Word: instead
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...Instead, Goldin describes her foray through the world of academia as one of constantly taking new directions. She says that ever since her days as a graduate student at the University of Chicago--what she terms her "best academic experience"--she has been exploring unknown territory...
Specifically, Sullivan said the limited resources that the nation had allocated to health care should be spent more efficiently. Money should be targeted toward the more cost-effective strategy of preventing illness and injury instead of "waiting to devote substantial resources to address illness and disability after it strikes," he said...
...this week the case will be back in court; the Illinois Supreme Court has ordered the lower court to appoint guardians to represent all three children and determine what would be in their best interest. "Instead of deciding which parent's view will prevail," notes Harvard law professor Alan Stone, "the court is suggesting that the children need their own legal representation...
Eastern Europe's economies may face the struggle of their lives. For the first time in decades, they will have to pay the market price for energy instead of relying on subsidized oil from the Soviet Union; they must also make do with a 30% cut in Soviet supplies. Even with oil at only $20 per bbl., Bulgaria would be forced to use 80% and Czechoslovakia 60% of hard-currency reserves to pay for supplies. Though the Soviet Union stands to gain an additional $7.5 billion in hard-currency earnings as a result of the price run-up, Moscow cannot...
...procurement, after finding his explanation for the shortage "unconvincing and unsound." Soviet smokers seem to agree. "It was bad enough when they took our vodka away," grumbled a man in a tobacco line. "There was eau de cologne or home brew to replace it. But what do you smoke instead of tobacco?" Suggested a young man next to him: "Try some grass...