Word: instead
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...When classes are structured as a debate and people are encouraged to attack other's arguments instead of listening to them, the class is no longer an educational experience," said Asay. "Women are socialized to not speak up, especially when they are going to be cut down...
Those looking for easy or pleasant answers to the problem of racial strife will not find them in My Son's Story. What emerges instead is another of Gordimer's gripping portraits of people caught up in -- and defined by -- fatal abstractions...
Saturn's workers were recruited from U.A.W. locals in 38 states and carefully screened. By accepting a job at Saturn, they gave up their rights ever to work for any other GM division. Instead of hourly pay, they work for a salary (shop-floor average: $34,000), 20% of which is at risk. Whether they get that 20% depends on a complex formula that measures car quality, worker productivity and company profits. In the company's first year, employee salaries will depend largely on car quality. If a team produces fewer defects than the targeted amount, its members will receive...
...Instead of suggesting how Texas can devise a court-ordered overhaul of its school-financing system, Williams' forces have bombarded the electorate with commercials linking Richards to lesbianism and liberalism. In lieu of proposing ways for the state to close the budget deficit, Richards blasted the airwaves with poorly substantiated spots suggesting that Williams is a "deadbeat" guilty of shady business deals. With feigned humor, Williams wondered aloud whether Richards, who was a problem drinker until 10 years ago, is tippling again. Then, playing the injured party, Williams two weeks ago told her during a joint appearance in Dallas...
...enough? Now try switching instead to Maniac Mansion, a family sitcom that is not so much off the wall as out of this world. Dad is a mishap-prone inventor whose botched experiments have turned his brother-in-law into a housefly and his four-year-old son into a 250-lb. clone of Benjy in The Sound and the Fury. We learn these things in the show's 10th-anniversary special -- a nostalgia trip that takes place, oddly, on the program's first episode. Weirdest of all, the series is running, virtually unnoticed, on cable's Family Channel...