Word: exception
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...reform eliminated interest deductions on most forms of consumer credit except for loans on first and second homes, but the lawmakers left a large loophole for wealthy seafarers. Yacht owners can still treat their floating pleasure palaces as second homes if they contain a head and a galley (toilet and kitchen, to landlubbers) and sleeping facilities. Skippers can deduct the interest on loans used to buy their craft or obtain a yacht-equity credit line to cover the purchase of, say, a Rolls-Royce. "Aristotle Onassis would have loved this," fumes Republican Senator John Danforth of Missouri, a member...
Hand, concluding that the history, social-studies and home-economics texts purvey man-centered views at the expense of belief in God, enjoined use of the books in any class except a "comparative-religion course that treats all religions equivalently." The next day school officials in Mobile called in the books, including the eleventh grade's sole history text...
...goalie gets the "goal-against average" and "save percentage" stats, while the blue-liners get no numerical recognition except in the "points scored" column...
REGARDLESS of who wins the presidential race in 1988, one can only trust that the voters will pick the man with the best hairdo. Certainly their past record is no source of shame. Except for a brief period from 1977 to 1980, no U.S. president has ever been seen in public wearing a cowlick; not only is this a source of pride, but a claim which no European or Communist country could truthfully make...
...good weekly arts magazine in that it was a magazine and it was good. The page numbered sixteen, of which there were six added to the Roman numerical standard of ten. There were words on the pages. And still more words. An occasional picture, but mostly words. Except for the ads, of course. Scanning the deserted newspaper office which had no people in it, the editor reflected that these were indeed good words. 'Yes,' a voice somewhere said in a voicelike manner. 'Isn't it pretty to think...