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[001] ow in Europe, but this is expected to change over the _____ few years as telecommunications markets are opened u
[002] markets not to sell sterling. In both arguments, the _____ two weeks _ which include a probable German interest-
[003] re, for example, that Malawi will not have a drought _____ year. But for all I know, the ICO could still be meet
[004] is expected to present the same opportunities in the _____ decade as cellular mobile radio is doing in this. ’Ä¢
[005] speculators are the rows of blue rinses at Blackpool _____ week". Building societies would respond to a base ra
[006] nal 0.4 per cent growth rate. Results this week from _____ and Sears will also give a measure of the retail down
[007] British life insurance company, are meeting over the _____ few days amid speculation that the Australian group i
[008] st West WoodMac has downgraded. Interim figures, due _____ month, are expected to be £7m against £10.8m, with
[009] staff during the dispute. The airlines themselves will _____ week step up their recruitment drive for pilots in No
[010] deregulation of Australia's domestic air system from _____ year foreshadowing greater competition, both the pil
[011] r Hawke, that air services would be back to normal by _____ month, there is no sign of this happening. Less than
[012] n Consulting that would have to be exercised by June _____ year. But last June Saatchi said it would try to sell
[013] ket, plans to install 20,000 terminals in shops in the _____ 18 months. Sterling calmer: The pound won respite fr
[014] 5, 000 to £19.25m in the six months to July ahead of _____ week's MMC report on Coats Viyella's £395m bid. Vie
[015] gement into the MB Group boardroom to mastermind the _____ phase of the company's expansion. This may seem an un
[016] forma gearing at 24 per cent. This suggests that the _____ MB Group foray will require fresh equity of some sort
[017] med this year's forecast by £5m to £235m and lifted _____ year's by £20m to £340m. Insurance shares continued
[018] of over £80m _ and has been given until the end of _____ year to turn the business around. He has said that th
[019] te the most interest. Many of its quarries are located _____ to sites owned by large players such as Tarmac and AR
[020] is 20,000 by the New Year and 100, 000 by the end of _____ year. Moreover, its big- name client base so far is
[021] ery confident that we will be back in the league table _____ year," she added. Another notable movement in the cha
[022] but the deal will not reward shareholders until early _____ year. Major holders of LIN stock are sharply divided
[023] n, has emerged as the International Stock Exchange's _____ chief executive following the decision of Jeffrey Kn
[024] last year although he had no specific plans for the _____ step in his career. He said yesterday that he was app
[025] , or Poll Tax, to be introduced in England and Wales _____ spring, has created worries among small businesses.
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[001] lt over 10 years at a cost of £6bn, the state-of-the- _____ construction is carrying less than half of the projec
[002] about the days when counterfeiting was a specialist _____ form. Now he says, the only skill a would-be villain
[003] A was in these figures for just three months and fine _____ contributed £849, 000 of profits, up from £156,000.
