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1 The NME of this period is a mutant hybrid where reviews of Engelbert Humperdinck , Andy Williams , The Doors and Led Zeppelin sit uneasily side by side on the page .
2 At the Conference of Foreign Ministers of the Non-Aligned in February 1981 Iran pressed for a purist conception of non-alignment , which involved a rejection o£ all forms of dependency on the superpowers , an emphasis on self-reliance , and a purge of those who did not live up to this ideal .
3 He and Jordan had known each other for some years , had worked together side by side on a case of armed robbery , and been friends .
4 general matters — eg effect of concentration on consumers and the development of technical progress .
5 There were also suggestions that Telefunken is already going cool on the terms of the compromise because they would not allow the West German group a large enough share of work on what is regarded as one of the key military avionics technologies .
6 There were also suggestions that Telefunken is already going cool on the terms of the compromise because they would not allow the West German group a large enough share of work on what is regarded as one of the key military avionics technologies .
7 The final audit of the accounts found only £45,220 of stock on the premises instead of the £570,680 declared .
8 A customer who produced a credit card could take away goods without payment on the implied promise to pay within a month , and if they did ( which the vast majority did ) they would not be charged interest for being lent the amount they would otherwise have had to pay across the counter .
9 The photograph is believed to have been taken just north of Grassmoor on the approach to Hasland .
10 Now there are still traces of ink on the surface but now you can much more clearly see the etch lines because they 're full of now .
11 For example home help was costed at £2.92 per hour in Ipswich , and £4.17 in Newham ; most day care in Ipswich was provided in Residential Homes which was calculated as involving no extra cost unless transport was provided , whereas in Newham day care was usually provided in day centres , involving a cost of just under £5 per day on top of the cost of transportation ( see Appendix IV .
12 You know there always puddles of water on the floor from the girls coming in and out of the pool .
13 Secondly , whenever local politics were looked at , they were investigated using quantitative statistical techniques , used to try to find some sort of ‘ link ’ or ‘ association ’ between local inputs ( such as population density , income per capita , degree of urbanization ) and policy outputs ( usually levels of expenditure on particular services ) .
14 More Neds in session on GOODIER and Michael Hutchence and Andrew Farris yawn their way through INXS ' ‘ Kick ’ on RICHARD SKINNER .
15 Under 13pc of income on average was spent on initial mortgage repayments in Northern Ireland in comparison with nearly 18pc for the UK as a whole . ’
16 There were also shifts in emphasis on factors influencing decisions on where to place contracts .
17 There was also evidence of vote-buying on a massive scale .
18 I see from the programme , that you have ahead of you Professor Dorrf 's report of current work at Bell , also presentation of material on recordal systems , and many other gifts straight from the horses ' mouths .
19 It is effectively colour-sided , with a broad area of white along the back and tail ( finchback ) which catches the light like a halo , and there is usually a white patch ( not clearly defined ) on each thigh and often areas of white on the brisket and lower legs .
20 The tobacco industry therefore spends about £2 per head on advertising for each person in the province whereas the Agency has less than 70p per head to spend on promoting all aspects of health such as nutrition , alcohol and sexual health .
21 It is also worth noting that wherever a manager 's utility " depends partly upon income , a bonus scheme of the Finsinger-Vogelsang type is likely to improve performance , whereas other controls we have discussed ( e.g. rate of return on capital ) need not improve efficiency .
22 It must , however , be said that measurements of shingle movement made by Hardy ( 1964 ) showed a dominant eastwards movement of material on Blakeney Point , one of the main features of this district .
23 But it carries with it the usual problem associated with rapid and anonymous observations , viz. lack of information on the social identity of the speaker .
24 Well Vicky at college on our course she 's not Victoria she 's Vicky .
25 Comparison of the road and rail systems here with those in France reveals only too clearly the consequences of neglect ; the French typically spend around 1% of GDP on their transport infrastructure , while we have managed barely half that figure .
26 A number of northwestern stations recorded around 25-30mm of rainfall on the 4th , with similar values on the 5th at southwestern sites .
27 ( According to LeGrand , ‘ localism ’ in geology , i.e. concentration of research on a particular area , is a type of specialization ) .
28 Fill it up with diesel , and it should reward you with a return of comfortably over miles per gallon on average .
29 Now this psychology , there 's absolutely loads of stuff on it so and the Maitlin book 's got quite a good coverage of it , so I 'll go over it quite quickly , alright ?
30 They were dozing happily side by side on the sands , when a jet plane roared overhead , waking them with a start .
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