Word: instead
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However, these days, most students who wish to run businesses are not setting up supermarkets in their common rooms. Instead, student entrepreneurs who maintain Internet start-ups are doing much the same work as other students who, for example, work term-time jobs designing websites...
Latzanakis may lose his affiliation with Dunkin' Donuts because he said the parent corporation wants to renovate the store immediately instead of waiting for a deal which might not come through...
...clothes or help with the dishes. But maybe the instructo-entertainment complex is better at teaching a child bad things (because they look cool) than nice things (because they look drippy). After two decades of social indoctrination by classroom movies, kids were dressing more sloppily and taking more drugs. Instead of running for Student Council, they were protesting the Vietnam...
...snoozed through the State of the Union, or maybe you were watching WWF Smackdown on UPN instead. Here's the lowdown: at 89 minutes, it was the longest personally delivered State of the Union speech ever. (In 1946, Harry Truman sent his 25,000-word message to be read by a clerk. It took more than three hours.) Clinton spoke 9,298 words at 104 words per minute, a leisurely pace compared with his 9,375-word, 116-words-per-minute marathon in 1995, delivered in 81 minutes. The 2000 address received a record 119 ovations. Not one Supreme Court...
...intact, and Russian officials have indicated that Moscow is unlikely to cough up the $1 billion that would be required to start rebuilding the city. (For one thing, if the history of the last war is anything to go by, Moscow's tenure there may be far from eternal.) Instead, Moscow appears set to simply leave Grozny in ruins as a warning to Chechens and other peoples in the restive Caucasus of the price of trying to secede. Of course that would make the shattered city also symbolize Russia's political failure in the region...