Word: instead
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...Instead of trying to improve on what they call "the world's best mousetrap," the Knesses are now concentrating on making a smaller model more suited for residential use. Brick's trap, retailing for $8.95, is too large and expensive for a householder with a minor mouse problem. As a result, most traps go to nationwide exterminating companies and large distributors who market the traps to grain elevators and other food handlers. Professional mice catchers love the trap because it can be wound up and just left in a likely spot. With one full wind, it has been...
...primaries at this late date. House Minority Leader John Rhodes fears that his old friend would only fracture the party by campaigning. Melvin Laird, former Defense Secretary and longtime Ford confidant, also believes that Ford should not plunge into the remaining primaries but gamble instead that neither Reagan nor anyone else will win on the first ballot. Says Laird: "I think his best chance, the way I add it up right now, is that the convention has to turn...
...return flight to New York, Ghotbzadeh invited them to the Foreign Ministry to discuss "important new developments." The commissioners reluctantly accepted the invitation; in the meantime they sent their luggage to the airport and instructed the pilot of their Gulfstream jet to be ready for a 3 p.m. takeoff: Instead, Ghotbzadeh talked them into postponing their departure. Less than half an hour before their plane was scheduled to depart, the startling announcement by the student militants was broadcast to the nation...
...living room of Prime Minister-designate Robert Mugabe's new home in suburban Salisbury is filled with the furnishings of its former owner, a white businessman. A nondrinker, Mugabe is oblivious to his surroundings, which incongruously include a massive cocktail bar. Instead, his attention is consumed with his dream for a socialist Zimbabwe. In the only interview he has given to an American publication since his election, Mugabe discussed his plans for the future of his country with TIME Johannesburg Bureau Chief William Me Whirter. The meeting was interrupted just once, when a diplomatic emissary entered the room...
...late December meteorologists noticed another dramatic change. The upper-level westerlies south of the 35th parallel (from Southern California to North Carolina) had picked up speed while those north of it had slowed. The jet stream had edged to the south, along a path that was much less curved. Instead of sweeping north over the Pacific with a cargo of warm, moist air and dumping snow and rain on Alaska, Washington and Oregon, the westerlies now were aiming their punch directly at California. The result: Southern California was inundated for nine days by storms that brought a total...