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1 A second report on the same research study gives further information about clients ' use of the fund .
2 For instance , both of our prevalence surveys found strong correlations between townships ' rates of known opioid use and levels of social deprivation , particularly unemployment .
3 The survey will provide information about drivers ' perceptions of overtaking as well as of being overtaken .
4 Also , there has to be strict rules for visitors ' feeding of the animals and most of the time no feeding of this kind is allowed .
5 What is the relationship between companies ' usage of large international headhunting firms compared with smaller , specialised consultancies ?
6 What is the relationship between companies ' use of large international headhunting firms compared with smaller , specialised consultancies ?
7 Contrary to what our readers may believe the above is not a description of Europe after the arrival of solicitors ' rights of audience .
8 Indeed , I recall that shortly after Miss Kenton 's departure to Cornwall in 1936 , myself never having been to that part of the country , I would often glance through Volume III of Mrs Symons 's work , the volume which describes to readers the delights of Devon and Cornwall , complete with photographs and — to my mind even more evocative — a variety of artists ' sketches of that region .
9 Previous studies of employers ' use of temporary workers , both in this country ( Meager , 1985 ) and in the United States ( Magnum/Mayall/Nelson , 1986 ) , have indicated that its likelihood increases with the size of the organisation .
10 Another study of employers ' use of temporary workers using US survey data ( Magnum/Mayall/Nelson , 1985 ) obtained results very similar to our own with respect to fixed-term contract workers .
11 No options may be granted after the tenth anniversary of shareholders ' approval of the Executive Scheme .
12 A note should be presented reconciling the opening and closing totals of shareholders ' funds of the period .
13 Union representatives sought concrete standards because employers were often unwilling to discuss seriously the implications of operators ' complaints of fatigue and strain .
14 Another couple of months ' worth of poor economic numbers and the bombs surely fall on Tripoli .
15 The research should contribute both to psychological knowledge , by identifying the structure and content of teenagers ' knowledge of road use and how this knowledge changes as a function of experience ; to the practical business of accident prevention , by identifying what kinds of interventions are most needed in pre-driving years and when these interventions are most likely to be effective .
16 There are other provisions of the 1981 Act which have either created difficulties in practice ( as in the case of s.8 which is headed ‘ Confidentiality of Jury 's Deliberations ’ ) or which have been interpreted restrictively ( as in the case of s.10 , which is concerned with the protection of journalists ' sources of information ) .
17 Staff were asked to rate their overall impression of the Back Office system but , as can be see from the branch perception graph , at the beginning of this year the measure was split to get a clearer understanding of branches ' perception of availability and response times .
18 The debates also constitute evidence of reformers ' realisation of the need politically to isolate the West Indians and an ambivalent attitude to the usefulness of moral condemnation as a way of winning over MPs .
19 A recent Institute of Directors ' survey of 200 successful female executives found that of the 87 per cent who claimed to have encountered career obstacles not experienced by male colleagues , difficulty with childcare , at 37 per cent , was the biggest factor .
20 Resources and facilities ranked tenth and eleventh in the survey by Hughes , Wikeley and Nash ( 1990 ) of parents ' views of the attributes of a good primary school .
21 In Table 3.3 we can see that the ratio of banks ' holdings of ‘ base money ’ to total assets/liabilities is rather less than 1 per cent .
22 Currently , a supplement should be paid if a repayment is not made within 30 days of Customs ' receipt of the return .
23 Rawls often writes of individuals ' conceptions of the good as if they are their views of the good life for themselves .
24 An awareness of politics grows out of individuals ' perception of the world around them , and earlier in this book some of the main contributing factors to an African perception of the world , notwithstanding Africa 's great diversity , were sketched .
25 While all the studies used for this paper do not attain this ideal , the effort to articulate material that is not readily available through more conventional studies of workers ' images of society , for instance , may serve to make some point in the social landscape between the ‘ centres ’ of workers ' and managers ' worlds and that of social scientists .
26 Romania has many joint party-state organizations such as the Supreme Council for Economic Development , the Central Council of Workers ' Control of Economic and Social Activity , the Defence Council and the Council for Socialist Culture and Education : ‘ These organizations provide an infrastructure for blending party and state activities ’ ( Szajkowski 1981 , p. 47 ) .
27 In February 1990 the National Federation of Workers ' Unions of Benin ( Union nationale des syndicats des travailleurs du Bénin — UNSTB ) was weakened by the decision of the postal and telecommunications workers ' union to split from the UNSTB and declare itself autonomous ( the second defection after that of the Higher Education Union in August 1989 ) .
28 Rasmussen and Milner ( 1975 ) summarise data collected in their clinic over a number of years ' use of the Amytal test ( see Wada and Rasmussen , 1960 ; Branch , Milner and Rasmussen , 1964 ) .
29 The law , which was the first in post-war Italy to restrict the right to strike , required public service employees to give a minimum number of days ' notice of intended strikes and to guarantee essential services .
30 First , pragmatics will then include the study of the interaction between linguistic knowledge and the entirety of participants ' knowledge of the world ( or " encylopaedic knowledge " ) .
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