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1 However , Novell , which claimed it was acting on the urgings of its customers , is expected to press the integration and interoperability of NetWare and Unix , the development of common management framework and common application framework ABIs to put at the service of third-party software developers and mission-critical accounts intent on rightsizing and employing distributed solutions .
2 Warning of the dire peril IBM faced at the hands of Unix , we suggested that so many parties were working on the thing that over time it would accrete to itself all the missing features that commercial users demanded , and that instead of simply trying to muddy the Unix waters as IBM did for so long , it should recognise that its most convincing answer to Unix was right there under its nose in the form of VM .
3 ‘ What 's puzzling me is that phone-call Nicola had at the party .
4 The Brigade Major glanced at the sun .
5 The pig Agnes had at the moment was just about ready to have its throat slit so she would send Alisdair to the market for a new one .
6 Motor cycling was also popular at Brooklands and the great John Cobb was synonymous with the circuit and his lap record of 230.80 kph ( 143.44 mph ) in a 24-litre Napier-Railton stood at the time of the circuit 's closure .
7 The girl sister Chiang arrives at the wharf at Chungking on her way to rejoin the rebels in the N. of the province , and is met by a communist agent who is rather foppish in his behaviour , and later turns out to be , not surprisingly , a renegade .
8 En route from the crush bar Joshua paused at the palatial Gents .
9 Minutes later McCluskey supplied the final pass to launch centre Alan Hunter in for a second Portadown try at the posts , leaving Brown to convert again to finally kill off Armagh 's stubborn challenge .
10 Nutty 's father advanced , but at that moment Seb appeared at the top of the stairs , grinned and said , ‘ Hi . ’
11 Her husband Mervyn worked at the Swindon railway workshops for 46 years and was frequently exposed to asbestos .
12 Safeway supermarket group Argyll suffered at the hands of profit takers despite impressive full-year results and a confident prediction it can push profits ahead .
13 At that moment Timothy glanced at the two shepherds who had drawn back in consternation .
14 — One explanation is that when visitors to West Africa pointed at the land around them and asked its name the local people though they were indicating a group of nearby women .
15 Yelena Khudiakova 's exhibition of ‘ high fashion using imagery from behind the Iron Curtain' opens at the Birch and Conran gallery in London 's Soho today .
16 Last week Sylvestra opened at the Barbican as Kate to Owen Teale 's Hotspur in Henry IV Part 1 .
17 But at the end of his paper Nagel hints at the possibility of an objective phenomenology .
18 Next morning Doreen arrived at the breakfast table , her attire indicating she was ready to join the horse trek .
19 Across the dale from Aysgarth , Penhill Beacon and West Burton lie at the northernmost end of that beautiful secluded dale , Waldendale .
20 A long wheel-based Lincoln lounged at the kerb outside San Francisco airport , its inner mystery guarded by tinted glass and a lady driver who smiled , ‘ Mr & Mrs Ives ? ’ and strode forward , forcefully relieving Kenneth of our luggage .
21 His daughter Robin said at the family home in Dorking : ‘ Dad had 84 wonderful years . ’
22 After a wild success Raymond died at the age of 20 from typhoid brought about by eating oysters .
23 A WHIFF of competition sent shares in United States chip maker Intel tumbling at the end of March , wiping more than a fifth off the value of what is arguably Silicon Valley 's most important firm .
24 Just like last year , the Premier , wife Norma and daughter Elizabeth relaxed at the eight-bedroom country hacienda in Candeleda near Madrid .
25 Will the Leader of the House find time today to plan a journey from south Norfolk to north-west Norfolk to look at the local health services ?
26 The last thing Melissa wanted at the moment was for Iris to find out that she was planning to probe into the circumstances of Angy 's death .
27 12.7 Current Ulster record holder Emma led at the halfway mark from her sister and Ards ' Gail Hamilton .
28 In a similar way Paris remarks at the end of the scene :
29 Each year Ba'al died at the end of the harvest , was revived , then ascended to his throne and opened a cleft in the clouds so that the rain could fall .
30 This week she 's off on her foreign travels again , destination Scandanavia to look at the secrets behind one of the world 's favourite toys .
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