Word: exception
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Finishing atop the ECAC regular-season standings is like winning the eastern Montana fly fishing championships: it's a great accomplishment, but nobody notices. Except, of course, the fish...
FOOTNOTE: *Times are EST. Weather may change outdoor schedules. Unless otherwise noted, events are broadcast live. Half an hour of recaps and features is set for 11:30 nightly except opening and closing days...
...occasion was the annual convention of National Religious Broadcasters, whose 1,350 members include most of the big organizations except those of Oral Roberts and Robert Schuller. Among the detailed new standards to be required of N.R.B. members: open and audited finances, records of pitches for money in case questions are raised, and governing boards controlled by outsiders rather than by family members and employees...
...women. While not abandoning the exclusionary rule, "we will now go as far as we can within these legislative constraints," explains David Armor, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Force Management and Personnel, who headed the task force. "We're developing a clear rationale for opening all jobs, except those which are strictly combat." The highlights of the reforms...
...above all else "a man of his village," notes Karl Frehsner, head coach of the Swiss men's team. And the village oompah band, for which Zurbriggen once played trumpet, quite rightly keeps him on its list of musicians. "That's what I really enjoy," he says. "Any music, except this modern rock stuff because there's no melody to it." He has a quick, shrewd intelligence -- "the mind of a businessman," states Frehsner approvingly -- and he is not at all fearful of the world. But he is rooted so solidly in Saas-Almagell that he is not thrown...