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1 Having taken Sir Lewis to task over the delay in holding the agm and Mr Michel 's joining fee , Mr Middlemass was applauded when he took issue with the extraordinary motion to increase the employees ' discount on share options to 20 per cent .
2 Reports in early April , covering the Rao-Wickremasingh meeting , noted the Indian government 's desire to bring LTTE leader Velupillai Prabhakaran to justice over the May 1991 assassination of Rajiv Gandhi [ see p. 38175 ] ( although no specific request had been made to Sri Lanka ) , and the claim that the LTTE planned a further series of assassinations in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu to counter the state government 's clampdown on its activities there .
3 Hewlett-Packard Co has won a ‘ several hundred million dollar ’ piece of action with PRC Systems Inc , prime contractor for the $2.5bn AFCAC 300 US defence contract : HP is to supply up to 5,200 Unix workstations to PRC over the next five years .
4 Later she sat and watched the golden sky turn to ruby over the roofs , the distant trees of the park blacken and fade .
5 In an earlier article in this Journal , I dealt with the county representation to Westminster over the same period and showed the abuses to which the elections by the Freeholders gave rise .
6 American voters , anxious for a change in economic policy , propelled the Arkansas governor to victory over the Republican President on a tide of discontent .
7 Golf 's leading TV commentator and raconteur was in tremendous form as he led his team of former Ryder Cuppers to victory over the former Walker Cuppers in The Grand Match at Deal .
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