Word: instead
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...Instead of hastening a direct confrontation, Carter should have used this genuine national crisis to attack the roots of the problem. He should have proposed a major energy policy instead of making a throwaway push for synthetic fuels in the last minutes of his speech...
...steady escalation towards open warfare. Carter's underlying assumption is that the U.S. goal is to confront the Soviet Union directly; in fact that goal should be to block Soviet expansionism. Carter should not resort to self-serving bravado that is as empty as it is dangerous. Instead Carter should seek to place the U.S. at the head of the broad-based international movement now condemning the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan by supplying arms in areas directly threatened by Soviet aggression and most importantly by espousing national sovereignty as the basic principle of U.S. policy...
Surprisingly, support for the NDP has eroded. Instead of capitalizing on the antagonisms toward the other two leaders, NDP chief Ed Broadbent has fostered the notion that voting for his party is a waste. He has made promises at an incalculable rate (67 at last count), thus reinforcing the idea that he will never be Prime Minister...
...manipulation of publicity and his liberal granting of immunity to obtain testimony in order to convict. Usually, the big-name politicians accused of committing offenses like bribery were not those let off the hook. But Hartley fails to include comments from people critical of Thompson's practices. Instead, he describes Thompson's philosophy on immunity: "one conviction is better than none...
Some charged Douglas with sloppy legal scholarship. But perhaps he simply refused to engage in the formal alchemy of his partners, choosing instead to distill the meaning of the Constitution from his own visions of a new and better, not an old and "prosperous" America...