Word: instead
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...unusual stockpile of valuables at Trendline because a European buyer who had planned to look over some merchandise had been delayed. The thieves also took advantage of the fact that Owner Al Weinberg was on a business trip to South America and had closed Trendline on Friday night instead of Saturday. He did not discover the theft until his return at least 12 hours after the crime. Looking for leads, police questioned all 20 Trendline employees but got no useful information...
...United Nations demands for self-determination. Mugabe's victory has left white-ruled South Africa more isolated than ever behind a ring of less-than-friendly black states; consequently, there now seems to be little chance that the Pretoria government will agree to internationally supervised elections in Namibia. Instead, South Africa-backed parties in the huge territory may be tempted to go ahead with their own version of unilateral independence. If that happens Namibia might become a new international outcast, and the theater for an increasingly bloody civil...
Crouter, in turn, was irritated by the Japanese attitude toward women. "Feudal," she wrote, after a guard said that American women opened and shut doors too aggressively, instead of gently like Japanese women. In 1943 the Japanese placed Lysol-soaked cloths in boxes outside the huts and announced that any prisoners who failed to wipe their feet on the cloth would be beaten. Wrote Crouter: "I am rather confused over Japanese politeness and tea ceremony in comparison with the Sergeant offering to slap any woman who wouldn't dip her feet into the door box. Like us, their nature...
...Kemeny commission that investigated Three Mile Island for President Carter put only small blame on the operators in the control room on the day of the near disaster. Instead, the commission took aim at what it called the "shallow," "deficient" and "inadequate" operator training system created by industry and Government. In the year since the accident, industry executives and Government regulators have made a number of changes. Says Loring Mills, a spokesman for the Institute of Nuclear Power Operations: "Before T.M.I., the industry was training people to run plants as if they always ran correctly. Now we throw trainees situations...
Required reports were filed on the incident with the NRC, and should have led to a simple warning that would have kept T.M.I.'s operators from misreading the situation two years later. However, that warning was never issued. Now, instead of waiting for such an NRC alert, the industry has set up a new watchdog group, the Nuclear Safety Analysis Center. It will review reports of minor incidents and, if necessary, press for changes in operating practice or equipment design...