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1 ROUGH TRADE Your Rights Explained Chris Roan is Head of Technical Services for Cambridgeshire County Council 's Trading Standards Department .
2 The European companies were hoping to meet the deadline set by the International Radio Consultative Committee for the presentation of technical proposals for a new system which , once chosen , would effectively set a world standard , Japan and the USA having already submitted their applications to the Committee .
3 If there is a range of technical possibilities for producing a particular commodity the function of prices is to show the least-cost solution .
4 In yet another report , Lord Hunt of Tamworth ignored the vital issue of technical standards for a future cabling system .
5 THIS MONTH the government will publish both a policy White Paper and a draft of technical standards for the cabling of Britain in the next two or three years .
6 In this context it was noted that : ( i ) 90 per cent of whites used private health facilities [ see also below ] ; and ( ii ) there was a surplus of 11,700 beds for whites and a shortage of 7,000 beds for blacks in the state system .
7 He was also presented with a hand-made set of mini clubs for Princess Bea — but he did n't pop round to Fergie 's to deliver them .
8 In the UK we have disposed of a number of non-strategic assets for a total of £208 million , which will be received in 1993 , while in February this year we also disposed of our remaining businesses in Australia and withdrew from that country .
9 It is impossible to understand the events of Anselm 's years as archbishop — and more particularly the events of the next few years — unless this distinction between his public duty of preserving rights for which his office made him responsible , and his personal duty of obeying commands which he had heard and by implication assented to , is borne in mind .
10 After setting the West Australian team a target of 168 runs for victory , Pakistan managed to restrict the home team to 166–6 in their allocated 45 overs .
11 The same ostentatious pride in Southern good manners also prompted him to sit up immediately when one of the ship 's white-uniformed junior officers appeared at his side bearing a tray of iced drinks for him , his wife and two sons .
12 According to Taft and Ross , the object of this legislation was the ‘ substitution of orderly procedures for trials of combat ’ ( Taft and Ross , 1969:287 ) .
13 SCOTVEC has recently run a series of workshops for college staff involved in the preparation and validation of advanced courses for the 1989–90 Pilot Programme .
14 Very often the last journeys of these beloved objects were accomplished to the tune of distressing protests , or of heart-rending pleas for clemency .
15 The implications of displaced terranes for the investigation of the relationships between tectonics and landform development have yet to be assessed .
16 This arrangement , which appears to have much to recommend it in professional terms as well as adding to the attraction of professional posts for recruiting purposes , has not been taken up on any scale by public libraries .
17 In the late eighteenth century , John and William Hunter had built up collections of anatomical specimens for teaching purposes ; the Hunterian Collection in London became one of the sights not to be missed by the intellectual tourist in the early Victorian period , when Richard Owen was in charge of it .
18 The Milan Congress not only severely retarded the development of generations of deaf children for whom the Oral Method was totally inappropriate but also caused the loss of hundreds of teaching jobs held by deaf people throughout the world in schools for the deaf .
19 They decided Channel Five Holdings would not be able to keep up its proposed network of city-based stations for the full 10 years of the franchise .
20 By 1974 they were used in 56 per cent of guilty cases for adult males but subsequently their proportionate use declined and by 1988 the figure was 42 per cent .
21 Figure 7 shows that treatment of HT-29 cells for 48 hours with DMJ ( 3 mM ) , an inhibitor of golgi mannosidase I , resulted in a decreased adhesion ( p≤0.001 ) of the pretreated cells to laminin ( 8 ( 2 ) % ) of adhesion of untreated controls ) , fibronectin ( 35 ( 6 ) % ) , and collagen type IV ( 39 ( 10 ) % ) .
22 Indena , Italian manufacturer of botanical derivatives for the pharmaceutical , cosmetic and health food industries , turned in a 20 per cent rise in profit in 1991 , on a $6.7m ( £1 = $1.75 ) turnover .
23 Access Opinions Ltd. asked a number of Labour Members for their views on taxation and what the Chancellor should do in the Budget .
24 ALWAYS known by his initials , JPM Millar ran the National Council of Labour Colleges for over 40 years ; an organisation which through classes , lectures , weekend and summer schools , and the massive number of correspondent courses organised by his wife Christine , provided shots and shell for the emerging Labour Movement .
25 They suggest we support a reformed electoral college for the next round of selection , every transition towards the use of the register of Labour supporters for subsequent selection .
26 Each steward will create a list of issuing authorities for all Product and Process Dossiers within their responsibility .
27 The offence is in outline very similar to the pre-existing offence under the Public Order Act 1936 , section 5A , although it adds ‘ behaviour ’ to the list of proscribed activities for the first time .
28 We will play our full part in the design and discussion of monetary institutions for Europe .
29 Edwin Montagu was accused of anti-British motives for his Indian policy ; with Reading as Viceroy there were openings for the diehards " latent anti-semitism .
30 Anthony Kasozi 's work as ACET 's Director in uganda has recently received financial support form Tear Fund which has enabled him , together with ACET General Manager , Maurice Adams , to identify a number of church-based projects for the coming year .
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