Word: instead
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...other felon in history. By another measure, the penalty is even larger than Union Carbide's $470 million settlement offer for the Bhopal disaster. Yet Milken's fortune, which has been estimated at $1.2 billion, is by no means wiped out. The frugal financier, who invested his monumental income instead of spending it, possesses an intricate web of assets that have been well sheltered from taxes and prying eyes. At the least, Milken is likely to remain a centimillionaire, a famous philanthropist and a formidable investor...
Maxwell had originally planned a daily with 650,000 circulation. Instead, the European will be a weekly, and advertisers have been promised a circulation of 225,000. If the paper catches on, a daily European may be in the offing, as well as editions in other languages...
...cost taxpayers $2 billion; Paul is the man who bought a $13 million Rubens for the bank but hung it in his home for safekeeping. And what a home! I was only allowed to see the guesthouse -- 8,200 sq. ft. -- which the real estate agent thought was unoccupied. Instead, we found toddlers downstairs with a nanny and, upstairs, a freshly unmade bed with a large gun tossed casually in the middle. ("This is the bedroom; this is the bathroom; this is the gun.") If CenTrust's mortgage on this property becomes an asset of the Resolution Trust Company...
...several other councillors said that creating the new position could undermine the authority of the chief, creatingfriction in the department. They suggested thecity hire more police officers instead, or abolishthe post of chief altogether...
Last week, Carney sent Harvard President DerekC. Bok a letter urging him to use "persuasion"instead of threats when dealing with ROTC. Carneywrote that ROTC should only be kicked off campusas a "last resort...