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[001] aw the satellite closer to earth and it would burn up _____ entering the atmosphere. (There are hundreds of other
[002] ork. Then they tried longer periods. Finally they hit _____ the secret. If you keep salmon in fresh water for two
[003] e remarkable Byker Wall housing scheme in Newcastle- _____ -Tyne. At Byker, Erskine built some of the most likeabl
[004] t is extraordinary that the RIBA should have insisted _____ co- patronage of this exhibition and done nothing to
[005] of the new Classical riverside frontage at Richmond- _____ - Thames, he is clearly the architect the Prince of W
[006] the common ground must be rediscovered and enlarged _____ . It is disconcerting to realise that this current bre
[007] rks of the English baroque, felt able to heap praise _____ much contemporary design. In writing of the new buil
[008] ir of certain profound wisdoms and is not readily put _____ . It sees that it is absurd to treat new technology as
[009] of the new Classical riverside frontage at Richmond- _____ - Thames, he is clearly the architect the Prince of W
[010] the common ground must be rediscovered and enlarged _____ . It is disconcerting to realise that this current bre
[011] rks of the English baroque, felt able to heap praise _____ much contemporary design. In writing of the new buil
[012] ir of certain profound wisdoms and is not readily put _____ . It sees that it is absurd to treat new technology as
[013] n area, they propose a modest and almost exact essay _____ Spitalfields's early Georgian architecture. Elsewhere
[014] extended visit to Italy before he was 30, returning _____ hearing news of the death of Queen Elizabeth I in 160
[015] largely gone, much of the playing field has been built _____ . The original buildings are almost crowded off their
[016] y listens rapt as John Berger (for it is he) embarks _____ a long yarn about two Italian peasants who meet at a
[017] animals" eyes, seemed reasonable, persuasive and put- _____ ; Douglas Hogg, MP, also on the vivisectionist side, w
[018] te. It is one thing for a government to look benignly _____ _ say _ a rescue of Ferranti; or on the swallowing up
[019] Tees TV is buying the Television Centre in Newcastle _____ Tyne from Tritel, a subsidiary of Mecca, for £4m ca
[020] imits on subscriptions, which it claimed were forced _____ it by lack of newsprint. By mid-September, according
[021] f toxic dumps and second-class citizens. Once looked _____ as a valley of humility between two mountains of con
[022] s denied by a Communist state claiming to be founded _____ the interests of the working class. The big moment ca
[023] ission can deflect them from the course they set out _____ yesterday. Perhaps more grave, however, is the fact
[024] out. Responsibility for Paris's traffic problem falls _____ the Interior Ministry and the Police department, not
[025] , is a rare occurrence, hated by the players, frowned _____ by the coaches and detested by the increasing army o
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[001] ny product that grows scarcer, the price rises. Where _____ a top price of $4 a pound was big news, today's marke
[002] have to offer HDTV to capture a slice of the new pie. _____ viewers see HDTV, their old TV sets will become the
[003] nsfer of FTTH technology to other areas of the world. _____ North America gets around to using ISDN, don't be su
[004] sion speed for the new fax you will have to purchase _____ ISDN replaces the current global phone/fax/telegram/t
[005] nt data you leave in the computer each time you shop. _____ that is in place worldwide, flat- rate phone service
[006] atellite can start anywhere from Arizona to Zanzibar. _____ the signal has gone those 22,300 miles up and back d
[007] arch-and-rescue operations should be greatly reduced _____ those light, hand-held units are in universal distribu
[008] s that handle phone, fax, and voice messaging all at _____ . What's next? Those who want everything can have the
