts to protect his new , Roman-style , network of roads .
15 Mark Pretty removed the offending hold , but it was left to Robin Barker to make the first free ascent of the Free Monster E6+ 6c ( F7c+ ) .
16 Waqar recently signed a three-year deal to stay at Surrey , estimated to be worth around £50,000 a year with bonuses .
17 They 've mostly enjoyed a high standard of living and voted conservative .
18 ‘ I 've never had any problem getting women into bed , it 's true , ’ he drawled , ‘ But I 've rarely felt a mutual attraction as intense as the one we share .
19 They , they 've suddenly had a few outbreaks of polio have n't they ?
20 Yeah it wo n't I mean , that wo n't stay on for an hour I mean I 've literally had a hot bath put the water on , you know , af it goes off at nine o'clock in the morning put that radiator , put that button on to reset the hot water for five minutes it 's bo boilers lit up ten minutes and then it 's gone off
21 Well not disappointed that they 'd picked up Marvin Cox because obviously they 're going to need a very strong side if they 're going to win anything so erm you know , with guys like Marvin around , then it 's got to be a good idea , you know , they 've obviously made a big jump there to grab someone they think 's going to make a difference .
22 Just to illustrate how important this thing is , you 've probably all come across and it really irritates me , you see people interviewing people on television and they 've got their clipboard there and they 've obviously got a prepared question so they ca n't falter and fine , that means they 've prepared it .
23 So you 've obviously dropped a few marks on that .
24 Our expert tasters , the million cuppa men — they 've all drunk a million cups of tea — go up the northbound carriageway and down the south and assess all on their qualities .
25 If you ask me , I reckon we 've all made a big change for the better .
26 We 've all heard a great deal about you ! ’
27 Then when you 've all found a good combination , you do it for a while , then you turn on the tape machine …
28 In recent years they 've all got the real ale kick and always have too many pumps , which means that the throughput is slow and four out of five beers go off before they 're half sold .
29 I 've only done the patterned bit . ’
30 ‘ We 've only seen a small part of the hospital wing , ’ Fairham observed .
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