Word: exception
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This past Sunday, Harvard students, along with people of every race, gender, age, ideology and taste, except for a few million people in Arizona and Indiana, participated in one of our country's only universally-observed national rituals. In a phenomenon more widely recognized than Thanksgiving, the Olympics, the Superbowl or even Hanson, people all over America set their clocks one hour ahead...
...good reason" why he should sign this bill, and thus took care to avoid meeting with us or considering the question in full. In vetoing the bill without expressing a real reason, Dean Lewis made a powerful statement about his lack of interest in supporting campus women's issues except in nominal ways that improve Harvard's image for fundraising purposes...
...place. The author describes an outpost of paranoia and fear festering with something more virulent than countrymen's traditional loathing for outsiders and government bureaucrats. Rumored large discoveries of opals in the surrounding geologic strata don't really explain matters because opal mining has scuffled along here for decades. Except for tankerloads of beer and gasoline, contact with the rest of Australia is largely cut off. Mail to the outside is stamped, sorted and bagged, but not sent out. A schoolteacher who arrives from Brisbane to instruct the settlement's children is judged to be dangerous and is, as smirking...
Yesterday, Hughes' blend of in-your-face lesbian sexuality and humor did not appear to shock anyone in the audience, which ranged in age from about 20 to 35, except for a pair of 60-somethings...
...this one by factors. The first gem has only been touched once, because one only has itself as a factor. The second one has been touched twice, because two has two factors. In fact, all of the numbers have an even number of factors, except for the perfect squares. So only the gems in the positions of perfect squares will kill...