[009] the United States, standards are still under debate. _____ this system is in place, the reputation of Canadians
[010] d by the overhead cranes and their associated robots. _____ the floor is complete, the hydraulic cylinders are e
[011] rated, it changed the very environment itself. Where _____ educators had 130 years to learn about, say, electrici
[012] naturally spell phonetically, as robots do. What was _____ a liability becomes an asset in another age. Literacy
[013] e. Adults know a stove is hot, probably because they _____ got burned. In a cybernetic world of virtual reality,
[014] ublime work of imperious architecture that Londoners _____ loved to hate but now admire. But neither Londoners
[015] Wharf, Broadgate and King's Cross, the developer is _____ again a town planner. Current proposals for Birmingha
[016] a fee OCTOGENARIAN American architect Philip Johnson _____ said: "Architecture is very much like the oldest pro
[017] ing high recently, rubbing shoulders with royalty, not _____ but twice within a week. First the Princess of Wales
[018] ss basic points in common. Historic architecture was _____ modern itself and design and construction practices
[019] struction practices that we now call traditional were _____ avant-garde. The debate is complex, but one thing at
[020] eth- century architecture could yet emerge that would _____ again satisfy both layman and architect. ’Ä¢Money Pa
[021] ess basic points in common. Historic architecture was _____ modern itself and design and construction practices t
[022] nstruction practices that we now call traditional were _____ avant-garde. The debate is complex, but one thing at
[023] eth- century architecture could yet emerge that would _____ again satisfy both layman and architect. ’Ä¢Media Pa
[024] e the viewer to see places as they might have been or _____ were. Whether a veduta or a capriccio, Kelly's meticu
[025] 's had a new hypermarket at Lexden on the fringe and _____ it had killed off the local shops, moved on somewhere
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[001] may be the last place to grow food in the future. In _____ of this potential global change, are we being realist
[002] ating the regular ingredients of the product itself. _____ striking these tiny -- one or two microns in depth --
[003] he microscopic ridges mentioned and presto: when the _____ is right, a bouquet of roses appears to be hovering
[004] ng Mickey's logo -- and he moves when held up to the _____ . One product being developed is "Rainbow Sparkles" --
[005] invisible, but they cause the food to sparkle in the _____ . Candy coins that flick from heads to tails are also
[006] ed by "mother" Agnes with a "dinner call" grunt. The _____ over their resting deck goes out, and the
[007] over their resting deck goes out, and the _____ over the nursing robot, simulating the sow's body war
[008] nipples shut off and flush automatically. The nursing _____ fades as the resting deck
[009] fades as the resting deck _____ comes back on. The piglets scurry to the new heat so
[010] scue operations should be greatly reduced once those _____ , hand-held units are in universal distribution. LEO w
[011] to building interiors. Along the way they subject the _____ to a "
[012] to a " _____ - shift," removing the harmful ultraviolet rays, conve
[013] n Tsukuba. Prices for each item are clearly shown by _____ - emitting diode displays. They are updated daily by t
[014] environment where information travels at the speed of _____ . Never mind governments that are still operating from
[015] and technological advances now move at the speed of _____ , yet our schools aren't even trying to develop the peo
[016] r. Instead, he created something brilliantly new: the _____ bulb". Whittle Communications is lighting the way alon
[017] damage. How many kids have stuck their fingers in a _____ socket? A great thrill if you live to tell about it.
