Word: instead
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...record a scene Toulouse-Lautrec would have loved: all the basic human themes in full display-vanity, lust, decadence, hope, pride, grace, rare flashes of transcendence. Feeling fat, frayed and fortyish, the reporter is placed inside a full-length Black Willow mink coat. She becomes tall, thin, "interesting" (instead of "past her prime") and, best of all, totally invulnerable. The cost is $6,950, marked down from $10,000 by Forrest, retailing for $20,000 and up. Suddenly, $6,950 doesn't seem unreasonable-considering that life is short, etc. Considering too that fur prices have doubled...
...president told us SALT II had to be ratified or no one would like us. He told us we had to give away our canal or no one would like us. It's time to tell the president we don't care if other countries like us, that instead we want to be respected." Standing ovation...
...because he is old, although he is, but because he is Reagan, a conservative. Not a neo-conservative or a subtle conservative, but a conservative who likes talking tough, who believes in the slogans, who looks at the world from the perspective of World War II and Korea instead of mouthing meaningless, magic phrases like "geopolitical linkage." His ideas are not slick, not sophisticated. They are firm, not greasy like Baker's or Bush's or Jimmy Carter...
University Secretary Henry Chauncey, who oversees the police department, fired Natalie Podryhula in November after studying the accusations against her. Podryhula denied the charges and two weeks ago a grievance panel decided firing was too severe a penalty and instead imposed a six-month probation and one-month's loss of salary...
...main issue in the dispute was the city's refusal to grant firefighters a written contract instead of the traditional hand-shake agreement unless the union agreed to a no-strike clause and binding arbitration...