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1 NCR Corp yesterday announced enhancements to its Top Eed distributed transaction processing system .
2 On May 7 , the Squadron CO then took Sugar on a tour of European cities to check on the suitability of certain enemy airfields to accept Allied heavy aircraft .
3 On the boat , Johnson asked about ‘ the use of the dirk , with which he imagined the Highlanders cut their meat ’ , and was told they also had knives and forks , that the men tended to hand the knives and forks to the women after they had cut their own meat which they then ate from their hands , and that one old Macdonald retainer always ate fish with his fingers , claiming that ‘ a knife and fork gave it a bad taste ’ .
4 Herr Nordern brusquely waved Bodo into the bedroom and closed the door behind them .
5 A bad snap on a Colts ' punt attempt later gave Pittsburgh the ball on the Indianapolis 34 and Malone connected with Brenberg for the final Steelers ' first half score with 1:03 remaining .
6 Ian Wright also had food for thought as he made a hasty exit from Arsenal 's demoralised dressing room .
7 SCOTTISH educationists rarely disparage the ‘ trendy , progressive ’ teaching methods so maligned south of the Border .
8 Six 229 Squadron aircraft also reached Malta from ‘ Furious ’ , but the remaining aircraft of this unit stayed aboard as the carriers had by then been as long in hostile water as was safe to allow .
9 WH Smith 's Swindon warehouse today took delivery of 25 000 copies at its Swindon Warehouse .
10 An accounting change then took place , with the fee figure substituted by that of turnover ; this totalled £1 278 120 in 1984 , £1761405 in 1985 and £2060979 in 1986 .
11 A telephone call from Taylor 's assistant Lawrie McMenemy soon had Ince travelling south , along with United team-mate Gary Pallister , a late replacement for Arsenal 's Tony Adams .
12 STRIKER David Hirst yesterday reminded Graham Taylor that if England are in need of a goalscorer , he could provide the perfect answer .
13 The Eastern Daily Press together with the Eastern Arts Board also gave money for a competition that hoped to find new art critics .
14 Jim Weir , Arthur Breen and Ann Dickson also attended Kidderminster College for a six day course on ‘ Training for Productivity and The Contribution of the Supervisor . ’
15 A MAJOR meat industry figure yesterday endorsed livestock producers ' legitimate expectations of premium prices for quality products .
16 When the Halliday brothers eventually sighted Johnstone , the boat was drifting aimlessly with the tide .
17 SOUTH AFRICA 'S David Frost yesterday made history by becoming the first golfer to win the Million Dollar Challenge three times .
18 Both dimethylhydrazine and small bowel resection individually increased CCPR while calcium generally reduced this , in a simple arithmetic manner ( that is , there was no interaction ) .
19 But a law review committee later said rape defendants were getting preferential treatment .
20 CARLOS SAINZ yesterday served notice that he intends to hang on to his precious but tiny lead in rallying 's World Championship after a dominant drive on day one of the RAC Rally .
21 The Manager , Mr. Ratcliffe Hulme , resigned and was replaced in July , by A. V. Mason from Devonport , who became Manager and Engineer of the S.M.E.T. C. W. Durnford , the S.M.E.T. Engineer then became Manager at Devonport .
22 A toneless , disjunctive fact , droll and very uneasy , one of those amputated thoughts I have just mentioned and –so a sensation , a crawling sensation of the time being out of joint ; there is more Hamlet to The Possessed than what is personal to Stavrogin , ‘ the Prince ’ as he first appears , though on the surface of his mind Dostoevsky evidently meant Prince Hal , not the Prince of Denmark .
23 The tree-lined city embankments , riverside walkways and yuppiefied warehouse flats soon gave way to deserted shipyards .
24 His habit of electioneering from a white Rolls Royce sometimes attracted comment and he told me he had a silver-tipped cane with which to tap at doors of council flats in Fulham , though I was never sure whether to believe him .
25 David Whitaker originally chose Milly , a name dropped due to its close public association with a young Jamaican pop singer of the time .
26 Miss Arden also cited Blackpool Corporation v. Starr Estate Co .
27 She 's under house arrest in Turkey after fraud officers there took action .
28 Announcements on college noticeboards often gave details of students who had been involved in ‘ inappropriate conduct ’ and dismissed from their studies .
29 This labour policy also gave Israel important economic and social benefits .
30 But the Buxton clan also saw emancipation as a family triumph .
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