Word: instead
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...pressures of making a profit and working for a chain instead of for an independent institution shape the way that Gannett editors operate in the newsroom, some...
...done with any discussion with me," Schaeffer says. "Instead of taking the position that 'This was not a good thing, let's talk about it,' Giles summarily demoted...
...House approved the legislation Tuesday by a vote of 417 to 0. Ros-Lehtinen's bill represented a completely hypothetical situation; no such case has ever presented itself, but that didn't seem particularly important. Instead, the representatives went to town with the scenario that Tim Russert single-handedly introduced into the national consciousness...
...choosing execution strikes many in both the pro-choice and pro-life movements as too barbaric to contemplate. (Pro-life advocates would say that legalized abortion is itself a state-sanctioned execution.) But what is the alternative to allowing that choice? The continued chipping away at Roe v. Wade. Instead of stripping female prisoners of their identity as human beings and making decisions for them, we could avoid this awful dilemma by taking much more basic action and abolishing the death penalty altogether...
...Instead, the legal basis for the sanctions - which Washington can keep in place via its veto power at the U.N. - is that Iraq has not been certified as compliant with its undertakings on weapons of mass destruction. Of course, there have been no U.N. inspectors in Iraq since they were withdrawn before the air strikes in late 1998. But without inspectors, Iraq's compliance can't be certified, even though former Marine captain Scott Ritter, who as a U.N. arms inspector was at the center of the 1997 showdown in Baghdad, insists that Iraq currently has no capacity to threaten...