[004] n community, which now has the use of a state-of-the- _____ office services joint venture to be found at 50 Gorky
[005] hibiting a pile of rubbish, which was considered valid _____ by the proprietors and drew a large attendance. The o
[006] quickly, was a superb demonstration of the striker's _____ . Nevertheless, Rangers were grateful that Alan McDon
[007] ies, 30 inside the distance. Matchmaking is a precise _____ and never more so than when practised by Terry Lawles
[008] red their coach, Mike Shanahan, and replaced him with _____ Shell, their offensive line coach who becomes the fir
[009] an Atkinson were Wednesday's discoverers of the lost _____ ; Luton's hero was their £900,000 Danish acquisition,
[010] Football: Shell is the history man By MATTHEW TENCH _____ SHELL'S appointment as the new head coach of the Los
[011] e and in the Isle of Man, as well as a large private _____ collection which could be worth £1m. Knighton has pr
[012] oon. Had he himself been as well acquainted with the _____ of sailing in the air as he was with the navigation o
[013] savory. Master Neb, who was skilled in the culinary _____ , knew how to vary agreeably the bill of fare. Bread
[014] ith all the treasures of the mineral world, works of _____ , marvels of industry-- appeared before the eyes of th
[015] ledge of every kind, and in science, literature, and _____ his researches were extensive and profound. He travel
[016] became an artist deeply impressed by the marvels of _____ , a philosopher to whom no one of the higher sciences
[017] est fondly for the last time on these masterpieces of _____ and of nature, to which he had limited his horizon du
[018] o share the Oriole mound chores against the Bombers' _____ Ditmar in Sunday's 2 P.M. encounter. Ralph Houk
[019] Yes, with Bob Grove, Carl Hubbell, Herb Pennock, _____ Nehf, Vernon Gomez, et al. Spahn not only is a su
[020] unner-up in the National Invitation Tournament were: _____ Hambric, Donnell Reid, Bill Nordmann, Dave Harris,
[021] a club. The party is to raise money for the Old Town _____ center and to plant more crabapple trees along the s
[022] heater owners failed to cooperate. Downtown and _____ theater managers and owners, contacted Friday n
[023] own theaters, the students sent letters to owners of _____ theaters in the uptown area and Buckhead. #R. E. K
[024] rs of Boys Clubs of America and patrons of the vivid _____ and opera colony that flourishes in New Mexico.
[025] f a whole new life in Los Angeles. Her days as an _____ student at the University of Budapest came to a sudd
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[001] Ford or General Motors (or even a European group) is _____ . Guinness, interim figures tomorrow, gained 6p to 573
[002] ¬£200,000 ’Ä¢Business & City Page 31 891004 Decision _____ in US battle over cellular phones From LARRY BLACK i
[003] azil said there was no chance of bringing quotas back _____ - term. Dealers said
[004] - term. Dealers said _____ December continued to have a large open position, ca
[005] nd engineering group, gained 18p to 353p, reflecting a _____ 2 per cent stake built by Tomkins, the industrial gr
[006] n the faintest hopes of a negotiated settlement in the _____ future. As China's reaction to Western sanctions over
[007] rces air- lifted a company of troops to an air- strip _____ the military headquarters held by the rebels. Their a
[008] aterial would most probably have been in the form of _____ - illegible carbon copies of an original laboriously p
[009] n Saturday EC foreign ministers assemble in a chateau _____ Chartres for an informal weekend during which they w
[010] forces ordered the protesters to leave a wide street _____ the Gethsemane Church they drowned out the order by
[011] ut Mr Vargas' taste were also raised by the sight of _____ -naked women dancing to celebrate his second annivers
[012] r for a few days, then turn them loose in the desert _____ the Somali or Ethiopian borders - too far for them to
[013] their inhabitants. Dumped in waterless barren regions _____ the Somali Ethiopian border, they could not survive
[014] te identity or legitimacy. On the economic front, the _____ - heroic attempt to make a centralised economy work ha
[015] August 1980, when the family was on a camping holiday _____ Ayers Rock. The Northern Territory Attorney- General
[016] ine Villemin, whose 4- year-old son Gregory was found _____ the village in the Vosges where he lived, floating i
[017] systems and extra bus routes. Once the huge car park _____ the Louvre is finished in 1991, tourist coaches will b
[018] ivate cars. But yesterday at the Hendaye border post, _____ Bayonne, lorries were passing freely without any for
[019] a breather until further notice". At Roissy airport, _____ Paris, the customs officers have refused to check car
[020] rom alert attention to the ball at their own throw-in _____ their own line. Andrew Davies, Paul Reed and captain
[021] r the mark. The activists' message scrawled on a wall _____ the ground is some way removed from the burning passi
[022] ed the possible winner a furlong from home, but faded _____ the finish as the task of conceding so much weight to
[023] inst France on 12 November will be played in Lateste _____ Bordeaux. The Welsh side's coach will be Stan Addico
