Word: instead
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...Instead of trying to solve major problems, we seem inclined to put them off and let later generations pay the cost," Bok said. "It is customary to blame [the declining morale in the public sector] on our political leaders. But the events in Eastern Europe remind us that the ultimate power still resides in the people...
...Decade might mean the "activist '90s," but activism, by today's standards, is synonymous with environmentalism. Care about the air. Save the trees. This was the first year when people in your dorm yelled at you for tossing a bottle in the garbage can instead of the recycling bin. We're in our unselfish phase, but it is more acceptable to worry about the increasing hole in the ozone layer than to think about, say, shrinking welfare and Medicaid benefits...
Because of Radcliffe's dire financial situation, Wilson can't have it both ways. If she wants to build Radcliffe into the foremost women's research center in the country, she should not be bogged down with paying for the concerns of 3000 Harvard-Radcliffe undergraduates. Instead, she should demand that Harvard accept full financial responsibility for issues such as campus security, meeting space for women's groups and funding for undergraduate public service...
...likely to be disappointed. Nor is it possible -- or even necessary -- to know everything about a child. "People shouldn't get the idea that they can't be parents unless they have a DNA profile of a kid," says Professor Joan Hollinger of the University of Detroit law school. Instead adoptive parents, armed with as much information as possible, should face the inevitable mysteries -- just as all parents...
...beasts are a formidable new enemy for local peasants. Moving mostly in darkness and traveling up to 20 miles a night, the wild pigs have cut local food production by half. But hunters risk their lives if they go near enough to shoot the pigs and must rely instead on haphazard metal traps and sisal nets...