Word: instead
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...nature, is only designed to keep the peace between two sides who're committed to an agreement - which clearly isn't the case in Sierra Leone, where the guerrillas of the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) plainly never had any intention of complying with the requirement that they be disarmed. Instead, the rebels simply began attacking the hapless U.N. contingents, composed mostly of troops from other African countries and from India, and took some of them hostage...
After the aircraft landed safely at California's Edwards Air Force Base last December, its onboard computer was to instruct the plane to taxi along the runway at about 15 m.p.h. Instead, the computer commanded the jet-powered drone to taxi at 180 m.p.h. The aircraft zoomed--to about 90 m.p.h.--before it careered off the runway, smashed its landing gear and collapsed into a sandy hill, causing $5.3 million in damage...
...turns out I wasn't actually principal at all. The real principal of the High School for Arts and Business in Queens, N.Y., Stephen Drakes, was there at 8 a.m., and he wasn't letting me near the p.a. Instead, he gave me a schedule of classes that he wanted me to visit. Because I hadn't been up at 8 a.m. since Katie Couric's colon was IMAXed on the Today show, it took me a while to realize I had been sent back to high school...
...last December, when a wave of ISPs began offering completely free access. Today Brazilians can choose from a number of free ISPs, including one, Catolico.com.br owned by a Roman Catholic diocese. Another free ISP, iG.com.br expected a television-ad blitz to bring in 60,000 applicants over three months. Instead, the company got 940,000 in eight weeks. "The consumers were more ready for this than we were," says iG vice president Matinas Suzuki...
Russell Crowe was not director Ridley Scott's first choice to play the gladiator. That offer, not incidentally, went to another Australian, Mel Gibson, who told Scott he was "too old, mate." Instead Gibson is playing a more age-appropriate he-man in The Patriot. And isn't that Guy Pearce, another Aussie, all straitlaced machismo in Rules of Engagement? Hollywood has discovered what we Australian women have understood for some time: the discreet charm of the Bloke...