I just filled that in, that's all.'Asked if he really was down to pounds 20 a week disposable income, Mr Ratner would not answer. Internal budgets then were forecasting 20 per cent sales growth despite little evidence from order books.Mr Hultman sent the budgets back, arranged the businesses into five divisions and reduced overheads of pounds 60m by about pounds 5m a year.Staff numbers were reduced by a third.Gearing was reduced to 13 per cent from 30 per cent a year ago which, combined with lower interest rates, halved the interest charge to pounds 1m.Lower staff numbers ensured that operating margins almost doubled to 10 per cent.Mr Hultman said that margins of 15 per cent were a reasonable expectation for a company like Eurotherm, although he thought 12 per cent would represent a good achievement this year.Earnings per share rose 110 per cent to 22.3p (10.6p). It is the second-hand bookshops which make London the lit cit. Jack Wyngaard, with his sparkling personality, is a natural for the solo, an emblem for a company that overcomes whatever difficulties Ashton packs into the piece with enthusiastic vitality.Carousel was Kenneth MacMillan's last project: he died before completing it.A pas de deux for Billy Bigelow's 15-year- old daughter and her friend in the fairground is unmistakably MacMillan, and a tribute to his genius.Intensely dramatic, athletic, and daring, with the scorching sexuality of a Mayerling, the sequence ends audaciously with the boy throwing the girl horizontally in the air so that she spins twice before he catches her. And before you rush to claim that today's mobile self-assured women would never put up with such interference with their body form, think of shoulder pads. Instead, he argued in a series of media interviews, that those who turn away from God at the end of time will be annihilated, rather than tortured; and the Second Coming would be 'God's general clear up and gather up of everything worthwhile in human history'. 'We have to understand the wrath of God as the blazing and burning side of the love of God; and the burning of hell is really ourselves,' the Bishop said yesterday.Dr Jenkins is no stranger to controversy, but it was almost impossible yesterday to find any theologian who disagreed with what he actually said, though several objected to the fact that he said it.A spokesman for the Bishop of Southwark, the Rt Rev Roy Williamson, said: 'Dr Jenkins's comments are not helpful. At a press conference held at the House of Lords to launch a campaign for equal treatment in the National Health Service regardless of whether people smoked, drank or had other unhealthy habits, Lord Harris of High Cross, chairman of Forest (Freedom Organisation for the Right to Enjoy Smoking Tobacco), said that some medical procedures were now 'subject to a doctor's opinion of the patient's lifestyle.' He said that doctors were urged to delve into every aspect of a person's life, suggest programmes to 'correct' what was wrong, and set up at-risk registers which could be used to decide who 'is worthy of treatment.'Last August a man died after he was refused treatment for a heart condition because he was a heavy smoker.

Most new jobs will not be in manufacturing, but in services, which can now be traded more than in the past. Every pounds 1,000 invested in Spring Ram shares at their height last year is now worth just pounds 370. This will certainly have interested Mika Hakkinen, the odd McLaren driver out at this race, but the young Finn must bear in mind that Formula One's marketing people need a top American driver almost as much as they need the renewed rivalry of a pair of three- time world champions.Behind the front-row men, those with the greatest cause for satisfaction yesterday included Sauber, with top-10 grid positions for both J J Lehto and Karl Wendlinger in the Mercedes-backed Swiss team's first grand prix, and Ligier-Renault, whose English drivers, Mark Blundell and Martin Brundle, both qualified in the top half.The Lotus-Fords of Johnny Herbert and Alessandro Zanardi suffered from a lack of grip which contradicted their good testing form, while for the teams of Footwork- Mugen (including Derek Warwick), Tyrrell-Yamaha and Lola- Ferrari there was only tribulation.The mood of these underfinanced teams will not have been improved by the news of yet another sponsor for the already well- endowed Williams team. The Department of the Environment and the Foreign Office are proposing that only participants in military parades and religious marches will be allowed to chant and sing in the embassy- land of Kensington and Belgravia. Eventually, he applied to be added to the Home Office list of executioners, was interviewed at Strangeways Prison and accepted.His autobiography relates his training for a craft requiring exacting levels of skill and nerve. It warps judgement and distorts perception to such an extent that its sufferers often cannot see that they are thin when they look in the mirror J has been diagnosed as a sufferer.

There was just a taste last week of a nasty run on sterling, with the market in sterling futures suggesting that investors are becoming nervous about holding sterling assets. Earlier this month, the senior partners of KPMG Peat Marwick spent the day in the historic Buckinghamshire building, now a sumptuous hotel, to debate scrapping their partnership status and becoming a company. It is difficult to force a Chancellor to raise interest rates, but the Bank's top team is likely to be more successful than its predecessors.(Photographs omitted). CNS uses a third party, known as the 'authorisation server', to verify the identity of any user who tries to gain access to external computers. That is why I am in the Dominican Republic,' he explained.Davidoff never sold cigars to Winston Churchill, but his Geneva shop saw many other customers: Marshal Tito, the violinist Isaac Stern, the pianist Artur Rubinstein, even Orson Welles.

In the year to the end of July, one in five manufacturing settlements was a pay freeze, with two- thirds of manufacturing employees settling at less than 3.5 per cent. Mr Yeltsin said that if a majority of voters taking part rejected early parliamentary elections, then he would resign. 'It is now water off a duck's back to me, I just get on with it. 'There comes a point in your life when you've got to give back.'George Harrison and Ringo Starr had donated generously to the appeal; but he doubted that Ringo would be lecturing.He would give talks himself, he said, though he added: 'It won't be 'here's how you write a song'.

Rangers also have one problem, winger Pieter Huistra has a foot injury. In the other semi-final at Tynecastle Park, Hibernian have injury worries over Murdo MacLeod, Gordon Hunter and Neil Orr.Aberdeen welcome back Brian Irvine to their squad after a two-game suspension.. A betting shop is serving a different function, but there is a balance to be struck.''We're not worried, but we always respect competition,' Terry Ellis, racing director of SIS, says. It's because, when employers are faced with a choice between the unionised and the non-unionised guys, between white and black, they'll always hire the ones that are going to cause less problems.' The answer, surely, was to join the unions, even if there was some emotional resistance because of the ANC links. Or rather, two characters played by Allen and Farrow in his latest film did so.By the second reel, it was all getting very confusing.It was the first screening in Britain, for film critics and special guests, of the new Allen film Husbands and Wives. He finished more than nine minutes after Hampsten, who left Indurain and Chiappucci to their own affairs as he joined a leading group of five on the Croix-de-Fer climb.Indurain followed Chiappucci through most of the 21 hairpins of the Alpe d'Huez, where fans of all nations had camped along the 13 kilometres overnight.Then he took a turn at the helm, but the Italian, a brilliant winner on Saturday's vicious mountain leg, could not resist outsprinting the Spaniard for fifth place.Chiappucci's fire is certain to be doused by the indomitable Indurain, whose speed in the time trials is the key to triumph in Paris. If he is to fulfil his ambition, Back dare not falter in front of Cooke and the England coach, Dick Best, in the second Test between England B and the New Zealand XV at Pukekohe on Sunday.