One of the key battlegrounds between Mr Hayward and Mr Gardner is the larger- and medium-sized towns. Perhaps he suffers from an extreme and debilitating form of Michael Palin syndrome, that he is too nice to make it on his own. One pension scheme, the AGB Works Scheme, has seen the gap between its assets ...
GeneralThe Americans have persuaded the Bosnian Muslims and Croats to end their war and form a federation allied to Croatia.There is a Muslim-Serb truce in Sarajevo, although it may come under strain now. Yet critics of the accords have no real alternative to offer.One of the most wary observers of the fate of the PLO-Israel ...
GeneralBoth sides had time for only one training session and if that at times was all too painfully evident, an air of excitement was manufactured by the fact that for most of the game there was never more than a single score between them.Guy Gregory, the London stand- off, kicked at goal even more impressively ...
GeneralIf party support is not won back, senior backbenchers – and possibly some ministers – will feel moved to openly express misgivings and set in train a leadership contest next autumn.Some MPs emphasised yesterday they did not believe that would mean a walkover for Mr Clarke, the man shuffled by Mr Major into the position ...
GeneralIn many areas American industry is remarkably lean and competitive, while Germany and Japan, the models for the Eighties, are hampered by rigidities and rising costs. Above all, the realisation that Brazil proved to be a very good team but not a great one.’ Independent’It was not a classic final. There is no need for ...
GeneralNone of the children is squeamish about handling the slippery raw slices of fish. Venice seemed to have been re-imagined as a jolly end-of-the-pier-style Blackpool. Either he is about to become dictator of Russia and use the threat of nuclear war to reconquer the Soviet empire, or he will be laughed off the stage and ...
GeneralYou will not yet get the chance to make a comparison yourself because the stocks (beef, lamb, chicken, ham, vegetable, mushroom, salmon, lobster) are on sale only to the top end of the catering trade. It is all very well wanting to create a predominantly small and medium-size business structure, but to attract companies one ...
GeneralBut privately Western officials acknowledged that air strikes were no longer on the agenda.The United Nations special envoy in Sarajevo, Yasushi Akashi, said the Bosnian Serbs agreed yesterday to grant full freedom of movement to UN troops patrolling their positions around Sarajevo. Now estate agents have told him that his home is effectively worthless.Green makes ...
GeneralNow most patients pay 75 per cent towards the cost of care up to a pounds 225 maximum, with the remainder being paid by the state. At these Games, the hockey will be played in Terrassa, the home of Spanish and Catalan hockey and a textile city some 40 kilometres from Barcelona. Thus, with no ...
GeneralMore importantly, the car’s other dynamic qualities are better than you might expect for the money.Apart from a little too much road and tyre noise, the Civic is admirably sophisticated. He had a big cigar in his mouth and kept giving me lots of lascivious looks. For up to a dozen Republicans, this is no ...
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