Word: exception
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...press is barred, except for a small pool that records the arrivals of the participants and some minor activities. The leaders are thus spared any barrage of questions. By general agreement, White House Press Secretary Jody Powell will handle the daily briefings, either at the White House or at the makeshift press center inside an American Legion hall in Thurmont, Md., the town closest to Camp David. But on some issues he may be joined by his Egyptian and Israeli counterparts...
...Egypt Except for minor border modifications, Israel must give up all Arab lands conquered during the 1967 war-Sinai, the Gaza Strip, the Golan Heights, the West Bank and East Jerusalem...
...hall. He is surrounded by a bevy of students (one farm boy, one city slicker, one feisty woman) who try to curry his favor and share his wisdom. Since the first episode recounts virtually the entire plot of the movie, The Paper Chase may have nowhere else to go except oblivion. CBS has put it opposite ABC'S killer hits, Happy Days and Laverne & Shirley, and that is a far from propitious sign...
...House, only 17% of the region's water surface would be left for motorboating, though outboards would still be permitted in the 2 million acres of adjoining lakeland in Superior National Forest. The rules would be still tougher against snowmobiles, with the vehicles barred from all recreational areas except two corridors leading to Canada...
Generally Americans have been as hospitable to running as to previous fads. Runners have been cursed less than skateboarders, derided less than Hula-Hoopers and never thought as silly as some of their forefadders-flagpole sitters, for instance, or danceathoners. To this day runners are cordially tolerated, except where they generate traffic problems or preachy conversations about running. Even when they do their little ritual exercises in public-trying to push down trees or walls and stretching their legs into disagreeable shapes-even then they are looked upon not as often with aversion as with amazement...