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The Danes are seeking contracts for ports, the British are offering banking services and several countries are touting for telecommunications contracts. Lemon grass is gradually becoming easier to find – look out for packs of ‘Thai herbs’, which contain fiery hot red chillis as well.Serves 4-6Ingredients: 8oz (225g) asparagus, trimmed10oz (280g) shelled broad beans6oz (170g) shelled peas4 lettuce leavessaltFor the dressing:6 mint leaves, shredded2 stems lemon grass1 red chilli, deseeded and finely choppedjuice of 1 lime1tbs fish sauce (available from oriental food stores)2tsp light muscovado sugar2oz (55g) unsalted, toasted peanuts, finely choppedPreparation: Cut the tips off the asparagus and cut the stalks into 1- 1 1/2 in (2.5-4cm) lengths. LAST Friday, All Fools’ Day, two new quangos – one local, one national – began work. ‘With people like Brian Dempsey around it can only be good for the club and what we all need now is some honesty and integrity,’ Charlie Nicholas said before the game.Aberdeen, who had been hoping to close in on Rangers at the top of the Premier Division, were beaten at home by Hearts Scott Leitch scored the only goal of the game at Pittodrie.. He was not authorised to hold clients’ money.Their only hope of compensation lies with the Investors’ Compensation Scheme, a fund of last resort operated by the Securities and Investments Board.Receiving money from the scheme can be like getting blood out of a stone. Immediately after the report was completed, Mr Conde abruptly stopped making highly political statements which had suggested he could become a serious centre-right threat to Mr Gonzalez’s fading Socialists.Mr Conde also accused Mr Rojo and the Bank of Spain of political motives in taking over Banesto last December, when its assets were estimated to have been overvalued by about pounds 3bn Mr Conde insisted his restructuring plans were adequate..

The first, the minimum wage in the context of the OECD report, left Labour looking certainly less than clear and probably less than candid. While the Fed chief was at the Bank of England for a dinner hosted by Eddie George, she was at Hampton Court with the rest of the bankers’ spouses for a separate meal hosted by the Governor’s wife.BARELY disguisedtitters at the Saatchi and Saatchi annual meeting yesterday when a shareholder requested that directors sort out their differences behind closed doors. When Hester uncorked it last night – clearly well in advance of dinner – she was letting it ‘breathe’. So far, business in 1994 is less volatile than in 1993.’Turnover, including pounds 1.9m from acquisitions, rose from pounds 39.4m to pounds 47.6m.

Myths define enemies and aliens and in conjuring them up they say who we are and what we want They tell stories to impose structure and order. TWO African National Congress leaders narrowly escaped death yesterday when they were ambushed in the South African township of Katlehong by gunmen believed to be Inkatha supporters A journalist was killed. Hearing all this repentance and retrospective shock, you could come to a still rosier view, that the most vindictive children can grow up into decent people. Is it, they ask, too depressing to be a shadow figure of fun? Have I been having a shady affair or accepting phantom holidays from the wrong people? Not at all. Pilgrim’s 61st-minute penalty and firm late resistance kept Wasps, never cup winners but with hopes of a double this season, on course. Ryman is at his best when he is least constructional and most painterly.’Almost every painting in the retrospective is white, or a shade of it. The Hawk-eye technology would work by having several cameras trained on the
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