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1 A recent article in the New Statesman & Society listed some of the current operations at Menwith Hill , including those that involve eavesdropping on Russian and West European telephone calls .
2 It felt more like landing on concrete than water .
3 COMPANY MDs REPORT ON 1992 AND CHALLENGES OF THE YEAR AHEAD
4 Based in Paris and working under Professor I. Rasool , it is intended to concentrate on managerial and policy aspects of the task in the first 2 years ( 1990–92 ) but then to expand considerably thereafter .
5 Does he agree that it ill behoves the Labour party to comment on that because Labour was against the channel tunnel at its inception ?
6 We can focus on those , and no doubt we will focus on those as time goes by .
7 But Crowe , carrying a leg injury , was the star-turn , although he was dropped on 12 before Mark Waugh ran him out .
8 If you do not understand how it works and you want more information about the method used then I again refer you to the books I have written on 1-2-3 and SuperCalc .
9 Throughout the changes , however , the MSC retained as its main responsibility the provision of vocational education and training , especially for young people and the unemployed ; and as its basic structure a central Commission with representatives of employers , trade unions and government , together with networks of local committees which advised on educational and training needs , and of local ‘ managing agents ’ ( such as employers , FE colleges and LEAs ) which ran training programmes under the supervision of the Commission .
10 This put the sides level on aggregate but Torino qualified on the away goals rule after Fusi pounced on a loose ball in a goalmouth mix-up .
11 And in the end it would be national government which was expected to sort them out ( TES 1990 ) : Parity of esteem depends on more than assertions about which NCVQ level equals an A Level .
12 Appendices focus on individual and group evaluation .
13 In general , students who embark on full-time and sandwich courses at degree level are entitled to a mandatory award from their local education authority and can apply to the Student Loans Company for loans .
14 A joint Italian-Iranian memorandum of understanding signed on Jan. 22 , 1990 , included an agreement by Italy to suspend limitations imposed on financial and capital guarantees for projects and transactions with Iran .
15 Yet by 1988 substantial progress had been made on all but items ( 2 ) and ( 4 ) of the agenda .
16 Above : Operating on natural or propane gas , the versatile Thermocet Rose stove , from Frampton 's Fireplace Centre , is available with 4 or 9.3kW output , and with optional boiler and electric booster fan
17 Then , as now , we had a car fitted with the optional Laycock overdrive , operating on third and top ; then as now it emphasised the low-speed/high-gear flexibility but did show up a big gap between second and third — a gap of over 30mph in maxima .
18 A short film will be shown on Black and Decker prior to the tour followed by a question and answer session .
19 The optimised compiler has a blended mode option for applications that will run on 80486 and Pentium boxes as well as a Pentium-only mode .
20 The optimized compiler has a blended mode option for applications that will run on 80486 and Pentium boxes as well as a Pentium-only mode .
21 Cliff Shepherd , the senior officer leading the City Challenge Two team , took the document which concentrates on Central and West Middlesbrough top London by train .
22 He went first thing next morning , though , and the innings closed on 270 as Holding became the fourth West Indian to take 200 Test wickets .
23 Highlighting is used on all or part of an option number to emphasise the significant part of the number at the level shown .
24 Gillian Stewart and Julie Forbes finished on 147 and Cathy Panton-Lewis produced a 77 to make the cut of 151 .
25 Gillian Stewart and Julie Forbes finished on 147 and Cathy Panton-Lewis produced a 77 to make the cut of 151 .
26 I 've known him for about three years and we get on fine as friends .
27 The Chinese cosmology based on li and ch'i goes back only to the Neo-Confucian movement of the Sung dynasty ( AD 960–1279 ) , a conceptual revolution which can itself be understood in Kuhnian terms as a response to the breakdown of an older paradigm .
28 It is often better to leave such exploration until the patient 's difficulties are beginning to resolve because by then the patient may be more willing to consider , for example , that his act was based on hostile and manipulation motives .
29 Recent advances in knowledge of thrust belts based on seismic and drilling have been made easier to apply to frontier areas by published descriptions of typical geometries , improved understanding of the mechanisms involved , and the establishment of standard terminology ( see , for instance : Hossack 1979 ; Berger and Johnson 1982 ; Butler 1982 ; Boyer and Elliot 1982 ) .
30 Xenophon 's training of horses was based on commonsense and kindness , and understanding the psychology of the horse .
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