Word: instead
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...certain novelty arises when Carl's leg is shattered in an accident. The Navy wants him to retire. Instead he orders the leg amputated, thinking a prosthesis will be less of a handicap to him on duty. We may never have seen courage expressed in quite that way, but it's also an excuse to bring a sobered-up Billy back to help Carl prove to a review board that he can return to active service. This, naturally, he does, presumably with the thanks of a grateful nation...
...Instead, I would argue that the 2000 New York Yankees is the Microsoft of Major League Baseball. They have created two of the most hated dynasties in the last decade. We moan that they are the manifestations of individual power-trips, that they squash the dreams of lesser-beings...
...part, Hagelin says he draws on common sense: the government should provide a $200 reimbursement for Medicare patients with high blood pressure or heart disease to spend on a treadmill and personal trainer instead of spending $50,000 on a quintuple bypass operation when the same person is deathly...
...nationwide reverse 66 percent of capital cases. Either the trials in Texas have suddenly become miraculously free of error, or the Texas courts have been lax in their duties. In 79 of 103 appeals cases surveyed by the Texas Defender Service, the judge never held the normal hearing but instead relied on filed documents...
...Classic stuff - and the game is on. Kept on the campaign sidelines by his own vice president, Clinton is fighting the war in Washington, giving free play to Al Gore's priorities while keeping GOPers in Congress tied to their desks instead of getting out the vote at home. And the GOP, after weeks of dutiful negotiating, has decided to take him up on his offer for a fight. "We're not going to get pushed out of town with a bad deal," Hastert told reporters. "You call it a stalemate. I call it fighting for the American people...