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1 Surprisingly , perhaps , to advocates of ‘ free ’ markets , this does not result in a lack of dynamism or a neglect of issues of co-ordination and control at the strategic apexes of industry in Japan .
2 Children have to learn that it is easier to start at one end of a line of objects and finish at the other .
3 In a daze of fear and dread at the vast sky that hung above him Creggan looked around at the Cages .
4 But it met a lump of grief and anger at the back of her throat and came out more like a sob .
5 On May 7 details were published of the report of a judicial inquiry into massive levels of fraud and waste at the Department of Development Aid between 1984 and 1989 .
6 As a fellow Chairman of these Tribunals I find myself in general agreement with him , although is until some way is found to eliminate obviously frivolous appeals from the Local Appeal Tribunal 's decisions I doubt the practicality of having appeals to a Tribunal of Commissioners and blanch at the thought of their Lordships of the Court of Session 's comments if asked to deal with some of the material placed before a single Commissioner at present .
7 The multi-national corporations , the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund are prolonging the process still today , and individuals have to , I believe , look at their own patterns of consumption and look at the way society in general works and work towards reducing levels of consumption in the rich countries so that we are more able to help the poor countries help themselves .
8 PATIENTS at top-security Ashworth hospital have suffered a devastating decade of brutality and torture at the hands of sadistic staff , a report reveals today .
9 In1984 he became secretary to the Museum Advisory Board for Scotland , then worked with Robert Anderson , now director of the British Museum , at the National Museums of Scotland before before being put in charge of Museums and Finance at the Office of Arts and Libraries .
10 Following the audition held last April the new National Display Team has been formed to represent the Society at the CCPR 50th Anniversary Festival of Movement and Dance at the Royal Albert Hall 20th April 1985 .
11 These were : dégorgement ( the act of removing sediment from the bottle after the second fermentation ) and liqueur de tirage ( the addition of sugar and yeast at the time of bottling to promote and guarantee a second fermentation ) .
12 A shadow fundholding exercise was agreed that would be independently evaluated to assess the effects on the care of patients and look at the administration structures , consulting patterns , and use of doctors ' time .
13 Therapy was aimed at helping the parents establish a more balanced and satisfactory relationship , learning to negotiate rather than lapse into their habitual pattern of attack and withdraw at the same time as providing a reward programme for Luke just to sit on the lavatory .
14 General relativity predicts that heavy objects that are moving will cause the emission of gravitational waves , ripples in the curvature of space that travel at the speed of light .
15 Apart from the SADF 's electioneering , South Africa and its puppets have at their disposal most of the media in Namibia , vast resources to mount their election campaign and a standing army in the form of SWATF and Koevoet at the ready if things do n't go their way — which is to stop SWAPO gaining two-thirds of the vote for the Constituent Assembly .
16 Rationing was still in force , but the mood in the country was one of jubilation and hope at the start of the second Elizabethan age .
17 17 Throughout our work we were acutely aware of the differing opinions that are held on a number of issues that lie at the heart of the English curriculum and its teaching .
18 She handed him a Lyle 's Price Guide , open at the right page : ‘ It 's three years out of date but look at the prices . ’
19 Here we encounter a mystery that is common to all aspects of any discussion of energy or matter at the quantum level .
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