Word: instead
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Strauss and his fellow Bavarians have been pressing Bonn to build more of these camps to handle the immigrants as they arrive. The camps, built at federal expense, would reduce the financial strain on local governments. Last week the Bundesrat (upper house of parliament) instead moved to slow the increasingly burdensome influx of foreigners by passing a tough new set of regulations on asylum applications. Asylum seekers will not be eligible for work permits during their first year in West Germany, nor will family-support payments be made unless asylum has been confirmed. Judicial procedures will be streamlined, so that...
...which plans only a few minutes of coverage a day instead of its original 152 ½hours, is sending 50 employees, down from 650 before the boycott. Fifty other accredited U.S. journalists will be there...
Automakers last week reported that sales during the first ten days of July showed a modest improvement, dropping 19% below the same period of 1979, instead of the 23% decline that the industry has been experiencing since January. And mercurial Wall Street continued its recent strong showing, as the Dow Jones industrial average hit 923.98, its highest level in three years...
...last seven films, from Sisters in 1973 to the current Dressed to Kill, have been informed by Hitchcock's work until some of them begin to look like remakes. Dressed to Kill is the most explicit of these homages: that shower (in a Long Island home instead of in the Bates Motel), those blonds (Angie Dickinson and Nancy Allen instead of Janet Leigh and Vera Miles), that transvestite killer (Mr. X instead of Anthony Perkins), plus a prowl through a museum, lifted from Vertigo, and a sound-effects trick from The 39 Steps. But De Palma has done...
Already a prodigious classics scholar at 18, he spent his days emendating the Latin poet Propertius instead of reading the syllabus. When he failed his final exams, the undergraduate's pride was crushed. At home, his father had run through the modest family fortune, and for a drab and agonizing decade Housman clerked in the London Patent Office...