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Small companies loosely defined as those with market capitalisations up to pounds 300m underperformed the stockmarket for four years to

Small companies, loosely defined as those with market capitalisations up to pounds 300m, underperformed the stockmarket for four years to 1992, according to the Hoare Govett smaller companies index.Bob Armstrongs, director of Fleming Investment Management and manager of the quoted UK equity of Fleming Mercantile investment trusts, points out that despite the recovery small companies are still slightly below peak levels reached in 1987. He refers to confidentiality over genetic matters being essential, but if an individual wishes to obtain life insurance the insurance company must know as much about the risk it is taking on as the individual. It looks impossibly small, as if for large dolls; it looks like a temple to some unpronounceable South American god. The colony’s Governor, Chris Patten, and Britain’s chief negotiator with Peking, Sir Robin McLaren, will meet John Major and the Foreign Secretary, Douglas Hurd, at Downing Street today for a formal review of talks that have gone through 15 largely fruitless rounds since March. Perhaps you can work out the moves from that.Three prizes of ‘Garry Kasparov, The Ultimate Grandmaster’, a boxed set from Cadogan Books of five volumes devoted to Kasparov’s games, will be awarded to the most accurate reconstructions. But the dip is a warning that a severe earthquake or a series of smaller ones may hit equities over the next couple of years No one can be sure when or if the Big One might strike.

THEY call it ‘the Balkan factor’ – the logic-defying tangle of local alliances and feuds which makes attempts to comprehend the Bosnian war a nightmare for outsiders. Britain’s chunk is due to go on show at the Natural History Museum in South Kensington tomorrow.(Photograph omitted). Lord Lucan, who was in the house, fled, and vanished the following day.No one, he told his friend Susan Maxwell-Scott that night, would believe the truth: that he happened to be walking past when he saw a fight taking place inside. I think he may even have been wearing a straw boater and smoking a cigar.

Requiring the unemployed to work for their benefits, under a ‘workfare’ regime, is a favoured option.Other benefits may be targeted through means testing or taxation That would require legislation. In order to do that, you need to have the existence of certain moral rules, and exemplars for those moral rules in the people who are responsible for the child’s upbringing. The British designer who, along with Jean Muir, best typified low-key, high-quality dressing, is now obsessed with adornment. CHRIS LILLYWHITE spent more than five hours in the hot seat yesterday in a Milk Race which is developing into the closest fought since 1977. Neil and John – a Protestant and a Catholic – spar together, but they can only meet socially when on tour outside Belfast. ‘They build wooden decking around them and they last a good 10 to 15 years But they have a different attitude towards their gardens They have a back yard to do things in. But big dream projects like that can grow very expensive, and there will be voices that ask how many people want to see a movie about a dead opera singer.Time will tell, but I’d rather see a few long-shots like Callas than Morticia III and IV.

THE FINANCIAL markets will have to wait for at least a fortnight and possibly longer before the Chancellor delivers the expected second half percentage-point cut in bank base rates to 5 per cent. The Atomic Energy Authority was threatened with legal action last year to force it to speed up safety work on the reactors, known as the Windscale Piles, when the Nuclear Installations Inspectorate served an ‘improvement notice’.
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His mea culpa on behalf of the party after its 1974 defeat was immensely beneficial in the long run, although it may have seemed politically suicidal in the short term.But the Conservative Party has never succeeded in institutionalising within the party its capacity for intellectual self-examination. John Lobb, 9 St James St SW1A (071- 930 3664) Mon-Fri 9.30am-5pm/Sat 9.30am-4.30pm John Lobb’s shop is one of the few remaining West End Master Bootmakers. All are related to a stimulant called ethedrine, which is fould in cold cures. Bonnard’s radiant epiphanies are themselves substantiated by the sense, within the mobile brushwork and evanescent colour that has been used to conjure them, of the transitoriness of those moments that they celebrate.The mechanisms by which Bonnard invested his pictures with the quality of numinousness remain beyond articulation because they are not a matter of symbolism or allegory but of technique. Instead the old man growled ‘I am going to pay you the greatest compliment – I am not goign to leave you a cent.’So it was that the restless and ambitious young man went forth into the Swinging Sixties penniless, at least by the standards of his peers.