Take away the short period that most buyers spend on the first

Take away the short period that most buyers spend on the first rung of the housing ladder and the normal span becomes far longer. 'WE BELIEVE Anita,' hecklers shouted at the Republican Senator, Arlen Specter, as he stepped to the platform at the Labor Day parade in Philadelphia last week. At around this time the actor Michael Caine introduced her to Woody Allen, who took a considerable interest in her acting career, then in the doldrums. Many argue that saves are not what they used to be.Holtzman invented the save while working on the Chicago Sun-Times, and it took nine years before it was officially recognised by the major leagues, and a further six years before the present formula was settled on in 1975.A save is now awarded if a pitcher preserves a victory and finishes a game when he (a) enters with a lead of three runs or fewer and pitches one inning; (b) enters with a lead of three runs or fewer with the tying run on base, at bat or on deck; (c) pitches the last three innings irrespective of the lead he inherits.The statistic has made stars of men like Oakland's ace closer, Dennis Eckersley, and St Louis' Lee Smith, who would previously have been treated as mere bullpen fodder but who now command multi-million-dollar salaries.Those who say the closers are not worth their inflated salaries point out that the number of games with a save has increased from 38 per cent in 1978 to 52 per cent last year. If the patients are 'not for resuscitation', then a lethal code is written in their notes, incorporating the bleep number for the crash team, usually 222 or 333.There have been several attempts to draw up guidelines for such cases, most recently in June 1993 in a joint draft by the Royal College of Nursing and the junior doctors committee of the British Medical Association. Long thought should not have been needed if one of these was truly top class.Petit Loup and Apple Tree travel from France, where the prevailing opinion is that Ascot in July tends to guillotine the prospect of late-season success on the Continent.

With relations between the two sides never far from boiling point, this ignited Ambrose.It will be the sustained hostility that England's batsmen will have to cope with. 'We have seen that he followed all the preparations step by step all the afternoon and into the early hours of the morning He is in charge He's a boss. The availability of thrush preparations without a prescription concerns GU specialists.Dr Simon Barton, GU consultant at the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, last week expressed his fears at the Clinical Overseas Congress of the British Medical Association, meeting in Calgary, Canada. As a result, the European Union suddenly looks much less dominant in the world economy.Instead of being four times as large as the developing Asian economies, as shown on the old data, we now find that these two blocs are almost exactly the same size. These figures, for the capital cost of building the refit yards, were over pounds 100m more than the two companies had estimated. I have no criticism of him on that account or of his performance as a Minister of State in the Northern Ireland Office My honourable friend has been to see me this afternoon. But he failed to consider how these preparations would appear to Castro.

'They want half a page at most.''Why? Can't Plantin read?''That is not the point,' said Judd.I stuck to my guns and, to Judd's annoyance, toiled away for a week or so, until I'd produced a treatment that was at least as good as I could do. The Swiss had Mario Cantaluppi sent off in the same incident and Raphael Comisetti dismissed for a lunge at Darren Salton two minutes later.. He told reporters in his Huntingdon constituency that politicians had to be prepared to take rough knocks and added: 'I have got a programme I believe in that programme. If England don't reach Barbados at least level, the West Indies are likely to win the series by three matches.Bookies' favourite West Indies to win series 2-9. They don't want to rub shoulders with their audience - for them there's nothing worse.' To ensure a suitably lustrous line-up at his launch, a star will need to send out the three-line whip for his starry mates. 'It wasn't an easy decision but I felt the opportunity to play for the Baa-Baas against New Zealand was one I couldn't miss.'The Scots begin three weeks earlier than England, against Wales at the Arms Park. Including his symphonic rock arrangements in Thursday's gala concert gave an added dimension to a remarkable musical retrospective.

His stand was supported by Gloucester City Council, which rejected the church's re-application in March last year.At today's public inquiry the vicar, supported by city fathers, 100 St Aldate's worshippers, 500 parishioners, local schools and environmentalists, will warm to his theme that the church today is 'hypocritical, irrelevant and increasingly motivated by market forces rather than by community care'.Mr Sawyer said yesterday: 'When I came here the garden was derelict and the parish was in a vacuum The bishop said to me 'Assess the parish and stabilise it'. Once he had done the work he submitted a bill for pounds 1,500 which the Mellanbys paid But the leak continued. Mr Fileccia, he said, once passed Mr Riina a tip-off which enabled him to escape capture.At the weekend, police rounded up 14 people - shopkeepers, small entrepreneurs or mechanics - said to have protected Mr Riina while he was in hiding and handled his business interests.. The John Smedley short- sleeved sea island cotton polo shirt sells for pounds 49, the long-sleeved style for pounds 57.50, while the Smedley shirts made on behalf of other retailers and designers are even more expensive.