Word: instead
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...students, in turn, could take a lesson from Clark's honesty. Instead of rallying for public interest law and pursuing corporate law, they could follow their own words and take advantage of the opportunities they so vigorously defend...
Father Bruce Ritter, founder of Covenant House, the nation's most successful program for runaway teenagers, hoped that by resigning he would end the controversy that has engulfed the organization since four young men accused him of sexual misconduct. Instead, the turmoil mounted. The state attorney general has widened an investigation to include personal loans that Ritter and other Covenant House officials obtained from the organization, possibly in violation of state...
...embarrassed initiators of perestroika are still unable to define this problem and rely instead on such terms as nationalism, conflict and separatism. They still don't have enough courage to use the appropriate words, for we are witnessing the crash of the last world empire, coupled with the downfall of what was most Stalinist in the Stalinist system...
...participants in the birth of the U.S.S.R. believed they were choosing the best method of solving the nationalities question. Instead, they were setting a huge time bomb. No matter what the reasons were behind the formulation of the union -- according to Lenin, to stimulate the world revolution; according to Stalin, to build socialism in one country -- it would even out the various levels of development of many peoples and bring different nations, cultures and civilizations into a common framework. But only one method could be used to achieve this Utopian goal: mass violence. The union was doomed from the very...
Many of us still hope to overcome the multitude of difficulties that besiege us by our usual method -- by means of force, this time ordered by a President empowered to do so. Such is the dramatic and even tragic nature of the present situation: instead of moving ahead toward doing away with the empire, we have become like rabbits transfixed before a boa constrictor. All we are doing is returning to an age of centralization and dictatorship -- this time in the form of the presidency, since the President of a disintegrating Soviet Union can only emerge as its dictator...