Word: instead
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...Ulster's Maze Prison. I.R.A. convicts in the H-blocks have long protested a 1976 ruling that reduced the status of new inmates from something akin to prisoners of war to that of ordinary criminals. The "dirty protesters," as they have been called, refuse to wash, wear blankets instead of inmates' garb and smear prison walls with excrement...
...foreign press to report unpleasant news. In fact, enough Third World countries were ready to support a Soviet resolution along just these lines at UNESCO'S 1976 general conference, in Nairobi, to give the international press its first real fright. The proposal was shelved at the last minute. Instead, the MacBride Commission was appointed to study ways of "achieving a freer and more balanced flow of information." The commission's report is now out; eventually it will be published in 13 languages, including Bengali and Swahili. It contains 82 recommendations, embedded in 160,000 words of glutinous UNESCOese...
...Blaubergs, 33, a teacher in the college of education since 1972. It was the third time in as many years that Blaubergs had been denied promotion and tenure, and she sued the University of Georgia, charging sexual discrimination. During pretrial interrogation, Dinnan refused to disclose how he had voted. Instead he asked: "If academic freedom is not the right to judge one's peers free from outside pressure or intimidation, then what...
Large U.S. banks argue that instead of blocking foreign investment, Congress should remove the regulatory shackles from American moneymen. In particular, they want changes in laws that prohibit U.S. banks from operating in more than one state, so that they too could buy American financial institutions. Says Chase Manhattan President Willard Butcher: "I would at least have liked the chance to bid on Crocker Bank." Thousands of small American banks, though, are expected to continue lobbying hard against any legislation that would permit large domestic banks to enter their markets. They are no more eager to be swallowed by Chase...
...Instead of highlighting revenge, these stories radiate an innocent acceptance of the beauty and strangeness of life. Metamorphosis is constant; the shapes of people, animals and things can dissolve in an instant. In The Little Shepherd, a maiden tells the hero about her life of late: "Ugly Slave threw me into the well, and I turned into a fish, then into fishbones thrown out the window. From fishbones I changed into a tree seed, next into a tree that grew and grew, and finally into firewood you cut. Now, every day while you're away, I become lovely Bargaglina...