Word: instead
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...West has been supporting "mob rule" in the Congo instead of helping to set up a democratic state through the United Nations, a native of Sagwa, Kenya, now at the University has charged, after sounding the opinion of several African leaders...
...Reach frequently called numbers by dialing two digits instead of seven. ¶ Route incoming calls to another phone if the first line is busy. ¶ Transfer calls to another number. Thus, when called away to a friend's house while expecting an important message, the telephone user need only dial a code number to have the call routed to him. ¶Convert extension phones to household intercom units by dialing two digits...
...report also hit the "follies" of past New Haven management, said that instead of halting the road's decline, the road's present management has met competition "by an indulgence in loud complaint and self-pity. "The investigators also gave the back of their hand to the "shortsightedness" of the New Haven's employees, warned them that they "have no right to indulge in featherbedding...
...realize one of banking's cherished dreams: to abolish the paycheck. By teaming up IBM 7070s with ERMA, he plans to credit his bank employees' wages directly to their accounts, hopes the scheme will appeal to other companies for which his bank handles the payroll. Asks Beise: "Instead of printing checks for a company, which the employee has to deposit, why not print deposit slips...
This startling first novel is a sinuous pagan rite. Faith is a sort of classic nymph, but instead of trees, rivers and mountains, she haunts galleries, fine restaurants and her tasteful London house. Jacques is an ageless satyr, but instead of tootling the pipes of Pan in some mythic glade, he rummages in London garbage cans and beds down on park benches. He is human dirt, but of a kind that makes the earth earthy. She is refined past the point of passion, yet curiously unawakened, nervously expectant. In the hands of a less urbane stylist, a sexual encounter between...