'Double wood' means:(a) The anaerobic maturation of red wines in two-year-old barrels(b) A wine considered by experts to be excessively oaky(c) A single-malt whisky successively matured in bourbon and sherry casks4. The Confederation of British Industry wants the Government to set a target of providing a university place for 43 per cent of all 18-year-olds by 2000. The draft proposal, due to be included in a report to be published in June, is based on a survey of expectations of British companies and indicates widespread fears of an imminent shortage of graduates with technical and managerial skills.Thirty per cent of 18-year- olds go on to university, compared with 20 per cent in the early 1980s. 'Feel like a Chinese?' So hackneyed have these refrains become that they almost merit entries in a dictionary of phrase and fable. 'I just take off my clothes and try to become everything he wants me to be.' Only when her parents visited from Wales did she get upset.'My mum was OK, but my dad wouldn't come to the club. He would think nothing of carousing most of the night before taking the court for a big match the next day.

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