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1 A delegation from IT Division visited Japan for the annual DTI/MTI Talks held on 25th–26th March , which included an Expert Session on IT .
2 Lucente quit IBM for the number two post at Northern Telecom Ltd , where he resigned last month .
3 I see that Wetherall got MOTM for the game on Saturday from one of the tabloids , so much for me saying he was at fault for the goals .
4 When his friend Calder took an autumn break , Sole skippered Scotland for the first time , in a 38-17 win against Fiji at Murrayfield .
5 Marie asked Gazzer for the second time that day .
6 Dot asked Gloria for the powder compact she kept in her bag .
7 In mid-November a United States congressional delegation visited China for the first time since the massacre .
8 In November a Vatican delegation visited Vietnam for the first time .
9 However , Mitterrand denied on Jan. 20 that there was any geographical limitation on French commitment to the allied force and on Jan. 24 French aircraft bombed Iraq for the first time .
10 On the morrow of Marshal Ogarkov 's removal as Chief of the General Staff , Western press comment included speculation that his policy stance had come to obstruct the reassessment of arms control and East-West policy sought by the leadership ; according to one respected newspaper , senior Western military attachés in Moscow were tipped by Soviet army officers that the Kremlin blamed Ogarkov for the disasters of the SS-20 deployment and the shooting down of the Korean airliner off Sakhalin Island .
11 Just when their creditors were on the point of issuing writs the Tecks left England for the continent , insolvent and heavily in debt .
12 In Whit Week 1850 over 200,000 day-trippers left Manchester for the countryside and the sea .
13 Of those universities who also support Ph D research in Scottish geology , Edinburgh 's students and staff have consulted 100 of the theses in data set C. For the major universities researching in the field , the numbers of thesis borrowers from particular universities are in proportion ( ratio nearly 1:1 ) to the numbers of Ph D theses produced in these universities .
14 Casimir left Dublin for the Balkans as a war correspondent and enlistment .
15 Two days later , on 26 July , the dowager and the queen left Linlithgow for the greater safety of Stirling , presumably an indication that , with the making of this bond , the relatively straightforward period of the first half of 1543 was over .
16 That struggle shaped Germany for the subsequent two centuries and it also determined much of the shape of Europe prior to the First World War .
17 If Canada joined Britain for the war , as she most certainly would , which unit of the service would I be joining ?
18 According to the Middle East Times of Oct. 13 , Syrian officials blamed Turkey for the failure of the talks .
19 ICL Plc chose Paris for the launch of what it called its biggest ever collection of personal computers and related products yesterday : the new ErgoLite desktops and notebooks and Ergo-Pro notebook to ErgoView terminals which come with a variety of ‘ personalities ’ or emulations — no prizes for guessing that the company is pushing the new product line 's ergonomic design .
20 ICL Plc chose Paris for the launch of what it called its biggest ever collection of personal computers and related products last week : the new ErgoLite desktops and note books and Ergo-Pro notebook to ErgoView terminals which come with a variety of ‘ personalities ’ or emulations — no prizes for guessing that the company is pushing the new product line 's ergonomic design .
21 On the eve of World War II , both James and Eric Williams departed England for the United States .
22 In 1896 Edwin O. Sachs criticized Matcham for the impurity of his sloping tiers and juxtaposition of styles .
23 Chairman David Nairn thanked Grant for the open manner with which he had answered these questions and brought the first day 's business proceedings to and end .
24 The remainder of the qualifiers played Stableford for the Rentokil Cup , and once again the winners were from Environmental Services , Richard Wooding from Pest Control , Mike Bayley from Medical Services and Sal Akram from Pest Control Newcastle .
25 Arguing that Richard 's attack on Toulouse was a breach of the truce of 1187 — which Richard denied — Philip invaded Berry for the second time in twelve months , though he first took care to ascertain that Henry II disclaimed any responsibility for his son 's actions and was therefore unlikely to move swiftly to his assistance .
26 If the proposed LF fails to pass these tests then reference resolution will generate other resolved LFs for the QLF ; if all such proposed LFs fail the tests , reference resolution consumes another scoped QLF , and so on .
27 A year later Moore captained England for the first time , against Czechoslovakia .
28 BHUTAN : AI visited Bhutan for the first time in January at the invitation of King Jigme Wangchuck .
29 The NYPL paid LACMA for the right to make use of the earlier show 's research , documentary photographs , videos , films , and other materials .
30 Dunphy blamed Taylor for the failings of the English national side .
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