Word: instead
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...tenants said Ware St. Associates told many residents of the building over the weekend that they can make a down payment on their apartments and begin paying mortgages instead of rent...
...Panda's Thumb. Stephen Gould combines a feeling of childlike wonderment with pedagogical earnestness and leads his readers on a fascinating and entertaining field trip through the largest natural history museum of them all--the world. Instead of exhibits, though, Gould presents us with a collection of essays that bring to life the subjects of natural history better than any reconstructed dinosaur of stuffed dodo...
...Olin Frick told his friend John Casque to quit playing sandlot baseball and chasing girls, and instead help him search for sunken treasure. Gasque, then a physicist by profession, agreed-a decision he will never regret. Plumbing the waters around the West Indies, Gasque, 30, and Frick, 46, have discovered two 19th century ships, about $250,000 in gold, Ming dynasty china and pearls, and a seemingly worthless old wreck that may turn out to be the most precious find of all. The ship, discovered two years ago in 30 ft. of clear water 60 miles north of Haiti...
...proposal journeyed through Congress, the main dispute was whether it would protect innocent third parties other than the press. The statute does apply to authors and scholars, but after protest from the Justice Department, congressional backers agreed to exclude all others, including lawyers and psychiatrists. Instead, the statute directs the Attorney General to give federal law enforcement officials guidelines that will guarantee such persons some measure of privacy...
...writing a working-woman column for the Ladies' Home Journal, helped start the National Women's Political Caucus and worked on the launching of Ms. Assigned by the magazine to do an article on nonsexist child raising, she noticed herself giving a basketball to her infant son instead of the athletic girls, and heard David, now an enlightened twelve, announce: "When Daddy isn't home I'm in charge because then I'm the man of the house...