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1 Miller and Dollard make only brief mention of the idea ( on which James concentrates ) of acquired distinctiveness ; but Miller ( 1948 ) explicitly acknowledges both possibilities , expressing them in terms of S-R theory .
2 The attacks which took place in Belgium and The Netherlands involve still more organisations .
3 The Delta 170.3 retains the familiar operating features — 20-track programming , full remote control , track time , elapsed time , total disc time and cumulative time displays etc. — but offers a potentially higher performance by the use of a new digital output board which reduces jitter by a factor of three compared with its predecessor ( Arcam make still greater claims in this respect over many standard CD players ) .
4 But , despite hir misgivings , Zambia could feel hir attachment to Tammuz grow more profound with each hour .
5 Results from its international drinks business IDV provide rather more cheer , with profits up 12% to £509m , while its retailing division had a mixed performance .
6 • Ropeable Lotus dealers in the US were after Lotus boss Michael Kimberley 's blood after the Lotus-badged Bertone Emotion made its debut at the Detroit show earlier this year .
7 Friday night worship — too long , Saturday worship too complicated
8 The show is honoured here because skiffle , the Lady Chatterley trial , Kennedy 's election and Cassius Clay seem rather brash and silly by comparison .
9 Policies emerging from the Kremlin look increasingly desperate .
10 Then again , the chances of anyone travelling all the way from Japan and even managing to find Milton Keynes seem pretty slim .
11 In addition , Egypt and Syria seem most uncertain partners because of their own internal political problems .
12 It pointed out that a prolonged period of profits growth at ISC had ended because of insistence by the auditors that ISC adopt more conservative accounting policies on long term contracts .
13 Later , in a treatise written in the eighteenth century , Mémoire sur la manière de cultiver la vigne et de faire le vin en Champagne ( written , it is believed , by Jean Godinot c. 1718 ) , it is stated that the Champenois had begun to study how to produce a ‘ grey … almost white wine ’ some fifty years before , that is to say approximately 1668 .
14 Ireland will get 10 per cent , or £250 million and Greece and Portugal get double that .
15 Ireland will get 10 per cent , or £250 million and Greece get and Portugal get double that .
16 Several workshop groups in Persia , Anatolia , India and Pakistan produce extremely intricate and naturalistic interpretations of this scheme , and more stylized , geometric versions are found on a number of village and nomadic items from Persian , Anatolia and Afghanistan .
17 The association of HLA-B53 with malaria resistance and the observation that HLA-B53-restricted CTL recognize only LSA-1 of several major pre-erythrocytic antigens from P. falciparum , constitute a genetic approach to implicating this antigen in providing protective immunity to malaria , and encourage further assessment of LSA-1 as a component of future subunit vaccines .
18 The Little Tramp is born as Downey and Rhys strike fearsomely tough deals .
19 Small wonder so little value has been obtained , despite the substantial increase in resources .
20 The uplands in the south , west and east of the Auvergne have very extensive upland grasslands including species-rich montane grasslands and floristically rich pastures and hay meadows .
21 Mr Major appeared to be paving the way yesterday when he said : ‘ Many people in the United States have long historic connections with Ireland .
22 Olympus have over twenty-five years ' experience in the design , development and manufacture of clinical chemistry analysers. 1990 heralds two major changes in the European marketing of these products .
23 Spain and Portugal have legally binding rules , and Belgium and Luxembourg follow decisions issued by their competent authorities .
24 Apart from the UK , which has begun to deregulate the airline industry , all continental airlines pay workers substantially more than in the United States , even though countries like Spain and Portugal have much lower living standards in general .
25 North Wales trust and Monmouthshire have now all been amalgamated into one and we 're working through the implications of that .
26 The regulators in Brussels have only one interest : raising standards .
27 Both TI and NCM have comparatively low capitalisations but , with their reinsurance treaties , their financial resources are sufficient for their current underwriting obligations .
28 That is why the figures for nurses leaving the NHS remain so bad .
29 In response to Labour questioning , Mr MacGregor said : ‘ Without any question I am keen to ensure that both from the passenger and freight point of view the north of England and Scotland gain as much benefit as possible from the Channel Tunnel and the Channel Tunnel high-speed link . ’
30 And the anomalies of a divided Ireland remain as absurd as ever : both bits can be almost equally foreign to the casual English visitor , are often equally hostile to Westminster , and have long been equally illiberal on moral issues like abortion and homosexuality .
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