Word: instead
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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These actions are squandering hopes for a new world order, leading us instead down a decidedly "old" path, one which Americans thought we had abandoned for good in 1975. The president is abdicating from a unique opportunity to fashion a system of collective, peaceful dispute-resolution. Instead, he has simply manipulated international goodwill to strongarm the Security Council into approving what would be essentially unilateral U.S. policework...
Dershowitz said that at the height of the State Street controversy, Mahoney asked an unnamed Boston Globe reporter of Irish descent why he would believe "a man with a name like Silverglate instead of men with names like Bulger or Mahoney...
...public and congressional support for his action would improve his status in the eyes of world leaders. His chances for success in the Gulf would vastly increase. Bush would be the leader of a nation with the unity and resolve to stick out a long-term military conflict. Instead, Saddam sees a President Bush who has acted without the support of the people and Congress...
Simply recognizing that rape is against the law, however, is not sufficient. We must accomplish a genuine change in belief and attitude between men and women so that this law becomes unnecessary as a deterrent to violence against women, and becomes instead an affirmation of men and women's mutual respect and common standing in society...
...Instead of carrying the administration's policy, because of partisanship, in many cases it will be [the House's] job to oppose it," he says...