When a naval vessel is lost or has not been heard from for so long that her loss may be presumed, the Secretary of the Navy may fix the date of loss of the vessel for the purpose of settling the accounts of persons aboard other than officers.
In an intriguing comment that suggests the pope may have anticipated his resignation or incapacity, the archbishop noted: "When we fixed the date for 2013, Benedict XVI said 'the pope will go to World Youth Day, whether it is me or my successor'.
The Sun in the Church: Cathedrals as Solar Observatories, by J. L. Heilbron (Harvard University, $18.95), tells of how four European churches fostered astronomical research during the scientific revolution by installing precision instruments to fix the correct date for Easter, and how the Catholic Church supported such studies during the furor over Copernicus and his heliocentric theory.
Under this act, September 12 , 1918 was fixed as the date for the third registration.
Under this act June 5, 1918, was fixed as the date for the second registration.
Willetts's olive branch to the higher education sector over the government's drive to curb numbers of students from overseas came as 21 September was fixed as the date for the high court to hearing for London Met's legal challenge to the revocation of its Home Office sponsorship licence.
Last week, the country's parliament was dissolved and July 3 fixed as the date for a contest that will come down to a clash between prime minister Abhisit Vejjajiva and exiled businessman Thaksin Shinawatra, who was twice elected premier only to be forced out by the military in 2006.
Messages on Twitter and other social media, used to co-ordinate the earlier protests, are fixing Saturday as the date for the next demonstrations.
He fixed March 5 as the date for the next hearing in the cases.
Slightly wimpishly, the bill doesn't fix a date for the switchover from analogue, but the stated aim is the end of 2015, as long as 90% of the country can get radio via DAB by then.
But France and Spain, fearing that they will lose their hefty subsidies once the poorer eastern states are sharing the resource pie, have balked at fixing entry dates for the states that are close to meeting assimilation conditions.
