Word: instead
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...that have evolved in the past decade make intelligent use of weather data a necessity," says Mike Smith, president of WeatherData, a commercial meteorology firm in Wichita, Kans. Smith cites the development of just-in-time inventory--a system in which businesses keep little or no overstock on hand. Instead, they place orders as needed, relying on speedy delivery to meet demand. The practice saves on storage costs and expensive markdowns, but it leaves companies at the mercy of delivery systems and the weather that can, literally, derail them. When a huge airline hub like Chicago is slowed down...
...Instead, the lege passed welfare-reform measures that were strict but somewhat more forgiving, with three-year time limits and provisions that the able-bodied must work. It also extended the child-health-insurance program to 200,000 more children. "In my experience, when given a choice between compassion and noncompassion, Bush invariably takes the noncompassionate path," says Elliott Naishtat, a Democrat who chairs the powerful house committee on human services, which handled the welfare bills. "Punishing the kids to get the mom to cooperate is not acceptable and not compassionate. You don't have to do it that...
...Troubles are effectively over. Paramilitary killings and bombings have dwindled. The economy is booming at 5% annual growth. The fledgling multiparty government, grappling surprisingly skillfully with the mundane tasks of locating new hospitals and funding schools, had begun to convince people that the province might soon face ordinary problems instead of extraordinary ones...
...after seeing David Hilliard's work, I've begun to change my mind. His photos are not stolen moments or peeks into busy lives. Instead, they create a relationship between the subject and the viewer. Rather than passively revealing a person's truth, Hilliard and his subject are actively telling the viewer something...
...None of the subjects of the photos are so blatantly heroic as the survivors in Antarctica. Instead, we see a woman in a flowered dress, looking off into the distance. An elderly woman builds a house of cards. A man wearing only briefs stands proudly straight in the middle of a snowy forest. A drag queen picks fake fruit off strings in lush greenery. A naked man walks away from an Edenic highway rest stop...