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The third is that, as Chris Ballance said, the most appropriate timing would be to let any heat from the special general meeting of 30 January die down a bit—we should not rush in too quickly.
The report suggests that they should be treated differently because they are indigenous languages and because nowhere else in the world will uphold them. Punjabi and Urdu will never die out, regardless of what the Scottish Parliament does or fails to do in relation to their development.
There is a population that is firmly in the trench of brand A, which is the belief that three quarters of young companies die within one to four years. We must persuade them to believe that three quarters of such companies do not die within that period, but live for over eight years.
I favour an initial banding of up to £1,000. I will not die in a ditch over £500. It is fine by me if we opt for an initial banding of up to £1,000, as suggested on page 6 of the draft statement.
Nobody who has seen a beaten fox dragging his stiff limbs into the ditch in which he knows he will die can doubt this proposition."More recently—seven years ago—a master of foxhounds, Captain RE Wallace went further: "As I have said, we are not a pest destruction society.
MSPs have received a briefing sheet from Oxfam that contains some very interesting facts. For example, 70,000 people die each year from AIDS-related causes, and 760,000 adults and 70,000 children are infected.