Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...been playing the game ever since she was eight, won the French junior championship in 1964, the French Ladies' Open this year. But too much golf is a drag. "I get fed up every October," she says, "so I just don't play all winter-except for maybe nine holes a week. After a tournament, I always quit for a week. I think golf should be fun, and I wouldn't have much fun as a pro." During the Open, while the pros were getting their sleep and spending long hours on the practice tee grooving their...
That is actually a good record-except to the half-million owners of that .028%. In any event, the airlines find it an expensive situation: tracing lost bags, repairing damage and settling claims cost them...
Meanwhile, major airlines are trying to teach employees to care almost as much about possessions as the passenger. But as most baggage people agree, the training should also extend to the passenger himself. There is little that the airlines can do except suffer and scramble for the last-minute plane changer and under-the-wire in-checker. Their advice to the sentimental fellow who keeps all his old tags to show off that well-traveled look: to prevent confusion, keep it clean...
Economics Minister Schiller has made frantic efforts to revive plant expansion, but industry, with a quarter of its capacity idle, is fearful. The Bundesbank only reluctantly, and by timid ½% stages, cut its discount rate from 5% to 3%, the lowest in Europe except for Switzerland and Portugal. In the first five months of this year, industrial production slipped 5.3%, consumer goods output 9%, construction 13%. The number of unemployed in February rose fivefold from its 1966 low, to 674,000, or 3.1% of the work force, very high by German standards...
...Except for the Dark Ages, when prices fell for 600 years, the value of money has generally diminished. Last year was no exception, as Manhattan's First National City Bank reports in its annual survey of the shrinking worth of currencies...