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1 Higher education is also expected to rely more heavily on private sources of finance with polytechnics and universities competing for commercial , foundation and research council contracts and building up relationships with industry through consultancy and science parks .
2 Since then , their differences on economic reform have become apparent , with Klaus leading the monetarists and Komarek arguing for a more Keynesian approach .
3 Some people stood up to make speeches and there were rallies and demonstrations calling for greater freedoms and human rights over the winter months .
4 In the ILEA ( which published much more detailed statistics on special education than central government or other LEAs ) , boys were in the majority in schools and units catering for every type of special need .
5 He job will be to give the Pavillion a higher profile among local companies and organisations looking for conferences and events .
6 There it is also argued that it is from the legislation of emancipation onwards that the tensions and forces making for conflict grow significantly stronger than the cohesive factors sustaining antislavery culture .
7 For a time Ealing was as closely in touch with the hopes and frustrations of post-war audiences as were the directors and writers working for Rank 's Independent Producers .
8 His parents and doctors caring for him in hospital faced lengthy court battles before winning the go-ahead from Law Lords to have his feeding tube disconnected earlier this year .
9 BY MARCH 1789 Mozart had become accustomed to sending regular letters to his fellow-Masons and publishers asking for loans .
10 The A-300 Airbus was carrying 167 passengers and crew — including many British climbers and trekkers heading for Nepal 's magnificent peaks .
11 Furious Geet FM bosses have organised huge public meetings and demonstrations calling for it to be allowed to remain on the air .
12 During one of the meetings for negotiation , King Charles introduced a proposal which had been submitted by the Independents and Anabaptists calling for freedom of worship .
13 Noah 's faith was persistent ; through the taunts of unbelievers as he worked ; through the rainstorm ; through the tragedy of knowing that men and women were dying in the flood ; through the long days and nights waiting for the next stage , as the waters went down .
14 In the nineteenth century , Italians and Alsatians heading for the New World arrived and departed via the great Paris terminals .
15 ‘ I got customs and immigration working for me and the Cypriot National Police .
16 It has become a cliche that Mexico 's government has more academically competent economists and technocrats working for it than practically any country .
17 Why do some spend years and years caring for parents they may not even like ?
18 In York it was particularly hideous to have lorries and cars vying for space with bicycles and people in the narrow streets .
19 Ian Harper reports on how the latest fiasco in designing systems to facilitate the Stock Exchange has left fund managers and brokers looking for yet another solution to their needs .
20 Although crowded with prospectors and pan-handlers looking for gold when that English bank-clerk , Robert W. Service , was writing his ‘ Songs of a Sourdough ’ and ‘ The Cremation of Dan McGrew ’ , Whitehorse and Dawson City were now drowsing away the years as forgotten towns .
21 The only way was to persuade one of the Met Officers to take over the observations and chart plotting for the day , and then we would all be back for the night duty .
22 DLT is a safe and powerful tool that will save you hours searching through files and directories looking for those unwanted files to delete .
23 The third reason why we 're , we 're pleased to see you here is that erm as a trades council , we 've and this er and Dick mentioned this in his introduction , we 've initiated a major international programme , major in terms of our size obviously as er as a local body , involving links between union activists here primarily in France er , in northern France , but also links now developing in Spain with the new ferry going between Portsmouth and Bilbao , we 're starting to meet with the unions in Spain who are interested in speaking about the , the , the differences in wages in terms and conditions working for the same ferry company , doing the same jobs in the port , a comparative look at how the , the wages terms and conditions differ and we want to , we want to go and visit them in the autumn and , and work out , and work on more links on a sector basis , so that our colleagues down in Bilbao in northern Spain can link up with people in the , in the , in similar sectors here and we 've done this over the last three and a half years with the unions in France , we 've had exchanges of all sectors , the public sectors , transport , erm , health , social services , shop workers .
24 ONCE UPON a time The Face was the style bible not of gits in fake fur-trimmed parkas and yups looking for new big ties , but of crazy over-made-up early '80s youth , for whom mum 's old curtains and too much eye-liner signified SEX and REVOLUTION .
25 The next rounds saw two more replays at Leeds Road , against Brighton and Blackburn Rovers , with more mills and businesses closing for the afternoon .
26 Diabetic shared care schemes and diabetic liaison nurses help facilitate the dispersal of information from the central hospital clinic to general practitioners and families caring for patients with diabetes .
27 National and international initiatives are recognising the problem , with both scientists and politicians calling for stabilisation and reduction of CO2 emissions .
28 This book is intended for teachers and students preparing for English for Business , English for Commerce and SEFIC .
29 It remained floating for some minutes , with lights burning at the upper windows and people shouting for help , and then finally sank .
30 All we lack now is the mechanism to turn these highly decorative cadavers into walkie , if not talkie , zombies , to enable them to give a truly remarkable mannequin parade and show off their mortuary gowns in white polyester and cotton , trimmed with lace and ruffles for ladies and satin quilting for the gents !
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