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1 This will take place at the Midlands Arts Centre at 5pm on Thursday 3 October , and the discussion will be led by Terry Staples , who programmes the childrens films for the London Film Festival , and Lewis Rudd , Controller Young Peoples ' Programmes at Central Television , with other invited educationalists and childrens ' programme makers .
2 At the beginning of August he left for a two and a half months ' rest at sequestered Welsh and English houses .
3 The UN 's International Comparison Program ( ICP ) is the most ambitious effort to revalue developing countries ' output at international prices .
4 Foxfield Railway stalwart Steve Turner 's ex-NCB Hunslet Saddle Tank ‘ Whiston ’ was invited to spend three working days ' holiday at British Coal 's Littleton Colliery near Cannock , Staffs by its enthusiastic Manager , Mr Robin Dean .
5 Although wishing to increase membership , Council was anxious that direct entry was not seen as an easy option and instructed the M&R Committee to apply rigorously the requirement that the candidates demonstrate at least five years ' experience at senior level in credit management and to raise to 30 years the minimum age .
6 In July he succeeded in settling two years ' disruption at heavy labour cost ( 26 per cent ) and in his all-too-brief career he also announced a 5.9 trillion lire investment programme to be completed in 1995 , divided between fleet expansion ( 3.4 trillion lire ) and ground upgrading .
7 Moving on its drive to attract as many ISVs to UnixWare as possible , Univel has kicked off another phase of its developers ' programme that will get the software into vendors ' hands at reduced prices : Independent software vendors can get a Personal Edition bundled with a Software Developers Kit for $600 and a Application Server bundled with a SDK for $900 .
8 The banks utilized domestic and foreign financial resources , they were shareholders of and suppliers of credits to domestic and foreign industrial companies , they combined the short-term business of deposit banking with the long-term business of investment banking and also provided stockbroker services , managed their clients ' portfolios , acquired shares and voted their own and their customers ' stock at general meetings of joint-stock companies .
9 Talks with Courtaulds Coatings in Australia raised difficulties which could not be resolved — customers ' demands at opposite ends of the earth were just too difficult .
10 However , they clung on to a victory which served to rekindle hopes among the travelling support that all was not lost after all in the title race , especially after news leaked through of Rangers ' demise at Celtic Park .
11 Similarly , in many cases the education of teachers ' children at concessionary rates is neither discretionary nor dependent on there being surplus capacity .
12 However , as he wrote in the following May , it galled him to be expected to do so and still to be refused admission to the members ' enclosures at smart meetings .
13 At 31 May 1992 the Tottenham group balance sheet showed cost of players ' registrations at net book value of £9.803m ( v £8.697m ) under intangible assets .
14 Clearly there is a belief that by demonstrating that they know what kinds of attainment targets can be identified in children 's work at different ages , art teachers will bring much greater credibility to their subject .
15 The latest painting is a colourful mural in Ballybeen Estate , where artist Ken Parker has incorporated ideas and images from children 's paintings at Ballybeen Activity Centre .
16 A CHILDREN 'S ward at world-famous Guy 's Hospital has been closed after two babies died .
17 I agree also that it is absurd to suggest that there is anything wrong with national testing of pupils ' progress at certain ages , both to inform parents and to inform localities about the performance of their schools .
18 Subscriptions to professional bodies , group membership of local clubs and patrons ' seats at local theatres and concerts might all feature in advertisements for staff .
19 Taking the radical students ' ideals at face-value one might have expected them to see this incident as yet another example of oppression by a fascist regime and protest against it — after all , they protested enough when it used such methods against its own people .
20 Mr Engholm had thought of resigning after the Social Democrats ' battering at local elections in Hesse last March .
21 More important , he delivered nearly a quarter of the Christian Democrats ' votes at national elections as a faithful lieutenant of Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti .
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