'I would want to see a non-executive chairman brought in from outside the group' one shareholder said

'I would want to see a non-executive chairman brought in from outside the group,' one shareholder said. His one cautionary note is that the Group of Seven industrialised nations must not oppose the dollar's appreciation: to do so would risk a prolonged world recession.However, a growing number of US economists disagree with Mr Nakamae's assessment that no fixes are needed. Schools, banks, shops, industry, ports, were closed; most newspapers failed to appear and radio and television stations ran only a skeleton programme of broadcasts.The all-out stoppage follows a co-ordinated pattern of regional strikes that will continue until 10 December - the first day of the European Union summit - when a second general strike is planned.(Photograph omitted). The existing commercial broadcasters, for the same reason, were delighted with yesterday's decision.. The audience was at first unclear about whether to treat her as the President's wife or the chairwoman of the task force But there was no doubt about how she regarded herself. Set up bain-marie: a roasting pan one-third filled with water does the job.

A few days earlier Mr Scott had undergone an eye operation for cataracts. The talks will be difficult enough.'The Danish Prime Minister, Poul Schluter, has already made it clear that the Danes do not expect any compromise to involve re-negotiation: the country accepts this is not an alternative anyone could agree to. Cool and clever as these stories are, in many of them not very much breaks through the measured surface. They needed a break; instead, like us, they were strapped in from the start for a guided tour of debasement, with particular reference to the inability of words to hold their value in a world of fakes.

The best way we can support them is to continue to spit on their work, thump it with a fist, chuck it into the post box and send it around the globe.(Photograph omitted). On a beautiful spring afternoon there were times when anybody who had wandered in from watching the Boat Race might have questioned which was the livelier event.Little happened to disturb the waters until five minutes before half-time when Chelsea went ahead through their left- back, Darren Barnard. Any military action would be strongly opposed by Japan and South Korea, without whose support the US could not wage such a war.A more realistic option under consideration in Washington is whether to set a hard deadline for North Korea to allow IAEA inspections. It was, though, one of the six penalties converted by Gavin Hastings who is hardly putting a foot wrong. The treaty, which imposes cuts on the number of troops, artillery and armoured vehicles that members of Nato and the former Warsaw pact are permitted, was agreed in 1990.

It did not specify how the Legco which China would inherit should be elected; Mr Patten is trying to make it more effective.Q How democratic are Patten's proposals?A Not very. Hence the Treasury's desire to keep interest rates steady and see the pound rise. Anyway, I went to university at Manchester and then went into the Army. He arrived still wearing a cannula, the plastic valve that enabled him to be connected to a drip or to be injected with drugs from a syringe, the jury was told. SORENSENChief ExecutiveLondon Docklands DevelopmentCorporationLondon, E1426 June. The systems used to award 'scores' to the chosen criteria also varied considerably, as did the weights attributed to each criterion.Some investigators interpreted 'equal' as 'exact equivalence'; others adopted a more 'broad brush approach'.