Word: instead
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Although many observers have called for themoney being spent on drug enforcement to go todrug treatment instead, Koch said that treatmentprograms were very expensive and had low successrates. One woman responded that it was cheaper totreat addicts then to house them in jails. Anangry debate followed...
...Neither the National Security Council, which is the President's personal think tank, nor the State Department's Policy Planning Staff, which is supposed to look over the horizon of foreign policy, is engaged in a systematic review of U.S. strategy for dealing with Marxist- Leninist regimes outside Europe. Instead, the regional experts of the + bureaucracy are nibbling away at their own pieces of what should be seen, and addressed, as a global challenge -- and opportunity...
When Japan's probusiness Liberal Democratic Party confounded predictions of a tight race and won a resounding victory in the national election early last week, many investors hoped Tokyo's financial markets would celebrate. But the champagne corks never popped. Instead investors watched in distress as the Tokyo stock market suffered one of its biggest declines ever. Falling in four of the five daily sessions last week, the 225-issue Nikkei index plummeted more than 2,500 points, or nearly 7%. Approximately half of the drop occurred on Wednesday alone. The Nikkei closed at 35,890.97, the lowest level since...
...Instead he reverted to his earliest version of his conduct during the Iran- contra affair, insisting that he knew little or nothing about many key aspects of the fiasco. He provided a scrambled account of the origins of secret arms shipments to Iran that contradicted the testimony of other witnesses and evidence assembled by various investigations. He asserted, for example, that the idea had been broached by "a group of individuals, citizens of Iran," who wanted to lay the groundwork for better relations with the U.S. after the Ayatullah Khomeini died. Both the Tower commission and congressional investigating committees concluded...
...deputies. Though a space for the prisoner later opened up in the county jail, Ashe told himself he had to stand up. Whether state courts will uphold his coup remains to be seen. But for the moment, Ashe had seized the better option available: take over the armory, instead of watching even more dangerous criminals go free...