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1 The new part , code-named T5 , is expected to deliver more than 200 SPECint and 300 SPECfp and to serve as the heart of the powerful desktop systems running Microsoft Corp 's Windows NT and Unix operating systems .
2 The new part , code-named T5 , is expected to deliver more than 200 SPECint and 300 SPECfp and to serve as the heart of the powerful desktop systems running Microsoft Corp 's Windows NT and Unix operating systems .
3 especially rural society , in medieval England and to answer some of the basic questions relating to it .
4 He intended to resign his post as physician to the Infirmary the following February and to leave in March .
5 The Soviet side had initially responded with a counterproposal involving ceilings for both sides of either 225,000 or 195,000 troops for Europe as a whole ( thereby calling on the United States either to accept an imbalance of 30,000 troops in Central Europe or to withdraw some or all its forces from the other countries ) , but accepted the original proposal after the US side had rejected this alternative formula .
6 The workshop , which will be supported by WACC , aims to help establish a network of Christian broadcasters in Eastern and Central Europe and to contribute to the renewal of Christian life and faith in the region .
7 Russia 's armies were adequate to increase her influence in central Asia and to inflict further defeats on both Turkey and Persia , thereby extending Russian rule in the Caucasus .
8 CMF plan to erect a statue in Central London and to establish an exchange scholarship scheme for Canadian and British students .
9 The decision was strongly opposed by the Labour Party who suspected the Conservative minister of being more concerned to destroy the Labour-controlled LCC than to reform local government .
10 In the context of a carefully chosen example , this study seeks both to further understanding of kinship and marriage systems in mediterranean Europe and to provide an exemplar of the combination of historical and anthropological research methods .
11 These expressed hostility to Britain 's pre-eminent position , the demand for greater democracy in the country , and a widely held belief that the Hashemites had an understanding with Israel not to attempt to recapture any of Israeli Palestine but to punish severely any Palestinian who violated the Armistice Line .
12 Visits to Hungary and Czechoslovakia by Soares in late 1989 indicated an intention to acquire some influence in the transformed Eastern Europe and to seize fresh economic opportunities .
13 In 1783 she proceeded to annex the nominally independent Crimea and to construct a large Black Sea fleet .
14 A first task accomplished during term 1 is to establish the current FTEs by school and department , fixed by a census on 1 November and to use both this information and the proposed NAB support to fix school and department targets for 1988–89 .
15 Partly because of this British presence , the Belgian Army was able to begin evacuating Antwerp on 8 October and to make an orderly retreat along the coast .
16 Guinness has an arrangement with Lion Nathan to brew and distribute Draught Guinness and to package Guinness Original in New Zealand .
17 Ayatollah Mohammad Bakr al-Hakim , head of the country 's largest Shia organization , the Supreme Assembly of the Islamic Revolution in Iraq ( SAIRI ) , was also reported on Aug. 25 to have approved " safe havens " in southern Iraq but to have declined to back the use of Western aircraft to enforce an air exclusion zone .
18 He desired to subjugate the whole of Moslem Spain and to integrate this vast tract of land into his own kingdom , which would then be the single greatest state in the country .
19 Early evidence of the musical progress of the two children survives in the form of a small music book ( 3 ) prepared by Leopold , initially for Nannerl 's use , but subsequently used also to indicate the works learnt by the four-year-old Mozart and to record his earliest compositions , K.1a-d .
20 So we are proposing an aggressive programme of new prevention initiatives … to promote a healthier America and to help keep costs from spiralling .
21 Selim was the first Turkish ruler to attempt to understand the currents of thought in western Europe and to come to terms with the contemporary world .
22 The speculation aroused by the British Chancellor of the Exchequer 's statements at the Ecofin meeting in September 1991 that there could be an inner core of eight countries served to emphasise the difficulties of reconciling such a proposal with a wider Europe and to draw attention to the two-speed concept .
23 Learn , then , that on the stage The worst thing 's not to be the newest Larry But to hear behind your back Tom , Dick or Harry Being greeted by the critics with ‘ Hosanna !
24 Wirral 's Olympic hero Chris Boardman will be present to open the event next Saturday and to offer encouragement to those taking part .
25 It has to report to the South West Thames Regional Health Authority by next February and to highlight any necessary action for the chief executive of the London Ambulance Service .
26 ‘ My life is hard indeed ’ — the life of the leader of a feudal host , whose business it was to defend and protect his followers ; the ruler of fair France , la douce France , whose business it was to protect and govern his country ; the emperor of Christendom , whose business it was to maintain the fortress of Christian Europe and to expand its borders .
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