Word: instead
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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JIMMY CARTER CAME to the presidency offering a promise--and little else. He said he was an outsider, unsullied by Washington's tarnished morality and corrupt satisfaction with the status quo. But in his term in the White House, Carter has virtually ignored his promises of change, and instead pandered to the nation's emotions. He has camouflaged his failure to bring the nation an energy policy in a dangerous, confrontational foreign policy. His promises to women and minorities abandoned, he now permits all Americans to suffer 13 per cent and growing inflation. He has had his chance; he does...
...Karen can be any kind of player she wants to be," declares Kleinfelder, adding that "She has to work on her skill level more." Smith got a late start in basketball, coming into the sport as a junior in high school instead of the usual debut in junior high...
...domestic policy in any recent election. Voters in New Hampshire today and in Massachusetts next week may join the parade, following their favorite Democratic or Republican platoon sergeant to the shores of the Persian Gulf. But they have a chance to stop the music, to demand sane words instead of rhythmic cant...
...Diaghilev, whose ballets she supported lavishly, and later with Chanel, whom she also supported in the designer's early years. The authors' four-handed biography shows the virtues of the professional duo pianists' timing and technique, but they never take their subject with full scholarly weight. Instead, they have produced an alluring (any sense of the word will do) portrait of how creative people live, how the social world of the arts functions. Creating Vuillard-like interiors that Vuillard could not wait to paint, making a cult of Bernhardt, sailing on a pilgrimage to Norway to meet...
...feeling about the arts, a real interest, but not heavy like the Germans. They enjoy art and then go off and have a great meal. GOLD: We spent the entire winter of 1974 in Paris doing interviews. No one refused us, but some people wanted to talk about Chanel instead. We returned three times for shorter periods...