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1 Moreover , if there was maladministration it is of little consequence now in that the new regime established by the Financial Services Act of 1986 has rendered the DTI 's role in this matter redundant .
2 Sheila Scott , a state-registered nurse from Hendon , said the Government was right to try to make the NHS more cost-conscious .
3 They say they are willing to continue using the Skerne Park routes for a trial period while the speed humps are introduced .
4 This has given the East Germans the best standard of living in East Europe .
5 This has split the EC into the usual north/south , liberal/interventionist groups .
6 Short term this has enabled the UK to maintain a state-of-the-art capability , although there has not been the desired reduction in the total percentage of the defence budget committed R&D .
7 People are starting to whisper that sales over at Sun have slowed , crediting IBM and HP with some of the impact : this has got the Wall Street crowd fretting about Sun 's performance in the last quarter .
8 This has produced a Texel , referred to in Holland as the Texelaar , that breeds consistently true to type and when used as a terminal sire leaves progeny of level quality .
9 At present the UK accounts for about 1.5–2 per cent of research spending on superconductivity , and NCS wants this to increase to match the UK share of all research ( currently about 5 per cent of the world total ) .
10 Eliot at twenty-one recalled reading The Ebb-Tide .
11 To be mercenary , this helped elevate The Smiths into national notoriety .
12 This seems to contradict the NEC v Intel case although , being an American case , it is obviously not binding on the United Kingdom courts .
13 This seems to fit the Encomiast 's evidence on his claim to the Danish throne , but throws no light on what happened to Harald , or when .
14 This appears to validate the NFHA 's prediction that the abolition of fair rents would fuel rental inflation .
15 This entails examining the SBU 's competitive position on each of the dimensions that are shown by the industry structure analysis to be critical to longer-run profitability .
16 Flush with its HP , Silicon Graphics , OSF , Intergraph , IBM and USL wins , Hudson , Massachusetts-based , Gradient Technologies Inc last week scored another hit signing the Santa Cruz Operation Inc to embed its NetLS licensing software in the next release of Open Desktop .
17 In tune with this mood the Local Government Act 1985 proceeded to abolish the GLC and the six metropolitan county councils .
18 This did affect the Croydon area indirectly , by the withdrawal of tram route 12 .
19 In an 82.3 per cent turnout , 50.7 per cent of those voting on June 2 voted to reject the Maastricht Treaty — a margin of only 46,269 votes .
20 Years later , Acheson agreed in an interview that the French had blackmailed the US in Vietnam .
21 This had prompted the Ulster Museum to put on an exhibition about McCracken and BBC Northern Ireland and Ulster Television to feature the bicentenary of his birth .
22 At that time the settlement of Cape Town , which had been just a small staging post on the voyage between the Netherlands and the East Indies , was beginning to grow , but although the English had occupied the Cape in 1806 , the white population remained mainly Dutch until the arrival of many new settlers from Britain in 1820 .
23 Some wanted to see the Shah ; others were more interested in fleeing the whirlwind than reaping it .
24 Some have seen the RPF as a twentieth century expression of Bonapartism — the tradition of a providential leader appealing to men and women of all classes and ideologies to unite in the interests of an orderly state and national greatness .
25 As Cooper implied , a tutor-organiser 's success in encouraging rather than destroying the voluntary movement is largely , matter of degree — of knowing how much to do to advance the WEA here and there , while leaving as much as possible to the voluntary members .
26 Children as young as six have joined the Darlington Red Cross youth group enjoying all kinds of activities from first aid training to camping holidays .
27 Members of Rural England Versus Overhead Line Transmission ( Revolt ) were due to cross examine the NGC yesterday , followed on Tuesday by other objectors including Lady Mary Bell of East Rounton , and Mr Tom Haigh of Stokesley , who have spearheaded the anti-pylons lobby .
28 The football club will now remove existing terracing and erect three grandstands to meet the Taylor Report demand that grounds be all-seated by August 1994 .
29 The return of a Tory Government with a workable majority of 21 has denied the Ulster Unionists the balance of power and the chance to drive a hard bargain with a minority administration , and they will now buckle down to what will be tough negotiations over the next few months .
30 That year they scooped every award in sight and played the most prestigious festivals , and the world at large began to recognise the Cray Band sound : no histrionics or wailing feedback , just tight soul grooves linked with Robert 's excellent vocals , his distinctive guitar style and his thin , poppy trademark Stratocaster tone .
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