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| 1 | More recently , Edward Shorter has made a similar case for improvements in women 's health status generally as a pre-requisite to an active feminist movement . |
| 2 | It was reported on Feb. 2 that an emergency session of the Moldavian Supreme Soviet Presidium on Jan. 31 had declared a six-month moratorium on " all political events which are likely to cause interethnic strife " . |
| 3 | Northampton-based portable computer peripherals supplier Ranger Computers Ltd has introduced a new version of its RangerDisk3 personal computer compatible floppy disk drive for use with Psion Plc Series 3 handheld computers : it is intended as more convenient means of backing up or transferring Series 3 files than Psion 's Comms Link ; RangerDisk3 has its own version of MS-DOS and connects to the Series 3 via a Psion serial adaptor ; it can be used with the 128Kb and 256Kb models ; the operating software is built in so avoiding the need for program installation on the Series 3 ; file transfer is by the XModem protocol ; it is £200 from Ranger . |
| 4 | General Automation Inc has reported a first quarter net loss of $290,000 down from a loss last time of $594,000 , after tax credits of $225,000 this time , $38,000 last , on turnover that rose 0.4% at $11.1m . |
| 5 | Tandem Computers Inc has opened a new subsidiary in Budapest , increasing the company 's presence in Central and Eastern Europe . |
| 6 | Following the Hewlett-Packard Co and L M Ericsson Telefon AB joint venture , Northern Telecom Ltd and Tandem Computers Inc have announced a global alliance to develop and market telecommunications systems with Intelligent Network capabilities ( CI No 2,116 ) . |
| 7 | Eagan , Minnesota-based Cray Research Inc has introduced a new Y-MP M90 series of supercomputers , claiming that they offer the largest main memories ever , in the hope that they make it possible to solve important scientific and engineering problems that are too large for the memory of any existing computer system to handle efficiently . |
| 8 | San Francisco , California-based Interactive Development Environments Inc has introduced a new Software through Pictures/Information Modelling product , which enables users at a workstation to analyse and customise existing relational database management systems . |
| 9 | Dancing on the podiums at the Milk Bar 's Friday night club Glam has become a hazardous business , due to the frenzied swaying of the Essex Girls that now monopolise them . |
| 10 | The Administration of Estates Act 1925 has provided a uniform method for the administration of all the property of a deceased person . |
| 11 | President Alan Garcia 's socialist government that took office in July 1985 has taken a tolerant view of the informal sector . |
| 12 | The new legislation regarding seat belt wearing in the rear seats of cars which came into effect on 1 July 1991 has had a downward effect on the number of rear seat car passenger casualties . |
| 13 | Trade union bodies demanded a ruling on the bill by the Constitutional Court , which on July 11 had annulled a 1979 decree giving trade unions the right to establish working conditions within an enterprise . |
| 14 | Encom Cable TV & Telecommunications Ltd has launched a local telephone service in Redbridge , Barking and Dagenham , Essex : the service is offered over the company 's fibre trunk cable , which links to Mercury Communications Ltd 's national network ; the company claims that calls are 10% to 15% cheaper that British Telecommunications Plc 's . |
| 15 | The 88open Consortium Ltd has released a compatibilty test suite for applications — in binary and object forms — running under Unix SVR4 on the Motorola Inc 88000 RISC . |
| 16 | The Pensioners ' Party was reported on Sept. 25 to have gained a National Assembly seat when independent deputy Imre Barcza joined the party . |
| 17 | Hekmatyar was reported on Aug. 23 to have received a joint mujaheddin peace delegation representing several provinces , but to have rejected a proposal from Rabbani that a ceasefire should not be conditional on the withdrawal from Kabul of the powerful Uzbek militia led by Gen. Abdul Rashid Dostam . |
| 18 | The latter , s.92(1) ( f ) , a sweeping up provision , would include , for example , ‘ any pond , pool , ditch , gutter or watercourse prejudicial to health or a nuisance ’ , designated a statutory nuisance by s.259(1) ( a ) , and under s.101 certain smoke nuisances , the Clean Air Act 1956 having introduced a new system of control over emissions from chimneys but retained certain emissions as statutory nuisances subject to the control of the 1936 Act . |
| 19 | Silicon Valley Group Inc , San Jose and Canon Inc have agreed a 10-year partnership to develop and produce advanced deep ultraviolet step-and-scan photolithography equipment : under the agreement , Silicon Valley Group , which was saved from oblivion with the help of IBM Corp , will retain full ownership of its Micrascan technology , and Canon will license the technology to market in Japan and other Pacific Rim nations , with the exception of Korea . |
| 20 | In past interviews the Princess Royal has displayed a distinct lack of enthusiasm for pregnancy , describing it as a very boring nine months . |
| 21 | Xylogics Inc has opened a new office in Munich , Germany , that 'll serve the central European German speaking countries , including Austria and Switzerland . |
| 22 | Over the years this has killed a great many Canberra aircrew . |
| 23 | Government revenues for the financial year ending in November 1991 had shown a considerable reduction compared with the previous financial year . |
| 24 | When told that Amnesty International had made a radical new departure in the choice of his successor , a decision that it was hoped would be regarded as courageous , Ian 's response was to nod . |
| 25 | Clarks International has unveiled a new range of sports shoes called Cica . |
| 26 | An aerospace company which has been making large numbers of workers redundant has won a two hundred million pound order . |
| 27 | An aerospace company which has been making large numbers of workers redundant has won a two hundred million pound order . |
| 28 | Singapore Airlines Ltd has awarded a five-year contract to Datamatics Pvt Ltd of Bombay to write software exclusively for the airline : Datamatics will develop software for reservations , cargo handling and departure control applications , and got the business because the airline found it so hard to recruit and retain computer personnel in Singapore ; no value was revealed . |
| 29 | Hitachi Ltd has developed a high-speed text retrieval system for the company 's 3050 Unix workstations . |
| 30 | In March he was summoned north by the news that the negotiations with Louis VII had reached a crucial stage . |