In an internal paper, published by the Independent on Sunday, the CBI asserted that the demographic time bomb had been defused and that the commission's contentions had been devalued. Dismasted: British Steel II.(Information supplied by BT.)Gales followed by a windless hole robbed the New Zealand maxi ketch Endeavour of the Sydney-to- Hobart race record yesterday. FORGET the fax machine Hang up the mobile phone. But yes, from 20 March to 15 April, his 10,000 guerrillas - minus, presumably, the 1,800 reported killed in the latest Turkish offensive and another 1,500 who have surrendered to Iraqi Kurds - would observe a ceasefire in response to 'Kurdish and Turkish public opinion'.His PKK would mount no attacks during the celebrations for the Turkish New Year of Nowruz on 21 March - the occasion was marked by 50 killings in Turkish Kurdistan last year - and the moment was now due, so we were informed, for a 'political dialogue' between Turkish Kurds and the Turkish government.Mr Ocalan even rewarded the 14 Turkish journalists among us with a generous smile, while Mr Talabani - who professed friendship towards Mr Ocalan even though he regards him as slightly deranged - puffed contentedly on a fat cigar beside a bowl of primulas. Scotland Yard said the celebrations were peaceful and good humoured.. Sainsbury's has reduced the size of its free tear-off vegetable bags, saving 600 tonnes of plastic a year.Removing polystyrene bases from its pizzas saved another 100 tonnes a year, and produced a windfall of pounds 150,000. The emphasis is mainly on how much profit and tax an organisation can hand to the state.

As the prime minister and his cabinet members looked on helplessly, the real power brokers within the LDP bickered as if they were schoolboys arguing over the captaincy of a football team But the stakes are high. It is something negative, 'leisure', defined as absence from work.A festival belongs to us Leisure belongs to me or to you. What we have done for lump sums is added life assurance for the first five years of the single premium. But I came away dazzled by what I was convinced was great art. I momentarily wonder if some kind of miracle hasn't occurred here - something like a family of sextuplets, separated at birth, being strangely reunited at an audition for sticky-back plasters.In the audition room, the director emerges from under a strip of inquisitorial cathode rays behind which the clients are seated. With all due apologies, he reached for a silver-wrapped chocolate and placed it on the board on b8.

There was also a list of children's names, if and when we had any I remember Morag, Elspeth, Siobhan Also Ewen, Luke and Adam. Sales of software for personal computers reached pounds 451m in 1993. .0 WITH AN almost audible sigh of relief, Glenn Hoddle finally got off the mark as Chelsea player-manager last night with a victory at Stamford Bridge that was almost single-handedly secured for him by Gavin Peacock, his only major signing, who scored the first and made the second against one of his former clubs.Not that Peacock deserves all the credit. He only performed a few times, and then he didn't look up from his shoes Here he's mostly fingerpicking. With no other risk factors, this would be considered to put him at medium risk of heart disease.Over the past 10 years Kim has become fluent in cholesterol-speak, ready and able to discuss the relative proportions of HDLs and triglicerides in his blood samples. Of the 1,300 who replied, 97 per cent named the lack of cricket in schools as the main reason young people do not take up the sport. Yet as various speakers, including Don Robson, chairman of the NCA, and Jonathan Agnew, the BBC cricket correspondent, pointed out, 40 per cent of clubs said that they were now involved in school cricket and 66 per cent now had a youth section. Bake at 190C/375F/Gas Mark 5 for 30-40 minutes, basting frequently with the beer, until tender.