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Argyll shares were marked up 5 1/2 p to 368p.Marks & Spencer continues to expand on the Continent, announcing plans for a third store in Spain yesterday. It said initial operations would be limited to policing the air with strikes limited to acts of self-defence, such as the destruction of missile batteries that fired on allied planes.In his New Year’s message on Thursday, President Mitterrand said France would be willing to take part in military operations to end the suffering in Bosnia as long as the Americans and other Europeans also participated under the UN flag.Mr Bush said Washington was ‘very sensitive to the fact that others have troops on the ground in former Yugoslavia’ and would ‘not precipitately do anything that would put these troops further in danger’. All the extra requests from management have miraculously ceased. Substitutes not used: Day (gk), Sellars.Sheffield United: Kelly; Ward, Cowan, Gannon, Gayle, Beesley, Bradshaw, Rogers, Littlejohn (Bryson, 73), Deane, Cork. The image of the Great Leader, on statues, portraits and lapel badges, was omnipresent in every town and hamlet in the country.But on Friday, it was announced, god was dead.

But it is also, more significantly, political, reflecting many people’s changed perceptions of London and Brussels, of national government and EC Commission. In the Channel tunnel’s case, the cost has risen fourfold to more than pounds 10bn since the plans were drawn up in 1986.
The story of big engineering projects throughout history reveals a similar pattern: costs are underestimated, and the motives are usually mixed, leading to built-in misunderstandings all round. The deal involves offering 395 million ‘A’ shares compared with 326 million originally. The one in Washington, near the British embassy in Massachusetts Avenue, could also come under the hammer.

New products and increased competitiveness against the Japanese chip-makers, who are struggling with the strong yen, gave the materials technology division a useful boost. Why is there a dearth of women scientists in this country? A report published today, commissioned by the Office of Science and Technology, examines some of the reasons. Between a southern Catholic and a northern Prod, reference to the savage sectarianism that curses our island is unavoidable. It was a really hairy thing to do.’Yet dancing in such circumscribed conditions – slotted between sculptures, or avoiding beer spillages on the floor – encouraged a gestural style, and Anderson developed an obsession with unison work and patterning.

I greatly admired the way in which Lyon was prepared for role reversal and was quite content to work for Clare as Clare had worked for him. They would be able to vote on the plans at a series of extraordinary general meetings.’LIT needs a breathing space to find new products,’ Mr Gildersleeves said. The managers’ report said the decline ’signals an abrupt end to seven months of across-the-board expansion’.Britain is likely to pay in the long run for the pound’s exit from the exchange rate mechanism by having to raise interest rates, Sir Leon Brittan, the EC competition commissioner, said in Glasgow yesterday.He said a floating pound would mean uncertainty and investors would demand a premium for holding sterling in the form of higher interest rates.. Put yourself (plus embarrassing stand-ins) in the leading role Deepen and enrich the shadows, or film in a Turkish bath. He had already found a backer but I didn’t like his idea of crossing the Georgian-Turkish border with a Turkish guide. There are seminars with such titles as: ‘Gun Control, the Economy and Liberals: a Disaster in the Making’; and ‘Battle Rifles and Burp Guns: How to Employ Them in Combat.’The get-together was at the Sands Hotel in Las Vegas, a gambling joint that offers rooms at dollars 69 a night and evenings of soft- porn entertainment.In this outlandish city, Mr Bible was not out of place. ‘I was lucky that he saw me today,’ Shearer said before departing to be with his pregnant wife.Shearer’s life is all hits and missus.Kenny Dalglish keeps stressing that his team is a collective unit and not a collection of expensive individuals, but his most costly signings, Shearer, Mike Newell and Stuart Ripley, stood out in an occasionally inspired match.Rovers tore into an injury-troubled Coventry from the moment Ray Lewis first put lip to whistle, forcing four corners in the first three minutes.

Only 18, this composed England youth midfielder belongs to the David Gower school of sport – languid, but oozing class. This Christmas, ride in India with a new package ‘Wanderings on Horseback in Rajasthan’.UK AND IRELANDTrail rides: Unlike in the US, where trail riding is more akin to pony trekking, these involve covering up to 25 miles per day at sustained speeds.Prices typically start at around pounds 250 for an extended weekend break (four days), including B&B; pounds 700 for seven nights at a luxury hotel.Adult breaks: Holidays based on a tailor-made blend of hacking and instruction usually cost pounds 200- pounds 300 for seven nights.Accommodation varies from full board at a centre, local guesthouse or farmhouse, to self-catering. The car, because it is so often convenient, has become central to our lives – a classic case of what economists call the tyranny of small choices. Their spread is inevitable.But our native red deer is a bit of a mixer to begin with.