Word: instead
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...Barely distinguishable chapters are stuffed with the brand names of expensive suits, shoes and wristwatches, endless spoofs of nightclubs and restaurants and rambling reviews of pop records. The litany of the trivial is intentional, though Ellis seems to be writing for people who take forever to get the point. Instead of a plot, there is a tapeworm narrative that makes it unnecessary to distinguish the beginning of the novel from...
After a long convalescence, briefly interrupted in 1970, when the entire family traveled to Washington to see President Nixon award him the Congressional Medal of Honor, Kerrey abandoned plans to open his own pharmacy because the Lincoln area was "overstocked." Instead, he and sister Jessie's husband Dean Rasmussen launched a restaurant they called Grandma's because Kerrey wanted it to feature "grandmother's kind of food." Recalls Jessie: "Dean and Bob were everything at first -- busboys, waiters, cooks and managers." For months, "they worked almost around the clock," says Jessie. Today the brothers-in-law own six restaurants...
...free speech is concerned, difference is no excuse for silence. That the recognition process is more or less difficult for any one group should be an arresting indication that subtle censorshiop exists. The First Amendment was not penned so that moderate Protestant Freemasons could speak, worship and associate, but instead for the AALARMs and even the ORGASMs of the world...
...other five students, all of whom were members of the Harvard-Radcliffe Black Students Association (BSA), decided against joining the sit-in. Instead, they also left the meeting, and waited outside where others had gathered for a faculty diversity rally...
History concentrators will no longer be required to take two courses in a minor area of study, but will instead be asked to take two courses in different fields of history, said Caroline C. Ford, History head tutor...