Word: instead
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...Verhoeven doesn't face down his fear and try to maintain the creativity of the early part of the movie. Instead he just falls back on the same old action-picture formulas...
Reared in the small logging town of Creswell in western Oregon, Kerr never worked with schoolmates in the mills during summers. Instead, soon after dropping out of college, he joined ONRC in the effort to silence chain saws. In 1981 the young activist filed the first administrative appeal in the Northwest against a Forest Service timber sale. By 1988 he was masterminding 220 separate appeals in a single month, creating a legal logjam. The tactic proved so costly to industry that a House committee summoned Kerr to Washington for a special hearing, at which he was attacked by Oregon Representative...
...Nelson Mandela had been a dutiful young man, respectful of tradition and authority, he would have grown up to be a chief of the Tembu tribe in the South African homeland of Transkei. Instead he rebelled against tribal ways, an arranged marriage and the white government's brutal apartheid system. He eventually became the world's most famous prisoner and, since his release four months ago, the de facto leader of the African National Congress...
Until recently, authorities have been largely inclined to stay clear of pop culture or artwork -- areas where obscenity convictions could be almost impossible to obtain -- and concentrate instead on hard-core porn. Los Angeles prosecutors, by targeting materials that depict bestiality, defecation, sex with children and the torture of women, won all 26 obscenity cases they have brought since 1988. At the federal level, the Justice Department secured 120 obscenity indictments last year, up sharply from 26 in 1987. But the department's National Obscenity Enforcement Unit has tended to focus on nationwide wholesalers of the hard-core stuff...
...Instead, Fujimori, 51, is visiting the U.S., Canada and Europe to seek aid for an economy that he acknowledges is "close to death," with an inflation rate of nearly 2,500% and a $17 billion foreign debt. Other nations have an incentive to help: some $600 million to $1.2 billion in coca leaves are exported from Peru each year, feeding the world's cocaine cartels. Fujimori cannot hope to combat the drug problem if Peru sinks into political and economic chaos. The U.S. Congress has approved $35.9 million to equip Peruvian soldiers to fight guerrillas and cocaine merchants. But Fujimori...