Word: instead
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...other deregulated parts of the nation, where retail electricity rates are frozen for a few more years, price isn't the problem yet. Instead, providers are having a tough time just supplying enough juice, as air-conditioners and other appliances consume electricity at an alarming pace. Silicon Valley, home to the energy-hungry new economy, has already experienced rolling blackouts. The situation across California has got so precarious that state officials are offering cash payments to big corporate users that conserve energy during a crunch; database power Oracle has spent millions to build its own generators. New England...
...wind blowing out to sea, forced many of the ships to use their motors instead of moving by sail. Some ships moved in without the sails deployed, while others kept their sails up in the spirit of the event...
...policy lessens some restrictions, though. Research activities at another university now require only the approval of the dean of the faculty, instead of the Harvard Corporation...
...victimology (painting Knight as the victim of Gumbel's religious intolerance). In a better world, Bozell would straightforwardly return the insult. He might paraphrase Groucho Marx's line: "Gumbel looks like an idiot. He talks like an idiot. But don't get me wrong. He really is an idiot." Instead, Bozell has mounted a campaign that, in essence, accuses Gumbel of a hate crime...
...Perhaps more surprising is the dearth of jazz and show tunes (no Cole Porter, Gershwin, Irving Berlin or Richard Rodgers) and the categorical dismissal of country music. Instead, "People Get Ready" and "You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'" round out the list - worthy songs, doubtless, but perhaps more representative of limited common ground in a poll of 20 participants than of true greatness. Then again, as the man suggested, satisfaction is hard to come...