33,203 source-backed world facts - each attributed to a named person and a number, linked to the original source. Page 324 of 333.
“Secondary school teachers, for example, have put in a claim for a 30 per cent rise”
“claims that would mean, in some cases, 100 per cent rises”
“supposed to last for three years”
“Three years before his death from cancer, he videotaped a confession.”
“Mery’s speciality was extracting bribes on public works contracts put out by the city of Paris, where Chirac was then mayor, and passing on those millions that he didn’t cream off for himself to the RPR.”
“Foreign ministers and representatives of around 130 countries discussed the findings”
“800 children killed or maimed every month by landmines”
“one million war orphans”
“more than ten million child refugees displaced by conflict”
“four or five million children who have been disabled by war over the past ten years”
“estimated 300,000 youths aged under 18”
“children are involved in around 30 armed conflicts”
“eight out of every ten people killed by small arms and light weapons are children and women”
“Afghanistan,” says Azimov, “is where he belongs. It is the source of our destabilisation.””
“Namangani, now thought to be in Afghanistan, probably commands no more than 200 fighters and perhaps many fewer.”
“The present Taliban government (the word means “students”, and almost all were students before they became fighters, in medrassas or Islamic schools, usually in Pakistan) took Kabul exactly four years ago this week.”
“although, given the vast US commitments to the mujahedin (up to $5bn) in its struggles against Soviet-backed governments, these were usually temporary.”
“The Taliban are Pashtun – the largest of Afghanistan’s ethnic groups, accounting for about 40 per cent of its 20 million people.”
“Women were repressed in Afghani culture before the Taliban; the educated elite was tiny.”
“a conference of experts and interested parties is being held on 4 October”
“before Christmas, the government is due to announce an action plan.”
“although the latter account for just 10 per cent of search arrests”
“Sir William Macpherson, the Lawrence inquiry chairman, declared in his report that the power to stop and search was “required for the prevention and detection of crime, and should remain unchanged””
“Outside these walls, young people are protesting about globalisation. I believe deeply that many of them are asking legitimate questions.”
“But the workforce has been reduced from 30,000 to 3,000, and the assets sold off.”
“We don’t want to be consumers. We don’t need 50 types of cola or 50 types of car. It doesn’t make us happy. And we don’t want to subject the rest of the world to it.”
“Meanwhile, the Czech Republic is emerging from recession into what will probably be the second post-communist boom.”
“Hartlepool looks good on a fine Monday afternoon, with a splendid 540-berth marina development where the docks used to be.”
“agreed to increase their production of crude oil by 800,000 barrels a day”
“fell by 40 cents to $32.38”
“Since March of this year, the producers have been seeking to establish crude oil prices in a range between $22 and $28 a barrel”
“Opec production, estimated by the Middle East Economic Survey on 11 September at 29 million barrels a day”
“Opec itself likes to point out that it has raised production already this year by about three million barrels a day”
“There is absolutely no problem putting additional crude oil into the markets," Ali al‑Naimi, said in New York on 5 September”
“Eventually a lot of this price is hype," he said”
“a barrel of crude oil was quoted in New York on the eve of the Vienna meeting at $33.63 for immediate delivery, but at only $30.41 for delivery next March”
“treasuries in the countries of the OECD skim off in taxes 60 per cent of what consumers pay for the final product, while crude oil producers are left with just 12 per cent”
“The £4 gallon is a great aid to contemplating the fate of the planet”
“The ten ministers of the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec) meeting in Vienna on 10 September”
“$35-barrel of oil”
“On 7 September, the BBC broadcast The Faster Race”
“Channel 4 shortly begins a three-part series, The Difference”
“a 250-year-old spectral presence at the construction of a third way”
“People are gradually going over to satellite, cable and terrestrial digital television, but, so far, only one in five of us has actually done so.”
“women who had been married at the age of 12 or 13.”
“Often, their husband was much older – in his twenties or thirties.”
“Sometimes, they were a second or third wife.”
“bearing a child at the age of 13 or 14;”
“Half a dozen women gathered close to the stove”
“send their daughters – as young as eight or nine – to work”
“about 60 kilometres”
“Aklima, 19”
“about 60 miles from Dhaka, there is a whole town whose only occupation is sex work, where about 1,800 women live.”
“who are 15”
“she was married at 12.”
“A year later, she gave birth to a daughter.”
“she was divorced at 15.”
“At 17 and a half, she was married again.”
“she found two other women.”
“the three wives worked together.”
“He married a fourth wife.”
“From the age of six, her daughter was sweeping the floor”
“The daughter from her first marriage was married at 14.”
“She is now ten.”
“About 30 per cent of Britons are now said to consider a dishwasher an almost fundamental right”
“Essentially, the BBC’s television service is to be transformed. “Mixed programming” is to give way to “themed channels”. In practice, this seems to mean that BBC1 will divest itself of most of its remaining serious programmes, so that it c…”
““elite culture is just one more niche, and one which appeals to a diminishing minority””
“Dyke proposes to spend £50m on BBC4, compared to the £823m spent on BBC1 last year.”
“BBC1, a proposed youth channel to be called BBC3, and Radios 1 and 2 could form the basis of a new, privatised media company”
“Barring 40 per cent of the television market to advertising, coupled with the exorbitant rates that advertisers are consequently charged, forms a barrier to the creation of new consumer goods and services.”
“In one generation, the number of couples marrying has halved”
“In 1998, just 267,303 made it up the aisle, compared with 348,492 in 1988”
“four out of every ten marriages are likely to end in divorce”
“about one-third of children are born outside marriage”
“only one in five of the population considers marriage an important factor in bringing up children”
“more than 70 per cent of couples cohabit before marriage”
“Morgan’s report Marriage-Lite, published this month by the Institute for the Study of Civil Society”
“cohabitation as an alternative living arrangement has steadily increased since 1970”
“two US studies, one dated 1981”
“Corsica (population 260,700) is a weird, clannish place.”
“While fewer than 20 per cent of island voters back the violence-prone nationalist movement...”
“The outcome of six months of unsung government talks with nationalist diehards and the island’s mainstream party leaders is an autonomy plan...”
“It thus appears to open a route to eventual independence, were Corsicans to vote for it. The island’s toothless assembly has ratified the plan, and the French parliament will soon examine it.”
“The project, begun by Donald Wilson, then head of BBC Serials, was for an unprecedented 26 one-hour episodes”
“It took a team of five writers (Constance Cox, Leo Lehmann, Vincent Tilsley, Anthony Steven and Wilson himself) to work out 1,500 pages of script.”
“The show cost around £500,000 to make”
“Shown on the new channel, BBC2, on Sundays at 7.25pm”
“Eric Porter, at 40, became one of the most famous actors of the day, as the formidable Soames.”
“The first volume, The Man of Property, appeared in 1906”
“Although Galsworthy did win the Nobel Prize for literature in 1932”
“she wept as she told us that, after paying her debts, she had £30 a week to keep a family of four.”
“The Community Development Foundation estimates that these neighbourhood schemes involve more than two million citizens”
“His mother faced a funeral bill of £2,000 from her income of £64 a week.”
“Community Links has 1,600 current local projects on its database”
“The Social Exclusion Unit (SEU) launched its £800m New Deal for Communities soon after Labour came to power.”
“the SEU is lavishing 21 potential partnerships with £200,000 each for management costs”
“the report mentions grants of £50-£500”
“given its stated intention to transform Britain’s 3,000 most deprived areas.”
“The writer’s Kids at the Door Revisited is published by Russell House (£9.95).”
“Want an “ex-d”, an ex-directory number? £100 will do nicely.”
