Word: instead
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Just what did the budget summiteers do for 11 weeks? Not much. Though the panel met 18 times, its members never talked about the two essential elements in any budget deal: raising revenues and cutting entitlements. Instead, the two sides engaged in an Alphonse-and-Gaston routine, dithering over procedure, accounting rules and leaks...
...invasion, the Iraqis announced that they had entered the country at the invitation of the Free Interim Government, which had supposedly seized control of the country from the Emir. This previously unknown organization was said to be made up of "young revolutionaries." But no one bought the tale. "Instead of staging a coup d'etat before the invasion, they got it the wrong way around," said Thomas Pickering, Washington's U.N. ambassador...
...years. The plight of nearly 2,000 families is made worse by tons of pollutants from a nearby sludge plant, a steel mill, a paint company, a huge incinerator and an 80-ft.-high landfill. Only a few miles away is a lot that should be a playground. Instead it is a dump filled with 4-ft.-high mounds of trash, broken glass, rusty nails and construction debris...
...effective against any of these illnesses. Some genes are too big to fit inside the viral taxi. And things could go wrong. The new genes might not "turn on" inside the body, or they might get misplaced in the gene sequence and rather than fight cancers, start triggering them instead. Ultimately, the only way to see what happens is with carefully designed experiments. As Dr. Anderson puts it, "Now we can find out if gene therapy is really going to work...
...Thornton points out, most Americans are becoming more conscious of the risks of substance abuse. Instead of filterless Camels and hard liquor, more people are opting for filtered low-tar cigarettes and light beer. It would benefit those who do use drugs if they were able to freely purchase less potent and less long-lasting drugs whose quality (and danger) could be controlled, if they were legal...