Word: instead
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Martin Ryan, a manufacturer of artificial limbs, has talked to business owners about the bill at local Chamber of Commerce meetings. The cost of improvements can be kept down, he maintains, by building wooden ramps instead of concrete ones or simply attaching a buzzer on a front door. "Many business owners say, 'I don't have many disabled customers, so why should I build a ramp or widen my doorways or install a pull on the door of my store?' " says Ryan. "I just try to tell them it's a cost of doing business, and it's worthwhile...
Koreans hoped for an abject apology for Japan's brutal occupation of their country from 1910 to 1945. What they got instead was the Emperor's lukewarm expression of "deepest regret...
...with Elliott Abrams, Aronson's predecessor as State's top Latin American hand. In keeping with the nature of Soviet-American relations during the Reagan era, the Pavlov-Abrams sessions were contentious and polemical. Aronson feared he would confront a tough hard-liner -- and Pavlov felt the same way. Instead, each found a kindred spirit. If Pavlov were an American, he would probably be a liberal Democrat. The two diplomats now describe themselves as friends, and Aronson's is the only American home Pavlov has ever visited...
When sociologist Zhou Duo heard that the tanks were rumbling toward Tiananmen Square, where he had been on a hunger strike to show solidarity with the students, his first thought was to wave a white flag. But he dismissed the idea as ignoble. Instead, Zhou, 43, and popular singer Hou Dejian approached the oncoming soldiers and negotiated an agreement that allowed the demonstrators to withdraw peacefully...
Hence the narrator Joe Brinson looks back to the year 1960, when he was 16 and his parents were newly arrived in Great Falls, Mont., hoping to benefit somehow from an oil boom in the area. Dwarfed like everyone else by the vast ! empty spaces, they find instead the same marginal isolation they have encountered elsewhere. Jerry, the father, is a golf instructor at the local country club until he is fired on the probably unwarranted suspicion of stealing. With her husband suddenly out of work, Jean, the mother, takes a job giving swimming lessons. As Joe gets used...