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1 On 21 February 1944 , the British sent a draft agenda of their thinking on civil aviation to the State Department .
2 A vital ingredient on any trip to the sub-continent is morale — coping with Delhi belly , waiting for room service that never arrives and queueing for hours in chaotic airport terminals .
3 Feedback on these seminars to date has been encouraging .
4 Indeed a mill design developed during the 1950s was turned down by a local planning enquiry : one of the aims of the CEGB 's current wind programme is to gain some feedback on public attitudes to modern designs .
5 Materia , the Second Circuit thought that ‘ one who misappropriates non-public information in breach of a fiduciary duty and trades on that information to his own advantage ’ was in violation of the law .
6 Franco landed in Tetuán on 19 July to a rapturous welcome from rebel officers .
7 The ‘ Bathers ’ is the second Cézanne on this theme to be offered at Christie 's this year .
8 The proposal , put forward by the Inter-American Development Bank ( IADB ) , appears to be aimed at defusing the strong US opposition on environmental grounds to the North American Free Trade Agreement ( NAFTA ) between Canada , Mexico and the United States .
9 He explained his interest in moral , political , and legal issues as that of ‘ an economist who discovered that if he was to draw from his technical knowledge conclusions relevant to the public issues of our time , he had to make up his mind on many questions to which economics did not supply an answer ’ .
10 As well as assisting technology development , MITI organized a leasing corporation to lease only Japanese computers on competitive terms to those available abroad .
11 Dr Pearce is the special adviser on environmental economics to Chris Patten .
12 Junior army officers support the idea of a volunteer force and one of their leaders , Major Vladimir Lopatin , is now an adviser on military affairs to Mr Yeltsin .
13 These tasks include proof-printing large numbers of entries , adding new entries to the Working-Set , removing completed entries from the Working-Set , and passing completed entries on magnetic tape to the typesetting operator .
14 PROFESSIONAL footballers talked about their personal goals when they gave a talk on physical fitness to an Essex joggers ' club .
15 It was an opportunity to raise concerns about everything from external examiners to the assessment of modular courses , from a pamphlet on mature students to course regulations .
16 This combination of techniques has also enabled the Ca 2+ signal that permeates NMDA channels on dendritic spines to be detected ( Fig. 2 ) .
17 Another 500 East Germans came out through Hungary in the 24 hours to yesterday morning , bringing the total who have left since Hungary opened its borders on 11 September to 26,500 .
18 The flow of East German refugees swelled during the 24 hours to Sunday morning from the normal 500-600 to 1,184 , bringing the number who have taken that route since Hungary opened its borders on 11 September to 35,000 .
19 The answer , and it 's one which casts a disturbing light on British attitudes to aircraft manufacture , becomes obvious when you visit Socata 's Tarbes base .
20 Plenty of dual instruction is needed to be safe , and then it requires constant practice on high approaches to be able to sideslip effectively .
21 The condom campaign will probably be followed up with action on other attitudes to the virus .
22 BOOK OFFER special deal on new guide to Czechoslovakia
23 Although the operation was deferred until July , Eliot spent a period in hospital on account of an attack of his chest complaint , which may have owed its onset on this occasion to the emotional blow that he had received .
24 Sukarno was included as the populist leader of the masses ( his seven years in exile notwithstanding ) ; Hatta was chosen as a cosmopolitan intellectual ; Jaji Mas Mansur was former chairman of Muhammadiyah ; and Dewantoro was an educationist , sponsor of national schools on similar lines to Tagore .
25 The Franks Report suggested that : ‘ British Government policies which may have served to cast doubts on British commitment to the Islands and their defence [ include ] the Government 's preparedness , subject to certain restrictions , to continue arms sales to Argentina ( and to provide training facilities in the United Kingdom for Argentine military personnel ) . ’
26 The next stop was the nuclear Businesses , accompanied by , where our work on technical services to Japanese nuclear facilities and special services for the MoD and nuclear generating companies was described .
27 In Edinburgh this week , the moral issues raised by genetic engineering — ranging from work on human genes to developing non-softening tomatoes — are to be raised at an event sponsored by the Church of Scotland .
28 Restrictions on East-West trade were reviewed in line with recommendations made by a meeting of the COCOM member country trade experts in Paris on Feb. 14-15 , to reduce limitations on security-sensitive exports to Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union .
29 In the vicinity of the village in the Cartmel Fells , particularly at Mireside , half a mile south , and at Poll Bank Farm , two miles south on minor road to Witherslack , ‘ spinning galleries ’ may be observed built into farmhouses .
30 That now looks improbable , first of all because the new , bloated Heritage department turns the Arts Council and its peers into smaller fish in a bigger pond that stretches from broadcasting on one side to museums on the other .
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