Word: instead
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...remember one conversation we had over the phone before The Game. We were doing a story on Yale's wishbone offense, and I asked Gicewicz how Harvard would defend against it. The usual response would have been: "We just have to dig in and play our best." Instead, Gicewicz started talking about blocking schemes and how offensive linemen like to take down nose tackles in a wishbone formation. Whoa...
...title on the door says Associate General Counsel. But it is no secret around TIME that lawyer Bob Marshall is actually a major league baseball player manque. Instead of his business card, he is likely to hand you his baseball card, a souvenir of the "fantasy" session he attended at the Philadelphia Phillies training camp in 1986. "Have one," he told a visitor. "Have...
...that was not quite the backwater she had in mind. In 1985, single and approaching the middling age of 40, she left Manhattan for the eddying pace of a trout stream in upstate New York. The scene was set for a life of house renovation, fishing, reading and writing. Instead, Schreiber was jerked back to old realities by the news that her mother was dying of cancer...
...attempt to humanize the injured party. Yet the images are so shopworn and predictable that they in fact dehumanize. And the ostensible larger meaning is patently obvious: here lies another life that could have contributed much to society had it not been crushed by those who deserved to die instead...
...core subjects and 2) a score of 700 (on a scale of 400 to 1,600) on the SAT or 15 (on a scale of 1 to 36) on the ACT. Since disproportionate numbers of blacks fall short on these tests, Proposition 42 was widely denounced as racist. Yet instead of repealing it, as many blacks demanded, the NCAA settled for a compromise that takes effect in August. On the one hand, athletes who do not make the grade academically can receive scholarships based on need, but not on athletic prowess; on the other hand, as before, these marginal students...