• But face it: If you had millions in the bank, you'd quickly realize that you wanted a Ferrari rather than a Corvette , a Range Rover instead of a Cadillac Escalade, and so on.

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  • If its borders were inscribed by ethnicity or language rather than religion, Pakistan might be six nations instead of one.

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  • They use glass fibres rather than carbon fibres in their composite and, instead of adding capsules, they have put the healing molecules into the fibres themselves.

    ECONOMIST: Monitor

  • They become enablers instead of controllers, coordinate their organizations through dynamic linking of teams and customers rather than command and control, make social and customer values their prime concern, and communicate so as to further stakeholder conversations.

    FORBES: Radical management: it's happening!

  • In Sandy's poster the boy and the girl are repositioned and stand on opposite sides of the tree, the boy is pictured as right-handed rather than left-handed, he wears long pants instead of knickers, and one of his feet is atop the blade pressing it into the ground.

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  • There was a time when I might have speculated on the cause but then I learned that rather than continuously update my priors I should instead consider every piece of evidence in isolation and adhere strictly to the absolutely non-arbitrary standard of a 95% confidence interval.

    FORBES: Connect

  • He rejected the economic reductionism that drove the Washington consensus, and insisted instead on seeing people as products of culture rather than as profit-and-loss calculating machines.

    ECONOMIST: Lexington

  • Landowners can resist reform by going to the courts, going to their friends, hiring guards, raising cattle instead of crops or reclassifying their property as industrial rather than agricultural.

    CNN: INSIDE STORY: PROMISED LAND

  • Rather than spur outrage with bans or any sort of overreaction, EA has instead told fans to enjoy their games.

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  • Rather than being seen as a sign of desperation, this should be viewed instead as a mid-course correction to offset the impact of the restrictive monetary policy that the country has implemented over the past two years.

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  • So rather than being a formidable barrage, Mr Brown's double declaration of war looks instead like a white flag: an admission that he urgently needs to shore up Labour's core vote.

    ECONOMIST: Bagehot

  • He said he was instead offered the choice of undergoing the same operation on the NHS rather than privately, which was "completely out of character" for a Football League club, he said.

    BBC: Mark McCammon

  • Instead of the foregoing initiatives which are likely to retard rather than catalyze the necessary transformation of the Soviet political and economic systems, the Center for Security Policy believes that the United States should be following a radically different strategy for aiding the USSR.

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  • Instead of the foregoing initiatives -- which are likely to retard rather than catalyze the necessary transformation of the Soviet political and economic systems, the Center for Security Policy believes that the United States should be following a radically different strategy for aiding the USSR.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center For Security Policy

  • Instead, it can have the effect of actually propping up unpalatable regimes, rather than increasing pressure for their reform.

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  • Obama would rather play golf than govern, would rather campaign than accept an urgent request to meet with the leader of an American ally, and instead of trying to work with those who disagree with him, he has dismissed them contemptuously and rudely.

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  • Rather than discouraging people to take on jobs that might have a lot of stress, let's instead encourage those who are designed for those jobs to do them.

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  • The commission is urging the government to connect new homes with existing communities, rather than sprawling into undeveloped land, and to remove the current VAT incentive for developers to demolish homes instead of refurbishing them.

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  • This time, rather than get the FTC involved, the plaintiffs have kept the suit private, opting instead to accuse ChicoBag of violating the Lanham Act, a piece of trademark legislation that protects businesses from false advertising.

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  • But rather than wasting more words debating the definition of clean energy, it would behoove all of us to instead consider the massive market need that these technologies are poised to provide at lower cost and higher efficiencies.

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  • But I would much prefer students going to college to learn and be prepared for the rigors of the new economic order, rather than dumping fees on them to subsidize football programs that, far from enhancing the academic mission instead make a mockery of it.

    WSJ: Buzz Bissinger: Why College Football Should Be Banned

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