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Department of Trade and Industry Model Trade Association Best Practice Guide - The UK government guide to setting up and running a trade association.
British Trade International - Site providing information and assistance to UK industry on exporting and export policy.
Business Link - National network of business advice centres provided by the Small Business Service, an agency of UK Government. Local office finder with generic information and advice.
Companies House - Home Page - Responsible for the registration and provision of UK company information. This site describes the range of activities and the statutory obligations of limited liability companies.
The UK Patent Office - Informative site providing details on many aspects of the office's work including a section titled "Intellectual Property on the Internet".
Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service - ACAS is an organisation devoted to preventing and resolving employment disputes. This site provides information on how to contact ACAS as well as on-line information for employers and employees on a range of issues including effective communications.
The Queen's Awards for Industry - A Queen's Award is the highest honour that can be bestowed on a UK company. This site explains about the awards system, how to qualify, the review system and lists the award winners.
Export Credits Guarantee Department - The ECGD is the government department responsible for providing financial and insurance assistance to exporters of UK capital goods and services. The site describes their products, services, information on credit lines and includes a FAQ.
Trade Fairs And Exhibitions UK - British Trade International site providing a complete listing of all trade, public, industrial and consumer exhibitions in the United Kingdom (UK).
Rebuilding Kosovo - Site providing information for British firms interested in the regeneration of Kosovo.
Export Control Organisation - Offers essential and up-to-date information about export controls, via a number of official regulatory documents which are freely available to all visitors.
DTI - Exports and Investment - A guide to some of the key themes and issues in international trade for UK businesses.
EXPO 2000 - Opportunities for British Firms - British Trade International site giving a UK slant to the Hanover Expo 2000 event.
The Consumer Gateway - A one-stop service run by the Department of Trade and Industry. Provides information and links to sources of further advice on issues of concern to general consumers.
The Society of Chief Personnel Officers (SOCPO) - A society of senior personnel professionals from local authorities, police and fire authorities and regional officers of the Local Government Association, the Probation and After Care Service and Regional Development Associations.
Competition Commission - Previously known as the Monopolies and Mergers Commission. Includes a list of MMC/CC reports dating back to the 1950s with summaries of some of the most recent reports.
A Great Place To Work? - Publication from the Department of Trade and Industry aimed at helping companies to build a successful workplace.
UK Online For Business - E-commerce and IT help and advice, especially for small and medium-sized firms, from the British Government's UK online for business programme.
Department of Trade and Industry - The Department of Trade and Industry official website. Aimed at UK based business, science and industry, it covers such issues as competitiveness, innovation, research, export promotion and export licensing.
Small Business Service - Provides information and advice to help small businesses realise their potential.
DTI Oil and Gas - The DTI's Oil and Gas Directorate deals with licensing and regulation issues, market promotion and the distribution of information regarding the UK's oil and gas reserves.
ConsumerComplaints.org.uk - Free online service allowing users to complain to their local Trading Standards Service concerning consumer problems.
The Competition Act 1998 - Facts, advice and contact points on the Competition Act and how it affects the UK business community.
Insolvency Service Home page - Provides the mechanisms and means for dealing with individual and corporate financial failure and the investigation of fraud and misconduct in insolvencies. Site contains guidance material and downloadable forms.
National Measurement System - Responsible for providing services and standards of measurement for use in trade, industry, academia and government. Site provides details of the NMS, standards documents, programmes and consultations.
Uktradeinfo - Customs and Excise offering accurate and up to date trade information for exports and imports.
Tender Match - Tracker - Offers a UK public sector and government contract information and search service, also providing tender information throughout the UK and Europe.
Business Link - Self-help portal of action-focused information for small and medium businesses, linking to all relevant ministries and departments.
UK Trade and Investment - Advice and information from the Government network that helps companies trade internationally.
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Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much. -- Zora Neale Hurston Trade and Industry The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him. -- Robert Benchley Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted. -- Albert Einstein People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only make $500,000. -- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality. -- Hermann Weyl Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac. -- George Carlin Trade and Industry "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame. -- G. K. Chesterton We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. -- Aristotle Trade and Industry There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age. -- Henry Kissinger Cricket is best described as organised loafing. -- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty. -- Christopher Morley If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam. -- Johnny Carson Trade and Industry Health food makes me sick. -- Calvin Trillin When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't have done. -- Malcolm Forbes When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite. - Sir Winston Churchill Trade and Industry Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy. -- Groucho Marx Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera. - James Stephens We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh. -- Agnes Repplier "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech. - Martin Fraquhar Tupper Trade and Industry Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark in one another. -- Kenny Ausubel Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel. -- Samuel Johnson "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Trade and Industry "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little Ninety percent of the game is half mental. -- Yogi Berra Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much. -- Zora Neale Hurston We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us. -- Mme de Staël Trade and Industry "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inex I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think. -- Socrates Trade and Industry We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour. -- G. K. Chesterton In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take. -- Adlai Stevenson It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up. -- Vince Lombardi "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest. -- Irwin Corey Trade and Industry When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again. -- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do. -- Thomas Jefferson Two souls with but a single thought, Two hearts that beat as one. -- Fredrich Halm Trade and Industry Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease. -- Colin Greene A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The rest is trust. -- Nanette Newman, British actress "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining. -- Jeff Raskin Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes your wife. -- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Trade and Industry "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the imagination. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson Where there is an unknowable there is a promise. -- Thornton Wilder Trade and Industry Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind. -- Albert Einstein "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love. -- Martin Luther King, Jr. Criticism is prejudice made plausible. -- H. L. Mencken "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Trade and Industry To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it; whenever you're right, shut up. -- Ogden Nash "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown! Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over them on long winter evenings. -- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" Trade and Industry Thought is action in rehearsal. -- Sigmund Freud Sir, I would rather be right than be President. -- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose -- Jim Elliott A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee. -- Polish proverb I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years. -- Sam Kinison Trade and Industry We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade. -- Caroline Norton Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt. -- Abraham Lincoln Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony. -- Oliver Herford Trade and Industry The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue. -- Anonymous "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. -- Anonymous Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? Trade and Industry "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow. -- Helen Keller When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't have done. -- Malcolm Forbes Trade and Industry "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman. -- Virginia Woolf blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts. -- Paul Ehrlich All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping. -- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di Trade and Industry By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that can be shot when it breaks down. -- Russell Baker Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils. -- Hector Louis Berlioz Trade and Industry
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