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1 THE Anglo-Swedish consortium bidding for Sea Containers , the Sealink ferries-to-Orient Express group , yesterday raised its hostile offer to $1.036billion ( £659 million ) in a move to scupper James Sherwood 's defence plan which involves selling the Isle of Wight service and the port of Harwich .
2 OPPOSITION is mounting to a controversial rule which has robbed a Middlesbrough student of his last chance to run in the English Schools Cross Country Championships .
3 Though they can enjoy the advantages of the single market , they do run the risk of losing the inward investment which has favoured the UK so far .
4 Finally , art and design have increasingly been a part of proposals for courses leading to the award of Bachelor of Education degrees and Diplomas in Higher Education , a development which has posed the CNAA with some problems in guiding and assessing both the content and standard of such courses .
5 It was his desire to play the Senior Tour and his love of golf which has given the Notts professional the inspiration to overcome his terrible injuries and pick up where he left off a little more than a year ago .
6 Victory for Old Kingstonians at home to Oxford Hawks , the Peroni South League champions ( 2pm ) , will take them into the Pizza Express while defeat will put them in the South League , which has absorbed the London League .
7 Du Pont Pixel which has developed the XGL library for Sun , is already rolling out OGI-compliant hardware and software , and launched its Sbus accelerator board at the SunExpo last week .
8 The Rock Garden promises to be the city 's largest live music venue with a restaurant and bar , and will be aiming to maintain the high standards of fine fare , good music and unique atmosphere , which has made the London Rock Garden at Covent Garden such a huge success .
9 A further trend in curricular organisation at large , and one which has made the ESSE/L Project particularly timely , is the emphasis given to approaches involving the whole school and across-the-curriculum approaches .
10 Environmentalists said that Mr MacGregor had been ill-advised , and pointed out that the Department 's environmental assessment policies had been criticized by both the EC [ which has threatened the UK with legal action over the matter — see ED no. 52 ] and the government 's Standing Committee on Trunk Road Assessment .
11 ‘ What we can certainly not be are black racists who turn their back on the philosophy which has inspired the ANC since its birth , ’ he said .
12 Meanwhile Central South has been investigating the company which has taken the Harris family to court .
13 The boat is the last of the White Funnel fleet which has plied the Bristol Channel since Victorian times .
14 Marathon , which has mined the North Sea for 20 years , examined geological surveys of its Irish Sea block before applying for a licence .
15 In January 1923 , France invaded the coalfields of the Ruhr in an attempt to enforce delivery of reparation coal , thereby triggering the hyper-inflation which helped to undermine the Weimar Republic and open the way for Hitler .
16 A feature of the safety approach favoured by the CEGB is the use of microprocessor technology in a bid to side-step the errors by operators which helped cause the Three Mile Island accident in the US four years ago .
17 There will be no complaints from 26-year-old Flowers , even though it was his self-confidence which seemed to infect an England team short of inspiration in the past two weeks .
18 The collapse of EDC was a bitter blow to the European movement , made worse by the fact that in October , after a crisis which threatened to rend the Atlantic alliance apart , France accepted West German rearmament within NATO , the very thing she had rejected in 1950 .
19 On May 22 , 1990 , the new Premier Antall read the government programme which included joining the EC within the decade as well as becoming a member of the new European security order .
20 I wish to call attention to the need for regional government in England , and I beg to move , ’ That this House deplores the excessive centralisation of government in the United Kingdom since 1979 and the failure to decentralise and devolve power to the nations and regions of the United Kingdom ; notes that this is in direct contrast to the general trend towards decentralisation evidence elsewhere in Europe ; furthermore deplores the severe cuts in the regional assistance budget since 1979 together with the failure to enact dynamic and effective regional economic policies which would have promoted balanced economic growth and prosperity ; expresses alarm at the regional divisions which continue to characterise the United Kingdom economy ; and considers that the creation of a regional tier of government in the English regions as well as national devolution to Scotland and Wales is now vital to the United Kingdom 's future economic and political well-being .
21 The method described in this section has been used by Halilsoy ( 1988 b ) to obtain a class of solutions which appears to generalize the Szekeres solutions .
22 Seaweed conditioner , mangelwurzel scalp massage , follicle repair builder and a perm and colour rejuvenator , which appears to have a Ph.D .
23 In a further blow to inter-Korean relations , the Agency for National Security Planning ( NSP ) , South Korea 's main internal security agency , claimed on Dec. 26 that it had thwarted a conspiracy linked with North Korea which aimed to overthrow the South Korean government .
24 COINCIDENTALLY , the Corporation meeting in 1898 which discussed closing the Tubwell Row pump , also rejected the Southend Estate Co 's invitation to buy The Rookery in Grange Road .
25 It came as the Labour leadership put its weight behind a tactical Commons move which threatens to wreck the Maastricht bill or force the Government to accept the social chapter .
26 It was not thought worthwhile extending the practice to trams , which continued to follow the L.C.C .
27 Regarding the strikes , disputes and restrictive practices which had plagued the Dublin plant , these were all unfortunate legacies of the British system which had been foisted upon the Irish since before the First World War .
28 His success depended upon the general agreement on atomic weights and formulae which had followed the Karlsruhe Conference of 1860 ; after the conference delegates had read the paper of S. Cannizzaro , and came to agree with its recommendations .
29 It was widely known , however , that China had been pressing for a Japanese imperial visit for some time as a means of marking a further stage in the country 's rehabilitation from the diplomatic isolation which had followed the Tiananmen Square massacre .
30 Again there was a problem of lawlessness even greater than the average over the country as a whole , exacerbated by the disorders which had followed the Glyn Dwr revolt .
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