Of 31 Customs and Excise agencies only two have women chief executives and of 33 Inland Revenue agencies just

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The admirably balanced Simon Osborn and the ranging Gareth Southgate ensured that Geoff Thomas was hardly missed; Paul Williams (how could Wednesday let him go?) and Salako were two hawks on the flanks while Eddie McGoldrick must be the best defending attacker in the Premier League.Nigel Martyn’s point-blank tip-over from Gary Ablett’s near-post volley was the shut-out for Everton Kendall had to try to smile. An EC legal official in Brussels ascribed the comments by the opposition Social Democrat, Socialist People’s and Radical parties to nothing more than political manoeuvering, but said: ‘It certainly does not make things any easier.’The parties, which hold 94 of the 179 seats in parliament, also said a referendum on a new accord should not be held before September. Even Robert Reiner, a professor of criminology, can do little better than repeat the same worn-out catch phrases about unemployment, inequality, etc, which have long since ceased to convince anybody (letters, 13 February). You have to die to get up there, preferably, gloriously in the attempt. According to the Department of Commerce, retailers reported a 1 per cent drop in sales in March, the second consecutive monthly decline, and considerably larger than anticipated.

THE Championship leaders Middlesex exhibited the classic way to play four-day cricket yesterday, writes Richard Wetherell. Hence, the Iraqi household becomes a dysfunctionally Oedipal American family, the young, defensively cocky Xerxes / Saddam, who comes on towards the end, a crazy mixed-up kid who turns to megalomania because he’s unloved by his father Remove the insanity and you have James Dean in East of Eden. Adjusted for inflation, she would start work at 19 on around pounds 8,000 a year after tax. So the first and second clubs to emerge from the ‘hat’ become tie No 1, the ninth and tenth to materialise are tie No 5 and the last pairing is No 32.The winners take these numbers into the next round. The money raised paid for rent, stock, a till, new fittings and cold cabinets. Queues will not be long and thin but short and wide, based on a zig- zag system. It might only take the most fleeting of images to shift the balance.And this brings me back to those bleak visions from Pie in the Sky.

Not only is there a host of special offers – zero finance on household durables, free servicing for cars, new special discounts in supermarkets – but a fair number of the advertisements are boasting that prices have come down. Then came the offer from Swindon to replace his former Spurs team-mate Ossie Ardiles The word ‘player’ was not mentioned in the contract. Australia’s well-respected equivalent, on which the agency was based, has avoided most of the pitfalls into which the British version has been plunged.Here, the agency formula for assessing maintenance payments was made rigid, with little room for discretion, so it frequently fails to consider properly the ability to pay. That is not just because the games on the currency markets have still to be played.

Rory has dropped out on the Tigers’ rota system.Transvaal launch at 12-day tour of Britain at Gloucester on 13 November, the day before South Africa play England at Twickenham. While the rest of the team were training at The Stoop and Dooley was under treatment, one official said he was missing because he did not like the weather, which, admittedly, was foul.When Dooley, veteran of 35 years and 52 caps, emerged he said it was ‘just a bit of twitch’ and was confident of playing. ‘Yeah, I look pretty rough.’ His pasty complexion is somewhat at odds with the image of a brilliant entrepreneur, but then James has been at the business of party-giving longer than his tender age would suggest.’It all started when I was 15 and at school in Cheltenham. He dispenses neither life nor death to his figures, excites no terror, rouses no passions, and risks no flights. His relaxed musings are punctuated with confidential questions: ‘Isn’t it irritating when ? Have you ever noticed how. It is a startling paradox that, by pursuing a reductionist enterprise, science ends up as the ultimate in holistic philosophies, for it displays the fundamentalunities which underlie the chaotic mass of events and objects in our universe.Black Holes and Baby Universes takes us still further, almost literally over the limit.