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31 This approach has many parallels with empowerment in the developmental model , the main differences lying in the social worker 's level of commitment to the existing social order .
32 Airmen Anonymous ( Merlin Books , 45pp , sbk , £3.95 ) by Trevor Holman is one man 's story of life in the RAF as a member of the groundcrew .
33 Press on Regardless by Stanley Humphrey , is one man 's story of life in the RAF from 1934 to 1946 .
34 ‘ As nasty a thing as I 've looked at for many a day ’ , says one of the characters in Trollope 's Vicar of Bullhampton of the local Nonconformist chapel .
35 With hindsight , the beginnings can be seen with the British Rail Pension Fund 's purchase of paintings in the mid-1970s .
36 The contractor 's provision of float within the programme is there to cover items that are at the contractor 's own risk and in general should not be used to abate any extension of time to which the contractor may be entitled .
37 After three-and-a-half years at Rugby Park , Fleeting decided that last week 's 3–1 defeat by Partick Thistle had effectively closed the door on Kilmarnock 's hope of promotion to the Premier Division this season .
38 Until the watershed of 1979 , few restraints on a Home Secretary 's freedom of action in the mainstream stemmed from the political ideology of his party or ministerial colleagues .
39 If there are to be significant changes in people 's experience of work in the future , these are , concludes Gallie , much more likely to be brought about by changes in cultural values , in institutional arrangements , or in management attitudes or trade union objectives ( Gallie 1978 , 317 ) .
40 Swan Hunter 's experience of shipbuilding for the navy makes it well placed to win a contract .
41 Sinclair and Coulthard ( 1975 ) show that much of a child 's experience of language in the classroom , in terms of teacher-pupil exchanges , is marked by a pattern of Initiation — Response — Feedback .
42 The charter recording Aethelbald 's grant of land to the monastery of Abingdon in Berkshire between 726 and 737 , in which he is styled ‘ king of the Angles of Britain' ( CS 155 : S 93 ) , is a forgery and unacceptable as an authentic record , but its attestation by Aethelheard , king of the West Saxons , while on expedition beyond the Severn against the Britons , could derive from a genuine fragment .
43 Both sides expressed opposition to Israel 's settlement of immigrants in the occupied territories , and endorsed proposals to hold a Palestinian-Israeli dialogue , to further the Middle East peace process and to facilitate preparation for a possible UN international conference on the region , to be attended by all parties including the PLO and permanent members of the UN Security Council .
44 The reactions of Lev Tolstoy , who sympathized with Tocqueville 's admiration of paternalism in the French countryside , and Chicherin , who admired the French centralization which Tocqueville found distasteful , said much about the two men 's very different attitudes towards the quandary in which Russia found herself , but turned on the second rather than the third part of Tocqueville 's study .
45 Popular discontent subsequently resulted in the government 's loss of support in the October local government election results and the taxi-drivers ' strike at the end of the same month [ see p. 37791 ] .
46 The family 's loss of control over the youth is crucial to his development in sport , for , if there was a more balanced social management within the West Indian community , it is likely that the vibrance and energy expended in sport could be directed into more orthodox areas .
47 Mr justifies abandoning the approach in and on the basis that the decision was arrived at in a different housing market , when it was reasonable to conclude that the plaintiff 's loss of interest on the capital employed would be exceeded by the increase in the value of the property .
48 Quietly , amid the fall-out of Saturday 's defeat of Wales by the All Blacks , the Welsh Rugby Union and the Merit Table organisation meet on Monday night to discuss the issue .
49 Montenegro 's complement of seats in the FRY Assembly was filled when the Montenegrin Assembly on July 2 elected a further five deputies to the Chamber of Republics .
50 The Festival is the brainchild of the Prime Minister John Major and is intended to celebrate Britain 's term of presidency of the European Council , which runs from July to December 1992 .
51 Much of this now forms part of Africa 's stock of debt as the recipient countries have been unable to service their export credits , and has become a burden on the export credit guarantee agencies of the EC governments .
52 Britain 's stock of plutonium from the civil power programme is estimated to be enough to build 14000 missile warheads .
53 In one sense , this can be read as the Eastern District 's response to the Ashby Committee 's vote of confidence in the WEA little more than three years before .
54 Faster still was the air-speed record of 1666mph set by Col Mosolov of the USSR in 1962 , the rocket-powered X-15 's speed of 4104mph in the same year , and Jacqueline Cochran 's 1964 women 's air speed record of 1429mph in a Lockhead Starfighter .
55 Walker 's study of students at the University of Warwick is concerned with all mature students , however within this he distinguishes two groups , one in which the students did meet the university 's General Entrance Requirements ( GER ) and the second in which they did not ( Walker 1975 ) .
56 The scheme forms part of the Ecu62 million second phase of the EC 's programme of assistance to the nuclear industry in the former Soviet Union .
57 Compact and the DTI Education and Enterprise Initiative share a common launch-pad in the Government 's programme of action for the inner cities .
58 Yes do we have much idea of men 's perception of women in the play .
59 RON 'S PIECE OF PARADISE IN THE CONCRETE JUNGLE
60 The failure of ACAS to ascertain the opinion of the non-union members ( who numbered two-thirds of all those employed ) rendered void ACAS 's recommendation of recognition for the union .
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