[024] who had Roy McDonough sent off for a reckless tackle _____ the end. The contrast in styles could hardly have be
[025] seemed about to die and Hastings just made the line _____ the corner. This dispirited the French at the moment
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[001] ion made us do that," he said. CB, he claimed, had in _____ no particular balance between its components. "We ha
[002] ompletion. The assumptions made in the prospectus are _____ -boggling. More than 11 million people are expected t
[003] creating a trail so complex that investigators, never _____ the banks, find it almost impossible to spot what is
[004] ining and oil exploration. Australia has changed its _____ and vetoed the agreement, to the annoyance of the US
[005] g nature" of the compromise, he could not make up his _____ whether he should apply for membership. Having faile
[006] r Varmus said winning the Nobel Prize was not in his _____ when he and Dr Bishop published their research. "I d
[007] the murder. Then the examining magistrate changed his _____ , released Mr Laroche and charged Mrs Villemin with ki
[008] ndering the whole business, and until he makes up his _____ Mrs Villemin cannot finally be cleared of all suspici
[009] uld have won and would surely have done so but for a _____ - boggling miss by Andy Sinton when it was 2-2. For t
[010] ment at the hands of Honda will immediately spring to _____ regardless of a subsequent and rather naive document
[011] ir, the McLaren directors had other matters on their _____ in Portugal as they moped Senna's fevered brow and c
[012] States Open defeat by Boris Becker to the back of his _____ and impatient for another crack at the elusive Wimbl
[013] vernight. I enjoyed myself. I couldn't do much, but my _____ was free and clear. The trip was a good experience".
[014] have a single international player of note, bearing in _____ the success of Czechoslovakia and the involvement of
[015] h united ought to insure human success-- activity of _____ and body, impetuous wishes, and powerful will. He mig
[016] of note, could stand it no longer. His usually active _____ was occupied with one sole thought--how he might get
[017] the west. But not a speck of land was visible. "Never _____ ," said Pencroft, "though I do not see the land, I fee
[018] saying anything. A threefold thought weighed on his _____ . Was Cyrus still alive? If he was alive, where was h
[019] uld have brought his practical science, his inventive _____ to bear on their situation, perhaps all hope would n
[020] e you, Mr. Spilett," replied Pencroft; "unhappily, my _____ is made up on this point." Having said this, the sai
[021] rests, its various productions, were impressed on his _____ . However, after traveling for two hours, fatigue ove
[022] aves. A horrid presentiment flashed across Pencroft's _____ . He rushed into the passage, but returned almost imm
[023] of the East very considerably by the natives. "Never _____ !" said the sailor, "the captain will help us soon." M
[024] but Cyrus Harding, who was evidently of a methodical _____ , only shook his head without uttering a word. "To-mor
[025] the engineer, "and has left the place for us." "Never _____ ," added the sailor, "I should like very much to be Top
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[001] ally to them to include any musical form with a sharp _____ of its own absurdity; ska, for instance (there are t
[002] mock formality. He was the worse for wear in another _____ , come the end of the evening. Misty- eyed when he fi
[003] , and hearing it thus at least lends something of the _____ of familiarity and recognition that the thirteenth-ce
[004] ce of excessive demand There is some observable good _____ in this argument, and it helps to explain why sterlin
[005] r and small enough to fit the average pocket in every _____ . So in a few years' time mobile phones will be brought
[006] or that matter, does investment income. It would make _____ , at some stage, to equalise the tax treatment of earn
[007] st German church's involvement lies in the agonising _____ of guilt and self- accusation among many clergy duri
[008] to work out why they had also travelled with little _____ of direction, wit, wisdom or work rate. Rodgers knows
[009] e of our linguistic inability it hasn't made complete _____ ," Edward Jones, the acting secretary of the WRU, sai
[010] ay evening live," Martin said. Our partnerships make _____ , and our viewers will not lose out". Martin, of cours
[011] concern for the interests of the sport in the widest _____ from TV negotiators. ’Ä¢Sport Page 40 891004 Football
[012] evident that Durie was on shaky ground. Paulus could _____ it too as she moved in for the kill to claim a 2-6,
[013] hat the settlers were men" in the complete and higher _____ of the word. The engineer Harding could not have bee
[014] e engineer quickly. "But the wretched creature has no _____ !" "That is possible at present," replied Cyrus Hardin
[015] uld gradually improve; but was he penetrated with the _____ of a new life? or rather, to employ a word which wou
[016] d Cyrus Harding reasoned thus with their simple good _____ , and they acted as the best surgeon would have done.
