Word: instead
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Luckily, the intervening years have broadened my musical knowledge considerably, and now that tuners cost $30 instead of the $300 they went for back in '75, I'm at least on an even playing field. Videocassettes and the Internet are two more tools for learning that I didn't have back then, and in no time I'm immersed in instructional tapes and transcriptions downloaded from various online sources. Difficult though it may be, the steel is totally addictive; hours go by as I tackle songs and exercises, and I am continually amazed at the power of muscle memory...
...founded to nurture greater political involvement in the Harvard student body. Instead, it has become a large institution that caters to a small number of aspiring politicians while ignoring the approximately 6,500 undergraduates not on SAC. I am glad that former senator Pryor recognized this problem and is working to make the IOP accessible to all students...
...voter who may or may not have meant to punch all the way through the flimsy card. We are told of "hanging chads," pieces of the ballot where the stylus should have punched all the way through and detached a small round confetti-like piece of paper, but instead leave the piece hanging by a cellulose thread. These chads, among other problems with the paper ballots, cause vote counting machines to have, by one estimate, margins of error at about 2 percent to 5 percent (the election right now is hinging on about 0.005 percent of the vote in Florida...
...George W. Bush and Gore before this first recount) of the disputed Buchanan votes were meant for Gore is less than one in one billion. It seems the voters have been bamboozled not by a vicious and scheming "vast right-wing conspiracy" bent on disenfranchising the masses, but instead by sheer ineptitude, both on the part of the designers of the ballot and the designers of a cheap and inaccurate punch-card system. Need I even mention that we are in the 21st Century? Is the best system for reading the will of the people truly an ugly fusion...
...target for the U.S. set at Kyoto was to reduce America's greenhouse gas emissions to seven percent below their 1990 levels, or 17 percent below today's emissions levels. However, our strategy for achieving these reductions has focused predominantly on taking action outside U.S. borders instead of improving our domestic energy efficiency or promoting the use of energy sources other than fossil fuels. As such, the U.S. is not willing to commit itself to a real solution to the problem...