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1. Kurds are especially happy with a US pledge last September to
protect them against Baghdad.
2. India and Pakistan are racing to put warheads on fast-flying mis
siles, set on a hair trigger, to be launched at first warning or lost to an in
coming strike.
3. Efforts to attract investment by selling Ireland abroad also have a
long history.
4. British Airways said, it would install heart monitors and cardial de-
fibrillators devices on all its aircraft within a year, becoming the first in
ternational airline to do so
5. Military rule and disdain for human rights have supposedly made
Nigeria a country not to be visited.
6. Even from the point of view of Britain's homegrown capitalists, the
current policies are failing. That is the only conclusion to be drawn from
the Bank of England's quarterly review and the report of the Commons
Treasury and Civil Service Committee.
7. Information comes in floods now, but we haven't installed a way to
use the brains with the capacity to filter and distill it.
8. The decision to ban export of beef and cattle from Portugal was
made after a sharp increase in the number of cases last year of «mad
cow» disease in cattle grown in Portugal.
9. The candidate said this morning that he was fully aware of the ob
stacles to be faced and the charges that would be made.
10. The Euro-American democracies have, in the new NATO, a cen
tral organization to co-ordinate the military actions of those NATO
members which decide they need to act.
11. The US government controls exports of strong encryption prod
ucts to preserve its capability to decode messages from foreign govern
ments and criminals.
12. There are lessons to be learnt from the cold war, but the inevita
bility of a peaceful outcome is not one of them.
13. Most Japanese educators concede that a reliance on rote learning
and cramming does great damage to creativity, and many universities are
moving to include interviews and essay writing in their entrance tests.
14. A personal campaign to acquaint the farmers with the facts about
this year's agricultural price review will be launched by the Minister of
Agriculture on Monday.
15. Peru plans to raise $1 billion through bond sales and loans to help
the country's struggling companies restructure debt.
16. Britain had the most extensive network of double taxation agree
ments in the world to protect companies trading in Britain and other
countries from paying tax twice over.
17. The said tax increases to reduce government borrowing would do
little to help recession hit industry or reduce unemployment.
18. The United States used the UN inspection team to send a US spy
into Baghdad to install a highly sophisticated electronic eavesdropping
system.
19. In his semiannual report to Congress, the US Federal Reserve
chairman suggested that «storm clouds massing over the western Pacific
and headed our way» might dampen demand for US goods and services
just enough to relieve inflationary pressure — and render unnecessary a
Fed hike in short-term rates.
20. Having shed enough of its history to look outward and prosper in
Europe, Ireland has retained enough, up to now, to ameliorate the strains
of rapid social change. This is a balance that will be difficult to preserve
21. The general feeling in Egypt is that the government has won its
war against the Islamist militants. What it is still not confident enough to
do is to allow political Islam a public voice.
22. Japanese consumers have simply not been purchasing many of the
high-ticket items—particularly automobiles and appliances — in suffi
cient volume to keep Japan's economy moving at the higher rate business
would like to achieve.
23. Although Mr.Kim [South Korea"] was the first of the three to em
brace the need for a rescue by the International Monetary Fund, he made
worrying noises about wanting to renegotiate the deal once he entered
office.
24. Mr.Cook is not the first British foreign secretary to arrive in office
determined to change things, nor will he be the last to run up against the
diplomats' natural scepticism about his ability to do.
25. The achievement [of Ireland] is certainly not to be dismissed, as
some would have it, as a matter of statistical fudges, subsidies from
Europe and tax dodges for multinationals. But lessons for would-be tigers
are either difficult to infer or of little use.
26. Scientology tries to turn its followers' minds and part them from
their money; of course it will try to change their lives forever. But so do
lots of religions.
27. Any newly elected government can expect to be given the benefit
of the doubt by the public.
28. The U.S. Federal law allows the satellite systems to provide net
work programming only to a viewer who cannot receive the local affiliate
of a network using a conventional TV antenna.
29. The United Nations said that a UN delegation would visit China
next month to look at what help the country needs to implement its com
mitments on human rights.