[017] lonists had appealed to the logic of that simple good _____ of which they had made use so often, and once more, t
[018] yrus Harding, "and I do not fear an earthquake in the _____ in which the term is commonly applied to convulsions
[019] ttee on Juvenile Delinquency and Youth Crime. His _____ of urgency in this matter stems from the fact that c
[020] ome voice on the national level that would make some _____ and in which we would have some confidence in follow
[021] ith a serious intensity, Palmer has such an inherent _____ of humor that it relieves the strain and keeps his n
[022] ctually Johnny is a glib, garrulous guy, with a rare _____ of humor. Everywhere he went in town, people sidled
[023] it largely because Colonial craftsmen had "an innate _____ of the practical". #SOLID INVESTMENT# There are a
[024] shrewd judge of men. The feeling was that he would _____ an inner core of toughness and determination in the
[025] American Catholic project; certainly not in the same _____ that the establishment of a parochial school system
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[001] group, moved to acquire British life insurer Equity & _____ , which was also under siege from the New Zealand ent
[002] rley, whose interests owned 29.6 per cent of Equity & _____ . Equity &
[003] . Equity & _____ finally recommended acceptance of the £448m takeove
[004] 9 revolt, that Peking first tested the use of martial _____ and indiscriminate gunfire. They worked. Troops conti
[005] s. Then there is the story of the man who, as a young _____ student, fled across the border from the East and now
[006] he assassination last month of Mr Mitsotakis' son-in- _____ , Paul Bakoyannis MP, and the dignity and courage sho
[007] erial procurement or production". On the West German _____ prohibiting military sales to zones of conflict, he
[008] tary sales to zones of conflict, he said: "If such a _____ exists, it had no influence at all on our contractual
[009] nd we cannot permit that. We are going to change the _____ to allow us to get rid of people. I do not want to sa
[010] ho are our enemies. People cannot be protected by the _____ when they are conspiring against the government". Mr
[011] id that a government council had already overturned a _____ protecting diplomatic service personnel from dismiss
[012] ointment of a caretaker administration under a senior _____ officer later this week, to hold new elections on 5 N
[013] curb political offences has been the Anti-Subversion _____ . The trial of Mr Subono and Mr Nugroho was the first
[014] Mr Nugroho was the first time in many years that the _____ was used to try "leftists" rather than Muslim activist
[015] of arrogant power and political influence above the _____ . Fiat's defence lawyers hailed the court's move as a
[016] os said, while some adolescents - who under Brazilian _____ are not criminally responsible - are also employed to
[017] d Congress by the "reformist" left. His comprehensive _____ to cut bureaucratic red tape was similarly backed. Bo
[018] ve final and overwhelming approval to a comprehensive _____ on labour disputes, admitting the right of workers to
[019] conomy. The measure is not only the first full- scale _____ passed by the Supreme Soviet in its new incarnation a
[020] a short, self- congratulatory round of applause. The _____ itself will take over from the emergency anti- strike
[021] n three months from take- off. This May, IME became a _____ of the Estonian parliament. Far more astounding, the
[022] ort Page 37 891010 Around the World By BRUCE PALLING _____ and order in Uganda IT IS more than a decade since K
[023] d Nations. Both sides have agreed on a new electoral _____ which guarantees secret balloting and an immediate co
[024] ecial session yesterday devoted entirely to abortion _____ . Earlier this week, the first television debate in a
[025] The military government, officially called the State _____ and Order Restoration Committee, has promised to hold
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[001] Mr Anderson this week. But so far we have received no _____ approach. The last time I met AMP was over two years
