Word: instead
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...recently we left the farm, stayed away nearly a week, and drove back late at night. I turned my car off the blacktop... and instantly felt, instead of the familiar reassuring washboard under the tires, a harder, sleeker, smoother ride. The road under my high beams looked the same color as the clay compound (chalky gray), but my shocks didn't jump and chitter; the tires hummed underfoot...
...Instead, Ford has spent more than two weeks twisting in the wind as each company blames the other and investigators gather more evidence. Now they are both facing governmental music, appearing before a Senate and House subcommittees Wednesday to defend their reported lack of action preceding the massive tire recall...
...thought my actual reason for being there would sound shallow: I want to learn to use a defibrillator because it's always supercool on "ER" when the doctor gets out the paddles and yells, "Clear!" Instead I say that I'm a new aunt and I don't want to kill my nephew. The instructor replies, "It's nice you're here, but next time you might want to sign up for Infant CPR." I joke that oh, my parents have one foot in the grave too, and then everyone looks sad and nods in sympathy...
...Reserve policymakers will move on interest rates is like waiting to see if the groundhog spots his shadow. No matter what the outcome, it's the anticipation, the unknown, that makes everyone so nervous. This time around, investors were hoping Greenspan & Co. wouldn't see inflation's gloomy outline. Instead, they'd proclaim that their efforts to cool off what has been a red-hot economy had succeeded...
...kids' own good. A hundred years ago, children's immune systems would have faced all kinds of bacterial and viral infections. Today those immune systems don't know what to do in our supersanitized environment, so they wind up attacking pollen, dust mites and other usually innocuous substances instead. In the worst cases, a dangerous overreaction occurs that can shut down the lungs, killing the child...