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[001] might append to his 10: 1. In a media age, when every _____ and gesture of a Royal has potential impact, it is i
[002] t travellers as well as architects and scholars, they _____ easily through the regions. Indeed, one criticism mig
[003] 's Cross north of the railway terminus is unlikely to _____ ahead for many months - if at all. The masterplan for
[004] r waver in the closeness of their mutual dialogue and _____ easily between forceful classical dynamics and quiet
[005] t. Mr Levy- Lang is casual about CB's expansion. The _____ into consumer finance, he said, was chiefly caused b
[006] ng for the first time ever. This is the great genuine _____ in the tea price". There is evidence to support the
[007] omers. Following legislative reforms, it has red as a _____ designed to ward off a takeover bid. If Pearl decide
[008] buyer. Stories that the Willis Faber stake is on the _____ have circulated in the past, with West German banks t
[009] orting policy. But there are, apparently, no plans to _____ the group from the UK. Andrew Mills and Brian Sturge
[010] gement of the logic of the deal and the boldness of a _____ that has brought not only Caradon products but its hi
[011] re the half stake owned by the Metromedia group. The _____ puts new pressure on Metromedia's partner in the New
[012] re sharply divided on which offer to accept. "McCaw's _____ forces LIN to make a decision," said Guy Weyser-Prat
[013] Georgia. One New York arbitrageur described McCaw's _____ as a smart one, and went on to predict that LIN woul
[014] orning. "It came as quite a surprise", said one. The _____ marks an extraordinary volte face on the part of Coop
[015] or directors at Coopers yesterday told staff that the _____ would provide the firm with a wider audit base. Deloit
[016] lanning to sell its present ground in east London and _____ half a mile down the road to create a leisure and co
[017] rket stage a partial late rally. There was a similar _____ in New York. Continued liquidation and heavy selling
[018] ion is likely to fall in the current year as builders _____ from buying to renting plant. ’Ä¢Business & City Page
[019] ing only to end up as a miscellaneous industrial. The _____ is symbolic of what has been going on at H∧C sin
[020] s key lending rates by as much as one full point _ a _____ which could prompt a rise in UK base rates, now 14 p
[021] be put into effect "as soon as is practicable". The _____ , which has been presented as a fait accompli, effecti
[022] red two Dutch companies for Ir £11.7m ( £10m). The _____ strengthens CRH's retailing operations in the Netherl
[023] lop proposals for a clearing house in securities. The _____ follows the announcement in July by the International
[024] hairman of British Steel, conceded yesterday that the _____ was largely a defensive one to prevent the business f
[025] f housing for blacks in South Africa's urban areas, a _____ welcomed by Nthato Motlana, chairman of Soweto's civ
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[001] lic opinion have become apparent. However, there was _____ a clear vote taken by the public, although a Gallup po
[002] nteriors, invented by design consultants who probably _____ even see many of the buildings they wreck, are insta
[003] ound India in an armchair By JONATHAN GLANCEY IF YOU _____ get to India, the Penguin Guide to the Monuments of I
[004] pediment, a colonnade and windows with spacing bars. _____ mind the quality, feel the neo-Palladianism. The Podi
[005] ove a tight, vertical rhythm of stretched pilasters, _____ forgetting that a humane building needs interest at p
[006] ojection or glazed expressions). Bristow and Trevitt _____ waver in the closeness of their mutual dialogue and m
[007] evening's success should be put down to music which _____ ceases to delight by the sophistication of its contin
[008] raception, was conceived as a movie by Mel Frank but _____ born. A different kind of period piece, Changing Pla
[009] ces, was optioned for Hollywood by Otto Plaschkes but _____ reached the screen. Subsequently, the apotheosis of
[010] g the four Rachmaninov songs, the oriental- sounding _____ sing to me again the songs of Georgia was particular
[011] screen. "Millions of people will see the film who'd _____ step into a theatre to save their lives. You have to
[012] ointly written screenplay for Paul MacCartney, which " _____ saw the light of day - a damn shame, because it was
[013] y complex. Providing a continuous texture, the music _____ pales and only in the shock-horror theme associated w
[014] TIL Mind Bomb it was easy to see why Matt Johnson had _____ toured The The during its 10-year life span: the gro
