The size of such discount (currently up to 70 per cent) is a loss and is borne by the ‘Housing Revenue Account’, in other words, by those tenants who have chosen not to exercise their ‘right’ and continue to pay rent.The discount is accompanied by another ‘right’ – that of a mortgage from the local authority, but which only applies to purchasers who can demonstrate their ability to service such a mortgage.Unfortunately, tenants in receipt of housing benefit are deemed to be incapable of discharging such liability, and thus forfeit their ‘right to buy’. Today, some 15,000 products, from chocolate wrappers to tins of tomatoes, carry the green dot.Quotas were set and rapidly swamped by the enthusiastic response of the environmentally conscious Germans, praised by Klaus Topfer, the Environment Minister, as ‘world champion collectors’.By 1993, DSD trucks were collecting amounts of household waste only meant to be reached around 1996. A rush of generally encouraging profit announcements had little impact.A marginal German interest rate cut did create an early flutter of optimism, but a more cautious attitude quickly took hold and, with New York subdued, the FT- SE 100 index ended 17.7 points lower at 3,246.7.The day’s performance appeared to support the growing conviction that shares are, despite occasional volatility, likely to mark time in the next few months. The instability the West fears could trigger refugee flows, exacerbating Macedonia’s problems, particularly if Serbia turns south now the war in Bosnia is reaching endgame.The neighbouring Serbian province of Kosovo, with its ethnic Albanian population, is a powder-keg. ‘It is essential in areas like this that the great faith communities model ways of communicating with each other respectfully and building a good society together,’ he said afterwards, reading from a prepared statement.Then, in answer to a question, he developed his view of racial harmony. This may seem a paradox, but the reasons are familiar to most educationists and economists and were patiently explained to ministers before they embarked on their preposterous project.
The Tory market rests on two innovations.

It would have been easy to make him seem either grotesque or pitiful, and Girard has managed to create quite an opposite impression. PR is, above all, a question of getting the sequence of message, market and media right.When a US president must exhort his public to ‘read my lips – no new taxes’, it shows how far professionally managed media gloss has got in the way of effective communication. ‘The good-for-nothing hyenas are urban blacks; the arch-villain’s gestures are effeminate, and he speaks in supposed gay cliches.’ It is a ‘fundamentally sexist film’, wrote Neil Chethik in the Detroit Free Press: lionesses are seen as ‘impotent victims whose only hope is to find a male. Why do your writers think we need to know this? I would still read the Independent if Ms Barber had flunked her O-levels at Croyden Comprehensive; maybe this would prove a less desirable autobiographical reference to drop into her articles, however.Perhaps you could set aside a corner one day for the whole editorial team to list their academic credentials.

A quickly called analyst meeting created much of the excitement.Forte, the catering and hotel group, had another difficult session as the market fretted about its contract catering deal. Something as artificial and inbred as ballet ought to generate wonderful comedy, yet too often the jokes at its expense tend to be clod-hopping Sugar Plum Fairies or crude parodies of nancy boys in tights. 283 A Forsbrand (Swe) 75 69 69 70; D Basson (SA) 72 70 70 71; P O’Malley (Aus) 72 71 68 72; J Rivero (Sp) 71 68 71 73; H Clark 69 72 69 73. The Belgian balloon, which heads the neck-and-neck Dutch and American teams by about 20 miles (32km), has at least a third of the perilous voyage behind it.The British balloon, lying fourth about 50 miles (80km) behind the leader, had complained of the effect of sonic booms and lamented the time it took to boil a cup of tea.’A good sonic boom from Concorde takes years off your life,’ the team captain, Don Cameron, said in a telex to the control center. He was wearing a sky blue shirt and black trousers.Evans is charged with assisting in dismembering and disposing of the body of Stephen Davison between 28 May and 16 September, with intent to impede the prosecution of two men charged with the murder. And if many of the dogs are as big as Baskerville hounds, that is because these streets are no longer as safe as they were under two autocracies.Nevsky Prospect is one of the great streets of Europe, but its eastern end, by the Alexander Nevsky monastery where men’s voices could be heard singing the Orthodox funeral rite, is seediness itself.Grubby windows in peeling buildings proclaim a pharmacy, a dairy or a gastronom (grocery).