[018] out it. Now you can. In a virtual room with a virtual _____ socket, you will receive the same apparent shock, but
[019] in London, architecture is all to do with the play of _____ on surfaces, a question of form and space and not of
[020] tenham Court Road, Holborn and London Bridge) in the _____ of Fennell Report's safety recommendations, the Roya
[021] ruction. Et in Arcadia Ego. There is shade as well as _____ in his pictures, perhaps only natural to an artist who
[022] useum, catacombs, stunning colours, ingenious use of _____ , the museum is still the unique building Soane left to
[023] il are still waiting for Parliament to give the green _____ to the of proposed Channel tunnel terminus at King's
[024] urope's City of Culture (as opposed to "contrasts", " _____ ", etc). If you don't know Glasgow and its truly uniqu
[025] mum needs of such an average family were and how much _____ and space was a satisfactory minimum. Above all, I th
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[001] S Movie Network, and two radio networks -- in all, a _____ to be reckoned with. The traditional networks just wi
[002] product and research the market intensively, they can _____ consumption by pushing the new advantages built into
[003] dustrial era, when the majority of people in the work _____ make a living with their minds, not their hands, it i
[004] ety. I see The Galleries as a focal point, a powerful _____ aiding the city, a proper part of the centre designed
[005] he important thing is that the Thirty Year Rule is in _____ and that we can respond to developing perceptions of
[006] s is the context for the latest architectural tour de _____ in Japan: a hotel called Il Palazzo, at Fukuoka, on
[007] if they continue to resist, and his words acquire the _____ of the deeds he describes. It is only late in the da
[008] ts as a framework for a series of ornamental tours de _____ . The mime and dancing is throughout spectacular, a de
[009] s in her phrasing, an uncertain control over her own _____ - but the full easy strength of her dancing and the sc
[010] alian Alfredo Casella. The piano version is a tour de _____ demanding the prodigious technique of a Brendel or a
[011] Ferranti's airborne radar and result in a formidable _____ in European defence electronics. Ferranti's annual me
[012] e would probably trigger another run on sterling and _____ a one- point base rate rise in the UK. The Government
[013] clutches of the five majors while remaining a credible _____ in the worldwide music business. Home News Page 29 8
[014] eady more than discounted; a one-point rise may still _____ a base rate increase on a reluctant Chancellor. Neve
[015] keleton service supplemented by Royal Australian Air _____ planes and overseas airlines. Mr Hawke's handling of
[016] lines and the government, particularly the use of air _____ planes and foreign pilots to break the dispute. The u
[017] y employs over 9,000 people worldwide and has a sales _____ of over 4,300 agents. AMP has had a business in the
[018] nts a significant step in its plans to become a major _____ in international life insurance markets. The Australia
[019] perate Pearl as a separate entity with its own sales _____ . ’Ä¢Business & City Page 24 891003 Ferranti family cal
[020] less than five years ago, to an international banking _____ . Along with the merger, Postbank shareholders will be
[021] in Bangkok. "The KPNLF is anxious to put on a show of _____ at a time when the US Congress is debating future ai
[022] , but a "power struggle within the Panamanian Defence _____ ". Other US government sources said both the rebels a
[023] was the challenge from within the Panamanian Defence _____ (PDF) that most concerned General Noriega yesterday.
[024] that there remained a solid contingent of the defence _____ loyal to General Noriega, who is wanted in the US on
[025] d in the US on drug- trafficking charges. The Defence _____ 's account raised doubts about the circumstances of th
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[001] still think robots are confined to the factory floor, _____ Agnes, the robotic sow. From a prototype developed at
[002] l asset. But then BR is under government pressure to _____ financial targets. Indeed this is so central to the
[003] be nice to report that the new shopping centre would _____ their needs. There was on its site a cheap cafe, a f
[004] room called the promenade, an axis where people can _____ . The original adult wing has snooker rooms and a lib
[005] ge architecture. Like anyone else, architects rise to _____ the high expectations of a building's or institution'
[006] as eloquently coupled to the desperate impatience to _____ Nikiya (Viviana Durante), and once dancing with her
