Word: instead
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...little girl, Lisa Chu wanted to be a farmer. Instead she wound up working as a photographer's rep in New York City. She gardened in her free time, but it wasn't until she was in her mid 50s that she really began to achieve her childhood ambition. That's when she started taking classes in viticulture, cleared land she had bought on Mount Veeder in California's Napa Valley and applied for permits to start a vineyard. Now 60, Chu has just sold her second crop to Hess winery. Next year she expects to turn a profit...
...having a real farmer guest-star at the Iowa debate. And his campaign decided that the best way to blunt Bradley's criticisms of him as an Establishment politician was to extend a hand to Bradley on national TV and challenge him to quit advertising and debate more instead. "A ploy," Bradley said disdainfully, and the pundits agreed. But at a time when television in Iowa and New Hampshire has become a wearying loop of campaign ads, polls and focus groups in those states showed that voters loved Gore's idea...
...providing the other with a target to shoot at. The two Democrats have offered big, detailed plans, but each has a different emphasis. Bradley's is big but not so detailed. In its main element, it would abolish Medicaid, which provides coverage for the poor, and channel them instead to enroll in the insurance program already available to federal employees. Bradley would also offer the poor tax breaks and subsidies to help pay for insurance. Gore's plan is detailed but not so big. He aims to provide every child with health care by 2005, but he proposes...
...Gore has proposed that he and Bradley cancel their 30-second ads and instead meet every week to engage in another "debate." When he hears that, Bill Bradley rolls his eyes and shakes his pelican chin, and calls it "a ploy...
...pros were busy at their computers Dec. 31, when countless hours of network coverage purported to show the millennial celebrations around the globe. Instead, at least one network showed you what it wanted you to see. Image editing technology has now progressed far enough to enable real-time editing of television, and CBS made good use of it. In its live coverage of Times Square, the network digitally deleted an NBC advertisement on a large TV screen and substituted its own logo instead. The new logo looked perfectly natural--it just wasn't there...