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| 1 | The two groups on the four- and five-year study programme had been denied any science education at all in pre-independence Namibia . |
| 2 | Thamesdown Borough Councillors have been told that expenditure to tackle the problem of subsidence is virtually inescapable . |
| 3 | The UK Queen 's Awards for Industry system has been extended this year to include an environmental category , with twelve companies being judged worthy of recognition for a " significant advance " offering " major benefits in environmental terms compared to existing products , technology or processes " . |
| 4 | ‘ If artists have the right to fail , Glasgay ! does not , ’ says D'Angelo , whose modest £65,000 budget projection has been kept that way by trying to involve many indigenous grant-aided bodies in the year one programme . |
| 5 | The Yorkshire Television switchboard in Leeds with its myriad lines had been jammed all day with calls about Hannah . |
| 6 | The IBM announcement had been expected this month , and the delay is thought to have been occasioned by the need to respond to the Hitachi announcement . |
| 7 | Nigel Kennedy has been promised several free pints when it reopens in November . |
| 8 | He said 90 per cent of the equipment at Al Atheer had been destroyed this week , though the buildings and laboratories , some with three-foot-thick walls , were built to resist attack . |
| 9 | Lam exhibitions have been mounted this month at The Museo Nacional Reina Sofia in Madrid ( until 14 December and then travelling to the Fundació Miró in Barcelona , 21 January–28 March , 1993 ) , the Villa Medici in Rome , the home of the French Academy ( until 24 January 1993 and the first show of the artist 's work in Italy ) and in New York . |
| 10 | Over the mince pies and wine we learned that the Bala band had been formed many years before and had faithful musicians and followers . |
| 11 | In recent years dismissals have been justified much more in terms of the need to rationalize the labour force in the face of external economic problems which are compounded by Japan 's ageing population . |
| 12 | A security guard has been shot several times during a bungled armed robbery attempt outside a bank.The guard was shot in the leg by two men just after he arrived in a security van , but it seems the raiders escaped empty handed . |
| 13 | In 1988 , the Sunday Times Insight team had been sent this dossier , read it and chose not to rely on it . |
| 14 | When the product selection has been made some options for managing records may have been made impossible by the operating environment or application software . |
| 15 | Mr Brian Harvey , owner of Skinnergate Cycles , said lorry congestion had been caused most mornings as delivery men jostled to complete their business before the 10.30 deadline . |
| 16 | However , extracodes are usually distinguished by the fact that operation codes have been allocated to them at the computer hardware design level , either because they will be normal hardwired instructions in some models , or because an instruction requirement has been recognized that is uneconomic to implement in hardware . |
| 17 | Restrictions on water use have been imposed this month in areas of the south and east of the country , which is experiencing the worst drought this century . |
| 18 | TREVOR FRANCIS has been promised more cash for new players despite Sheffield Wednesday 's debts of around £2 million . |
| 19 | Trevor Francis has been promised more cash for new players , despite Sheffield Wednesday 's £2m debt . |
| 20 | The intensity of the water problem has been mentioned several times . |
| 21 | However , such a scheme would never wash with the public — who wants their water supplies to have been treated this way ? |
| 22 | If the control knobs had been placed half an inch or so higher then the selector could be placed below them , thus bringing it nearer to the player 's right hand . |
| 23 | British Rail tell us that the 6.30 Aylesbury to Marylebone train service has been cancelled this evening , while the buses continue to operate a trouble-free service . |
| 24 | TWO hundred baby hedgehogs have been saved this year by RSPCA nurses who fed them scrambled eggs at West Hatch , Somerset . |
| 25 | THE dying Swan Hunter shipyard has been dealt another crushing blow with its failure to win a key £50m order . |
| 26 | Government reports on Oct. 5 claimed that the Hezb-i-Islami forces had been pushed some 30 km outside the city . |
| 27 | SO Lennox Lewis has been crowned this country 's first heavyweight champion for almost a century . |
| 28 | When formal participation schemes have been introduced this has quickened the extension of bargaining to the enterprise level and promoted the integration of works councils into that structure ( Windmüller , 1977 ) . |
| 29 | And , guests were told , Mrs. Jarrett 's first pension cheque had been received that very morning ! |
| 30 | Executive voices have been raised several octaves over the issue ( UX No 433 ) , and there does not appear to be any clear agreement yet on how COSE firms would level this playing field . |