Word: instead
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2000
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...presidential search committee has the trying job of creating a new vision for Harvard. During their last search, the committee found Rhodes Scholar Rudenstine, the man who could deliver the personal touch and billions of dollars. This next president can--and should--virtually ignore issues of fundraising and instead focus on the role Harvard plays in the national and international communities...
...four-and-a-half hour meeting, the council set aside unfinished business from last spring and concentrated instead on issues that arose during the summer...
...much time in front of a screen and too little learning how to interact with other human beings. In a statement that probably left many in the high tech industry shuddering with fear, the Alliance called for a moratorium on computers in elementary school classrooms. The group calls instead on reading and creative group play to help students develop the skills they need in and out of school...
...tests to decide which children should get a high-quality education. The point of IQ testing was to find out how much children were capable of learning rather than to test what they had actually learned. Based on IQ scores, millions of children were assigned to dumbed-down programs instead of solid courses in science, math, history, literature and foreign languages...
...took State Department negotiator Dennis Ross several weeks to heal that personal rift, but it hadn't been easy. Feeling like a parent dealing with two angry children locked in their rooms, Ross abruptly left Jerusalem at one point to force Arafat and Barak to speak to each other instead of conveying messages through...