However much they might want to be seen to be playing fair, it is overwhelmingly tempting for those who pay the piper to try calling the tune.THE accountancy firm Grant Thornton has designed a natty white plastic file for clients to hold bits of paper on their tax affairs. The Bosnian government is reminded that the UN is providing supplies to areas in need and shelter or asylum for refugees Sanctions are maintained against Serbia. The first sitting- room CD-ROM player has already appeared on the market in the US and many more are on the way.Before the future of interactive software in schools is mapped out, the technology may well have been hijacked by faster-moving forces. Few rivals, certainly, can match the class of Paul Kitson and Mark Pembridge.The beaten play-off finalists Leicester are not in the same league financially, but if Julian Joachim can handle the publicity and pummeling he is bound to receive, they should secure a top-six spot again. I should have taken an oath instead to look up words to see how they should be pronounced.

5Wright 18, pen 40, 86Youds og 24, Parlour 52Attendance: 18,656IAN WRIGHT could hardly have made his point more emphatically if he had paraded round George Graham’s front garden with a banner – then moved on to Terry Venables’ house. I feel it tipped the balance in my favour compared with the other applicants. ‘He did have some knocks in his presidency, but nobody’s perfect.’ Nixon will be buried beside his wife Pat in the grounds of the library in a ceremony attended by all four surviving ex-presidents, and dignitaries from around the world. Look behind the public relations facade of all those dignatories gathered together for this historic event and you find a company in a state of deep financial crisis and operational muddle. I would need to get some bar stools and install a pool table I’d also like a playroom. The reality is that union leaders are by their nature power-brokers.

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