Переведите следующие предложения. 1. When the committee was considering the new system, it asked the Ministry of Labor what the effect would be if prices were rounded up to the nearest

1. When the committee was considering the new system, it asked the Ministry of Labor what the effect would be if prices were rounded up to the nearest half-cent. If prices from 1 d to 11 d were rounded up to the nearest half-cent, this would result in an average price rise of 13 per cent in this range.

2. They had a special reason for preferring short-time — the low normal wastage at its works — but, again, fear of a strike if redundancies were declared also influenced the company.

3. It would be foolish to think that all this will be easy.

4. It would give the General Council the right to sit in judgment on wage claims before they are submitted, and demand that the unions should delay their claims until this has been done.

5. In preparation for their meeting tomorrow it would be a very good idea if Trades Union Congress leaders would make a point of meeting the rank-and-file workers who are lobbying Parliament today.

6. Even if NATO Governments were not yet prepared to abolish both the NATO and Warsaw Pacts it would still be possible to reach an understanding on liquidating the military organizations of these groupings.

7. A visit to the detained African leaders would therefore most likely have resulted in the rejection of the Prime Minister's proposals — which would have been awkward for him on the eve of the Labor Party conference.

8. Even if this proposal were acted upon, and it is now evident that the President has disavowed it, the fundamental guns-instead-of-butter nature of the economy would in no way be altered.

9. This veto provision reflects the conviction of those who drafted the Charter that the United Nations would be unable to take an important initiative for the maintenance of peace and security unless there was unanimity among the big powers and that to attempt so, would be a futile gesture, endangering the organization.

10. If it had been reached on a national scale the whole political scene in India would have been transformed, and the Right Wing gains in other areas would have been impossible.

11. No one is under any illusion that had the men not shown their strike solidarity there would be no extra £ 2 a week in the 64 В.А.С.[12] men's wage packets this week.

12. Unemployment of those proportions, were it general, would be a national catastrophe.

13. Had the election campaign been still in progress the wage squeeze might have become an issue.

14. February's trade figures showed a £62 million deficit. There would have been an even worse result for 1968 had it not been for the £ 559 million that foreign businessmen invested in Britain.

15. The British Foreign Secretary will now be entering what are officially termed "the pre-negotiations" with an ardent will to succeed. But the Prime Minister would hardly have taken the unprecedented step of deciding to go along, too, had he been sure they would fail.

16. But for import restrictions, quotas and American-imposed embargoes, Anglo-Soviet trade would be larger than it is today.

17. The Prime Minister refused to be drawn yesterday into saying what he would do if his attempt to "renegotiate" the Nassau agreement were to fail.

18. The new draft constitution of Rhodesia is to be voted on in a referendum in May. The constitution would establish complete racial segregation of the electorate. There would be one roll for the whites... The other roll would be for those Africans who can pass the high income and educational voting qualifications, raised again last week.

19. Should the Tories succeed in finding a candidate we may yet see the spectacle of the three brands of Tories fighting each other for the votes.

20. Today's talks, therefore, will certainly lay down guide-lines for a Tory Manifesto should an early election materialize.

21. Even should it be decided to extend the session, only ten days can be gained; so — the argument runs — it is better to wait for the new session, especially as the Lords may impose its veto and delay the Bill 12 months.

22. Should any appeal be needed, the Prime Minister will have opportunities for personal chats with backsliders at a party for MPs of previous Parliaments which he will give at 10 Downing Street tonight.

23. Objections to this plan, supposing there should be any, should be reported to the committee at once.

24. The Communist proposal that better social services should be financed by a graduated income tax has raised threats from rich residents.

25. The Government, therefore, propose that these matters should, in the first instance, be left to negotiation between the Corporation and the Federation.

26. India proposed today that the nuclear Powers should guarantee through the United Nations the security of countries threatened by others which have nuclear weapons capability.

27. It is important that the real situation should be examined because anything which promotes irrational differences between earnings in an industry is bound to cause trouble.

28. Any suggestions that C.N.D.[13] should closedown were swept aside on Saturday, when delegates resolved, almost unanimously, to continue the work of the campaign.

29. In addition the U. N. Charter provided that the United Nations should not intervene in the internal affairs of a State.

30. Delegates also threw out a council suggestion that the general president, general secretary, assistant general secretary and four council members should constitute a sub-committee to determine standards required.

31. It appears doubtful whether the formula will meet the Government's insistence that the U.N. sanctions should not lead to economic confrontation with South Africa and Portugal.

32. They insisted that the exact demands of the three main groups should be outlined so that the Common Market Six could be in no doubt about them.

33. Health depends to a great extent on housing and education, it said. Dr A. W. of Aberdare who put forward the resolution asked that an extra £ 2,000 million a year should be provided initially.

34. One of the first suggestions he made shortly after he took office, was that a lottery be run to rescue U.N. finances.

35. Time and again he attempted to make the apparently reasonable request that the General Assembly reach decisions through voting.

36. Three days later the Administration[14] had served formal notice that it would insist that the General Assembly, on its opening day November 10, squarely face the decision of whether or not to invoke Article 19.

37. Washington hopefully counted on the non-participation of the U.S.S.R., lest the plain sailing be rocked by the storm of Soviet criticism.

38. The majority of people, be they politicians, trade unionists or employers, are now all in favor of East-West trade. The problem today is how to break down the remaining barriers.