Word: instead
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...busy on a project with a few of your colleagues, simply fold up your movable workstation and roll over to them. You won't have to knock. "We'll blur the line between furniture and technology," says Rick Duffy, director of the knowledge-resource group at Herman Miller. "Instead of building walls of metal and wood, what if they inflated with air or water...
...same time, it's worth recognizing that the efforts of the U.S. government and others to get people to live in multinational and multiethnic communities are more often than not exercises in futility. Instead, it is often wise to accommodate those pushing for ethnic separation, segregation and homogenization--even if that means partitioning entire nations to reduce violence...
...brand-new currency called the euro. And though euro coins won't be available until January 2002, the currency has proved a loser on foreign-exchange markets, where it is traded electronically. Continental bankers hoped the euro would compete with the dollar as an international currency of choice. Instead, the euro has fallen more than 20% against the dollar, a poorer showing than even the most pessimistic predictions. Betting on what kind of money people want to use is a dangerous way to invest...
...Super Bowl LIV in 2020. Record-setting numbers of viewers are tuned in to watch the game, but not on television and not over the Internet. Instead they are using handheld broadband devices that allow them to project the transmission onto any flat surface. And in 2020, just as today, viewers are interested in the game, but they're even more interested in the advertising...
Warning to consummate - indeed competent - professional actresses: do not hope for recognition at Cannes. Instead, the nod will go to clueless amateurs who display their bodies or souls in so raw a manner that the jury will mistake pity for awe and give them the prize. Von Trier had earlier declared that Bjork was no actress, as if those who'd seen the film needed reminding. But Besson and the jury, which included oughta-know-better actors Jeremy Irons and Kristin Scott Thomas, didn't take the hint...