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1 Over the next three years it will be helping and encouraging authorities to gather information about the needs and preferences of local carers , to use this information to work out plans for improving carer support , and to ensure that caring for carers becomes an integral component of mainstream community care services .
2 To help establish a strong UK base to enable participation in the EEC programmes
3 Although he found that television is far less violent than in Japan , the United States , France or West Germany , Dr Tadecki intends to campaign with Mary Whitehouse to curb violence on the screen .
4 With the impact of Zhelev 's attack still reverberating , the 21-member UDF coalition held a national conference in Sofia on Sept. 18-20 and agreed to establish working groups to conduct talks with the President and the MRF .
5 This will release space in the Cottrell Building to accommodate expansion of the other Schools .
6 Alongside the organisational changes aiming to improve exchanges between Government , the science base , and industry , the industry departments , supported by the Department of Trade and Industry 's ( DTI 's ) Innovation Unit , intend to scale up their activities to promote awareness of the importance of innovation among senior managers in the business community .
7 It was left to the Hercules to unload help to the hungry .
8 While it is convenient in many cases to treat fish in the aquarium or pond , a bath immersion treatment is often more effective in certain diseases .
9 Dundee had received a commission from the deposed James II as his Commander-in-Chief in Scotland , and fled into the Highlands to gather support among the clans .
10 MILK producers are well on course to hit quota by the year-end , according to Milk Marketing Board head of quotas Huw Rees .
11 Her attempts to promote sales of the book by signing copies at a Long Island store ended abruptly when , following the bomb threat , police evacuated the store until closing time .
12 * The government is to host a further meeting in Tunis in April , when representatives of Western donors and multilateral agencies will consolidate plans to continue support for the environmental programme .
13 The space agencies of the United States , Russia , Europe , Japan , China and Brazil have agreed to a joint programme which will use both existing and new satellites to monitor changes in the global environment .
14 The decision to conduct debate on the war in closed session was taken by a majority vote on Feb. 13 on the proposal of the UK .
15 Lord Mayor , the Conservative Group welcomes this opportunity to debate reforms in the National Health Service .
16 The proposals to combat discrimination within the profession have not met with the support I would have hoped for .
17 The common law courts have through three centuries consistently resisted all attempts to appeal decisions of the visitor .
18 All the other matches ended in draws but Nottinghamshire wasted an opportunity to go top of the table at Lord 's .
19 All the other matches ended in draws but Nottinghamshire wasted an opportunity to go top of the table at Lord 's .
20 By the late 1920s and the early 1930s , governments were encouraging employers to rationalize coal along the lines laid clown by the Samuel Commission , whereby small units would be incorporated into larger units and be closed , as in shipbuilding , cotton and other industries .
21 Soviet customs regulations were to be maintained in Lithuania ( the Lithuanian government on March 17 had announced plans to curb exports from the republic , including introduction of Lithuanian-run border checkpoints ) , and guards were to be posted around nuclear power stations and " other very important sites which are all-union property " .
22 But Flanagan said : ‘ I had no hesitation in advising the board to promote Nigel to the job — and his results have proved me right .
23 The adoption in the 1950s and 1960s by western economies of demand-management policies to combat unemployment in the main kept unemployment rates down and we saw no return to the extremely high unemployment rates of the 1930s .
24 France expressed horror at the assassination and appealed for unity to assure peace in the country it once ruled .
25 A special international award was given to Alexey Yablokov , Russian President Boris Yeltsin 's special environmental adviser , for his willingness to alert Yeltsin to the extent of Russia 's ecological problems .
26 The analysis of practice is the necessary preliminary to attempts to classify occupations on the basis of identifiable rather than supposed similarities and differences .
27 The second vehicle will be a former Midland Railway six-wheeled third class brake coach dating from 1884 and , finally , a remarkable opportunity to sample travel in the groom 's compartment of a horse box dating from 1949 .
28 Enthusiastic attempts to drain wetlands throughout the 1970s and early 1980s have in many cases failed to produce the high-quality farmland which was the object of these expensive exercises .
29 There was a daily requisition to carry troops to the Rossall rifle ranges , leaving between 8–30 and 9–30 and returning at the end of the afternoon .
30 The plans , put forward by Environment Minister David Trippier , would involve each country disposing of its own waste and would alter the European Commission 's plans to enforce disposal at the nearest plant , regardless of cost .
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