Word: instead
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...fried Sichuan chicken is a good example. Chicken breasts are sauteed in a regular skillet, then drenched in a delicious sauce composed of the usual Chinese suspects: oyster, bean and hoisin sauces, sherry instead of Chinese wine, ginger, garlic, chili sauce and Sichuan peppercorns. Another of the charms of this book is the notion of serving these Oriental-style dishes along with Western foods, in this case with steamed carrots in parsley butter...
...rising cost of travel will inspire many people to spend their vacations at home instead of heading to places like Florida's Walt Disney World. "People are afraid," says Fred Wright, a Houston travel agent. "If travelers don't get the fares they want, they're not going." The jump in gas prices has forced Wright to change his own travel plans. He said he will make fewer trips to visit family members in Oklahoma City, a distance of 450 miles, because the price of a tank of gas has jumped from about $8 to $12. "It makes you think...
Hamstrung by his own contribution limit, Chiles had hoped to save his money to battle Martinez in the general election. Instead, he had to rush his first major campaign ad onto the air last week. Even with his $100 limit, Chiles has raised more than $1.7 million, but Nelson's receipts total $5.2 million and Martinez's are expected to top $12 million. "If Chiles wins the primary, he may be broke against Martinez in November," says political analyst Robert Joffee. "And then his noble crusade could be doomed...
...makes you restless waiting for something to happen and restive trying to explain its emotional and narrative logic when it finally arrives. Lee needs to think things through. If he did, the A.D.L. would have nothing to say to him. And he might be a filmmaker worth conjuring with instead of an annual media sensation...
Maybe that explains why I never could manage to read those seven books and chose instead to put down fake titles on the sheet...