Word: instead
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...their higher costs, several carriers boosted airfares last week for the third time since August. Still, the higher fuel prices seem certain to intensify airline industry consolidation as weaker companies falter. Continental, which filed for bankruptcy in 1982, narrowly avoided a second reorganization last week when its management decided instead to consider selling planes and other assets. Pan Am meanwhile agreed to sell some of its few remaining crown jewels -- principally its London routes and gates -- to United for $400 million...
Frolov claimed the autonomy of the Pravda Association, whose membership is as yet undetermined, would free the paper and its new ventures from control and funding by the Central Committee. Instead, money will be provided by foreign advertisers and unnamed "major international information magnates...
Even as tough a character as Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir could have been excused for wavering under the pressure last week. Instead of concentrating its ire on Iraq, the U.S. joined in a United Nations condemnation of Israel, intensifying fears that the gulf crisis may ultimately be linked to Israel's occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip. All the talk of a peace deal in Kuwait sent another shudder through Shamir's government, leading many members to conclude that they may not get to see Baghdad burn after all. To make matters worse, Israeli officials had to watch...
Bhutto fought back. She derided her dismissal as a "constitutional coup" and labeled the charges against herself and her husband "persecution." But the appeal to Pakistani emotions did not work this time; instead, she seems to have been dragged down by the corruption charges. Said Hussain Haqqani, spokesman for the Islamic Democratic Alliance: "The nation is sick of the cycle of martial law and the Bhuttos. The cycle has to be broken...
...Instead, some are experiencing a stressful kind of deja vu. They often feel overwhelmed by the emotional, financial and legal hardships of their improvised status as child guardians. In hardscrabble urban areas, where strung-out parents use their welfare checks to buy drugs, grandparents must support young wards on slender fixed incomes. The better-off find themselves pressed too. "Without the kids to take care of, I wouldn't be working as much," says Florence Gilmore, 57, of Long Beach, Calif., who works as a private-duty nurse to support three young grandsons. Nonetheless, Gilmore faced the prospect of bankruptcy...