In the first half net assets fell 6 per cent to pounds 1

In the first half, net assets fell 6 per cent to pounds 1.19bn, and the interim dividend was unchanged.But City investors appear to have been unconvinced by the new management's track record, and advisers also found they failed to appreciate the structure of the flotation, which would launch 3i on the market as an investment trust with substantial tax benefits. For further information contact the secretary, Carolyn Henson, 1b Aberdeen Studios, 22 Highbury Grove, London N5 2EA Tel: 071 354 8318.. Of 167 laser-guided bombs dropped by F-117E Stealth bombers, 76 missed their targets in the first five days of the war. At 4pm on 2 May the Home Secretary, on receiving legal advice that the order was made without jurisdiction, cancelled the arrangements for M's return. Grand Prix mechanics, who often work late into the night and may get little slow-wave sleep, were obliged to take a mid-afternoon rest after studies showed that many were half-asleep on the job.Such an idea is unlikely to impress Anglo-Saxon captains of industry, and, in the absence of a two-hour social hiatus, catnaps are the solution. On the life pitch Legal & General retreated 9p to 513p and Prudential 6p to 348p.Although best levels were not held, waters reached new highs with Northumbrian stretching 16p to 680p.

The growing tendency to regard the underclass as so inferior and ineducable that it must be denied the fruits of democracy and culture is dangerous for it sets the stage for thinking of social divisions as immutable.. They will take place in Londonderry, Dublin, Galway and Cork between 28 January and 19 February and be led by Maraid Keane, head of the party's womens' department The findings will be made public.. Substitutes not used: Bowry, Ndah, Woodman (gk).Leicester City (4-4-2): Poole; Mills, Hill, Grayson, Whitlow; Oldfield, Coatsworth, Thompson, Gibson (Gee, 85); Lowe (Carey, 80), Roberts. MacCormac and his team have shown how Modern architects can learn to feel for materials with the same evident joy as their Edwardian predecessors. Although initially a nurse may see a patient with a cut, she would have to say: 'I will just put a temporary dressing on you and then you can sit in the waiting room.

Every year an estimated pounds 750bn is spent on purchasing and supply. 'The one problem is that most are much further out of the town where we both work, so the extra travelling will eat into our leisure time,' says Philip.'But I would rather lose half an hour on the golf course than come home again and find I have lost all my golf gear.'(Photograph and graphic omitted). If the account can stand the strain, the way to deposit pounds 1 in the ordinary instant access account is to withdraw pounds 10 and deposit pounds 11. A firefighter accused of making hoax phone calls to his station to earn extra call-out fees was cleared. Greedy gardeners resent the fact that it has only one midsummer flush of flowers.I have a soft spot for it, though My parents planted it on the east-facing wall of our house. His application has often been, as has the thinking behind it.

Ryan, who acknowledges assistance from both Waksman's son and from Schatz (who is still alive), is so careful not to give offence in telling this story that it is impossible to see where justice lies. But, of course, the common policies have to come first.Setting the goal of EMU has public relations value, but not much more Wrong-headed policies will be punished by the markets. If not, why is there an even bigger one there now?There is also a confusion of form and contents, of aesthetics and use. At present, all the challengers have to nominate their hull at the beginning of the elimination trials, up to three months before the Cup match itself.The defender, which has only once come from outside the United States since the yacht, America, won the Cup off the Isle of Wight in 1851, can build new boats until the last minute.Moves to give the challengers the same rights have not hitherto won total support, since it was felt this could also work against individual challenge syndicates. The Indira Gandhi tournament has been postponed.Results, Sport in Short, page 31.

Ford's UK productivity is not even equal to the European aveage of 13.9 cars per man-year. They do not, for instance, include sales Britain made to Iraq after the embargo was imposed in 1985. Brown himself, a neat, dapper man, sits inside - not in the office extension (where three employees type, phone and stare out at the dogs), but in the lounge. 'This', he says, 'is the nerve centre We also have satellites all over the world. His experience in that field began immediately after his call to the Bar by the Middle Temple in 1928. He was the son of Alexander Graham, a barrister, who unusually in those days, practised almost entirely from Shrewsbury in the field of personal injury work. How do I know that?' he replied as if I had asked him when we might expect the next total eclipse of the sun. The longest-dated bond, Treasury 8.75 per cent 2017, rose by almost pounds 2 to yield 6.41 per cent.Retail sales volume fell by 0.2 per cent between November and December, after adjusting for the large increase in trade that is normal for the run-up to Christmas, according to the Central Statistical Office. Four passengers were slightly hurt.Inside Parliament, page 6Danube piracy, page 10Leading article, page 15(Photograph omitted).