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1 IBM also said unit sales of personal computers were up 40% on a year-to-year basis and the IBM Personal Computer Co was profitable in the first quarter — but does that mean simply that as a quasi-autonomous company , a load of corporate overhead has been lifted from it and dumped elsewhere ?
2 IBM also said unit sales of personal computers were up 40% on a year-to-year basis and the IBM Personal Computer Co was profitable in the first quarter — but does that mean simply that as a quasi-autonomous company , a load of corporate overhead has been lifted from it and dumped elsewhere ?
3 Furthermore , the causal direction hypothesis is consistent with the argument of Shultz et al .
4 These arguments were advanced in a case about an architect whose position as the certifier under a building contract is different from the position of a valuer , because the architect 's client is the employer under the building contract , and the employer and the contractor do not instruct the architect jointly .
5 Despite their responsibility for investigating lesser frauds , computer expertise is thin on the ground .
6 He also released a secret document dated October 1990 showing that the Defence Ministry was worried about the amount of high-tech products being exported to Iraq .
7 Even though Compaq Computer Corp is infatuated with the NeXT Computer Inc 's NextStep environment , claiming it delivers today what the Taligent IBM Corp/Apple Computer Inc joint venture can only promise , and what Sun Microsystems Inc and Hewlett-Packard Co have yet to materialise , it seems in no particular hurry to cut that OEM deal Steve Jobs is after .
8 The case study is typical of the TPS in action where priorities have been the developing of effective communication and the reinforcing of the concept of teams within teams .
9 In UC , rates of butyrate metabolism were similar in the ascending ( 92.5 ( 58.3 ) nmol/h-µg protein ) and descending ( 93.3 ( 115 ) ) colon , and these were not significantly different from controls .
10 In controls glutamine metabolism was greater in the ascending ( mean ( SD ) ) ( 4.9 ( 3.2 ) nmol/h/µg protein ) than in the descending colon ( 1.4 ( 0.7 ) ) ( p<0.05 , Mann-Whitney U test ) , but butyrate metabolism was similar in the two regions ( ascending 62.6 ( 44.2 ) , descending 51.5 ( 32.0 ) ) .
11 ‘ The master , Professor John Albery , and fellows of University College are delighted at the election of a University man to the presidency of the United States . ’
12 The price of the March index future was equal to the no-arbitrage value of ( 2400 × 25 - 1500 ) × 1.08 = £63180 .
13 On completion of timber treatment or chemical damp coursing the contractor will normally issue a long-term guarantee , but the number of unqualified contractors offering these guarantees for timber treatment and dampcoursing has increased rapidly and this section of the building industry is high on the list of Company failures .
14 The fact that all three babies had been born with an incurable heart condition was characteristic of the Rollerson side of the family , but Maud preferred to blame her husband , and the marriage suffered as a consequence .
15 The glucose level was normal for the time of day , and everyone was pleased .
16 The jeep driver was pleased at the opportunity to get away for a few hours and we set off about 3 p.m. , arriving in the area of the Highland Division a short time later , after following their divisional signs along the country lanes .
17 Although interobserver error and the different weighing devices used to weigh infants might have caused variability in the data , the association between birth weight and adult β cell function was significant at the 1% level .
18 The economical shuffle of the marathon runner is useless for the 10K runner , because the latter is developing more power in each stride .
19 However , the USA have never ratified the Warsaw Convention so as far as air carrier liability is concerned within the USA the sky is the limit and any party whose negligence can be proved is liable .
20 Some of the Eclair exercises were faulty in the sense that the tape support was superfluous to the children who had done it already .
21 The German Bund contract was strong from the outset , probably due to the previously unsatisfied demand for derivatives based on German bonds , but this has been strengthened considerably by the reunification of Germany and the resulting uncertainty about long term yields on German paper .
22 He posits that some of the changing trends in baseball violence are due to the increased commercialisation of the sport .
23 That kind of doppelgänger effect was common in the City .
24 Several studies have shown that mucosal cell proliferation is uniform throughout the various segments of the colon in normal subjects , in those with adenomatous polyps or colon cancer , and in those with hereditary risk factors for colon malignancy .
25 Median ( range ) symptom scores at the lowest glucose concentration were similar for the two insulins ( total score : human 8 ( 0–21 ) v porcine 6 ( 0–31 ) ( 95% confidence interval -4 to 3 , Z =0.54 , p=0.59 ) ; autonomic score : 3 ( 0–9 ) v 3 ( 0–10 ) , ( -2 to 2 , Z =-0.25 , p=0.79 ) ; and neuroglycopenic score : 2 ( 0–16 ) v 5 ( 0–21 ) , ( -3.5 to 2 , Z =-0.47 , p=0.63 ) ) .
26 Biliary protein concentration was similar between the two groups .
27 Further details and application forms for postgraduate study are available from the Administrative Officer ( Postgraduate ) , Faculty of Arts , University of Edinburgh , David Hume Tower , George Square , Edinburgh EH8 9JX .
28 Since the overall size of the labour force was similar during the whole period , the conclusion seems inescapable that
29 ( d ) Post-dissolution profits Section 42 of the Partnership Act is concerned with the rights of outgoing partners in certain cases to share profits made after dissolution : ( 1 ) Where any member of a firm has died or otherwise ceased to be a partner , and the surviving or continuing partners carry on the business of the firm with its capital or assets without any final settlement of accounts as between the firm and the outgoing partner or his estate , then , in the absence of any agreement to the contrary , the outgoing partner or his estate is entitled at the option of himself or his representatives to such share of the profits made since the dissolution as the Court may find to be attributable to the use of his share of the partnership assets , or to interest at the rate of five per cent per annum on the amount of his share of the partnership assets .
30 Part B of this interim report to the Science and Engineering Research Council is concerned with the initial destinations of research students working in the information engineering area whose SERC studentships were due to end during 1984 .
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