A far smaller proportion will be taken up by the re-match over 2,000m of Zola Budd-Pieterse and her old American rival Mary Slaney, whose meeting over 3,000m at Crystal Palace in 1985 saw Budd paid pounds 90,000 by television. Such material would be illegal if sold over the counter in Britain, but a European Community agreement allows Britons to receive the transmissions if they are legal in the country of origin.The British Board of Film Classification says that as British tests of obscenity are the strictest in Europe, it is inevitable that some sex material originating in European countries will be stronger than what is allowed here.Supt Hames said that satellite transmissions contained scenes of fellatio and sexual intercourse that would be illegal if sold on video in Britain.'The crazy thing is that if someone tuned in and ran off a video of the programme to hand over to a friend, then he or she would be committing an offence under the 1959 Obscene Publications Act.'He said that in the past few months, he had examined several sex education videos aimed at the heterosexual and homosexual markets. Yet the 'gap' year has acquired a mixed reputation: parents, admissions officers and employers may regard it as admirably character-building, or a complete waste of time.The worst possible start to a year off is to embark on a degree course you don't want, at a college you don't like, and then have nine months to fill because you abandon it all by Christmas. MY BEST friend, Little Jo, often amuses me by asking whether by any chance I'll be in London over the weekend. Set in the fictional West African state of Songhai (which bears a more than passing resemblance to the writer's homeland), the play is a broadly brushed, scathing satire on the insane violations of justice and the crude spread of corruption caused by an unstable, vicious military dictatorship. THE Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) meets this week to decide for the first time on the allocation of funding for the entire university system: former polytechnics as well as 'old' universities. Will take three years from the start of work - the grass itself needs two years to grow.
Margaret Thatcher took the case to the Security Council and got from that body all she needed and all it could provide: in effect, a blessing on Britain and a curse on Argentina.She did not ask for - and did not need, and would not have got - a specific authority to use force. Unemployment, already nearly 11 per cent of the population, is leaping upwards. My other health-care selections, Takare, Quality Care Homes, Tunstall Telecommunications and Seton Healthcare, are all showing moderate or good growth.The biggest disaster was Dell Computer, whose shares have suddenly plummetted to dollars 25 from a recommendation price of dollars 46. After all, they cannot take funds away from hospitals, for instance, to give to the Uffizi.'Moreover, few know as well as the custodians of Italy's art treasures how slowly the state machinery grinds, and how long it takes before cash, when there is any, emerges from the bureaucratic pipeline.
What makes this project different is the quality of the story-telling - the lead role of the crooked politician is played by veteran actor Robert Culp - and the quality of the images.While this title is not yet up to full television quality, it comes pretty close. So it's David Phipps (9) versus Vernon Scannell on falling in love, and Matthew Lea (4) as against John Kitching on death in the family. And, in turn, it is helping to uphold that of all of Vermont as a last bastion in America of pastoral perfection. That is simply rubbish.'No Means No was founded after Judge Raymond Dean's comment that, when a woman says 'no', she does not always mean 'no'. 'The relatives got together and decided to try and bring back his remains to Vladikavkaz,' said Valery Salbuyev, a North Ossetian official. The biodegradable bead, made of the material used for absorbable surgical stitches, is placed in an incision in the bone and releases high concentrations of antibiotics.
Of course, it advocates things which the British Government will react against instinctively, such as spending more than 100bn ecu( pounds 76bn) over the next five years, partly funded by 'Brussels bonds', on what the Commission calls 'trans-European networks' - the TGV to Moscow, according to one detractor. We make these grotesque errors of judgement in the following circumstances: when the sums of money involved in some transaction have proved too much for our poor little personalities to handle; when we are in love or in the grip of some wild infatuation; when we are divorced; when our vanity has been tapped; when we are 'out of touch with our true feelings' - as, for instance, in the case of someone who has been humiliated but has not yet had time to admit that he has been humiliated The vanity-tapping scenario is topical. She is content in the memory of her former life as a movie queen and values her privacy highly. St Paul's pupils do a great deal of art, drama, cookery and child development alongside their English, maths and science They produce a newspaper, and help run a farm and a nursery. These people saw the rules and regulations as something to get past.'And yet this was Joe Public's money - yours and mine - that was being wasted. In mainland China he is now regarded as a hero; his former home has been restored and opened to the public as a monument. Sotheby's sale is billed as 'Fine Chinese Paintings from the Ding-yuanzhai Collection'. The retail market for the 'drink of the Nineties' has been turned inside out in recent months by a phenomenal growth in sales of economy brands, which are 50p to 60p cheaper per litre than premium products.
Union leaders have opposed virtually every privatisation that ever took place, but their members, on the other hand, bought the shares. Allied-Lyons, down 3p to 627p, has the somewhat dubious distinction of replacing Guinness in Yamaichi's top ten.Little Hoskins Brewery, based in Leicester, rose 2p to 33p Richard Cattermole has built a 3.8 per cent stake. Having missed Badminton in both 1990 and 1991, 'Crafty' made a splendid comeback to be runner-up there this year. Martin Colomba McMonagle and Liam Robert Francis Heffernan, both 30, were remanded in custody until 4 March by east London magistrates, jointly charged with conspiring to cause explosions.. Uniform likewise displays the infinite variety of these girls and boys and their bands - and within that variety, of course, a certain uniformity of oddness.-Catholic Girl Guides, Dublin; royalist supporters, Maastricht; carnival group, Berlin; Sea Cadet, Hastings; St Joseph's Gun Club, Maastricht; Guardian Angels, London; Bubo Brass Band, Amsterdam; St John Ambulance Cadets, Milton Keynes; Artane Boys Band, Dublin; The Magic Stars, Amsterdam; Polish Cub Scout, Bradford; Mirabelle Gospel Choir, Birmingham; Salvation Army, Leicester; Boy Scouts, Amsterdam; Sea Cadet, Hastings(Photographs omitted).