What I notice is instead of buying a bag of food and a toy, they're buying the bag of food.
And what that shows is instead of asking the players to take a pay cut, what is really needed is increased revenue-sharing.
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Ms. BORDALON: Well, my theory is instead of putting all the money in making people raise their houses, they'll raise the levies and fix the levies better.
The short story is instead of buying online, I ended up dropping a whole lot of money on Baldwin hardware thanks entirely to the excellent service, value, and floor-sample discounts I received from Tony.
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And the military still reports that it's short-handed for mental health professionals and, because of the vacancies, that means either veterans don't see a doctor at all, there's delay seeing a doctor, the veteran is put in group therapy instead of individual or the veteran is given prescription drugs instead of receiving one-on-one counseling, which is the best standard.
In fact, somewhere in the western United States, there is an elk that is breathing a sigh of relief because Nancy is here instead of where she would have been: hunting with her kids. (Laughter.) And I believe her children are here -- where's Nancy's kids?
Still, the fact of the matter is that instead of pulling Democrats in the direction of reform, the Tea Party candidates themselves are moving in the direction of the status quo.
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It is that instead of Buffett lending that money to Bank of America and Goldman and any others he is propping up(which in my opinion should be allowed to fail and fail hard so as to prevent their business models from contaminating the economic picture ever again) is for him to use much less of it in a philanthropic manner.
In fact, this bicycle doesn't use any metal parts at all -- the solid tires are made of reconstituted rubber and a car timing belt is used instead of a chain.
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And one of the things that people get so frustrated about is that instead of actually talking about what would help, we get wrapped up in these political games.
My hosts at Majdac farm show me a list of a dozen different plants - including balm mint, dandelion, dog rose, thyme, nettles and two types of violet - that make the delicious tisane that is offered instead of tea.
It is used instead of taking bone from the hip in spinal fusion surgeries in which extra bone is added to the spine to fuse parts of the back together, stabilizing it.
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This deduction is claimed instead of (not in addition to) the state and local income tax deduction, and is most useful to residents of states, including Florida and Texas, that don't impose their own income taxes.
Another innovation with the new research could result in forecasters providing the strength of a tornado at the time it is formed, instead of after the fact, as is currently the case.
The west is noticing instead of thumbing their noses at them as nothing but oil havens.
Yes, the economy is growing instead of shrinking, as it was in 2008 and the beginning of 2009.
The true concept is that instead of wearing a suit, a professional could wear dress khakis and a tailored shirt.
The idea is that instead of renting a movie, a customer buys a DVD disc for five or ten dollars.
Is that instead of complaining we're figuring out that we need to get out there and we need to report.
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The problem is that instead of congratulating couples for making it all work, we are scaring them into believing it won't.
The argument is that instead of pumping the substances back into emptied wells, Texaco dumped them in local rivers or directly into landfills.
What it means is that instead of expectations of 35% or 40% earnings per share growth per year they would show 15% or 25% growth.
The problem is that instead of helping protect the woman, the court managed to turn the case into a free speech issue that gained national attention.
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The bottom line is that instead of complaining about offshoring manufacturing jobs, we should be focusing on keeping and creating the right kind of manufacturing jobs.
And again, what I'm -- I guess what I'm asking is, instead of looking at every entity as the same entity, I think that's -- I don't think that's hypothetically productive.
"The problem that we had is that instead of sitting every part of a GCSE at the end of a course, bits of it were taken along the way, " Mr Gove said.
"What's different this time round is that instead of having one new extension every few years we will have hundreds coming out in one year, " said domain investor and blogger Michael Berkens.
The result, says Mr van Meurs, is that instead of the 64-66% cited by the energy department, the government's take from the oil sands will in fact be only around 55% (see chart).
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That is, instead of sitting on the couch pressing buttons on a control, grab a Move control and wave it in the air like a bat, or physically jump over in-game hurdles on Kinect.
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