Word: exception
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Abrasimov's warning underlined the dilemma into which the Berlin affair has plunged the Osi-politik of the Grand Coalition. When he started the new policy 18 months ago, Brandt sought to establish diplomatic relations with all 'Eastern European countries except East Germany. Under pressure from Chancellor Kurt Kiesinger's Christian Democrats and from moderates in his own Socialist party, Brandt retained the Federal Republic's old insistence that it, and not Ulbricht's regime, is the legitimate representative of all Germans, including those in East Germany...
...blunderbuss way, John Wayne has also tried to help make the war comprehensible. But except for the technical excellence of a few gory, glory-hallelujah battle scenes, Green Berets is strictly for the hawks...
...much public interest is necessary to justify a law that seeks to protect the individual from himself? In Michigan, the Court of Appeals recalled an 1889 state court ruling: "Under our system of government, the aim is to leave the subject entire master of his conduct, except when the public good requires some direction or restraint." A law requiring motorcyclists to wear helmets, continued the court, "has a relationship to the protection of the individual motorcyclist from himself, but not to the public health, safety and welfare." So Michigan's motorcyclists no longer must use helmets. But the Rhode...
...solution will add costs to the traveler's ticket. Until recently the Federal Government covered 25% of the cost of airport construction. Now the Government wants out. The U.S Secretary of Transportation, Alan S. Boyd, recently proposed that, except for special cases, airports and airlines do all heir own financing, cover the cost of revenue bonds by means of higher ticket taxes and new taxes on fuel and cargo. Meanwhile, with expansions necessary and costly new construction planned, airports are already increasing landing fees and other charges...
...mostly as stomach gas. Belching and backfiring, he sits on his toilet seat day after monotonous day composing a narrative poem about the Minotaur. Yet, as manuscript slowly fills the bathtub, Enderby is a happy and fulfilled man. Living off dividends and tiny royalties, he really needs "nothing except more talent...