BZW also demanded underwriting commission if the agency came to be privatised, or a success fee.BZW assures me that graduate recruits must have two or three years' experience before they can be hired out as executives at pounds 800. HOURS after the Maastricht treaty overcame its final hurdle yesterday, Britain's exclusion from European social policy was already causing controversy. A UK version of the successful US Family Channel began broadcasting in September this year, having leased early evening and night-time satellite hours from (guess who) Children's Channel, which had recently acquired 24 hours a day of time on an Astra satellite.Neither channel will make money in 1994, but both form part of Sky's new pounds 6.99 per month basic package. IN WHAT was described as 'a magnificent piece of seamanship' the 11 crew of the stricken Italian yacht Brooksfield were found safe and well yesterday by Daniel Malle, skipper of the French yacht La Poste, writes Stuart Alexander from Fremantle. 'Popov]' Sleepily, we scrabbled about looking for the Russian phrasebook. And she might have been a star, filling theatres and cinemas with her beguiling presence, never mind the brains, the talent or the taste, if she had not also been such a human being. While pundits debated the relative merits of shock therapy versus gradualism, the real issue was far simpler: would reformers have the political strength and Western financial backing to pursue a sensible and consistent financial policy, or would they be done in by a bitter and corrupt Communist opposition? For two years, reformers in Moscow struggled for power while Western governments promised them large-scale aid.

I have now thrown down the gauntlet to my players to prove against Alloa that they are good enough to stay at the club. There is also growing evidence that the age at which the young start to experiment has dropped in the last few years from 16 to about 14, though the bulk of drug education is still aimed at older children. He is unbeaten since being bought out of a claimer by Daniel Wildenstein in October. About a dozen demontrators scaled the walls of the Department of Transport headquarters in Marsham Street to protest against the extension of the M11 into east London.

Firm contractual and recurring revenues made up 35 per cent of total turnover. Katakana (3.40) did not take her third winter well, though, not even returning to the racecourse until after the Classic had been run, and it may have taken until now for her full powers to be regained.Stoute had been toying with the idea of stepping up Katakana to the 10 furlongs of Ireland's Pretty Polly Stakes, but decided to keep his filly for today's mile race and his judgement should be respected.Current form is something that disturbs Barry Hills as his Lambourn stable is conspicuously out of sorts. .'I'm afraid I have to interrupt here with the sad news that this story is not, after all, eligible for the EC fiction prize, as it is apparently true and therefore not fiction So there will be no prize this month Competition as usual next month.. First, however, it is important to be clear that the propositions do not include the idea of sterling rejoining the ERM at its old central rate.Rather, the central rate might be around DM2.80, so that with 6 per cent bands on either side, the pound would be free to ride up to DM2.95, or down to DM2.65.The first proposition: reaching DM2.95.

Nothing today has added or subtracted to the controversy of the closure announcement. There the quarterly meetings tend to take on an adversarial tone, which makes long-term fund management much more difficult.Like many other people involved in fund management, Mr Ross Goobey notes that the industrialists who make the loudest criticisms of City short-termism are those who take the most aggressive stance with their pension fund managers: they practise precisely the opposite to what they preach.At any rate, Postel will remain long-termist: because it is so big it has to. When you're quite sure you have everyone's attention, jerk forward, bring your left hand sharply up to your eye, pierce the foil seal, squeeze and emit a blood-curdling shriek. 145 P Mayo 73 72; P Eales 72 73; H Clark 71 74; A Mednick (Swe) 73 72; G Orr 73 72; R Winchester 75 70; J Sewell 70 75; P Fowler (Aus) 71 74; S Torrance 73 72; G Brand Jnr 72 73; J McHenry 74 71. I will remember my mother in the way I choose to remember her, for her views, opinions and love.

Sir: In your leading article 'Clinton's Chinese conundrum' (22 November) you rightly say that in his dealings with China, 'the rising Asian' superpower, Bill Clinton cannot ignore China's appalling human rights record. (Even Dahmer had deep freezes.)That Leonardo was not what you would call normal can be easily conceded, but whether you would connect this chosen way of life with that of the psychopath is open to question. Students apply on one form to both the new and old universities Applications are, as a result, artificially increased. The basilica is the most exotic of Europe's cathedrals, an extraordinary mix of architecture (Byzantine, Gothic, Islamic, Renaissance). In the 1960s and early 1970s, selling photocopiers was about as difficult as spotting pigeons in Trafalgar Square. 'If you sit back, you risk missing the boat.'He was supported by David Pendlebury, of the US Institute for Scientific Information, who said the past decade 'has been a period of weakness for British science'.