Some people have a fifteen- or twenty-year loan, often with an adjustable interest rate instead of a rate that never changes.

VOA: special.2011.01.24

Instead of offering aid, they demanded that the government sell the property of southerners to pay Union war debts.

VOA: special.2010.01.14

It was that companies talked about their products through advertisements on radio instead of buying advertising space in newspapers.

VOA: special.2011.04.14

The students use the mixture to fertilize the soil instead of buying chemical fertilizers that could harm the environment.

VOA: special.2009.04.14

And,it means that transgenic marmosets can be produced from breeding instead of by the lengthy process of injecting fertilized eggs.

VOA: special.2009.06.23

That bill would not create an independent consumer agency, but instead a new office at the Federal Reserve, the central bank.

VOA: special.2010.04.16

But he agrees that in recent years, many companies have tied pay to short-term performance, instead of their long-term health.

VOA: special.2009.10.30

Instead,visitors travel in small buses that take them to areas where they can walk on paths into the wild areas.

VOA: special.2009.04.15

Harvard's Nicholas Lange says the team looked instead at the chemical and electrical pathways that link the different parts of the brain.

VOA: special.2010.12.21

Studies support the theory that there are several causes, instead of a single environmental cause or genetic problem.

VOA: special.2009.01.06

Instead of fine print that hides the truth, we need credit card forms and statements that have plain language in plain sight."

VOA: special.2009.05.22

Instead,you should use sand from rivers or from other areas of land that are not near the sea.

VOA: special.2009.09.14

Instead,she urges them to think about the one thing that most concerns them, and to deal with it.

VOA: special.2009.03.24

Lincoln answered that he would be happy to make Seward ambassador to Britain, instead of secretary of state.

VOA: special.2009.07.30