Word: instead
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...Instead of handing Olive's leash to the newspapers, Epps insisted on holding it himself--and then allowed the manager far too much slack. Olive himself admits that things began to go downhill for him more than two years ago, when the Times forced him to perform yeoman's work in starting up circulation after the fall 1978 newspaper strike. Failing two courses as a result, Olive says he began experiencing personal problems which led him to abuse HDNS; and a Times official says he believes Olive began mixing his personal money with HDNS funds at about that time...
...allowed Olive to abuse the service, but also perpetuated the problems after the manager had gone. When students voiced their complaints louder than ever last spring--by demanding refunds and even suing HDNS--Epps should have responded frankly to their queries, or should have instructed Smith to do so. Instead, Epps arranged for the loans, commissioning Smith to straighten out the delivery problems, handle refunds, and make sense out of book keeping that Epps says Olive left in "complete disorganization." In doing so, Epps acted as dean, insuring that students had newspaper delivery, but by ignoring HDNS's customer complaints...
...Biogen lawyer Kenneth Novack added that "the city has already made a decision: it could have banned DNA work outright, or left it completely laissez-faire. Instead, it chose to allow DNA research within certain regulations, regulations that we already follow...
PHILADELPHIA--The board of trustees of the University of Pennsylvania yesterday selected F. Sheldon Hackney, now president of Tulane University, as UPenn's new president, despite protests from students and faculty who had favored the university's provost instead...
...possible alternative is to stay away from the polls. But protest is only effective if it is also articulate, and in a nation where half the electorate regularly boycotts the ballot box, the no-shows will not be heard. Instead, the election represents a real chance for Americans to suggest new directions for national policy. As America's most successful socialist, Eugene V. Debs, once remarked, a citizen is better off voting "for what he wants and not getting it, than voting for what he doesn't want and getting...