The pounds 234m Pergau dam aid is paid over 14 years and the country has agreed a pounds 1bn arms contract.Indonesia received pounds 285.2m aid and took delivery of weapons worth dollars 1.07bn.Thailand received pounds 147.2m aid between 1980 and 1992/93, and had dollars 278m worth of weapons.Oman received pounds 9.2m aid between 1988 and 1992/93 and bought weapons worth dollars 1.03bn. Solvent abuse is the second highest unnatural cause of death (after road accidents) of people aged 10 to 16. In 1985, the Intoxicating Substances Supply Act was passed, making it an offence to supply anyone under 18 with a substance that the supplier believes will be used to achieve intoxication. The second graphic shows how the weights of five broad categories of spending have changed during the last 30 years.As people have become more affluent, the proportionate amount they spend on basics such as food have fallen, while electrical goods, travel and leisure have taken up a growing share of the family budget.This year, mugs have replaced cups and saucers and hair highlighting has ousted the shampoo and set. After Jimmy recorded 'Annie's Song' he became much more famous than me.
If the first song, 'There'll Never be Another Tonight', recalled the euphoric banality of ITV's football theme, and the second, 'Heaven', amalgamates scarf-waving choruses from every platinum-selling American MOR ballad of the 1980s, these were cliches you had to get used to. The circumstances were different: 'The Cold War is over, we have to decide now whether we will turn inward as after World War I, or build on the victory of World War II to win the peace.'Alas for this President, and despite his internationalist rhetoric, the message he sends is the first. Newspapers are items of rather intangible value, unlike a machine tool, and the acceptable market level is set by what the prices are. (Photograph omitted) Forget darts, bar billiards, skittles and shove-ha'penny. I can hardly bear to admit it but I thought the exhibition was well OK.
Officials said they had no details of his programme, but he was likely to see President Franjo Tudjman. The public finances are to be brought back into balance over the medium term. Kleinwort Benson has placed the shares.Southend said yesterday that it had spent the first pounds 5m of the money it raised last month on a portfolio of 2 million square feet of secondary property in 280 buildings in central Liverpool.Malcolm Dagul, chairman, said: 'For the first time in the 1990s there are clear opportunities in commercial property.'He described the estate, acquired from the receivers to Charterhouse Estates, as a 'dealing portfolio'. At the end, it said we too could take part in the Camcorder Challenge: if you're approached in the next week by a vicar with a piece of plastic and a camera claiming to be an on-heat female, think twice before thumping him.In Silverlake Life (C4), Tom and Mark took their own Camcorder Challenge to heights and ultimately depths that you could not witness without shuddering at man's capacity for self-deception, particularly when in the pursuit of Truth. I am glad to see the Institute for Fiscal Studies now taking the Economist to task on this point, which I first saw argued by that doughty free marketeer Enoch Powell. Access to confidential information will not be permitted outside the UK'.About 2,000 Revenue employees will be transferred to EDS.