Word: instead
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...proposal to establish graduation standards would not set mandatory requirements. Instead, school district results would be published each year, so communities could be more aware of school's performance...
...Czechoslovakia teachers can describe the 1968 Soviet intervention as an invasion instead of as a "counterrevolution" to which the Soviets "gave brotherly assistance." Teachers in Hungary can openly discuss the 1956 uprising for the first time since the event occurred. At the elite Moscow Higher Party School, which trains apparatchiks to run local and regional party committees, instructors express thoughts that would have been considered heresy only a few years ago. "I tell the Cuban students, 'Castro is great, but he won't last forever -- learn democratic methods,' " says professor Yuri Aksyutin...
...take over the Philharmonic, either worst enemy or best friend. Various high-powered names were floated, among them Leonard Bernstein, who has already served one tour of duty as the orchestra's head, and Claudio Abbado, who last year disappointed his supporters by taking the Berlin Philharmonic post instead...
Last summer, when Solidarity formed the first noncommunist government in Eastern Europe in four decades, Walesa could easily have headed it. But he chose instead to nominate Mazowiecki, a longtime Solidarity activist, as Prime Minister. He also accepted Jaruzelski as President, partly to ensure continuity during the transition but also to reassure the Soviets at a time when no one was certain just how much reform they would allow...
Wiesenthal's new editorial collaborators do not serve his purposes well. Instead of benefiting from Wechsberg's competent prose, this new autobiography has been translated from the German by Ewald Osers, and it is studded with Anglicisms like lorries, plimsolls, doing a bunk and getting the stick. And though the publishers exaggeratedly claim that Wiesenthal "engineered" the Eichmann capture, Wiesenthal himself says only that his effort to prevent Eichmann's wife from having Eichmann declared legally dead "was probably my most important contribution to the Eichmann case...