[002] emand by the Australian Federation of Air Pilots for _____ negotiations over their claim for a 29.5 per cent pay
[003] ond, be allowed to raise a proportion of their equity _____ from the public and be subject to independent regulat
[004] competition, will be able to fly up to 15 passengers _____ from London to the West coast of the US, Rio de Jane
[005] the home counties and some pressure on margins, but _____ exposure to housebuilding is apparently modest. Even
[006] est rates? The company is based on a novel concept of _____ selling, which involves representatives knocking on d
[007] rable part of China since the 13th century, although _____ control was not established until 1950, when the Peop
[008] ilitary sources said some those arrested may not have _____ knowledge of the coup. They suggested Colonel Wong ma
[009] d administrative ties with the West Bank. He made no _____ reference to the disturbances in April against the go
[010] you are emigres who, for one reason or another, have _____ knowledge of KGB methods or operations in the USSR o
[011] to one political party; use of referenda as a form of _____ democracy; autonomous local governments; the creation
[012] more econonic freedom from the Kremlin. "There is a _____ link between the political situation and economic neg
[013] nts managed to cause an upset with nothing more than _____ running and honest endeavour, bodes well for Great B
[014] d. Dorigo at least had the satisfaction of seeing his _____ opponent and England colleague David Rocastle withdr
[015] keep the Welshman at centre, where he will come into _____ confrontation with Meninga. Davies can at least refle
[016] ich will have to be staged for the first time without _____ financial help from the host government, by raising ¬
[017] and to return by another route. It was also the most _____ way to reach the mountain. They turned the south ang
[018] beat a path, which would in the future form the most _____ road to Prospect Heights and Mount Franklin. The tree
[019] coal, a cubic mass, to the center of which he would _____ the wind from his bellows. Doubtless, it was the pro
[020] nd the position of Granite House preserved it from a _____ attack. But in the midst of this snow- storm, as terr
[021] d on board a whaling- ship, and he could methodically _____ the operation of cutting up, a sufficiently disagreea
[022] evident," said Gideon Spilett, "that this well is in _____ communication with the sea, and that some marine anim
[023] with the engineer, and it was agreed that they should _____ the attention of their companions to the strange char
[024] oist the black flag without deep anxiety. Was it not a _____ menace against the work which he and his companions h
[025] ," answered Cyrus Harding, "but I should like a more _____ answer to the question I put to you. You are our comp
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[001] n labour costs did not accelerate as fast as feared. _____ sales were uncomfortably large, and with them the Ju
[002] s a record £4bn in August, partly because of strong _____ sales and also credit card holiday bookings. Home Ne
[003] 891004 Company News in Brief REG VARDY, the Northern _____ dealer, is seeking a full listing via a £7.1m placing
[004] markedly better. The typical executive has a company _____ , private medical insurance and a company pension sch
[005] ood chance of winning a six figure sum of money and a _____ in a prize draw. With the possibility of recouping a
[006] d. The shares roared ahead 34p to 633p. Ford, the US _____ giant, has already declared its interest in moving in
[007] it has already approached Jaguar's union leaders. The _____ group's shares were the most actively traded option.
[008] at Swindon. Soon it will also be the site of a £300m _____ factory. Under a giant makeshift marquee, Tadashi Ku
[009] scribing Honda's decision to join the flow of Japanese _____ makers into Britain as an opportunity to conquer a Eu
[010] what earth, wind and fire had to do with building a _____ factory on a former aerodrome in the Wiltshire countr
[011] ng to 100,000 cars a year by 1995. Rover, the British _____ maker, is taking a 20 per cent stake in the factory.
