Word: exception
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...Process. Over the centuries, the charter has been reissued in at least three slightly varying versions, and some of its archaic features have already been dropped. One provided: "No one shall be arrested or imprisoned on the appeal of a woman for the death of any person except her husband." Another proclaimed: "If anyone who has borrowed a sum of money from Jews dies before the debt has been repaid, his heir shall pay no interest on the debt for so long as he remains under age." The legislation introduced in Parliament will repeal ten other clauses that have either...
...deny or delay right or justice. No free man shall be seized or imprisoned, or stripped of his rights or possessions, or outlawed or exiled, or deprived of his standing in any other way, nor will we proceed with force against him, or send others to do so, except by the lawful judgement of his equals or by the law of the land...
...hardly surprising that German exports to the U.S. climbed 38% last year. As the world's most successful exporters, the Germans in 1968 sold $25 billion worth of machinery, vehicles, chemicals, plastics and other products to foreign nations. That was far more than any other country except the U.S. With an economy larger than that of all Western Europe, the U.S. had 1968 exports of $33.4 billion...
Construction of improved air towers, radar and instrument landing systems has been hampered by the tendency of Congress to keep appropriations low except when crashes focus public attention on air safety. This parsimony seems dangerous in view of the fact that in the U.S. last year the number of fatal accidents in general aviation increased 15%, and the number of airline fatalities per 100 million passenger-miles rose from...
...Andromeda Strain, this almost happens. An American probing satellite is picked up on its return by the unwary inhabitants of a small Arizona town. Curious, they open it, inspect it and proceed to die, variously and mysteriously-except for a new baby and an old lush. A four-man scientific team, spearhead of a vast prepackaged program called Operation Wildfire, is immediately dispatched to a sealed-off underground laboratory in the Nevada desert, where both survivors and the capsule are brought. There the specialists attempt to track down the unknown microcosm, identify it as a source of contamination, and produce...