Word: instead
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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OPEC oil minister announces that they will no longer accept U. S. dollars for oil. Instead payments can only be made with American cigarettes, nylons and chocolate bars...
Several students said school rules were too loose and that they were unfairly enforced, while other complained that the city should have worked to prevent the violence instead of "waiting until somebody was killed...
...Instead, Karmal, a 50-year-old bachelor, went into hiding with other members of the Parcham group. Among them was his longtime mistress, Anahita Ratebzad, who had been packed off as Ambassador to Yugoslavia. When Taraki was overthrown-and killed-by Hafizullah Amin last September, Karmal was still underground. Diplomats speculated that the Soviets stashed him away in an Eastern European capital as a sort of strongman-in-reserve. As one expert puts it, "The Russians were keeping [him] on ice until [he was] needed...
...built their offense around the simple tactic of stationing a man in front of the net and trying to force the puck to him through the melee after digging it out of the corners. The attack was as static as it was predictable: players stuck to their assigned roles instead of improvising. Under Quinn's system the forwards bring the puck up the ice, crisscrossing like the Soviets as they come, and defensemen, spotting an opportunity, may join in the attack...
...townspeople of Romans resented the same fiscal injustice, but theirs was a more complicated grievance. Taxes went into the pockets of corrupt administrators and stayed there. Instead of paying their bills, these unscrupulous city fathers ran up an enormous municipal debt, then lent the city the money they had embezzled -at considerable interest...