Word: instead
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...Instead, they pushed through the 1989 Flag Protection Act, a law cleverly worded to escape judicial scrutiny. The new law was nearly identical to the Texas statute the Court had just struck down, except that it banned all attempts to harm or mutilate the flag, regardless of whether they were intended to "cast contempt...
Kenya may be losing its allure for investors, however. Fed up with rampant corruption and maddening excesses of bureaucracy, businessmen -- both foreign and local -- are thinking twice. According to a Nairobi-based U.S. official, there have been few major foreign investments in Kenya in the past decade. Instead, there has been significant disinvestment. An economic downturn will be especially painful, since business is already expanding too slowly to generate sufficient jobs for the population, which is multiplying by a phenomenal 3.7% a year, one of the highest rates in the world...
...Alther's early summary of the passions that bind two women "Elke felt like a pile of nails being pulled to pieces by a magnet residing inside Clea." But such maladroit introductory passages could be dismissed as the ironic setup for a comic romp. Far more convincing instead to plunge to the heart of the novel for this glimpse of Clea's development: "She burned to take this lad to bed and teach him what she'd learned in a lifetime of licentiousness. Yet Dack was in love with a woman his own age. Who was a lesbian and would...
...shoreline while cruising in a motorboat with cronies. Building was already under way when someone discovered that this was the precise spot where the famous Verninsky earthquake had caused the lake to swallow up 35 acres of shoreline in the 19th century; it was a seismically active region. But instead of canceling the project, the authorities transferred responsibility to the Ministry of Medium Machine Building. One scientist taunted me: "Do you know who's in charge of the murder of Baikal? Your own Slavsky!" New plans were drawn up for earthquake-resistant aluminum-and-glass buildings supported by steel piles...
...driver to follow the patrol car to the Procurator's Office on Pushkin Street. KGB agents escorted me to the fourth floor, where "chats" about my activities had taken place in 1973 and 1977. I asked Alexander Rekunkov, the deputy procurator-general, "Why didn't you send a summons instead of shanghaiing...