[015] The The during its 10-year life span: the group was _____ more than a shifting collection of session players an
[016] . The classical piece Cale always claimed was in him _____ emerged, mainly because the showman in him wouldn't
[017] e in the early 1980s. "We stirred it up, yes, but we _____ lost any money for anybody and we
[018] lost any money for anybody and we _____ added to the unemployment figures". What he has learn
[019] e they saw in the Dordogne last summer have probably _____ heard of Compagnie Bancaire. But since 1988 they may
[020] ure on display for a while are very remote. They were _____ that high with colour monitors to start with, and wit
[021] s grown organically and can continue to do so. It has _____ lost an artist from its record label, supposedly beca
[022] iously volatile structure with some skill. But it has _____ really shown that it has any new ideas about where it
[023] d all sorts of chemicals operations. But H∧C has _____ really addressed the question of why these diverse b
[024] reject Boeing's three- year contract offer. "You'll _____ be in a better position than you are now," Justin Ost
[025] n a former aerodrome in the Wiltshire countryside was _____ satisfactorily explained. In any event, production a
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[001] ons" to the architectural and planning problems - the _____ direction he is taking towards the past - were rejec
[002] go to remove these seems to have been motivated by a _____ mistrust of classical architecture as well as by the
[003] y Lodge fans but tend to agitate the unconverted. In _____ , Nice Work transfers perfectly to television. The dia
[004] t as Andrew Palmer, deputy finance director at Legal & _____ Investments warned at the same conference, "like all
[005] tics and nature. The political factor is the imminent _____ election. Fearful of the consequences of higher tea p
[006] ational collaboration there could be interference and _____ chaos. Similarly, there is an international agreement
[007] chnology and time. Word- processors, because of their _____ similarity with the typewriter, are exceptionally eas
[008] steel producers, which could be formalised under the _____ Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT). Those countrie
[009] basis of the optimistic tone of the statement and the _____ state of the market than from any in-depth analysis o
[010] 599p on talk the signalled bid or deal with Ford or _____ Motors (or even a European group) is near. Guinness,
[011] ent of Compagnie Financiere de Suez of France. Legal & _____ reached a co- operation deal in August 1989 with Kyoe
[012] hi listing: Mitsubishi has became the first Japanese _____ trading company to be listed on the London Stock Exc
[013] ndled the UK end of clients such as Merrill Lynch and _____ Motors. These audits will more than likely switch to
[014] g to mount a bid. Jaguar was inspired by stories that _____ Motors was preparing to bid. The shares roared ahead
[015] the contract period prices would remain "within the _____ movement of prices in the economy". But, speaking at
[016] ns Publishers, which he said would be "an independent _____ publisher across a wide spectrum. The main thrust wil
[017] ker, with investors unwilling to take positions. The _____ index slipped 0.69 to 324.62. Amsterdam: Foreign dem
[018] retain the UK audits of multinational clients such as _____ Motors. But in reality these are likely to go with th
[019] unfashionable sector. If few analysts follow it, the _____ tide of the market will wash the company away, even i
[020] 6p higher at 669p. The hovering presence of Ford and _____ Motors remained the most significant influence. Rumou
[021] ic gossip of a bid battle for Jaguar between Ford and _____ Motors looks optimistic.Much of the frantic activity
[022] a significant stake in Jaguar for another two weeks. _____ Motors, it seems, has not yet applied for the necess
[023] of the Commonwealth Conference, where the Secretary- _____ , Sonny Ramphal, has warned that Britain may find itse
[024] nst the imposition of sanctions. That may be true in _____ , but the other side of the coin is that Britain expec
[025] e reforms run a very high risk of being set back by a _____ collapse of confidence in the rouble - an inflationar
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[001] results of one competition and planning inquiry after _____ , and coined an inflammatory metaphor with each assaul
[002] ond some pretty Georgian doorcase. Small builders are _____ often irresponsible group. I recently tried to buy a
[003] ent people wait, and then wait again, if not certain. _____ basic rule is only to repair the minimum, using alway
