Word: instead
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...admit a man who was gushing blood from a bullet wound to the neck. The sophisticated county trauma centers were closed; a less-equipped emergency room at Downey Community Hospital, six minutes away, was full. The paramedics were ordered to St. Francis Medical Center, twice the distance. They went instead to Downey, and the man survived the night. "I know the situation," said St. Andrew. "I'd pay extra taxes to keep the trauma centers open. I want one available if my kid is hurt...
...late '40s and the '50s. Do we really want cold war-type anxieties and constitutional indelicacies to be applied in nonmilitary realms -- in the environmental area, for instance, where restraints might be far more intrusive than military protectiveness, perhaps involving close public scrutiny of industrial practices, even household behavior? Instead it may be time to relax a bit and give room to other, more positive and less anxious goals: health, liberty, equity, cultural enrichment, environmental enhancement -- for their own sake rather than security...
Nintendo has so far squandered a rare opportunity to use its market position to do some good. The 40 million Nintendo systems installed around the world are powerful little computers that could deliver rich and rewarding experiences. Instead, Nintendo chose to give the world's children RoboCop and Bionic Commando. Too bad the company did not seek out Papert, or people like him, long before this...
...light of these revelations, it seems odd that San Francisco, America's best-known earthquake center, has not taken the obvious course of compelling accordion players to register with the authorities. Instead, the board of supervisors has designated the accordion as the city's official instrument, thereby hastening the decline of San Francisco as we know it. Nothing more perverse has happened in that town since a woman collected $50,000 after claiming that a 1964 cable-car accident had transformed her into a nymphomaniac...
...speaking engagements. Since Harvard has prominent research centers for both European and Russian Studies, and since Brown President Vartan Gregorian is said to have close ties to Soviet officials, many believed Gorbachev would accept one of the invitations. As it turns out, Gorby snubbed both Harvard and Brown, instead choosing to visit Stanford, home of the notoriously conservative Hoover Institute. Gorbachev said he chose Stanford because his foreign minister was impressed with the Hoover Institute's work, but observers said Gorby was especially eager to visit Hoover because it has historically been so anti-Soviet...