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...
...assault from the right has expanded to target all sorts of dissident material touching on politics, religion and power relationships between the genders. Conservatives reject the argument that artists deserve aid because cutting-edge ideas lead to progress. Instead, the right has advanced the know- nothing notion that artists tend to be leftist, godless and sexually perverse and that public funding amounts to promoting an "antifamily agenda...
...Instead, the services are seizing the moment to argue against cutbacks they reluctantly agreed to during Cheney's strategic review. The Air Force puts out straight-faced claims for potential B-2 utility in the gulf. Generals argue that reducing the Army from 18 to 12 divisions is not a good idea. The Navy insists it must keep 14 aircraft carriers deployed and not 11, as Cheney had proposed to the service chiefs...
...into combat, but once the shooting begins, those who must pull the triggers or staff the home front seem to prefer heroic mythology to the reality of fire and death. Understanding this, war correspondents from Homer to Ernie Pyle have tended to rein in their normal skepticism, serving up instead what both the government and the public want to hear...
Almost any way you look at it, it is senseless to pay a penny more than necessary for oil. Consider the environment. Why aren't conservatives these days clamoring for the restoration of a free market instead of clamoring to open up fragile strips of America's coastline? What sense is there in wrecking Alaska to get at $30 or $40 oil when it flows out of the Saudi desert for a fraction of that cost...