Word: instead
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...ruling elite, quick action was taken to dissolve the existing Cabinet so that a new prime minister could be chosen. On the short list of possible candidates, Mori was the consensus candidate. He can be trusted not to rock the boat and to carry out few visionary reforms. Instead, he is predicted to plod along, maintaining the status quo as determined by a small group of LDP insiders...
...dotcoms cannot, and should not, operate by all the same old rules. Sure, experience counts, but so do flexibility and the willingness and ability to adapt to the new culture. He also warns against any traditional managers who might try to maintain a hierarchy that would only stifle talent. Instead he points to Bill Gates' practice of making himself accessible to anyone in the company via e-mail, which allows good ideas to bubble...
...credit officer lending to multinational companies, and the next 15 financing $100 billion worth of mergers and acquisitions at Lazard Freres before exiting as a general partner. Prouty could have retired. "But that was a sure way to feel like an old man on the shelf," says Prouty, 61. "Instead I chose to work with people half my age and twice as smart...
...some of the writers, to The Grifters with director Stephen Frears, to the cradle with his sister Joan, who plays a smart, tart role here. That could have resulted in a kind of hermetic insiderism--a desire to break each other up and leave us out of the joke. Instead, they have made something that we can all laugh at--sometimes raucously, sometimes tenderly, often ruefully...
Then they start fiddling with it--turning on old pseudogenes; knocking out the genes for feathers and putting back in the genes for scaly skin; tweaking the genes for the skull so that teeth appear instead of a beak; shrinking the wings, keel and wishbone (ostrich genes would be helpful here); massively increasing size and sturdiness of the body; and so on. Pretty soon they have the recipe for a big, featherless, wingless, toothy-jawed monster that looks a little like a cross between a dodo and a tiger...