Hoover's decision earlier this week to move jobs from Dijon to Strathclyde was hailed by Tories as

Hoover's decision earlier this week to move jobs from Dijon to Strathclyde was hailed by Tories as a triumph of UK labour competitiveness, confirming the wisdom of Britain's opt- out from the Maastricht Social Chapter, and denounced by French Socialist ministers as typical of the 'social dumping' that made the chapter so necessary.The Prime Minister welcomed the Hoover decision. The advertised conductor, Klaus Tennstedt, was ill and replaced by Roger Norrington in an inspired substitution of one masterly maverick for another - radically different in outlook, but an example of the Heraclitian principle that the way up and the way down are one and the same, given a fair wind.Norrington's way was to use the forces he inherited - with a bigger chorus than he presumably would have chosen - as though they were his own period band: up tempo, energised and wirily alert to the uncommmon vividness of Haydn's score. She dragged herself rather than walked and was barely able to drink milk from a saucer. 'It's what you bring back to your company that should be important to the employer. THE POUND yesterday tumbled to yet another fresh low amid mounting apprehension over the Government's troubles on Maastricht and persistent worries over weak political leadership in Britain. They came up from a system where nobody had said to them 'You are running a pounds 30m business.' 'They would maintain that they were running a union and a campaigning organisation.

His departure does remove an obstacle.'The initial relief among sacked workers that Mr Hall had resigned was replaced by unease as the day wore on. Perhaps because of this, television entertainment programmes of the Nineties - sociologists may wish to note - have tended to involve some element of con, humiliation, revenge and risk. The people who bought the wine tended to be making snap decisions on the samples placed before them Control over the style was generally left to the producer. Children were being buried still burning.'He's notably articulate, well-informed and passionate about politics, particularly Middle Eastern politics (although he points out himself that the situation has changed, and he can get down from this particular soapbox now). The Air Accidents Investigation Branch is now studying the incident, which involved a Boeing 737 arriving from Malta at 9.15pm on Wednesday. A Gatwick spokeswoman said the Air Malta flight had been asked to touch down on an emergency runway because the main runway had been closed so that markings could be repainted.Instead, the Boeing landed on the taxi-way, about 200ft from the terminal building.

'Our underlying focus is on the virtues which are indispensable to liberty, and the institutions which, without coercion, foster those virtues.'Murray was vilified for Losing Ground, but since then, even liberal opinion in America has moved significantly in his direction. They were confident, clear in aim and definition.Keen to encourage the growing public awareness in studio pottery, Lloyd-Jones became a member of the Craftsmen Potters Association in the 1970s and was elected as a council member in the 1980s. His plans to build a new village designed by Leon Krier on Duchy of Cornwall land in Dorset are taking shape; his architectural summer school has become something of a tradition; his own Institute of Architecture has been opened in Regent's Park; and today sees the launch of Perspectives, a monthly magazine backed by the institute and devoted to architectural issues.These are serious ventures, far removed from his earlier public pandering to prejudice. The change greatly enhanced their ability to worry the Spurs defence Yet that very tactical change harboured danger. It is quite another to sell to Pinochet.'The government, clearly embarrassed by the visit, has stressed that it is completely unofficial. Mr Beilin has spoken of Israel's new goal of achieving 'normalcy'.Yitzhak Rabin, the Prime Minister, and traditionalists in the government have attacked Mr Beilin for suggesting that Israel do without US charity, as this may lead to an end to US government aid, without which the state could not survive.