[012] 7,000 bonus, £20, 000 company pension contribution, _____ and other benefits worth £10,000 and an annual prof
[013] in Sidon A Muslim militiaman searches the boot of a _____ in Sidon yesterday after gunmen in the city kidnapped
[014] ts are a kind of latter day Knights Templar, wielding _____ bombs and Uzzis for greater Basque liberty. During t
[015] and Christian forces. ’Ä¢Foreign News Page 12 891010 _____ bomb case MADRID (Reuter) - Two Basque separatists w
[016] Two Basque separatists went on trial charged with a _____ bomb attack which killed 21 Barcelona shoppers in Ju
[017] are abandoned. However, if they are maintained - and _____ boots still have to be checked for goods that may exc
[018] reign News Page 14 891011 Chirac declares war on the _____ From SARAH LAMBERT in Paris PARIS is suffocating. Li
[019] one- way systems and extra bus routes. Once the huge _____ park near the Louvre is finished in 1991, tourist co
[020] ke no more room than the entrance to a multi- storey _____ park and the tunnel would carry one three- lane "lay
[021] rs at the wheel yesterday, Senna limped away from his _____ , the only obvious sign that he had suffered from brak
[022] of the McLaren-Honda management standing by Prost's _____ on the grid in Spain while five key people fussed aro
[023] Horse of the Year Show could reward him with a Jaguar _____ , if he can maintain the form shown on the last three
[024] is special prize. Known as the Everest Challenge, the _____ is offered to any rider who can jump two clear round
[025] ctory in the Grand Prix. For sure I'd like to win the _____ ," said Lansink, who finished third behind the Whitaker
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[001] rsonal computer market. Headland believes Multisoft's _____ , especially in open systems _ computers of different
[002] be a business school graduate with extensive overseas _____ , who will speak from a position of strength. Second,
[003] ted the appointment. "He brings considerable outside _____ and proven ability in defining practical business str
[004] ally on the attitudes of individual governments. Past _____ suggests that some governments, at least, may not be
[005] s to be played. But then, as he pointed out, national _____ was limited. No one under the age of 41 has any
[006] was limited. No one under the age of 41 has any _____ of voting in elections. He explained that elections a
[007] s of the Reagan years. Take, for instance, the recent _____ of three conservative Republicans. The day after the
[008] tried such a method". Although the opposition has no _____ of sheltering such a prominent figure underground, Mr
[009] best with Wales and several others injured, replaced _____ with unbridled exuberance. Leicester, who arrived wi
[010] grateful to the English Poundstretcher League for the _____ being gained by 13 of their 16-man squad. ’Ä¢Sport P
[011] n 16 October, 1987. As a result of that demoralising _____ Biggs was inactive for more than a year, a cut eye t
[012] but my mind was free and clear. The trip was a good _____ ". Having watched television documentaries about life
[013] em, winning once in 1977 in a Lions' jersey, and his _____ and example will be crucial when the revamped, and i
[014] on," said Gideon Spilett, "with due deference to your _____ , Pencroft, is that in the double fact of the absolute
[015] of their existence, and though, profiting by acquired _____ , they had nothing to invent, still they had everythin
[016] om the falling of the temperature, which the sun will _____ alter millions of years; others, from the gradual ext
[017] 't go where we want them to go, and we have had some _____ in that way! Look here, we will build a craft of som
[018] ircumstance which baffled even their intelligence and _____ . "It is a joke," said Pencroft; "it is a trick some o
[019] so very fast," replied Cyrus Harding. "It is known by _____ that the greatest quantity of work is performed by a
[020] le perplexity. You must aid me with your advice, your _____ !" "Take courage, my friend," answered the engineer,
[021] a considerable advantage, since it has been found by _____ that contact with the air is dangerous during the fir
[022] n sight of the rock? But they knew only too well from _____ that no ships ever visited this part of the Pacific.
[023] a member of the State Board of Tax Appeals. "My _____ as public safety commissioner", Roos said, "has show
[024] sheriff is best filled by a man with law enforcement _____ , and preferably one who is a lawyer. Jim Sheeran fit
[025] t. Barnett, who came into office with no previous _____ in public administration, has surrounded himself wit