Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...write what everyone then thought would be an important book of political philosophy. "We were all Marxists once," Gerard notes, but times and beliefs have changed. Still, their humane, liberal inclinations prevent the companions from going back on their word. As Gerard says, "There's nothing we can do except curse privately that we're all spending our money year after year to propagate ideas we detest...
...where 10 billion aspirin are consumed each year, there are also potentially serious side effects. These complications, including gastrointestinal distress, rectal bleeding and peptic ulcers, have caused researchers to temper their excitement over the implications of the American study and warn individuals not to take aspirin frequently except under a doctor's care. Says William Kannel, chief of preventive medicine at Boston University and a former director of the Framingham Study, a long-term heart-research program: "The most rational use would be in high-risk people, rather than having everyone gobble aspirin." Claude Lenfant, director of the National Heart...
...contra-supply plane, which resulted in at least four deaths. The one captured crew member, Alejandro Sanchez, confirmed Nicaraguan charges that contra-supply operations continue to operate out of Honduras' Swan Island, in defiance of the peace pact. He claimed that the entire crew had been Nicaraguan except for one Colombian. But the Sandinistas charged that U.S. citizens had been on the plane...
...there before the mortal audience was the collision of George Bush and Dan Rather. The two hurled angry clumps of words, and their clumps broke and powdered against each other's gleaming indignation. Not a molecule of coherent information emerged from the encounter -- except the encounter itself. The medium is the message, in Marshall McLuhan's famous dictum. Bush afterward compared the exchange to combat, but if so, it was the combat of Saturday morning cartoons: Bang! -- Poof! Boom! -- Poof! Language disintegrated on impact. When Bush slugged Rather with the line about Rather's once walking...
...told the players to throw everything atthem, except the kitchen sink," Barnaby added,"then pick that up and throw it at them. I was areal fat cat after we won the match...