Instead it has concentrated on making devolution work and learning to run the public services.
Instead it has a couple dozen, says Texas Transportation Institute research engineer Tim Lomax.
Instead it has become a symbol of how, even for this technological titan, things can go horribly wrong.
Instead it has become a way of life where, as Aristotle said, virtue has become its own reward.
Instead it has become a vehicle for myths - chief among them, the myth of salvation through science.
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Instead it has ten regional monopolies (TEPCO is one), which hog 97% of the market for electricity generation and transmission.
Instead it has been wasting its time in a world of make-believe.
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Washington had hoped Fiat would give Chrysler religion on compacts, but instead it has been converted to American SUV and truck worship.
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Instead it has a test which requires pupils to have reached level four (the expected level for 11 year olds) in three subjects.
"Manufacturers had hoped that life was going to get easier but instead it has become tougher, " said the CBI's head of economic analysis Doug Godden.
Instead it has become a labyrinth that participants cannot possibly comprehend.
Instead it has championed the concept of the customer-centric organization and has provided many cloud-based tools to support it, including its flagship enterprise social network, Chatter.
But instead it has only underlined how little may have changed: Daniel Noa, Siemens' top anti-corruption official, has stepped down after only six months at the company, with little explanation given.
Instead it has fostered a debilitating sense of entitlement.
If the demand from cloud and network storage was anywhere near close to the projections of some of the bulls on disk drive stocks, EMC stock should have been up over 100% but instead it has languished.
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Instead, it has its own ideas for bringing peace to Sudan, leaving separatism off the agenda.
Instead, it has been slow to respond, often reacting to external pressure rather than being proactive.
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Instead, it has set up UK Financial Investments, to run its shareholdings at arm's length.
Instead, it has started to offer a variety of products, which works on multiple platforms.
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Instead, it has marked their memory with two granite benches inscribed with all 13 names of the dead.
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Instead, it has buttressed the stock portfolios of wealthy people and the residential home values of the middle class.
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Instead, it has worn down the other team by making their players chase shadows before waiting for a mistake.
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Instead, it has continued to pump resources into infrastructure construction and heavy industry.
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Instead, it has actually leap-frogged the harder stuff (ie, analogue devices) to get to newer and easier digital products.
Instead, it has to be listened to when the actor is on form.
Instead, it has caused many a modest enterprise to take a spill.
Instead, it has approved a series of extensions of past spending authorizations -- called continuing resolutions -- to keep the government funded.
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Instead, it has the makings of a pair of opposing alliances.
Instead, it has decided to use silver-coloured opaque bags, which will not be as see-through as clear bags but will still allow staff to check what is inside.
Instead, it has built its empire by neutralizing its competitors.
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