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Golden Bull winners 1989


  • Barclays Bank plc (Text not available)

  • British Telecom (Text not available)

  • The Community Charges Registration Officer of Aberdeen for a leaflet

'I am sending you a copy of your new entry as amended or notification of the deletion of your previous entry, as the case may be, together with this notice in terms of section 15(5) of the Abolition of Domestic Rates Etc. (Scotland) Act 1987 ("the Act"), as amended by paragrapg 24(4) of Schedule 12 to the Local Government Finance Act 1988 ("the 1988 Act"). In order to show what the amendement is, I am also sending (except in the case of a new entry) a copy of your previous entry.'

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  • A Daily Telegraph law report

'If premises were not a reasonably forseeable cause of danger to anyone acting in a way in which a human being could be reasonably expected to act in circumstances which might reasonably be expected to occur in light of the purpose for which the premises were made available, it would not be reasonable to require an individual to take further measures against unknown and unexpected events towards their safety.'

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  • Frizzell Insurance & Financial Services for a Home and Leisure insurance document

'Any item which covers articles not separately specified is subject to the following special conditions of average, that is to say, if the value of all articles covered by such item shall at the time of any loss be greater than the value insured hereby in respect thereof, the Insured shall be entitled to recover hereunder only such proportion of the said loss or damage as the sum insured in respect of such item bears to the total value of all articles covered by such item.'

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  • Glaxo Laboratories Limited for 'Prescribing information: Zantac'

(This Golden Bull was for the type style more than the wording. The type appeared in 6.5 point block capitals.)

CONTRA-INDICATIONS: PATIENTS WITH KNOWN HYPERSENSITIVITY TO RANITIDINE. PRECAUTIONS: EXCLUDE THE POSSIBILITY OF MALIGNANCY IN GASTRIC ULCER BEFORE INSTITUTING THERAPY, ESPECIALLY IN MIDDLE-AGED PATIENTS WITH RECENTLY CHANGED DYSPEPTIC SYMPTOMS. SUPERVISION OF PATIENTS WITH PEPTIC ULCER AN ON NSAID THERAPY IS RECOMMENDED ESPECIALLY IF ELDERLY. REDUCE DOSAGE IN THE PRESENCE OF SEVERE RENAL FAILURE (SEE DATA SHEET). RAPID ADMINISTRATION OF INJECTION MAY CAUSE BRADYCARDIA; RATES OF ADMINISTRATION SHOULD NOT BE EXCEEDED. LIKE OTHER DRUGS, USE DURING PREGNANCE AND LACTACTION ONLY IF STRICTLY NECESSARY.

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  • Colin Murphy, manager of Lincoln Football Club (Text not available)

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  • Northern Regional Health Authority (Text not available)

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  • STC Technology Ltd

'There is an unavoidable conflict of teminology in naming the classes Class and Instantation. Instantation is not itself a real instance but a class (namely, the class of all real instances). Likewise, Class is not a class of real instances but a class of classes (namely, the class of all classes of real instances). Instantation could be renamed Class and Class renamed Type to avoid this. In that case, the members of Class would not be classes and the members of Type would not be types.'

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