Word: instead
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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City Councilor Walter Sullivan recommended last month that the managers be given $4000 increases instead, arguing that the city could not attract and keep top-flight workers at current wages...
There are no wicker baskets around this year. Instead, TV viewers will be razzle-dazzled with more computer-generated graphics, more computerized data collection and less finger-in-the-wind speculation than ever before...
...Instead of drawing to a close against a backdrop of lengthening unemployment lines and deepening recession, as Democrats had feared and Republicans had expected, the campaign is climaxing with the economy perking up again. After a spring and summer of wary hesitation, consumers are starting to spend again and retail sales are inching up. A July-through-September survey of 1,600 top executives by New York's Conference Board research group shows business confidence itself to be improving...
...Freudian, Vienna. But the doings related in this film are strictly pre-Freudian, not to say prehistoric, in their banality. A rather dour young American psychiatrist (Art Garfunkel) is accosted at a party by a young American something or other (Theresa Russell), who is rather feverish in her gaiety. Instead of his suggesting a professional appointment, they decide to have an affair. But he cannot keep it light, and she cannot take it seriously; the rich variety of sexual experience she has had has led her to the conclusion that the pleasures of romance are always messy and impermanent...
...inevitable, but they also were, and remain, misleading. Each looked at the South in a different way. Faulkner saw the tailings and butt ends of a long tragic myth; O'Connor perceived a gallery of grotesques testing the limits of God's mercy to man. Welty concentrated instead on ordinary people, on "the thing that makes them what they are in themselves, their secret life, their memory of the past, their childhood, their dreams." Her choice carried with it the hush of inference, "sad as the soft noises in the hen house at twilight," and also the rustle...