Word: instead
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...Finally, instead of attacking Congress and the Bush Administration for continuing the last-minute federal budget crunch tradition the staff buys politicians' excuses that a budget must be passed now. The country will not, however, grind to a halt if Congress fails to pass the current bill by Friday. Congress will simply have to pass another emergency spending bill, as it has so many times before. It should do so if realistic cuts do not appear by Friday...
...newspapers and human rights organization had presented evidence undermining the story of the Israeli government. Sadly, however, the world will probably never know the real facts--Israel has refused to allow a United Nations investigation of the massacre, making the world wonder what Israel has to hide. Israel has instead promised to conduct its own investigation, but was quick to add that no policeman involved in the massacre would be forced to testify and that no finding would be binding. This is hardly the sort of investigation the civilized world would expect from a country which constantly bills itself...
...original council order--sponsored by Councillor William H. Walsh--praised the report for exposing the failings of rent control. But the council's pro-rent control majority voted instead for a substitute order berating the newscasts as one-sided...
WITH luck, the Yom Kippur incident will be the Review's downfall. The Dartmouth community has acted sensibly. Instead of trying to use disciplinary action against the Review's staff members, Freedman spoke at an anti-Review rally and condemned the magazine's "act of moral cowardice." The student assembly denounced the review for having "fostered an intolerance of diversity at the college...
...once, Aquino acted swiftly. Instead of attempting to stall Noble with negotiations -- standard procedure in almost all previous uprisings -- armed forces Chief of Staff General Renato de Villa ordered air force overflights and bombings to level the main rebel encampment. Aquino brusquely dismissed the threat. "This is not a coup," she told reporters. "It is not spreading." Late last week De Villa declared the uprising a failure as the leader of the uprising surrendered. Asked about the loyalty of the rest of the military, De Villa said, "They will not readily join such a foolish adventure." But will they behave...