Word: excepted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...despite the offense's inability to pad its lead until the third period, the Crimson defense completely shut down the Wildcat offense except for an unassisted goal by Dean Woodman 1:50 into the second...
What is Gates up to? The same thing most communication entrepreneurs are doing: looking for ways of shifting into the fast lane on the information highway as it is built -- except that when Gates pulls alongside, others may be forced onto the shoulder. Within 10 years a handful of major firms are likely to dominate the three major areas of the digital world. One group will provide fiber-optic and satellite networks to carry entertainment, telephone service, video teleconferencing and other communications. Another will supply the programming. A third segment will furnish the software that controls the so-called magic...
...Cortes' great adventure is a remarkable one. In early 1519 this wily and enterprising Castilian landed at what is now Veracruz. A few months later, he and his bedraggled company of 300 soldiers entered the Mexican capital of Tenochtitlan, a city more grand and imposing than any in Europe except Naples or Constantinople. Cortes managed to take the emperor Montezuma II hostage, but after Montezuma died during an uprising of the Mexica, apparently from wounds inflicted by his own people, the Spaniards were driven from the city. The undaunted Cortes returned with a larger force that included disaffected Indian vassals...
...haven't been tested with a good goalie in any of our games," Winters said. "Except for our practices, we haven't faced anyone really good...
...East Coast Jewish boys who have turned their lives into a weird fantasy, and they know it. They date movie stars. They have their own recording studio in California, with a skating ramp and a basketball hoop. They just started their won record label. They have a fanzine, except that since they're big stars, it looks a real magazine. When they get interviewed they point out all of these things, and say "Isn't this crazy?" When, on their last LP Check Your Head, Mike D raps "I live my life just how I like to," it is clearly...