Word: exceptional
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...response to the bombings, France deployed troops to aid frontier police and imposed visa requirements on all visitors except those from selected European nations...
...street, Thompson discovered another side of the story. Says he: "When I interviewed heroin and cocaine addicts in Baltimore, I saw first-hand that there is a core group of drug abusers who may be ignored by the popular concern over drug abuse: ignored except as object lessons...
...workplace pick-me-up, like coffee, only perkier. Says Dr. Wesley Westman, chief of the alcohol- and drug- dependency center at the Veterans Administration hospital in Miami: "Cocaine is the drug of choice by people who are into the American dream -- I love my job, I am successful, except that they don't and they...
...below 10% in the Northeast for the first time since April. On the other hand, yields on passbook savings accounts, which have traditionally hovered at around 5%, fell to 4.75% last week at several major institutions. Many bank-credit-card rates remain stubbornly high, at between 17% and 20%, except in Arkansas and Connecticut, which have laws limiting rates on plastic...
...Except for those relatively few dwellings that have been sold to private owners, all buildings in Soweto and the country's other black townships are the property of the government and are operated by the Ministry of Constitutional Development and Planning. In 1983 the running of the townships was turned over to black councils, though the administrators in overall charge continued to be white civil servants. Members of those councils were elected by township inhabitants at that time, but the voting was boycotted by 90% of the black electorate...