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1 Rickie was literally dancing in circles around me as I walked down the dock towards his sister , but then he paused in his frenetic progress to light one cigarette from the stump of another , and I wondered just what perverted fate decreed that such a boy should receive a legacy of six million dollars .
2 Wigan were dismayed at his condition when he came back , and there was a half-hearted threat from Central Park to demand financial compensation from the Sydney club .
3 The main work on the subject of food intolerance in Crohn 's disease by Alun-Jones et al has involved the use of elemental diet or total parenteral nutrition to obtain clinical remission from active disease , followed by a daily , single food reintroduction regimen ( elimination diets ) .
4 The effect of non-jurisdictional error of law is different ; the affected decision has legal effect from the very beginning because although it is wrong in law it is not illegal .
5 THE PARTY IN THE PARK has live music from Del Amitri , The Farm and Status Quo .
6 The change has strong support from the Department of Trade and Industry , the Bank of England , the CBI and the 100 Group .
7 Luciano Bartocci had been shuffling papers about noisily on his desk in an attempt to disrupt this exchange from which he was excluded .
8 Success of child 's bid to obtain legal separation from mother
9 We stood on the top step , an icy wind driving any sleep from our eyes and faces , staring out over the snow-carpeted grounds .
10 It involves cutting down the main trunk to encourage new growth from the edge of the stump .
11 On the Chinese side the temptation to retreat into a mood of self-critical isolation has many precedent from the past century of modern history — a history which has been largely determined by the perplexing question of how to cope with the outside world .
12 Murdock 's sun and planet gear to obtain rotary motion from Watt 's beam engines .
13 And while it is easy enough for an experienced journalist to write that synopsis from memory ( checking for the elusive name of Software Arts and making sure that it really was PrairieTek that vanished last year ) , it would take a deal of research and above all deep thought to put together a dissertation on why things panned out the way they did , the fatal mistakes , the good decisions that each company made to achieve triumph or disaster , or both in quick succession .
14 The programme received financial assistance from UNICEF and it was intended that it should perform three basic tasks :
15 All of these areas of research receive financial support from industry or government sources .
16 ‘ I had ridden Ile de Bourbon for trainer Fulke Johnson Houghton in all of his home gallops and also won on the colt in the King Edward VII stakes at Royal Ascot but when Piggott asked me had the horse made any improvement from then and before the big King George race I had to tell him that I was unaware of it just in case he might want to take over .
17 However , his action provoked significant comment from Treasury permanent secretaries , committed as they were to a Gladstonian ideology of ‘ cheap government ’ and to the subordination of the extravagant missionary zeal of medical reformers .
18 Even those who did take legal action received little advantage from it .
19 High-level staff appointments announced in early March by the UNESCO Director-General Federico Mayor provoked sharp criticism from both delegates and employees of the organization .
20 SUPPORT for Britain 's coal industry came last night from an unexpected quarter as the right wing pressure group Aims of Industry called for a wide ranging review .
21 Britain 's premier art college lures new head from Chicago
22 Each card displayed a pager number and a drawing of an old-time gangster spraying machine-gun fire from a vintage car .
23 Either Bruce Davidson always sounded like a Speak Your Weight machine when he was delivering a prepared statement , or the answer-phone stripped all character from People 's voices .
24 A cubicle or small compartment separating each student from the others in a language laboratory .
25 The shepherd poured some wine from a tattered straw flask into four greasy tumblers and the men sat at the oil-cloth-covered table .
26 Also , he has n't actually needed the extra drive yet since the big tyres and 7-tonne weight give good grip from the two driving wheels .
27 AFTER a pre-tax loss rising last year from £4.7 million to £41.1 million , Clyde Petroleum yesterday asked its shareholders to provide a further £34.1 million through a one-for-four rights issue .
28 The UK paint brush industry is an extreme example of a traditional industry facing stiff competition from imports .
29 Fabric : Airfoil , a 100% polyester microfibre which claims to be ‘ breathable , windproof and quick-drying giving some protection from drizzle and rain . ’
30 The sterility and inconclusiveness of modern debate about the nature of sovereignty stems from Dicey 's attempt to divorce legal doctrine from political principle .
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