Word: instead
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Dates: during 2010-2019
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...Instead of pursuing a degree, Ellison began work as an EMT. He soon moved back to Georgia, where he took a job as a police officer with the Gwinnett County Police Department...
...rich students are “insulting” the rest of us when they deign to live on a budget and that they do not learn anything valuable about careful spending habits. To make his point, Mr. McAuley criticizes rich Harvard students who take the T instead of taxis, who frequent sales racks instead of high priced stores like the Tannery, and who prefer to eat in dining halls rather than patronize expensive restaurants. It is a perverse and undeserved assault...
...taught Mike about the unpredictability of sports, how any athlete can be defined by one moment instead of an entire career, no matter how unfair that...
...article contends that spoiled, “affluent” students should not downplay their wealthy origins because maintaining a “veneer of more frugal circumstances” is “insulting.” Instead, in McAuley’s idyllic fantasy, wealthy students should have no qualms about showing off at every opportunity...
...Breitbart, the dismissive reviews are a form of flattery. To speak ill of people in the new media is to do them a favor, generating hits on their sites, which drives revenue. Furthermore, Breitbart is a true believer. "I'm Upton Sinclair 2.0," he says, "except instead of attacking rotten meatpacking houses, I'm attacking the rotten political establishment and the mainstream media that discourage dissent in this country." As for the charge that his sites pay too much attention to the prurient side of issues, he responds, "I like decadent. I like rambunctious. I like mirth...