Perhaps we should go our separate ways

Perhaps we should go our separate ways.”Brolin added: “I have to go away and think about my future and whether I want to play for Leeds. The way I feel at the moment, I think I must try to find another team.”Leslie Silver, the Leeds chairman, pointed out that Brolin is under contract to the club and suggested it might help if he “talked less and played more”. I wanted to play on Sunday, but the manager thinks his way and I think mine. A 10-cigarette a day person has a 1 in 200 chance of dying of smoking-related disease in a single year.6 Playing football (1 in 25,000 per year).

The comparable figures are 1 in 26,000 at home and 1 in 43,500 at work.7. c) The annual rates are 1 in 100 for car theft, 1 in 200 for road accident, 1 in 350 for divorce.8. b) That was how Aeschylus allegedly died around 456BC (the tortoise was dropped by an eagle), but has not, as far as we know, happened to anyone yet this year. The others occurred (a) in Budapest, (c) in Bangkok and (d) in Beijing.. Shares in Philips, the Dutch electronics giant, plunged 11 per cent yesterday after its president, Jan Timmer, gave an unexpected profits warning at the company’s annual meeting.

He said profits in the first quarter will be substantially below those a year ago because of a weak consumer electronics market and lower demand from the personal computer industry.
The warning reinforces gloom about the prospects for European economies this year. It came after a year of buoyant profits in which Philips appeared finally to have put behind it the financial problems and heavy job losses of the early 1990s. Philips shares fell 7.2 guilders to 59 guilders (pounds 23) in heavy trading.Analysts said this was not the start of a repeat performance of earlier troubles. But they were surprised by the need to put out a formal warning, which indicated that the likely fall in first quarter profits could be much larger than the market has expected.Michael Molenaar of Theodoor Gilissen said market conditions, particularly in Europe, looked tough. “If you look at prices in the shops, they’re under pressure and the German economy is still weak. It’s going to be very difficult to turn things around.” he said.Philips denied that the warning could be related to the Grundig subsidiary, whose restructuring is costing 3,000 jobs and heavy provisions, which have already been announced.The impact of falling demand could spread to the UK, where Philips makes electronic components, but company sources said there was no reason to see this as leading to job losses.Mr Timmer said: “Net income from normal business operations in the first quarter of 1996 will be substantially below the excellent first quarter of 1995.”The shortfall is mainly caused by the continuing weak market conditions for consumer electronics in Europe and the USA.

Moreover, lower demand from the PC industry is negatively affecting the profitability of PC monitors and semiconductors.”Philips said that it planned to do everything possible to avoid a fall in earnings for the whole of 1996. Net profit was 544m guilders (pounds 214m) in the first quarter of 1995 and 2.68bn guilders for the whole of last year.”First-quarter profit from ordinary operations could be as low as 300- 350m guilders,” compared with 544 mn a year earlier, said Edward Flick, an analyst at Rabo Effectbank.He added: “Things are evidently going badly. I was particularly surprised by the gravity of their full-year statement, and also by their comments regarding the semiconductor business – it was fairly well understood that the consumer electronics market was weak.Eric de Graaf of ING Barings said “A substantial drop generally means in the order of 30-45 per cent.”. Sheikh Mohammed, and the Maktoum family as a whole, handle their trainers like some people treat their training shoes They will only get rid of them as a last resort.

The simple logic applied is that Dubai’s rulers are happy to grant loyalty as long as it also comes to them on the other side of the carriageway. Last year, though, Sheikh Mohammed felt Henry Cecil’s steering had become too erratic and, on the night of the long line of horseboxes in Newmarket, he removed all his horses from Warren Place. Yesterday, sitting in the middle of a mound of cushions in his tent at the Al Quoz stables, he explained why.
The single incident that provoked the split came just before the Royal Lodge Stakes at Ascot last year. Cecil said he wanted to run the promising colt Mark Of Esteem but could not gain Sheikh Mohammed’s permission. The owner replied that the horse was injured and should never have been a consideration for the race. “I can cope with most things but I can’t cope with somebody letting the whole world know that I’m stopping a horse from running in a big race and yet the horse is lame,” the Sheikh said yesterday “I can’t take that. When that trust goes everything goes.”The discord between the two men had been in place for some time, however.