Word: instead
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...mandatory spending cuts went into effect. But partisan sniping and a sheer lack of political courage frustrated a deal. By last week the Oct. 1 deadline for the $100 billion sequestration had raised the pressure to such suffocating levels that politics should have been choked out of the equation. Instead the negotiations grumped into the weekend amid fears that the pact made at the top might be undone by the congressional rank and file...
...Instead, after reviewing thousands of applications, 10 years of data and countless interviews with admissions officers, the Department of Education found that Harvard had been right all along: Asian Americans are admitted at a lower rate than whites because children of alumni and recruited athletes--groups that include few Asian Americans--are given a preference in the admissions process...
...Instead of a full-year tutorial taught by graduate students, undergraduates now take only one semester of the tutorial, History 98. The other semester, they are required to take one of the History 90 seminars, which are taught by faculty members...
Gragg said that students voiced concern last spring about having to take tutorials in which they had no interest. Students also said they preferred having small conference courses with faculty members instead of teaching fellows, he said...
...system] is trying to give students exposure to professors instead of tutors," Gragg said...