[004] " has recently been hurled at Prince Charles himself. _____ man in the news, Leon Krier, the architect for the Pr
[005] between style and political ideology, which is just _____ way of saying it was ultimately an accident that Hitl
[006] st week, plans were unveiled for the redevelopment of _____ large tract of Spitalfields. To pursue their aims fo
[007] shutting out the charming sight of Camden Crescent in _____ . If Bath City Council had held a competition to desi
[008] Economist, "Inigo Jones: Architect" would have been _____ great show seen in the United States but denied to B
[009] he arts in Britain, Jones remains, like Shakespeare, _____ contemporary, a shadowy figure. But he is one of Bri
[010] rom this viewpoint as an adolescent was like viewing _____ world from the distance of about an inch. This react
[011] like a compost heap: they like to live on top of one _____ for pig warmth. The axis of the modern British domest
[012] Me Home, the best drama serial of the year, in which _____ Yuppie (he doesn't like them, does he?), this time i
[013] ther China?) and then being armlocked by events in to _____ (Withered China?) Turning its wrecked agenda in to a
[014] ry dissecting theatre in Amsterdam, thus assuming yet _____ layer of pseudo- significance. ’Ä¢ Arts Page 12 89100
[015] is that Gershwin did not go straight from one hit to _____ (as we did here, from "Summertime" to "A Woman is a S
[016] eyes than the safety of the encounter is exemplary. _____ ethical aspect of the passage of words into pictures
[017] lined to agree with the cop who pronounces him "just _____ fat junkie who went belly- up". K-9 (12), which star
[018] ited his elder brother, had he lived. It concerns yet _____ pair of mismatched cops, with the disposable novelty
[019] with one Oscar-nominated script (Educating Rita) and _____ potential hit (Shirley Valentine) behind him, ex- hai
[020] sturdily traditional wind-up clock squeal, wakening _____ slumbering pair, younger, fresher, clearly less ossif
[021] setting has rendered the tale equally "meaningful" is _____ question entirely. ’Ä¢Arts Page 16 891005 MUSIC / On
[022] he Nexus percussionists played on Monday, along with _____ musician who is one of the finest current exponents
[023] tands, of which the eighth always stayed empty - just _____ of those little unexplained things. ’Ä¢Arts Page 16 8
[024] representation and misrecognition of one culture by _____ , in The Royal Hunt of the Sun, at least in this reviva
[025] y Springfield, the Pet Shop Boys have linked up with _____ old trouper and produced a scorching collection. "I
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[001] eby, the Chicago-based architect and Dean of the Yale _____ of architecture, has been invited by developers Greyc
[002] tor experience were richer. I was fortunate to attend _____ at Impington Village College, designed by Walter Gro
[003] itish folk dance from his training at the Royal Ballet _____ , ballet itself, and at the opposite extreme the minim
[004] esha Holland's class eager to learn; I left it hating _____ . ’Ä¢Arts Page 16 891005 THEATRE / An Inca's curse: Ro
[005] won a Leonard Bernstein scholarship to the Berkshire _____ of Music in Massachusetts, "I felt I'd run my course
[006] s score. The choir came via Llandaff Cathedral Choir _____ , but (through Opal's Moscow connections) the Orchestr
[007] A Japanese on the board will probably be a business _____ graduate with extensive overseas experience, who will
[008] ice yesterday owes much to the no smoke without fire _____ of investment analysis. Despite the carnage elsewhere
[009] small brown teddy bear, will remember how he missed _____ to go on a sudden "holiday". "We told him it was a h
[010] ial policy for the rest of America on welfare reform, _____ financing, public housing and care of the environmen
[011] t bore the warning: "I kill all those who don't go to _____ ". Three years ago a Sao Paulo solicitor was applaude
[012] hether Communist MPs, most of whom come from the old _____ , will apply for membership of the new party. If they
[013] d Dr Varmus, 49, work at the University of California _____ of Medicine in San Francisco, at the Department of M
[014] d then convert a try by Neil Ryan. Another Yorkshire _____ , Hymer's, are showing excellent early form, followin
[015] Judd 14-10. Already this season Newcastle-under-Lyme _____ have beaten Bradford GS 12-7, and Ellesmere 10-6. New
[016] omen have enrolled in a coaching course at the Leigh _____ of excellence. Most of the women are primary
[017] of excellence. Most of the women are primary _____ teachers with responsibility for sports lessons, anxi
[018] ell-built team. The boys of Cardinal Vaughan Memorial _____ - four wins in four matches - are catching on to it.
