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Instead and buying
Instead, the group buying websites went ahead with an IPO on November4, 2011.
Instead of buying the sugar from Polynesia, a nation can make sugar from sugar beets, maple sap, or sweetener from stevia plant, keeping the profits circulating within the nation's economy.
Instead of buying industrially grown foods, wild foragers find and harvest food and medicinal plants growing in their own communities.
Instead of first buying the stock, and then artificially raising its price before selling, in a " short and distort " the scammer first short-sells the stock, and then artificially lowers the price, using the same techniques as the pump and dump but using criticism or negative predictions regarding the stock.
To see why this should be true, suppose an investor is considering buying one of the two firms U or L. Instead of purchasing the shares of the levered firm L, he could purchase the shares of firm U and borrow the same amount of money B that firm L does.
Instead, after buying the coffee, she fled immediately to Los Angeles, where she befriended an elderly pensioner she met in a bar.
Instead of buying actual tickets, people were put in a virtual queue, thus loading the server a lot less during the peak hours.
Instead of buying the animals, the city offered to give Knight two circus cages and allowed him to place the caged bears on the grounds of City Park ( now called Washington Park ).
Instead of buying a magazine like Soap Opera Digest, in which all soap operas are covered, Soaps In Depth gave the soap viewer and potential shopper three choices: ABC Soaps In Depth, CBS Soaps In Depth, and NBC Soaps In Depth.
Instead of buying PBX equipment, users contract for PBX services from a hosted PBX service provider, a particular type of application service provider ( ASP ).
Imprisonment displaces that economic activity: Instead of buying snacks in a local deli, the prisoner makes those purchases in a prison commissary.
When the hospital's wishlist is completed, they are then added to the map on the Child's Play website. Instead of buying items off the wishlists users can donate money through PayPal or check.
Instead of buying 50 CDs and managing those 50 individually, the company can buy one copy of the software and request the software vendor to issue a paper license authorizing them to use it on 50 computers.
Instead of buying a lot of off-network sitcoms and running cartoons, WSVN opted to pour most of its resources into its news department.
Instead of par value, some U. S. states allow no-par stocks to have a stated value, set by the board of directors of the corporation, which serves the same purpose as par value in setting the minimum legal capital that the corporation must have after paying any dividends or buying back its stock.
Instead of buying the melon at the street market, Paifu and José and decide to steal a watermelon from a field.
Instead of buying upgrades to ships to perform better in huge naval battles, it is often the case that upgrades are made so that the ships can carry more cargo, and therefore make the colony more money.

Instead and goods
Instead of importing a factor of production, a country can import goods that make intensive use of that factor of production and thus embody it.
Instead of importing Chinese labor, the United States imports goods that were produced with Chinese labor.
Instead, he spent the next four years as a traveling salesman, selling books, canned goods and patent medicines, as well as working as an auctioneer.
Instead, Liang argues that the notion of the author as a unique and transcendent being, possessing originality of spirit, was constructed in Europe after the industrial revolution, to distinguish the personality of the author from the expanding realm of mass produced goods.
Instead it meant the reduction of taxation on US goods.
Instead of seeking to sell for gold as the company's directors intended, the Drummonds exchanged the goods for slaves which they sold in Madagascar.
Instead, goods moved in and out quickly and nothing needing to be stored ( Brigham ).
Instead, all countries use a much simpler way to achieve the same goal: VAT is charged for all goods, but it is rebated to exporters ( that pay VAT as a part of the commodity price ) when the commodity is actually exported.
Instead of paying with cash, check, or credit cards, a consumer can use a mobile phone to pay for a wide range of services and digital or hard goods such as:
Instead, it was developed as an industrial center, with footwear and white goods factories ( which eventually closed down with the collapse of the socialist economy ).
Instead of counterattacking, Mallow takes no action, waiting until the lack of Foundation goods forces Korell to surrender.
Instead of there being an excess supply ( glut or surplus ) of goods in general, there may be an excess supply of one or more goods but only when balanced by an excess demand ( shortage ) of yet other goods.
Instead of getting a job as a scientist, Kelly, his brother, and his brother-in-law started a dry goods and commission business, which they called McShane & Kelly.
Instead, consumer goods, metallurgical products, chemicals, and fuels and raw materials were more important.
Instead, he implemented a Liberal version of the National Policy in which he maintained high tariffs on goods from other countries that restricted Canadian goods, while lowering tariffs to the same level as those countries that did admit Canadian goods.
Instead of producing generic goods, firms now found it more profitable to produce diverse product lines targeted at different groups of consumers, appealing to their sense of taste and fashion.
Instead of selling by going door-to-door, they set up a store where buyers could purchase goods on the spot with cash.
Instead of assuming that there are other goods besides guns and butter produced, this picture is more consistent with the text of the entry.
Instead of the common practice of cluttering the display windows with an assortment of the goods they sold, each window featured a couple of products as props on a theatrical mise-en-scene.
Instead, trade was probably accomplished by moving goods to and from the Swahili Coast via extended kin-networks.

Instead and for
Instead of giving themselves spontaneously to the orgiastic release that jazz can give them, they undergo psychoanalysis or flirt with mysticism or turn to prostitutes for satisfaction.
Instead it means that the thinking in which decision issues has the power to determine the morality of the decision, as in this instance the pressure for renewed practical or legislative attention to the constitutional problems the decision had uncovered might have done.
Instead she waited for Alfred to get better and take care of her.
Instead of wanting to sock the poor bastard I found myself having a fellowfeeling for him.
Instead of motels, for the boatman there are marinas.
Instead, he whirled and ran to his house for a gun, forcing them to kill him, Cook reported.
Instead of starting from theory and applying theory to a particular case, casuists start with the particular case itself and then ask what morally significant features ( including both theory and practical considerations ) ought to be considered for that particular case.
Instead, the irrigated agriculture project was headed for completion with apparently no prospects for extension beyond 2011.
Instead, lower bidding characters are ranked in ascending order according to how much they have bid, the characters becoming progressively weaker in that attribute as they pay less for it.
Instead they urged their urban sympathizers to vote for Labour candidates, as the representatives of the urban working class.
Instead, providence is a power that emanates from the heavens to the sublunar region, and is responsible for the generation and destruction of earthly things, without any direct involvement in the lives of individuals.
Instead, the council deposed him and tried him for heresy, simony, schism and immorality, finding him guilty on all counts.
Instead of the Acht Orte appointing a bailiff together, Zurich and Bern each appointed the governor for 7 out of 16 years while Glarus appointed him for the remaining 2 years.
Instead of just establishing it as a military prison, he provided for a civil administration, with courts of law.
Instead of a limited number of hardware sprites, the MARIA allows for a much larger number of sprites described in a list of display lists.
Instead, it presumably refers to the practice of setting law books and citing legal precedents in blackletter type, a tradition that survived long after the switch to roman and italic text for other printed works.
Instead, Augustus claimed the title for himself ( for the 7th time ).
Instead of complying with the FBI request, MonkeyBrains published a database website http :// badtrans. monkeybrains. net for the public to determine if a given address has been compromised.
Instead, the forms of service that were to be included in the Book of Common Prayer were drawn from the Missal ( for the Mass ), Breviary for the daily office, Manual ( for the occasional services ; Baptism, Marriage, Burial etc.
Instead of the banning of all vestments save the rochet ( for bishops ) and the surplice for parish clergy, it permitted ' such ornaments ... as were in use ... in the second year of K. Edward VI '.

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