Word: instead
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1980
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...stake was the future of a dozen nuclear reactors in Sweden: six in operation, four more ready for startup, and two to be completed. Had the majority voted no, all would have been phased out over the next ten years. Instead, even though the referendum was not constitutionally binding, the government is now obliged to move forward with a national plan to continue developing nuclear energy for at least another 25 years. Still sporting his NO, THANK YOU button after the vote, Centrist Premier Thorbjörn Falldin went on national television. "I remain personally opposed to nuclear power...
...banking reforms because he believed they were merely a cover-up for continued repression. He also wrote to President Carter, imploring him not to send proposed U.S. military aid of, $5.7 million to the junta. "We are fed up with weapons and bullets," he explained. He urged the U.S. instead to "channel the aid to feed thousands of our people." The archbishop also led a campaign to locate the missing victims of arrests, and every Sunday read a roll call of the week's dead. Salvadorans came from all over to plead for help, clutching photographs of relatives...
Boeing: builder of strategic bombers, ballistic missiles and jumbo jets. Boeing: the nation's 29th largest industrial company, but a firm with a plain-talking chairman of the board, Thornton ("T") Wilson, who drives unpretentiously around Seattle in a Honda instead of the company limousine. Boeing: the best planemaker in the world today, eclipsing all competition in the civilian aircraft business...
...Sheraton's severest verdicts in her nearly four years on the job was passed last month on an opulent new Chinese restaurant in midtown Manhattan called Dish of Salt. Not a single star did it rate, out of a potential maximum of four; instead, it got a boldface Poor. Sheraton rapped the place for every sin from pretentious décor to "lackadaisical and inept" service. The fish and lobster were "hopelessly overcooked." The egg roll "oozed grease." The spareribs were "dreadful," the dim sum were "stale," the sesame beef roll "stiff and cold." As for the chrysanthemum...
...agree with the Israeli government," conceded Begin, "but I think we have a valid position." Binyamin is a geologist (with a Ph.D. from Colorado State University), "a profession," he joked, "as non-Jewish as rain making." The Premier's son made the supreme sacrifice for an Israeli: instead of wearing his customary open-necked shirt, he donned coat and tie. So strange was the four-in-hand, he insisted, that he had to have it tied by his mother-in-law before he left Jerusalem. In the U.S., afraid to undo it, he carefully slid the fully knotted assemblage...