Word: instead
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard University Network will also allowadministrators, departments and later students toorder telephone service through the University,instead of through New England Telephone,Margulies said
Harvard, which applied full-court pressure whenever the opportunity presented itself in Saturday's loss to Duke, held back for the first 10 minutes against the Wildcats. Instead, a stifling man-to-man defense kept New Hampshire (0-3) in check, and point guards Tarik Campbell and Dana Smith continually forced the ball up the court to keep the pace of the game in Harvard's favor...
...Instead of acting as sympathetic critics and trying to keep Israel on the straight and narrow, the Zealots are busy apologizing for actions that non Zionist Americans can never condone...
...success as a collaborator has brought him a comfortable life in an affluent suburb of Boston that enables him, as he says, "to buy raspberries instead of apples." He is currently compiling an anthology of American humor and mulling future celebrity subjects. He muses about Mikhail Gorbachev ("but somehow I think he's busy right now"), and, as a music lover who has recently resumed piano lessons, he thinks about Paul McCartney or Barbra Streisand. "Or Elvis, if he can find him," wisecracks Ben, 10, one of the Novaks' two sons. As for a return to the solo byline...
Other analysts are less pessimistic. After all, the quality of network newscasts is still higher than the crime-and-accident-heavy fare on most local stations. Instead of trying to make the day's headlines interesting to viewers who may already have seen them twice, some critics suggest that the networks offer more in-depth analysis. Says Herford: "Maybe Nightline is the model for the future evening newscast. Maybe the networks should tackle the one or two most important issues every day during that half hour...