Word: instead
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...longer has a capitalistic economy [April 21]. What we have instead is an aristocracy of Big Business-a handful of conglomerates that control every facet of American life. The American consumer no longer has a choice. Whatever "rose" I pick, the name turns out to be Mobil or Ford or General Foods...
...women have less upper-body strength than men. If women are judged by the same physical standards as men, most will fail. So the Point substituted the flexed-arm hang for pull-ups. For bayonet training, it equipped the women with a lighter rifle, the 6.5-lb. M-16 instead of the 9-lb. M-14. Separate track and swimming events for women were added to intramural tournaments in place of the contact sports in which women may not take part (football, boxing and wrestling...
...Instead of relentlessly pursuing conflict, Barber says, the press should spend more time examining the candidate's vision of the good life that will motivate him in office. It should pay more attention to how the candidate works with others, to the views he shares with other national leaders. That will give some insight as to how he will build coalitions when he is elected and how effectively he will govern-which is what elections are supposed to be about...
Conspicuously absent from this summit was Jimmy Carter. In a decision that appalled many Western allies and annoyed some Yugoslavs, the President stayed home and instead sent a delegation headed by Vice President Walter Mondale. The official U.S. mourning party of 25 included Treasury Secretary G. William Miller and the President's mother Lillian, as well as low-level politicians from Mondale's home state of Minnesota. "I don't think we have anything to apologize for," said a ranking U.S. diplomat defensively, adding that "Mondale is a major figure...
...country's uneven economy could work either for or against stability. On the one hand, the industrial and urban transformations wrought by Tito have had a cohesive influence. "People have been concentrating on a better standard of living instead of hating their neighbors," says a Western diplomat in Belgrade. But a severe economic downturn could aggravate the glaring inequities, and consequent animosities, between the developed northern republics like Slovenia and hinterlands like Kosovo. Lately the economy has been ailing. Unemployment, estimated at more than 13%, is growing. The current annual inflation rate is estimated at 35%, compared with...