[007] arks upon a long yarn about two Italian peasants who _____ at a Communist Party dance. Timothy Neat directs tri
[008] ff in the music found its visual equivalent rising to _____ it. Helno, the singer, is possibly the worst dressed
[009] re. ’Ä¢Business & City Page 20 891002 Pearl chief to _____ Australian Mutual amid bid rumours By JOHN MOORE, As
[010] nd, yesterday. "I have a long standing arrangement to _____ Mr Anderson this week. But so far we have received no
[011] hareholders to take no action. Mr Holland was due to _____ AMP's chairman, David Anderson, today in a meeting wh
[012] ward trend in its market position and is unlikely to _____ the challenges presented by the developments in the
[013] tively free trade in steel; those countries unable to _____ the conditions would continue to be heavily restricte
[014] ofits a shade below £400,000. The company is due to _____ analysts on Friday. Set up by Aidan Heavey four years
[015] tion in the first half of this year are sufficient to _____ internal targets, Mr Maunders said. ’Ä¢Business & Cit
[016] e of provisions raised on the Freemans acquisition to _____ a net 10 per cent staff reduction. Assuming pre-tax p
[017] 150p yesterday when its half- time figures failed to _____ some market expectations. The company's co- brokers,
[018] ing on the level of take-up. The trust is designed to _____ the terms of qualification for Personal Equity Plans
[019] ilway, long queues formed. "I fixed up months ago to _____ my parents in East Berlin today and took some holida
[020] contend, faces will be saved by a last-minute rush to _____ the new deadline. More probably, however, even the fi
[021] an delegation representing all the Afghan factions to _____ and organise an intra-Afghan dialogue. He hopes to e
[022] reasonable". Mr Savimbi said yesterday that he would _____ Mr Mobutu "very soon", but set no specific date. ’Ä¢
[023] six weeks. ’Ä¢Foreign News Page 14 891007 De Klerk to _____ Tutu and Boesak JOHANNESBURG (Reuter) - President FW
[024] - President FW de Klerk said yesterday that he would _____ anti- apartheid churchmen - including Archbishop Des
[025] 12 891009 Curbs sought on laundering: World experts _____ today to find ways to hit drug traffickers where it
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[001] most importantly, viewers. After watching this quiet _____ -up for well over ten years, I think that the Japanese
[002] consumption. The Japanese small- car strategy is to _____ on a utilitarian chassis. Frills can then be added at
[003] s come from the Ohbayashi Corporation of Osaka. They _____ the first floor of such buildings, and then that floo
[004] lions per acre, it cost two to three times as much to _____ underground as on the surface, so few did. Not long a
[005] never built, but Byker has become a model of how to _____ low-cost housing on a large, yet humane scale. At Ha
[006] igures such as Godfrey Bradman and Stuart Lipton who _____ a great deal. Like Palumbo, they embody an image of d
[007] Bradman, Lipton's former partner, is now proposing to _____ . The implication is that style is inconsequential and
[008] EN the Muslims of Batley in West Yorkshire agreed to _____ a mosque earlier this year, only one design would do
[009] g's Cross Bill aimed at obtaining approval for BR to _____ the new station. So too is Newham Borough Council, wh
[010] chitect Anthony Jay is seeking planning permission to _____ the West Country's tallest structure, a 213-metre gla
[011] rchitect Anthony Jay is seeking planning permission to _____ the West Country's tallest structure, a 213-metre gl
[012] arp sense of humour. Few people expected him ever to _____ . Coates seemed destined to remain a "paper" architec
[013] which Gibberd's son planned - to local outrage - to _____ two four-storey houses. When Hopkins produced plans
[014] ing permission in six weeks. It cost just £20,000 to _____ and served initially as office at street level and f
[015] 891122 Architecture Update: NT business park PLANS to _____ a business park at Osterley, west London, on land own
[016] been the suspicion that they might cost too much to _____ , yet Outram's industrial work demonstrates that he ca
[017] yet Outram's industrial work demonstrates that he can _____ to budget. One suspects that he is more the victim o
[018] American practice would be brought in to design and _____ much of the proposed Pater Noster development flanki
[019] panding house" designs of the early 1950s. But he did _____ one masterpiece, the womb- like Shrine of the Book to
[020] hat nowadays, in Bath at least, you can more or less _____ what you like as long as it's got a pediment, a colon
[021] t there, among the pylons and the derelict buildings, _____ the most fashionable hotel in the country. Crazy? It
