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8. The coal board may break even this year, despite having to pay out £ 28 million in interest charges, N.С.В.[15] chairman said yesterday. 9. More than two million people may now be working on research and development in the Soviet Union, one-third of them graduate scientists and engineers, according to a survey produced by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. 10. Some excuse for the behavior of Tory chieftains might be provided if it could be shown that the leadership battle revolved round central issues of public importance. But throughout, the dispute has been concerned with personalities and patronage — gang warfare in all its sterility. 11. It is possible that in accordance with this plan, investments may have to be made which do not lead rapidly to a rise in the standard of living. 12. Situations in which America may have to choose between rival policies advocated by her European partners are bound to arise. 13. When the delegates are taken to see the outstanding work of the Road Research Laboratory, and the examples of brilliant design and construction of British technicians and workers, they will be able to compare in their minds' eye what might be, with what is. 14. Finally, a new political balance in Europe, based on effective unity, might turn out to be the precondition of disengagement. 15. Such is the speed of history today that, when this is published, so many new and perhaps more shocking developments may have taken place that the events herein detailed may seem even more remote. 16. In reality the Pope may not have been anxious to see his suggestion, advanced from the marble rostrum of the General Assembly on October 4, enacted a bare six weeks later. 99
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