Word: instead
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...walls are bare in the large office on M Street except for a print of a Norman Rockwell portrait of Ronald Reagan. On a conference table lie nearly 100 letters in careful rows, waiting for signatures. On the desk is a picture frame, but instead of family photographs (wife and three children) it contains a schedule, neatly filled with appointments, six days a week, beginning with a daily 7 a.m. planning meeting with top assistants and ending often at 8 p.m. Next to the schedule is a clock...
Last summer, the European Commission of Human Rights studied the prisoners' case, which rested partly on the fact that they are not handled as ordinary criminals by the courts. Instead, they are tried in special courts established under emergency antiterrorist legislation enacted by the British Parliament. The cases are not heard by a jury but by a single judge, and the conviction rate is said to be about 95%. The commission ruled against special status on the grounds that prisoners were not entitled to it under British law or under the European Convention. The commission did criticize the British...
Chrysler's projections for making a profit in the fourth quarter. Instead, the company may face a loss of $100 million or more...
...arrived on these shores, and 200 years after the locals sent their British bosses packing, the Oxford authorities have decided to acknowledge the American Revolution. George Bernard Shaw once said, "England and American are two countries separated by a common language." Oxford does not try to bridge the gap; instead it has attempted to master the language from across the ocean...
...pages-worth of other words. Despite the similar acronym, the authors, four editors working in consultation with the Hudson Group in the Oxford University Press New York office, have not sought to write a comprehensive OED for the States. With more realistic goals in mind, they have instead entered the competitive--and lucrative--field of desk-top hardcover and paperback dictionaries. (The Avon paperback...