17. Just as the Scots throughout the 1980s lamented being governed by English politicians they had not elected, so the English — in time — may resent the Scottish say over their affairs.
18. The US President plans to call for a new round of global trade negotiations during his State of the Union address today. The talks would target industrial tariffs, agriculture, services, intellectual property, labour rights and environmental protection.
19. The president was to be wined, dined and entertained, but he was also expected to be confronted with demonstrations and protests. A demonstration was planned by environmental groups to protest the alleged reneging by the United States on promises to limit fallout of acid rain on Canada.
20. The House of Representatives will begin deliberations Tuesday on a bill to increase transportation aid to cities.
The nation's handicapped are demanding the bill include regulations requiring cities with mass transit systems to improve facilities for handicapped and disabled people.
A bill on mass transit passed the Senate in June, and supporters are pushing for passage in the lame duck House session. They anticipate a tougher battle should the bill have to face next year's more conservative Congress.
21. What the Prime Minister has to do is to convince a basically conservative government and business establishment at home that changes must be made for Japan to continue as either an economic or political power. At the same time he must move away from the old, tired promises of his predecessors and convince the international community that his nation has at last recognized the need and has the will to take a more meaningful role in the international arena (with all that it implies). Given the pressure both at home and abroad the going is bound to be rough but present premier just could be the one to pull it off. His seemingly passive form of government may well in the end be recognized as the most active of the postwar era.
22. For the teachers the inspectors have only praise. Their attitude «is of professional commitment and resourcefulness».
But, the report adds: «There is evidence that teachers' morale has been adversely affected in many schools.
«Its weakening, if it became widespread, would - pose a major problem in the effort to maintain present standards, let alone improve them.»
The National Union of Teachers backed up this judgment, the report showed that those who had accused the NUT of alarmism were wrong, the union said.
23. Behind this action lies an admission of, and a determination to solve, the real problem of every weatherman — that meteorologists actually know frighteningly little about the weather. «If a scientist in any other field made predictions based on so little basic information,» the head of the United States Weather Bureau's international unit remarked recently, «he'd be flatly out of his mind.» And if chemistry were now at the same stage as meteorology, a colleague added, the world would just be beginning to worry about the horrifying effect of gunpowder in warfare.
24. Both countries have an interest in avoiding such an extention of the area of conflict because of the threatening consequences, were the localization to fail.
25. A heavy expenditure on atomic development for peaceful purposes, if controlled by the people, would ultimately pay handsome dividends.
26. The chairman of a firm of timber importers, gently chided his fellow-industrialists. He reminded them that some of the presidents of the larger Russian trade corporations had told him that orders which might have been placed in Britain had not been because whether British exporters were unable to quote or were uncompetitive.
27. The Prime Minister's famous victory last week against the rebels within his own party was surely cheaply won. His own performance may have been — indeed, must have been — more effective to listen to than to read later, for despite the fact that it was a speech for all seasons, it left unanswered or inadequately answered, so many questions about Britain's future role in the world and how it is to be fulfilled, that the great debate is very far from conclusion. For all his political skill, the Prime Minister has only written another chapter, he has not closed the book.
28. Some excuse for the behaviour 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 it has been concerned with personalities and patronage-gang warfare in all its sterility.
29. Many past air crashes, as subsequent investigation has shown, could have been avoided. There are many points which need an answer. Perhaps the answers to these questions will be satisfactory. In this case every possible step may have been taken that could have been taken, and it may be shown that only a human error that could not have been foreseen caused the crash.
30. The Administration, which has been on its best behaviour throughout the summer in not pressing Britain to reach an early decision, is now making it plain that it would welcome an immediate answer. Serious discussions are to begin next month with Germany, Italy and others, and if Britain is not to miss the boat she must be ready to take part.
31. A threat to developing countries that they must pursue policies pleasing to the U. S. if they want financial aid was made in Washington yesterday by the U. S. Undersecretary of State. «If a country is to be able to achieve self-sustaining growth within a reasonable future,» he told the annual meeting of the World Bank, «it will have to pursue realistic policies to acquire the capital it needs.»
32. An urgent public inquiry is now needed into the whole running of the Metropolitan police.
Last night's World in Action exposed what has long been suspected and hinted at; the Countryman inquiry into corruption at Scotland Yard was frustrated by the very people under question — senior police officers at the Yard.
Yet again we have a stark example of the police adamantly refusing to accept that the public have a right to question the activities of the men and women who are employed to police Britain.
One reason the police put forward is that such inquiries damage public confidence in the police. But on the contrary, the exact opposite is true.
3. Проанализируйте и переведите следующие предложения, обращая внимание на перевод атрибутивных словосочетаний и других лексических трудностей.
1. In November 1955, at the Messina conference that laid the foundation for today's European Union, Britain's representative, a pipe-smoking Oxford-don turned-civil-servant called Russel Bretherton, made a brief comment: The future treaty which you are discussing has no chance of being agreed; if it was agreed, it would have no chance of being applied. And if it was applied, it would be totally unacceptable to Britain.
2. As a look at European households by the Family Policy Studies centre found, «the pace of change can only be described as leisurely». Similar research from America produces the identical conclusion. Even in Sweden, where it has been national policy for decades to make both the public and private spheres strictly gender neutral, the reality is that this is far from the case. Very few men take paternity leave and the jobs women go to are overwhelmingly «female» ones like day-care and nursing.
3. In Mr. Aznar's book the socialists who ruled post Franco Spain for 13 years, over-reacted by idolising all things foreign and despising the home-grown. That, says Mr. Aznar, meant being too obsequious to — among others — the European Union.
But it is proving hard to legislate Spaniards into being prouder of their history.
4. Tired of corruption and crime in the state [Maharashtra, India], voters, with some help from a few honest bureaucrats, are starting to disown bad government. Some citizens are challenging the abrupt transfer of their municipal commissioner, who had upset the rich and influential by ordering the demolition of some of their illegal buildings.
5. Elaborate international networks have developed among organized criminals, drug traffickers, arms dealers, and money launderers, creating an infrastructure for catastrophic terrorism around the world.
6. Aspects of the welfare reform program have infuriated legislators on Labour's left wing and interest groups representing the sick and disabled, who say that the proposed cuts will take benefits away from some of the neediest people.
7. During the Thatcher years, when whole industries collapsed, many people who lost their jobs found that their doctors were willing to declare them incapable of working. This enabled them to sign up for incapacity benefits, which pay more than unemployment benefits, and allowed the government to claim that fewer people were actually unemployed.
8. What to make of her [Albright's] humiliation? Some say it shows that charm and sound-bites are no substitute for geopolitical grasp or for attention to detail.
9. A law of 20th century communication has become evident: The length of a sound bite is inversely proportional to the complexity of the world and the overload of information to which we are exposed. Columnist G. mmarized it best when he noted that if Lincoln were alive today «he would be forced to say, «Read my lips: No more slavery!»
10. The Liberal Party has pushed for a reinterpretation of Japan's pacifist constitution to allow greater freedom for the military overseas, but the Liberal Democrats opposed that. The two sides finally agreed to allow Japan's Self-Defense Forces to «actively participate and co-operate in UN peacekeeping missions if asked to do so by the organization.»
11. So, it's back to the drawing board for the U. S. Treasury and the IMF. Will they really come up with some new «architecture)) this time, something like going out of the global management business? Don't count on it.
12. Assuming that Vodafone completes its takeover of Air Touch, the resulting mobile-phone behemoth will become the world's largest cellular group.
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