Word: instead
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...congestion in our lives; or that we are being worn down by having to cope daily with overcrowded streets and highways, the pounding noise of garbage grinders, or the cosmic distance between the entrance to the airport and the departure gate. We get the message of pain all wrong. Instead of addressing ourselves to the cause, we become pushovers for pills, driving the pain underground and inviting it to return with increased authority...
Should the truth-in-packaging principle that protects consumers in stores apply to rock concerts too? New Jersey assemblymen Neil Cohen and Joseph Mecca think so. They have introduced a bill that would require promoters to inform fans when an artist gyrates to canned music instead of real singing. Lip syncing has become routine at concerts by such big names as Milli Vanilli, New Kids on the Block and Janet Jackson...
...then there is Los Angeles. Gang violence doesn't fit the Geneva Convention standard of war: there has been no invasion, no mass uprising against an oppressor, no minefields, aerial bombings or refugee camps. Instead, there are small armies of youths fighting one another and the police. Gang violence is combat stripped of all the familiar rationales. It is the closest thing the U.S. has to battle within its borders, and many of the children emerge from the streets of Los Angeles more psychologically scarred than the young mujahedin who patrol the mountain passes of Afghanistan...
...Instead of abandoning his memoirs after the uproar over the TV film, Father redoubled his efforts. The authorities became aware of those efforts in the winter of 1967-1968. Brezhnev was greatly upset. How to make Father stop work on the project? Should they search his dacha and seize the tapes? That would trigger a scandal, leaving Brezhnev looking like a tyrant and Khrushchev a martyr. So what was to be done? The choice was to call Khrushchev in and persuade him to cease work on his memoirs and turn over what he had written to the Central Committee...
Evidence of antitax sentiment is still widespread, and not just in California. In Illinois a group of irate taxpayers is promoting a ballot initiative that would require tax increases to be approved by three-fifths of the state legislature instead of a simple majority. Earlier this year more than 1,000 property-tax protesters stormed the office of Kansas Governor Mike Hayden. Connecticut's Governor William O'Neill decided against running for a third term this fall partly because his poll numbers dropped sharply after he threw his support behind higher taxes...