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  <&>Wellington Corpus of Spoken New Zealand English Version One</&>
  <&>Copyright 1998 School of Linguistics & Applied Language Studies</&>
  <&>Victoria University of Wellington</&>

  <&>side one</&>
  <&>25:37</&>
  

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      radio new zealand news with hewitt humphrey <,>

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      the body of india's former prime minister rajiv gandhi is lying
      in state at the home <&>tape is distorted then peter fry reads
      for five seconds</&>

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      flown from the southern city of madras eighty kilometres from
      the town where he was killed by a bomb while campaigning in the
      general <&>26:00</&> election <,>

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      the body was accompanied on the flight by mister gandhi's
      italian born wife sonia and their twenty year old daughter
      priyanka <,>

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      the two women had flown to madras after hearing of the
      assassination

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      at least seventeen other people were killed and fifty wounded by
      the bomb which was hidden in a garland of flowers presented to
      mister gandhi

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      the police have so far been unable to determine if the assassin
      is among the dead

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      no one has claimed responsibility for the killing though there's
      been speculation it may have been the work of tamil tiger
      guerillas from sri lanka <,>

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      arson looting and fighting among rival political and communal
      groups has erupted in many parts of india including cities as
      far apart as calcutta bombay and madras

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      a number of people have been killed

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      the next stages of polling in the election have been put off
      till next month <,>

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      rajiv gandhi wanted to be known as the man who took india into
      the modern world

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      a few months ago while he was preparing his <&>27:00</&>
      election campaign the b b c asked the forty six year old former
      prime minister how he'd like to be remembered <X>

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      as having brought india into the twenty first century

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      with <,> er the more advanced countries in the world

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      out of the branding <.>of</.> as a developing country to a
      developed country</X>

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      the voice of rajiv gandhi <O>tut</O>

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      the governor general dame catherine tizard says the
      assassination of rajiv gandhi is a loss not just for india but
      the commonwealth <,>

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      in a message of sympathy to the indian president dame catherine
      says mister gandhi was an impressive man of vision

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      messages of sympathy and admiration have also been sent by new
      zealanders who knew rajiv gandhi well including sir edmund
      hillary and david lange <,>

  <WSC#MSN089:0105:HH>
      the indian community in this country is in mourning for a man
      described by one member as a great leader lost to india and the
      world

  <WSC#MSN089:0110:HH>
      commemorative services are expected to be held by many indian
      groups tonight <,>

  <WSC#MSN089:0115:HH>
      the country's biggest home <&>28:00</&> lender trust bank is
      cutting its mortgage rates

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      and the group's new rate will be twelve point three percent down
      nought point six percent

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      and will apply to existing mortgages at the end of june <,>

  <WSC#MSN089:0130:HH>
      managing director frank dickson says the recent fall in
      wholesale money market rates is being passed on to customers <,>

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      trustbank is also reducing its rates for farm and commercial
      loans by the same amount

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      the national bank had earlier dropped its home loans by half a
      percent to twelve point five percent for similar reasons

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      the lowest rate at present is eleven point nine percent from a
      small finance company owned by tower corporation <,>

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      employers have been told that it's up to them to make the best
      use of their new powers under the employment contracts act

  <WSC#MSN089:0155:HH>
      the director general of the employers federation steve marshall
      told a wellington seminar on the new law that employers can now
      get on with doing what the old system prevented them doing with
      industrial relations

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      it's something to which equal emphasis in terms <&>29:00</&> of
      planning must now be given on the same basis as our other
      disciplines

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      our marketing our sales our operations and our finances

  <WSC#MSN089:0170:HH>
      steve marshall says the government has made the changes and it's
      now up to business to make the decisions <,>

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      wholesale interest rates continue to fall on the new zealand
      money market

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      the ninety day bill rate is now down to nine point six four
      percent

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      a drop of twelve points today while the benchmark five year bond
      rate is down a similar amount to nine point three four percent
      <,>

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      the main interest on the foreign exchange market has been a
      weakening of the australian dollar

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      after the reserve bank governor in canberra said he could see
      room for a five percent devaluation <,>

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      the kiwi dollar was dragged down slightly to fifty eight point
      seven three u s cents but is up to seventy five point nine five
      australian <,>

  <WSC#MSN089:0205:HH>
      the barclays index of the sharemarket is up three points to one
      thousand five hundred and fifty five after an equal number of
      rises and falls <,>

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      one man was <&>30:00</&> knocked to the ground and another held
      in a headlock as protesters clashed briefly with police outside
      the employers seminar in wellington <,>

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      four people face charges of obstruction assault and inciting
      disorder after a group of about thirty protesters chanted and
      yelled at delegates leaving for lunch <,>

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      the first to be taken away by police was the protest leader

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      who with the help of a chainsaw left no doubt as to what he
      believes employers are all about

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      they'll just cut and cut and cut to keep their profit rates up
      <,>

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      they'll cut you off at the knees

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      conference delegates refused to acknowledge the protest <,>

  <WSC#MSN089:0245:HH>
      a quarter of american express employees in new zealand will lose
      their jobs in the next three months as the company moves to
      consolidate its support services in the region

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      the company says its sydney office already provides many support
      functions and the seventy two job losses are unavoidable if
      american express is to eliminate duplication of <&>31:00</&>
      services <,>

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      its general manager bob wesley says the company is working to
      secure its position in the region and ensure the future of the
      new zealand operation

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      he says there'll be virtually no change to customer service and
      sales

  <WSC#MSN089:0265:HH>
      most of the job losses will be in auckland <,>

  <WSC#MSN089:0270:HH>
      the former gold corp director ray smith has been found not
      guilty of five fraud charges

  <WSC#MSN089:0275:HH>
      smith had been on trial in the high court in auckland for the
      past month charged with making false statements to investors
      with intent to defraud them

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      the statements and promotional booklets said investors bullion
      was stored and insured by the <&>31:36</&> company whereas in
      <.>fact</.> <&>end of sample</&>
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