[019] ches - are catching on to it. Tom Conway, the London _____ 's master-in-charge, felt such sympathy for the Latymer
[020] anor (2-0), Hampton (2-1) and Dr Challoner's Grammar _____ (4-1). In Blackburn, when Queen Elizabeth and Clithe
[021] letes a swift graduation from the apprentice nursery _____ to the academy of retained riders next season, won o
[022] - although he expresses no such wish, since his old _____ - mate, Will Carling, currently holds the job. ’Ä¢Spor
[023] a freshman at Cambridge and, in turn, captained his _____ , university, county and country. From then his caree
[024] uth, the physiognomy of a clever man of the military _____ . He was one of those engineers who began by handling
[025] ter a long, hot controversy, Miller County has a new _____ superintendent, elected, as a policeman put it, in t
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[001] test issue of Building Design, Prince Charles is now _____ attack from a coven of witches. The white (and presum
[002] rom what was, until a few week's ago, no man's land, _____ heavily bracketed street lamps designed by Speer. Th
[003] ing's Wissenschaftszentrum in West Berlin, have come _____ attack. East Berliners are not amused by the building'
[004] after all, was a sort of stage-set town largely built _____ the patronage of Ralph Allen to show off the merits o
[005] an alternative location at Stratford in east London is _____ consideration. Meanwhile, high-tech architect Nichola
[006] 1609, Inigo Jones was in France for an extensive tour _____ the aegis of the Earl of Cranbourne. Before Jones, Br
[007] isitor to the city. One of a series of books produced _____ the aegis of the energetic Charles McKean, the man w
[008] e 16 891220 Architecture Update: Tall building record _____ threat PROPOSALS for the world's tallest building ha
[009] ssic architecture, was all right and he thought that ( _____ his guidance) it could deal with any situation. Soane
[010] itors, the audience would themselves be made to feel _____ surveillance. Not a madly promising menu, and fraugh
[011] left behind in Russia call strongly to him, and when, _____ glasnost relaxations, he gets the chance to visit th
[012] ty policeman (Saul Reichlin). All three do their best _____ Penny Ciniewicz's rather heavy- handed direction, bu
[013] ely conceived part of the boilerman. But the playing, _____ Peter Stranger, is fluent and stylish, a tribute to th
[014] ntiquated map of France, on the other hand, is being _____ - employed. There are flashes here and there of more
[015] ent, while the English soldiers huddle fatalistically _____ a hostile sky. The battle itself is a welter of savag
[016] thrust of his carefully- penned portraits of despair. _____ the weight of such cliches, The The were about as dan
[017] ales to study music at Goldsmith's College in London _____ the auspices of Aaron Copland, Cale decided that "th
[018] rch on to the stage of the New Victoria in Newcastle- _____ -Lyme as an Italian town band, with Chorus in a red h
[019] s scoring were met magnificently by the Philharmonia _____ the young Finnish conducter Esa-Pekka Salonen. The le
[020] als for the development of a Taurus system have been _____ consideration for much of this decade. But, even at
[021] fferent design concepts for the future Taurus system _____ discussion in the City as of March this year. Aside
[022] esents almost 80 per cent of the equity in the deal. _____ the apparent terms of the Transportation Secretary's
[023] new name dealing in USM shares, says the company is _____ rated and is set for medium-term expansion. ’Ä¢Busine
[024] which plans a nationwide chain of 50 garden centres _____ its Gardenstore operation within two years. Retail, w
[025] ded by FIG staff, with mezzanine finance arranged and _____ - written by Intermediate Capital Group. Senior debt
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[001] d shopping with some public and private housing. And _____ week, plans were unveiled for the redevelopment of an
[002] blend with its surroundings. This was obviously the _____ thing on their minds. With its shimmering gasometer
[003] s so by the skin of its teeth. If it had not been for _____ - ditch sponsorship by The Economist, "Inigo Jones: Ar