30. This attack on Serbia may be the start of a new trend to restrain
thugs and despots, though it does not look terribly likely.
31. They say ways and means must be found whereby developing
countries can expand their exports and increase foreign exchange earn
ings to pay for such internal programmes as power projects, transport
services, exploitation of natural resources and industrialization generally.
32. The US President calls on America to accept a global role.
33. To meet the need for increasingly precise forecasts, meteorologists
hope to extend their observational system until it covers every corner of
the earth.
34. The chancellor in fact, was quick to warn us against raising false
hopes on the basis of the new international support given for the pound.
35. The Prime Minister had told the party meeting that as a tough
Prime Minister, he refused to be dictated to by any group.
36. [NATO] Already the Europeans cannot agree to finance the mod
ernization programs that were considered essential even before enlarge
ment came into the picture.
37. In London the British Government's special envoy said on return
ing yesterday from a two-week Far East «factfinding mission», that he
was disappointed not to have been invited to take part in the talks on the
region's problems.
38. Perhaps BNP [Banque Nationale de Paris] felt left out: it courted
Societe General unsuccessfully for two years only to see the bank fall into
the arms of Paribas.
39. The retired director of the Brain Institute at the University of Cali
fornia — Los Angeles, devoted his life to studying that complex organ,
only to be crippled by a brain disease that leaves its victims unable to care
for themselves.
40. Education standards are bound to be hit by the government's latest
round of spending cuts, the Education Secretary admitted yesterday.
41. Japan's economic success carries inevitable political conse
quences, and they are bound to be recognized sooner or later.
42. The announcements of his latest trip is bound to intensify suspi
cions about the objectives of the Government's manoeuvres.
43. «The US economy already looks fairly bubble-like. Such an econ
omy is bound to slow once stock prices fall, and so the base trend will be
a stronger yen once Japan's economy strengthens,» said a top official in
the Finance Ministry.
44. The Chancellor of Germany said he had serious concerns that fail
ure to reach agreement on the EU reforms could lead to complications
concerning the European single currency, the euro.
45. Even a public apology from the prime minister for failing to ex
plain his policy failed to turn the tide of opinion in his favour.
46. European Union leaders last night failed to make any break
throughs on the future financing of the community.
47. The two social workers stood bail of $500 each. When the youth
failed to appear, they were summoned to court and ordered to forfeit
$300 each...
48. Will Republicans squabble so acrimoniously to define the soul of
their party that they condemn themselves to a protracted civil war that,
two years from now, will lead not just to failure to recapture the White House but to failure to keep control of Congress?
49. The old controversy about whether government borrowing im
poses a burden on the future has lately been given a new airing. Consider,
to begin with, the recipe for making a «primary real burden» of the na
tional debt as laid down by Professor Brown of the University of Vir
ginia.
50. To begin with, the cumulative effect of so many cocktail and other
parties amounts to a serious physical drain on the U.N. delegates; consid
erable stamina is required to stand up to some seven hundred social func
tions a year.
51. It was freely stated, to begin with, that she was little more than a
figurehead, used by the politicians of her party to get back into power on
a strong wave of emotion which only she could inspire.
52. To judge living standards, it is better to add to GDP the income
earned by foreign assets, and to deduct from it the income paid to foreign
creditors.
53. The other leg of the Nissan plan is to raise operating margins from
below zero up to 5% within two years.
54. The commercial broadcasting industry convinced Americans that
it was «good citizenship to consume news at regular intervals».
55. In many respects the father of both the supersonic Concorde and
the wide-bodied Airbus airliners, Henri Ziegler lived long enough to see
the recent major restructuring of the French aircraft industry.
56. Behind the closed doors of homes ranging from modest apart
ments to mansions in Virginia, many foreign servants live in silent de
spair, toiling long hours for low wages but too fearful, isolated or inse
cure about what will happen to them to complain or breakfree, human
rights advocates and investigators say.
57. It is increasingly recognized that the current peacekeeping re
sources and powers of the UN are too limited to enable it to intervene ef
fectively in many conflicts. One solution would be to create peace en
forcement units, to be made available in clearly defined circumstances.
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