[022] art of the site to developers P ∧ O, who want to _____ 1m sq ft of offices on top of the terminal. This has
[023] and this is reflected in our architecture. We tend to _____ too often with condescension or plain expediency in m
[024] who used a sort of minimalism with interruptions to _____ up a spirited and engaging little number, though hard
[025] group charges. "We plan to use the cash proceeds to _____ up our environmental service business in the US parti
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[001] rect to its own satellite transponder from an attach_ _____ containing a small satellite dish and transmitter, wh
[002] s from invention to universal distribution, as in the _____ of the electric motor? Now it takes mere months. Even
[003] telephone, is the most compact and lightweight single- _____ Inmarsat-A, Class 1 Satellite Communications (SATCOM)
[004] a communications anywhere in the world. The carrying _____ travels as airline luggage. It is an automatic and pr
[005] he antenna, but it weighs forty-seven pounds. Open the _____ and minutes later you are in operation. I love the d
[006] are in operation. I love the directions: "Remove from _____ , unfold legs, swing umbrella antenna into place. Turn
[007] elopment or to prepare for volume production. In the _____ of these advanced materials, North American and Euro
[008] le to spend that time learning how to think. In that _____ , how will kids ever know how to spell? A California s
[009] gned by architects, but by commercial forces. In this _____ , the stylistic promiscuity of an Ian Pollard or a Nas
[010] ps do not come at bargain basement prices and in any _____ who could resist the temptation to pirouette up stai
[011] architect Rodney Karen thinks Holyoak's scheme is a _____ of "fiddling while Rome burns". He warns: "Birmingham
[012] ding's survival for conversion to a new use - in that _____ , as an entertainment centre which the Prime Minister
[013] which does not necessarily prevent demolition. In the _____ of Bankside Power Station, the ultimate "temple of p
[014] Page 17 891025 Architecture Update: Illegal stripping _____ in Soho GUTTING lesser historic interiors is a natio
[015] that fuses Modernism with Classicism, in Mr Dixon's _____ , and with the Arts and Crafts movement in Mr Cullinan
[016] that fuses Modernism with Classicism, in Mr Dixon's _____ , and with the Arts and Crafts movement in Mr Cullinan
[017] the local shops, moved on somewhere else. In neither _____ has anyone else occupied the premises. The whole sto
[018] ds of excellence to which others will aspire. In this _____ the housebuilders have kidnapped a credulous RIBA and
[019] provided for themselves. Which is absolutely not the _____ with the council estate. One can imagine that Gropiu
[020] n the BBC Nice Work will present an interesting test- _____ for Lord Rees-Mogg. Thoroughly modern Robyn is into
[021] cameo is either an ornament or a blot, but in either _____ tends to detract from the momentum of a film. Before
[022] performed their atrocities. By its restraint, George _____ 's programme provided a long- overdue and eloquent ep
[023] unfolds a rake's progress towards perdition, in this _____ via drugs, but with an extra metaphysical twist when
[024] putting pictures to the argument tended to weight the _____ in favour of the critter lobby. It's easy to sway th
[025] in the tea price". There is evidence to support the _____ that prices will remain high for a while. Despite the
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[001] n more desirable traits optimally combined. You will _____ more in future about the value- added plant- based pr
[002] l change," he says, "not tinkering around the edges". _____ ,
[003] , _____ ! The Ultimate School We have all learned a lot from
[004] half a dozen languages simultaneously. The blind can _____ the program and the deaf can read it. A printout is a
[005] language of your choice. People on the other end will _____ only Japanese. They will reply in their native tongu
[006] They will reply in their native tongue, but you will _____ English, French, Italian, German -- whatever language
[007] ng modern architects think and work. 9H is longing to _____ from potential sponsors at 9H, 26 Cramer Street, Lond
[008] a pity, because one would have liked particularly to _____ more of the ebullient Gumede, a sort of Mad Max of th
[009] nifesto for its title, the mix is as before; you will _____ all the tracks over the next few months if you follow
[010] in the Kalahari desert would have been surprised to _____ of yesterday's agreed £337.6m bid by MB Group for C
[011] esterday's statement, and they will be interested to _____ the details of what was dismissed by London as a "pi
