Word: instead
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...dropped down just a little bit thinking he [St. Lawrence's Doug Bymark] might pass it across, but he shot instead and beat me between my legs," Duffy said...
...other nations increases our own economic problems. Just as the Vietnam War boom led to sharp inflation in the early 1970's, the expenditure of huge sums of money by foreign governments on American arms often causes similar difficulties abroad. Revenue that could be spent on jobs and food instead goes out of the country in large quantities, precipitating a trade imbalance. One popular method of offsetting this problem for many Third World countries is to raise the prices of oil or raw material exports, so that the inflationary effects rebound to the industrial powers. One doesn't need...
...order to establish such a program Americans must first realize that the greatest threat to our national security is not military, but rather our parasitical dependence on potentially hostile nations for energy. The solution to this problem, instead of selling fighter planes for a quick "fix" of cash that can buy a few more barrels, is a concentrated program of developing alternate energy sources (such as solar or synthetic fuels) and curbing our wasteful energy habits (by the increased use of mass transportation, for example). Only by viewing this as a crucial matter of "national security" can such a comprehensive...
...since the Kaohsiung demonstration, which, said Leach, "could have been peaceful, demonstrating to outside observers that there was hope that the KMT authorities and the Taiwanese majority could work together in the exercise of democratic rights which many believe are essential to the future freedom and independence of Taiwan." Instead, Leach continued, "hardline elements among the ruling group have increasingly come to prevail." As a result, Lu and her fellow oppostion leaders remain in jail, victims of a system they have tried to change...
Farview is no hospital; instead it's a cruel hell of a prison. Those the courts commit to Farview Hospital for treatment must face the twisted brutality of guards who work persistently to break patients down, their object always to reduce them to pathetic, easy-to-manage shells, weak, rattling bags of bones, soft, flabby masses of obedient matter. An the care always amounted to total fear and control. One of the guards explains that "Fear kept them in line...Keep them looking over their shoulder for that boot and they don't think of much mischief. That was treatment...