[004] tional disgrace, as this is the first and possibly the _____ time in over 200 years that Inigo Jones's beautiful a
[005] ton are one of the hottest teams in television drama. _____ week, they were responsible for A Wanted Man (BBC 2)
[006] By JULIAN RUSHTON OPERA NORTH's Tosca, first produced _____ year, is revived with a new conductor and two new pr
[007] OAKES ELISABETH Soderstrom was ill the Monday before _____ , and had to postpone her recital in the Blackheath I
[008] Song Series by a week. She was not particularly well _____ Sunday, when she gave it. The programme had some goo
[009] d wall, back-lit by yellow explosions, but it doesn't _____ . Before Agincourt, the French tents are well- appointe
[010] ille August, who made Pelle the Conquerer, which won _____ year's Palme d'Or at Cannes and which Bergman is rum
[011] adian Music Festival - QEH By ROBERT MAYCOCK SPENDING _____ weekend at the National Federation of Music Societies
[012] after his first solo album, and four years since his _____ , Cale has signed to the Opal company (run by his old
[013] gins (he was born in 1942 in Garnant) rather than the _____ 25 years living in New York. The 30- minute score for
[014] metaphors in the argument. "Unnecessary suffering?", _____ night's Natural Concern programme (BBC 2), began with
[015] d keep after the break up. When the bid was launched _____ week, Mr Franklin faced some criticism from City com
[016] overcome, as a conference of City experts highlighted _____ week. At the core of the problems in the development
[017] stment group Citicorp Scrimgeour Vickers, speaking at _____ week's conference, there were at least 13 different d
[018] weak link with some participants". He said that in the _____ two years he had met very few institutions which had
[019] s to have occurred with Fimbra writing to its members _____ week saying that its scheme had not been altered in a
[020] k Exchange started out life as a London coffee shop. _____ week it admitted its 400th member, the Swedish-owned
[021] industry by Transportation Secretary Samuel Skinner _____ week. It was "national security concerns". On Friday,
[022] 6 per cent but the final result to 30 June, announced _____ week, showed a less than sparkling advance of 26 per
[023] earnings of £329, 000 in 1988. Lincat also announced _____ week its first overseas acquisition. Douglas, the le
[024] pre-tax when he reports on the 1989-90 year. Taking _____ Friday's price of 160p, Lincat is on an undemanding
[025] s it reshapes into an international trading company. _____ week it announced first- quarter contributions of £1
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[001] rehensive and literate vision of architecture. At the _____ time, his fascination with the properties of building
[002] style would be more appropriate to a stage set. The _____ architect has designed a large office block in the t
[003] rule is only to repair the minimum, using always the _____ materials as the original structure. Visiting other
[004] agle by the communists, but it still fulfils much the _____ role as it did 50 years ago. Presumably a new genera
[005] ainter of the Stuart court, but he effected much the _____ Renaissance or Classical revolution in English paint
[006] is, designed by Sir Owen Williams in 1936, using the _____ opaque black glass.) This book is the perfect archit
[007] uble doors into a corridor in Act Two, know that the _____ doors provide, in Act Three, a convenient jumping off
[008] tion. Sibelius and Stenhammar were shown setting the _____ text (The Girl returned from meeting her lover) with
[009] t a stag- night and a hen-party which converge at the _____ venue, it is the first BBC-funded film ever to recei
[010] a popular lecturer and "story-teller": she works the _____ seam as Maya Angelou, Toni Morrison and Alice Walker
[011] hties rock show as anyone could want. The PA was the _____ system The Eurythmics used at Wembley and offered cla
[012] egan bringing the stops off cleanly and ending in the _____ places. At this point the stunt that was being pulled
[013] ould come to regard our attitude to animals with the _____ horrified disbelief we now feel for the periods whic
[014] how cruelly Hall's ambitions tax his company. Yet the _____ dancers can look confident and articulate when they
