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1 The UK Department of Trade & Industry has chosen AT&T EasyLink Services Inc 's Open System-conformant electronic mail service for its Open Systems Programme Initiative : it will be used for communications between Open Systems Programme participants , including blue chip companies , suppliers and consultancies ; the initiative is intended to stimulate take-up and use of open systems within UK industry ; value of the pact was not given .
2 However , in 1990 the government launched a full-scale economic restructuring package for which it sought World Bank support .
3 This established client base for what the Taiwanese call the ‘ first generation ’ artists those who were first inspired by Western modern painting styles and methods , suggested the need for a Taiwan-based secondary market which we , as an auction house , could provide .
4 More from Colin throughout the evening including some second half commentary for you .
5 What did this magnificent cathedral hold for him ?
6 I had been trying for a year to obtain some black Amazon wood for my Discus tank , but my local dealers did not stock it .
7 There 's a moment before the traffic and travel news now for me to remind you that erm if you 're the chairman or the secretary or whatever it happens to be of a particular group whether it be erm the local amateur dramatics society or er a North Yorkshire charity and you 'd like the opportunity to have some prime time publicity for what you 're doing , particularly in the run-up to the Christmas period
8 ‘ Here , ’ he said , trying to keep his voice jolly , ‘ some new tummy thing for you .
9 Rights to Stardent 's Intel Corp 80860 RISC-based Vistra desktop were snapped up by Oki Electric Industry Co for its own use — an effort which subsequently bit the dust ( UX No 384 ) .
10 Mr Beregovoy says he accepted the money from his ‘ friend ’ , Roger-Patrice Pelat , in September 1986 in order to help to buy a modest , 100 square yard flat for himself in the fashionable 16th Arrondissement of Paris , costing 2.5 million francs .
11 In the ensuing public row ( front-page news for weeks in France ) , Berge eventually sacked Barenboim , yet the conductor won the backing of the entire international music community for his stand against bureaucratic interference .
12 No cosy warm Italian family life for him , he told Anna , school , university , crammers , lodgings , his happiest time had been a couple of years recovering from pneumonia with an uncle , the British padre , on the Ligurian coast .
13 Since almost all the basic sports medicine provision within governing bodies of sport is provided by doctors who are either paid nothing or who are given a small honorarium , the prospect of maintaining separate medical defence cover for their voluntary activities may place their valuable contribution to sport in jeopardy .
14 Indeed , it is the only Scottish hotel to have been twice awarded the Royal Automobile Club 's prized BLUE RIBBON AWARD for its superlative levels of service , ambience and facilities .
15 We now have a splendid new bypass road for which thank you very much , the only problem is that it has halved the traffic but doubled the speeds .
16 Pop had bought a large inflated life jacket for me to wear in case of our ship being sunk , in which case you were all to hold on to the cords round my waist , and he would swim round and act as a watchdog !
17 We did in fact have sixty eight patients , unfortunately erm thirteen of these insufficient biopsy material for us to do the count erm and
18 In the accompanying letter we requested that the sample be run out on their typesetter in order to satisfy a client that they were competent to handle a monthly four page newsletter for our mythical client on a 48-hour turn-round basis .
19 I feel too tired to sleep so I play some Despot when I get home but my heart 's not in it and the Empire is still in a tattered-looking state after all the earlier disasters and I 'm almost wondering if I should start again but that would mean going back to the fucking dawn of civilisation and the temptation in Despot is always to swap PoV , which people who do n't know the game always think sounds sort of innocent , like some detail , but it is n't : you 're not just swapping point of View , you 're swapping your current Despotic power Level for something less , even if it 's a regional lord or other king or a general or royal relation close to the throne , and it is not to be done lightly because as soon as you renounce the current Despot 's PoV the computer takes over and it 's a smart fucking piece of software .
20 Mr Major led a concerted attempt to win back Liberal Democrat waverers by warning that proportional representation — a key Liberal Democrat demand for their support in a hung parliament — would lead to the ‘ nightmare of perpetually weak Government ’ .
21 Like other European countries France had a good vocational training programme for her school leavers and young farmers .
22 Consequently , syllabuses and teachers ' guides which depend on the full official time allocation for their completion , and many do , are doomed to failure , whereas a shorter and more manageable core , with optional and enrichment materials for better endowed schools and better teachers would ensure that minimum content was taught .
23 New from the programmable products division of SGS Thomson Microelectronics NV is the STMA2000 family of mixed signal arrays , and a new low-cost fuzzy logic compiler for its ST62 microcontroller family .
24 Among the world class designers providing inventive and important current sailing technology for us are Sparkman & Stephens in the U.S. and Judel/Vrolijk in Europe .
25 K. S. Karol points out that it was the same meeting of the Central Committee ( on 11 July ) which both endorsed Khrushchev 's announcement on 9 July of virtually unlimited economic aid to Cuba and approved his decision to withdraw all Soviet economic aid from China , and argues that the Cuban affair gave Khrushchevan unexpected internationalist alibi' for his anti-Maoist campaign ( Karol : 1971 , p. 204 ) .
26 Sinclair Research has promised to produce a small magnetic storage unit for its Spectrum computer .
27 The specimens consisted of 21 total colectomies ( several performed in two stages ) , 11 subtotal colectomies , and one second stage proctosigmoidectomy for which the corresponding colectomy specimen was not available .
28 The Baughans recruited Johan through an advertisement in Sweden , thinking he would provide a caring male role model for their four children , aged four to 11 .
29 As a former clinical grading officer for my local COHSE branch , I was interested to read NT 's recent articles on clinical regrading and the cost of it all .
30 Ahead of its database announcement in the US tomorrow , IBM France SA on Friday announced the company 's first relational database effort for its RS/6000 Unix , DB2/6000 version 1 .
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