Word: instead
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...ruling, handed down two weeks ago, Judge Sand indicated that the MTA had gone too far by imposing a total ban instead of specifying the times, places and types of begging that it considered out of bounds. "While the government has an interest in preserving the quality of urban life," wrote Sand, "this interest must be discounted where the regulation has the principal effect of keeping a public problem involving human beings out of sight and therefore out of mind...
...dance lessons. She grew too tall to dance (today she stands 5 ft. 10 in.), but at 17 she was a finalist in the Metropolitan Opera auditions. She hated the process. "I'm determined, but I can't step on someone else to get ahead. I hated the competitiveness." Instead she went to Yale and majored in French literature, graduating in 1974. She gave herself two years to become famous and has been working at it ever since...
...pell-mell pursuit of profits by businesses has long been a major source of pollution. But could such greed be used instead to help preserve the environment? A growing number of politicians and economists think so, and they have come up with the idea of allowing companies to buy and sell the "right" to pollute as part of a plan to encourage them to clean up their operations. Ultimately, there could be a national or even global market that would treat pollution permits like stocks and bonds...
Under Bush's plan, the Government would set a national limit on emissions of sulfur dioxide, a prime cause of acid rain. But, instead of dictating how to meet the target, the Government would let the marketplace determine the cheapest, most efficient way to get the job done. Each company would be allotted an acceptable level of SO2 production, amounting to its fair share of the national limit. If a company managed to pollute less than its share, it could receive permits representing the shortfall, which it could sell to firms that could not meet their target. That is where...
...thus help America grow. But it doesn't. The rich already invest most of their money. What else are they going to do with it? Mr. Bush's broad capital-gains cut would not persuade the rich -- or anyone else -- to forgo a second VCR and invest that $300 instead. Yet that's exactly the kind of persuasion America needs these days: less consumption, more investment...