[015] en this work and Mozart's great K491 Concerto in the _____ key, which Beethoven is known to have played and adm
[016] director at Legal &General Investments warned at the _____ conference, "like all chains, Taurus is only going to
[017] rn. They believe the garden centre business is at the _____ stage of development as DIY was a decade ago. A spok
[018] ( £86.3m) in 1984 to FFr1.34bn last year. Over the _____ period new business almost doubled to FFr68.4bn, tota
[019] stry, an involvement shunned by British banks. At the _____ time, CB, as it became in 1959, has seen the source
[020] year. In the early 1980s, new lending was roughly the _____ in consumer finance as in housing and property financ
[021] t we will certainly see a rise on Monday _ not of the _____ proportion, but there's clearly going to be a rise. W
[022] ve also risen noticeably, from 98p to 145p, over the _____ period. But quality teas, the best grade, have hardly
[023] Monetary Fund, went up by only 2.6 per cent. At the _____ time, the main import markets continued to decline.
[024] ree that financial statements should be based on the _____ standard but the inevitable follow up comment is: "Y
[025] nications network", which is expected to present the _____ opportunities in the next decade as cellular mobile
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[001] from the Prince; the previous year, if my memory is _____ , most of the Press supported him. Taken together, the
[002] th City Council has a string of previous convictions. _____ next to the Podium is the Bath Hilton, a shining symb
[003] e until you reach a run-down area on the river. Then, _____ there, among the pylons and the derelict buildings, b
[004] ure, which to him meant classic architecture, was all _____ and he thought that (under his guidance) it could dea
[005] h knowing laughter from the first-night audience), a _____ -wing academic, a military automaton, and an Amstrad w
[006] t goes on in bedrooms. It's a question of finding the _____ sources - like penitentials, books prescribing penanc
[007] s a test of kingship rather than a subject in its own _____ . Henry's achievement in the play is not military as s
[008] ough. He finds a way of talking about England, about _____ , about courage as a sort of secular sainthood, and it
[009] might be hollow. In this drama, words are deeds, and _____ from the start Henry talks like a winner. At the sie
[010] ed more expectations than the average musician has a _____ to. The fields of classical music, the avant-garde, po
[011] ards as his best album, "because all the old pain was _____ there". The four year hiatus has been a good old-fash
[012] thritis, made a moving speech denying scientists the _____ to claim they were experimenting on her behalf.) Evid
[013] avers to make up our domestic shortage? Mr Lawson is _____ to say that deficits are more sustainable than they we
[014] a five- year lease-back arrangement. EIE also has the _____ to buy the freehold from Whitbread for a nominal sum.
[015] d any _ that taking Virgin private last year was the _____ thing to do. Virgin paid £248m last year to remove t
[016] ves we must ensure the market structure provides the _____ balance of benefits and obligations for market pract
[017] t is prepared to consider it. Both, however, want the _____ to process Switch transactions on behalf of their re
[018] ith Bell South in an attempt to repel McCaw, has the _____ of first refusal on Metromedia's stake, which would pr
[019] efrigeration group. This, however, could soon be put _____ as investors begin to focus on changes which have tak
[020] r of the team is Michael Simmonds, a leading light in _____ - wing think tank the Adam Smith Institute. The City c
[021] my golf handicap," he said. "But no one man has the _____ to end a person's life. Publishing is my life. And I d
[022] sia's autocratic, ultra-centralised state were surely _____ . Today, though, it is too late. ’Ä¢Foreign News Page
[023] h, making light of surgery to remove a cyst from his _____ middle finger, said it was no "federal case" and prom
[024] or fresh elections, probably on 5 November. When the _____ - wing New Democracy party and the Communist- dominate
[025] he myth which dates from the 1946-49 Civil War, that _____ and left can never co- operate. Mr Tzannetakis, who