Word: instead
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1990
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...first half I set the clock at 20 minutes instead of 25 minutes," Arends confessed. "I also got the wrong set of game balls, and before the game started I had to run back and get different ones...
...current players' dispute -- the dugout being one of the last all-masculine bastions, even in San Diego -- and has been seeking to sell the team. As mayor, O'Connor gets most of the flak. Councilman Bob Filner, a fellow Democrat, accuses her of dodging systematic dialogue and instead "bullying people, one issue at a time." Some political regulars charge that she shuns partisan duties to concentrate on her "populist" appeal that one of them describes as "a mile wide and an inch deep...
...Corp., which owns the B. Altman and Bonwit Teller department-store chains. Such troubled but solvent corporations as Wang Laboratories, the Lowell, Mass., computer maker that laid off more than 1,500 workers last year, have hired "workout" advisers to help pare down their debt. By pursuing a workout instead of bankruptcy, management can maintain control of the company and generally reorganize faster. "There's more room to maneuver outside of court," says Richard Feintuch, a partner in Wachtell, Lipton, a leading Wall Street law firm...
...Confined and Well-Defended Space. His students call it varsity basketball; his opponents think of it as water torture. No one anywhere teaches the course more skillfully. Says Princeton Dean of Admissions Fred Hargadon: "If we were in Japan, Pete would be designated a Living National Treasure." Instead, Carril may have to settle for merely being the best college basketball coach in America. Year after year, he molds a succession of students whose collective athletic skills would not elicit a raised eyebrow from pro scouts into cohesive units that play a disciplined, cerebral game and regularly confound Top 20 opponents...
...Carril's system. "He gives me the typical college kid's answer. 'Dad, you'd never understand.' " The possibilities can be paralyzing to opponents. Says Dartmouth coach Paul Cormier: "If we're not careful, we end up spending the half time wondering what adjustments he is going to make, instead of planning our own adjustments...