Word: instead
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...Morgan and Brian Wright O'Connor, managing editor of the Bay State Banner, a Boston weekly, said that the media's focus on the Stuart case is representative of a larger trend of exploiting stereotypes of Blacks instead of covering other serious issues in the Black community...
...insisted on a quick trip to Webster's New World Dictionary on a stand in his lush Times office, furnished with the look of a turn-of-the-century men's club. The verdict: the two words are interchangeable. But there was nothing craven about this language maven. Instead, he said with verve, "Now both of us know something we didn't know a moment...
...that trial, engineered by the ruling National Salvation Front as a means of officially burying the Ceausescu regime, instead symbolized how Ceausescu's legacy may yet poison Rumania's future. When a huge mob stormed the Front's headquarters last week shouting "Out with the Communists!," they were voicing the growing fear that the Front's leaders, who are almost all ex- lieutenants of Ceausescu's, may have renounced the dictator but not his methods. Now fledgling opposition parties to the Front are asking why it has mounted a Ceausescu-style show trial and why, if Ceausescu's old cronies...
...conservative forces were not just putting the brakes on reform but were trying to build their popular support from the public's discontent and anxiety. The Soviet leader, they urged, must learn the lessons of the East European revolution and come down firmly on the side of radical reform, instead of straddling the fence between liberals and conservatives. In fact, a second rumor was circulating in Moscow last week of an imminent purge of the party's ruling Politburo. The most frequently cited name was that of conservative Yegor Ligachev, who came under harsh attack in the pages...
Armenians and Azerbaijanis finally sat down to discuss their differences last week, but not on their own turf. Instead representatives from the two Soviet republics gathered in Riga, the capital of Latvia. Leaders of the Azerbaijani Popular Front and the Armenian National Movement accepted a call from their Baltic counterparts to open talks on their two years of violent clashes. Emerging from the first session, both groups agreed to seek the release of all hostages by March 1 and to establish permanent relations between the two groups. No speedy peace settlement is expected, if only because the Azerbaijanis refused...