Word: exception
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...month's American Open remains, in the first sweeping quest on either the men's or women's side since Margaret Court's in 1970. A "special player," a "super player," Martina called Graf, and some say she may soon be as strapped for an opponent as Mike Tyson. "Except I'm not talking about retiring," Steffi said...
...bits before coming close enough to do any damage -- or even be seen by the unaided eye. The Aegis system, the most sophisticated battle-managing array of radars, sensors, computers and automatically guided weapons ever put together, had worked under combat conditions exactly as it was supposed to. Except...
...Except, of course, that the plane identified by the Vincennes as a 62-ft.- long F-14 Tomcat fighter turned out to be a 177-ft.-long Iran Air Airbus carrying 290 civilians on a regularly scheduled flight to Dubai on the other side of the gulf. As a horrified world last week watched the pictures of torn bodies displayed by Iran on TV screens, questions mounted. Outside Iran, hardly anyone seemed to doubt that the shootdown had been a genuine mistake. But how could so sophisticated and costly ($600 million a copy ) an intelligence-and-weapons system...
...Washington, the 68-year-old "Mr. C.," as he is known, enforces a boot-camp regimen. He and his 23 instructors impose fines and extra chores on students who fail to keep their rooms clean or who litter the yards. The youths must stay on the eight-acre grounds except on weekends and Wednesday nights, when they are granted leave. They put in an eleven-hour day of training, academic instruction, physical exercise and cleanup. The youths train on the job for a month before graduating to positions that typically pay about $4 an hour...
...controversy began this winter when Director of the Summer School Peter Buck said he had decided to reduce the number of teaching fellows in all courses except laboratory and computer sciences, and foreign languages. "Outside of these, we would do a case-by-case review," Buck said yesterday of his earlier decision...