Word: instead
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...arguments and debates that rage each week in City Hall's Sullivan Chamber, city residents have long contended that the council does very little to actually create new low-income housing, instead delegating the details of its policies to the city's vast bureaucracy...
Second, our editorials objected to the silence that persisted while the administration conducted tests of the water; given the record of contamination over the previous 16 months, we argued that University residents should have been notified of any potential danger. Instead, UHS director Dr. David S. Rosenthal called the memo from Cambridge too "alarming" to tell students. Rosenthal even said he had no plans to immediately release the results of the test--although the University did so after our editorials...
...Liberia's bloody civil war vowed to continue their armed struggle despite the death of President Samuel K. Doe last week. Since removing Doe was a common goal of the rebels, there was a faint glimmer of hope that his death might open the door to peace. But instead of signaling the end of the carnage, Doe's demise only set the stage for a new contest for military dominance between Prince Yormie Johnson, leader of a several-hundred-member force that captured and killed Doe, and Charles Taylor, head of the 10,000-member National Patriotic Front of Liberia...
Some observers believe a new troika of power linking Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Syria will emerge in the region. U.S. analysts in Washington are doubtful. As they see it, Riyadh has been burned so badly by its neighbors that it is likely to resist Arab alignments and instead rely more on the West...
...Moscow with Secretary of State James Baker and Secretary of Commerce Robert Mosbacher. Gorbachev hinted that the Soviet Union was prepared to open its doors wider to the outside world, noting, "We are ready to draw foreign, including U.S., investments on mutually beneficial terms." The Shatalin plan goes further: instead of the old system of joint ventures, foreign companies would have the right to acquire 100% ownership of Soviet firms. The Soviets are already scrambling for Western trade to alleviate the acute shortages that have brought consumers to the verge of revolt. To ease the tobacco rationing that prompted smokers...