Word: instead
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...invective flew, the negotiators continued to meet far into the night in House Speaker Tom Foley's conference room. The "Gang of Eight," three from the Administration and five from the Hill, inched forward by discussing a compromise that would include a modest variation on the capital- gains scheme: instead of a cut in the rates, the value of assets sold would be indexed so that profits resulting from inflation would be exempt from taxation...
Some other proposed changes seem more promising, at least on paper. Last year Republican Senator Pete Domenici of New Mexico introduced a bill to shorten the ordeal. It would require the President to submit a two-year spending plan, instead of the current annual one, and to substitute a joint budget committee for the present House and Senate units, which often disagree. Most important, it would convert the budget outline Congress is supposed to produce in April to a joint resolution requiring the President's signature. That would foster serious early bargaining between the White House and Capitol Hill...
...before the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait -- is believed to call for waves of warplanes to knock out several dozen Iraqi military targets, including chemical, biological and nuclear installations. Now, say Israeli officials with some remorse, that plan may no longer be viable because it would interfere with U.S. strategy. Instead, Israel is preparing a series of more limited responses gauged according to the severity of any Iraqi strike against Israel, and officials admit that any move by Jerusalem short of urgent defensive action would have to be cleared with...
...instability that is becoming the hallmark of today's families breeds in children insecurity rather than pride, doubts instead of confidence. Many youngsters feel guilty about broken marriages, torn between parents and households, and worried about family finances. Remarriage can intensify the strains. Children may feel abandoned and excluded as they plunge into rivalries with stepparents and stepsiblings or are forced to adjust to new homes and new schools. Children from troubled homes used to be able to find a psychological anchor in societal institutions. But no longer. The churches, schools and neighborhoods that provided emotional stability by transmitting shared...
...troubles children face were all born of economic pressure on the family, then wealthy children should emerge unscathed. Yet the problems confronting affluent children are also profound and insidious. Parents who do not spend time with their children often spend money instead. "We supply kids with things in the absence of family," says Barbara MacPhee, a school administrator in New Orleans. "We used to build dreams for them, but now we buy them Nintendo toys and Reebok sneakers." In the absence of parental guidance and affirmation, children are left to soak in whatever example their environment sets. A childhood spent...