Word: instead
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...dawn of a new decade is traditionally a time when Americans look ahead with optimism, but today they feel deep fears about rising prices, fuel shortages and even the possibility of a major war. Instead of blaming their current leader for the dark clouds that have gathered, however, they have rallied round him in overwhelming numbers. By huge margins, they support President Carter's responses to the Soviet aggression in Afghanistan. They do not want his foreign policy criticized, and they heavily favor him over any other presidential candidate in either party...
...push sales of helicopters, and of improperly wining and dining Pentagon officials. SEC charges have been filed against scores of other major U.S. corporations in the past few years, and Textron responded the way most others have: it did not admit guilt, but declined to put up any defense. Instead, it agreed to an injunction ordering it not to commit any such acts in the future, and to reform its practices to make sure it did not. Case closed...
However, the surging prices do not seem to have caught the attention of small investors. Instead of buying shares in companies or mutual funds, in the past year or so they have been investing in so-called money-market funds, which buy short-term securities such as 90-day Treasury bills and pay fat dividends of at least 12%. In the past year, the assets of those funds have swelled from $10.9 billion to $45 billion, which is nearly equal to the assets of the great mutual funds...
...Guin's narrative savvy. Because she moves briskly without ever seeming to hurry, she makes Hugh's transformation from supermarket clerk to Arthurian knight-errant whisk by as inevitably as a theorem, as acceptably as a rabbit coming out of a hat. The author brandishes her magic instead of concealing it; when Hugh accepts his mission on behalf of the people of Mountain Town, he is given a standard-issue sword and sent out to slay a woefully worn-out dragon...
...bestselling American Freedom and Catholic Power (1949); in St. Petersburg, Fla. A third-generation clergyman and twin brother of Philosopher Brand Blanshard, Paul was a Congregationalist minister before deciding that "Christianity is so full of fraud that any honest man should repudiate the whole shebang and espouse atheism instead." His broadsides against the church's "authoritarian control over the minds of men," something he equated with Stalinism, and its "unAmerican" involvement in the affairs oi state education later found echoes in federal bans on prayer in public schools and aid to parochial schools...