Word: exception
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...looking forward to the Olympians beating The World at Calgary in February, you had to be encouraged by what you saw. Except for the top teams in the NHL, nobody in this hemisphere plays better hockey...
Vladimir Slepak gained the nickname "father of the refuseniks" as one of the earliest and most dogged defenders of Soviet Jews who had been refused permission to leave the country. Since 1970, except for five years of forced exile in Siberia, the television engineer served in Moscow as a key source -- sometimes the only source -- of information and advocacy on behalf of fellow Jews who wanted to emigrate. Last week, 17 years after Slepak and his wife Maria first applied for an exit visa, the two celebrated his 60th birthday in Jerusalem after a joyous arrival ceremony attended...
Still, the market's trend last week was definitely up. The Dow began in the depths of gloom, sinking 156.83 points on Monday to record the second biggest point drop in history. The next day brought the beginning of the rally, for no apparent reason except that investors still had cash to invest after selling so furiously in previous sessions, and began to see blue-chip bargains among the battered stocks. The Dow rose 52.56 on Tuesday, .33 on Wednesday, a robust 91.51 on Thursday and 55.20 on Friday. Even the over-the-counter market, which was more devastated...
...Imamura said he does not feel hehas much of a reception in the United States,except among film buffs--because "it doesn't makeany money for scholars to like my films...
Another member of the class, Gitanjali S.Bodner '90, said she "wasn't really bothered" bythe slaughter, "except for the smell. It didn'treally bother me to kill something...