Word: instead
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2000
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...schools" proposal is flawed, students say, completely overhauling a system that could instead simply be tinkered with. If the proposal is adopted, students will miss their freedom to choose houses and classes, as well as the house reputations that have shaped student identity...
...Instead, the council spent several hours deliberating before they approved, with four amendments, the Larkin petition, which will put an 18-month moratorium on development in East Cambridge...
...going home for break. Instead, I'm staying in Cambridge. The Eliot House dining hall is going to be closed. I'll be forced to eat at Ma Soba instead...
...naturally eager to know whether his customers were having problems creating their home pages. As recently as last November, he would have had little choice but to wait while a market-research firm surveyed users in order to put together a report he might read two months later. Instead, he turned to InsightExpress, the country's first fully automated online market-research service. Within a few hours Olstrom learned from it that some new customers were finding the directions for uPublish! hard to follow. "We were able to make changes immediately," Olstrom says. Presto! Instant consumer satisfaction...
...Austria and Sweden, laws allow children conceived through sperm donation to seek the identity of their parents when the children reach age 18. Denmark, however, has more sweeping protection of donor anonymity: Cryos does not maintain a record of its donors' names, using a coded identification number instead. According to Schou, the Swedish law has resulted in such a severe donor shortage that hundreds of Swedish couples seek help each year in Denmark. Attracting donors is not much of a problem in Aarhus, which has a large university population. But only about 10% of those who apply make it through...