[012] ined that on a technicality, it was not competent to _____ the case. It said that fears for public order would m
[013] Grivas will preside over the special tribunals due to _____ cases of corruption against the former prime minister
[014] last sack is empty!" "Does the balloon rise?" "No!" "I _____ a noise like the dashing of waves. The sea is below t
[015] oft, listen!" The sailor strained his ears, but could _____ no noise beyond those caused by the storm. "It is th
[016] r rather run of a quarter of an hour. They could now _____ and reply to each other, and the lad having pronounc
[017] over him, spoke, but the engineer did not appear to _____ , and his eyes remained closed. Life was only exhibited
[018] on roast, and the party would have been delighted to _____ some soup bubbling on the hearth, but they must wait
[019] ew how communicable confidence is; he even smiled to _____ him speak, and said nothing of the uneasiness for th
[020] days, from the 20th to the 25th of August. They could _____ the tempest raging in Jacamar Wood, which would surel
[021] ckling- pig." "Oh, indeed, suckling-pig, Pencroft? To _____ you, I thought that you were bringing back a young p
[022] those who talk the least. And then, no wages, do you _____ , my boy? We will give you no wages at first, but we
[023] pipes giving forth an odoriferous smoke, they could _____ the storm howling without. Their comfort would have
[024] encroft sometimes to Neb. "Should you be surprised to _____ him beginning to speak to us some day?" "My word, no,
[025] woods which skirted the glade on the left they could _____ the bushes rustling and see the grass waving, which i
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[001] er's Almanac? ’Ä¢ 7 Communications The Information _____ Ten years ago a brash sailor named Ted Turner from
[002] with the latest communications equipment.In the Gulf _____ , a CNN reporter was able to transmit from Baghdad di
[003] edia simultaneously. That was Battle One in the Info _____ . Battle Two is the high-definition struggle for new
[004] change direction. The Electronic Highway After World _____ II, when Germany and then Japan shot ahead in technol
[005] s, remember the remark that those countries "lost the _____ and won the future"? Now it looks as if the former E
[006] radio. It's the same technology used during the Gulf _____ . Remember the days when it took sixty- five years from
[007] prove to be one of the most inspired and humane post- _____ city centre redevelopments masterminded by the archi
[008] lding stands out in this dispiriting panorama of post- _____ mediocrity: a dark powerful mass of brickwork with a
[009] d never have been built. Its architect had spent the _____ years with fellow Royal Academicians planning the ord
[010] of the Environment at last began the listing of post- _____ buildings in England that were more than 30 years old
[011] e, which looks at the successes and failures of post- _____ buildings. The report is available from Crown Berger
[012] t who served with the RAF throughout the Second World _____ . Not that his paintings are purely of England. He is
[013] ment of sinister dereliction. Undeterred by the post- _____ history of retailing in Ipswich, a shopping developme
[014] ousing crisis unparalleled since the end of the last _____ . At the presentation, Maxwell Hutchinson, President o
[015] lusion we might come to about this architectural holy _____ has to be seen against these larger issues, and that
[016] is what is really at stake inthis architectural holy _____ . Not being a Bagehot, but having written a book on th
[017] se, remained a bastion of Nazi architecture after the _____ . Herman Goering's formidable air ministry building m
[018] modernism and feelings of collective guilt. After the _____ , Berliners wanted to rebuild, to forget the past. It
[019] ern. It was a feeling common to Europe, but the post- _____ destruction of Berlin went further than in any other
[020] es "the rejection of classical architecture after the _____ was based on a series of errors and losses of memory,
[021] n, on Speer's estimates) could only have been met by _____ reparations. Only the destruction of much of Europe
[022] ners of the architect manque who led them into total _____ and whose obsession with imperial grandeur led to the
[023] Greycoat and Park Tower Realty to transform the post- _____ piazzas into streets of offices and shops in neo- cla
[024] lishment when new, but triumphing as the first post- _____ building in England to be listed. Here Richardson's lo
[025] ns for some of the mistakes and the triumphs of post- _____ British domestic architecture By PETER DORMER FROM p