This is despite a campaign by industry leaders to ease a pressure that is driving many small

This is despite a campaign by industry leaders to ease a pressure that is driving many small businesses into receivership.Large companies are holding on to cash as long as possible, using their suppliers instead of their bankers to fund their businesses.The survey found that 27 per cent of all companies felt late payment problems increased over the past quarter and 63 per cent saw no improvement.While larger companies are kept waiting for an average of 15 days after the payment date, smaller companies are paid 29 days late, according to the credit insurance group in its second quarterly survey, which produced more than 700 responses. Now I was in the midst of a community who offered a sincerity and warmth that I'd never even glimpsed in years of living in north London. HE LOOKS, when dressed in a suit, like what you might get if you commissioned El Greco to paint a gentleman's outfitter, though the eyes in his long, bony, pasty face would be a match, you'd reckon, for any snake. The government has arrested some of their members and accuses them of taking part in the Red Terror, the bloody purges which followed the overthrow of the emperor in 1974.Two questions hang over next week's election: will it be organised better than the elections two years ago, and can the opposition muster enough forces to disrupt it? If the answers are yes and no respectively, Ethiopia will soon have one of the most liberal and developed governments in the world.. It includes all sorts of things from IQ tests, ability tests to personality questionnaires, giving a profile of personality, and whether (a person is) a team player with good inter-personal skills or works alone.' The key is that they can be systematically scored, so that applicants can be tested against each other.'There are good personality tests, and bad ones.

They also consider Malik, Wilson and all their doings blasphemous, and vow to destroy them. NATHANGeneral DirectorAfrican Caribbean Evangelical AllianceLondon, SE112 March. However, they believe that more than one person could be involved in the assaults, which this month spread to Buckinghamshire and culminated in the death of a mare last weekend. To back up its second case, it bought a road-going 155 Silverstone, which it offered in evidence. 'It was a healthy exercise and he quickened in very good style. 'There is nothing moral or right about leaving a people defenceless in the path of a determined dictator-aggressor.'Lady Chalker told her: 'It would be impossible to sustain the humanitarian operation if we were to follow the course which you were advocating yesterday on television It is not a question of leaving people unprotected. 'Alan Greenspan, the chairman of the Fed (the US Federal Reserve Bank), told me he went through exactly the same experience in the autumn of 1991 and so did the Canadian finance minister.

Trevor called them a 'two-pack carry-out' as he put them in the back of his ancient Volvo.'I used to be on 20 grand, Cavalier GSi, three-bed semi, everybody's goal, I'd reached it,' he explained as he drove too fast through rural Leicestershire. The effect might be thanks to polyunsaturated fatty acids reducing clotting and narrowing of arteries, they write in Stroke.. .2Houghton 13, Yorke 78Attendance: 15,771ASTON VILLA, evicted from the League Cup by Grimsby two years ago, suffered another scare yesterday before Dwight Yorke finally silenced the vibrant Mariners midway through the second half of an engrossing FA Cup tie at Blundell Park.The Premiership side are fortunate indeed to creep into today's draw unencumbered by the need to replay, such was the quality of Alan Buckley's First Division hosts 'We're very, very disappointed,' the Grimsby manager said. And the economy runs at a deficit of about a billion pounds every three weeks.So the whole edifice is in the form of an inverted pyramid of debt. For some procedures a GP was used.'Lots of mistakes happened. You will have covered approximately five miles of Dartmoor - a tiny portion of the last great wilderness in the south of England. A MAN who sexually assaulted and strangled a seven-year-old boy had written detailed sexual fantasies almost identical to the events which eventually took place, a court was told yesterday.

The Home Office has bowed to demands in this country to equip officers with longer truncheons. Shared Interest, (091-261 5943), 10.30am today at 168 Bath St, Glasgow.. A court would have to balance privacy rights and the individual's interest in accurate information against the freedom of the press. I don't dislike it, but it's as if it's not good enough because nobody wants it.' So closely do people identify with their homes that they can start to think they may be in need of restoration themselves.

Gower, on his book.I know how they do it, but I won't comment on whether it's fair or unfair .. This again demonstrates (their) confidence in the way we do things in Britain.'The German farm minister, Jochen Borchert, denied the EU decision was a defeat for Germany. No special children's menu but the kitchen is very adaptable and will always find something to suit. His serve was suspect from the start, enabling Stich to outmanoeuvre him in an 18-shot rally on the first point and break him in the opening game. They came and burnt the houses this morning,' one woman said Two police armoured vehicles stood by. Why else, after all, would the Syrian leader visit the capital of Lebanon?The security measures for his arrival will be an epic affair, as will the United States' response to his prospective visit.