While income from ordinary activities will be down nearly 15 per cent net income for the year to
While income from ordinary activities will be down nearly 15 per cent, net income for the year to September will not be far from the DM1.98bn ( pounds 825m) of 1992-93, said Heinrich von Pierer, chief executive, yesterday. The positive impact of the economic recovery would only become apparent next year because the electrical engineering and electronics industry was at the tail-end of economic developments, he said in Prague.Siemens' industry-oriented activities, which make up about a third of its business, remained mired in the recession. About one in five of Ukraine's 52 million people are Russians, but the figure rises to more than 40 per cent if those who use Russian as their first language are included. Twenty-six people, including two British officers, were killed. Dave's shop has been raided six times in seven weeks.'We had only one raid last year. John Major and the US Vice-President, Al Gore, are attending today's events, but President Lech Walesa has decided to go further and invite leaders from Germany and Russia.From Mr Walesa's point of view, these are two giant neighbours with which, for the sake of its own security, Poland must have amicable relations.
Their only command is: 'Don't take each other off.'Mansell, in any case, still has an hour to promote himself to the head of the grid for the 10th time in 11 races and, provided it does not rain, the track should be considerably faster today. She won her claim for constructive dismissal and was awarded more than pounds 8,000 by an industrial tribunal.But as Olga Aikin points out, the knowledge that one has done his or her duty may be of scant help to someone faced with looking for another job.'If the employee has acted in the public interest, there's no breach of contract nor of confidentiality. In a speech last week he urged Israelis to abandon the idea of 'greater Israel' and to realise that strength was not a reflection of territories held. I soon learnt that in Italy, they don't go out drinking for the evening, not the way we do.'He took Italian lessons and in six months could understand the dressing-room talk In a year, he could make himself understood 'The biggest problem was the press. Fly via Singapore with Trailfinders (071-938 3366); return flight to Singapore from pounds 377, return from Singapore to Padang from pounds 133. More than 600 mourners attended a funeral service at the church of the Holy Spirit, Southway, Plymouth, for Claire Langley and Simon Dunne, both 16, two of the victims of the Dorset canoe tragedy. One might offer these three novels to such an enquirer, together with David Callard's The Case of Anna Kavan (Peter Owen pounds 16.95), the biography where the girl, the woman, and their images of herself are like the smiles of the Cheshire cat.
'They don't realise that a sewage works is a living thing which requires sensitive handling. No class rival smooths away bumps so well as the fluent 1.8 Xantia.Comfort of such quality is usually achieved at the expense of sharp handling Not here. After a two-hour delay, Middlesex reappeared shortly after 6pm and lost only Mike Roseberry in finding the 59 runs that brought them their eighth win in 11 matches.The only pity was the paucity of support to witness the Championship pace-setters in such irresistible action. He was wise to have felt Surrealism and not succumb to it.He was also astute in getting Julio Gonzalez to work for him. And then Potter went through on the final wave of a prolonged Leicester attack for his second try. His speech drew thunderous applause from packed government benches but howls of derision from the opposition, one of whose members held up a piece of paper with the word 'Liar'.Mr Berlusconi indicated he was exasperated with the dissent within his coalition and he warned Mr Bossi that he would not remain a hostage of the Northern League leader's continued sniping.It was Mr Bossi who threw cold water on the Prime Minister's plan to distance himself from the family's Fininvest holding - a pounds 4bn- a-year empire embracing television, retailing, insurance and sports 'If Bossi wants to be a kidnapper, he is free to do so. This means that Giotto will be able to overhaul its target at the relatively leisurely pace of nine miles per second.In contrast, Halley's Comet travels in the opposite, or retrograde, direction around the Sun.
In the end the athletes from the tiny Caribbean island triumphed by just one-tenth of a second in 3:03.9 for a new world record.Outside the national stadium in Kingston there is a statue which is said to be a 'composite' of the team. There was a very interesting scene in which Mr Mayle says, in voice-over, that he is now going to start his novel, and we see him sitting down at a word processor, and sharpening a pencil] What kind of a writer would use both methods at the same time?John Birt writes: A writer who was well advised by his accountant, that's who. It was Pinky Lee's first film, virtually playing himself in support of Barbara Stanwyck's stripper star.The Forties were good years for Lee. The Blakes, though poverty-stricken, invite their guest to supper. The Isis trust, which took a disappointing pounds 26.6m, enhanced its asset value by selling the right to its dividend income to institutional shareholders by way of a special class of shares. Paradoxically, he has been saved by his own weakness, since it was only the threat of losing a general election that brought the rebels to heel.