Word: instead
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Cristobal, the Táchira National Guard remained loyal, and the high school students roamed the streets in defiance of Rebel Castro Leon; the best he could do was shoot the high school full of holes. He sent 130 men to capture nearby San Antonio Airfield, but instead the troops rejoined the government. He sent 180 more to take another airport at La Fria; 200 peasants armed by the Guard beat them...
Dowling refused to go into his father's firm ("If you do anything good, people say, 'No wonder; his old man's head of the office' "), instead, worked in a handful of real-estate companies, specialized in redeveloping slum areas, became a self-taught expert. By 1943, when his father died, leaving him stock control (now 25%) of City Investing. Dowling had by then already made a name for himself...
...Instead of selling British products, wrote the Economist, many an ad relies with "desperate emphasis" on the implication that "we know this product is not competitive in price or design, but it is British-made and we've been making it for a very long time." When the British Travel Association sets out to extol the virtues of British food, the Economist says, "native critics feel distinctly uneasy," for "where would the tourist find that exquisite rare roast beef?" Ads for clean, spacious British Railways carriages are so far from the grubby reality that they "are guaranteed to make...
...grown up now and I've got to recognize it,'' said the wavy-haired, blue-eyed Irish type from Oxnard, Calif. "Next time out, I'm going to try to get a job in San Francisco instead of going home. I don't want to go back to the same old temptations. And I can't go on being dependent on my folks. I'm not a kid any more." At 35, he has spent half his adult years in prison...
...option was at least two years old, 2) it was granted at no less than 95% of the stock's market price, and 3) the stocks so purchased were held for more than six months, the profits would be taxable at long-term capital-gains rates (maximum 25%) instead of higher ordinary-income rates...