Word: instead
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...donning an orange sherbet number with cut-outs that exposed her back's muscular physique. Williams chooses to wear jewelry on the court, but certainly not the adornments that Tracy Austin or Chris Evert wore in 1979, the last time two American women faced-off in the U.S. Open. Instead of dainty gold chain necklaces, Venus opts for studded chokers and instead of fragile stud earrings, she chooses bold drops...
...Instead, it posits that Harvard "has a moral, ethical and legal obligation" to prevent copyright infringement over its networks...
What keeps Bolten and his charges up to their ears in papers and books bristling with Post-it notes is Bush's famous impatience with long policy discussions. "He very rarely lets people talk for more than a minute or two," says Bolten. Instead, Bush pokes and questions, keeping advisers off balance and requiring them to prepare for any query that might arise during the 90-to-120 min. of "policy time" Bolten gets every week at the Governor's Mansion. With just nine weeks left in the campaign and few new policies left to unveil, Bolten's shop will...
From the moment that Ford began designing the Explorer in the late '80s, the company had concerns about the appropriate level of tire pressure for the vehicle. Internal documents from 1989, leaked to the media two weeks ago, show that company engineers, instead of making more substantial improvements to the SUV's stability, advised inflating tires to less than the maximum level to decrease the chance of a rollover, even though underinflated tires can in turn increase the risk of tread separation. Ford vehemently rejects the notion that tire pressure played any role, pointing out that similar Goodyear tires...
Sure, it's easy to forget what is glorious about the Games, especially in non-O years. There are times when the five linked rings--supposed to represent the harmonious union of continents--seem to symbolize instead the tawdry connections between sport and so many of society's baser attributes. We read all the time about the scandals. Doping. Tainted records. Bribery. Boycotts. And in Olympics immemorial, racism and sexism. We begin to wonder why we ever made such a big deal of the Olympics...