Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...delegates also avoided settling some things, like the future of slavery. Expediently ducking the question of whether slaves were people or property, the delegates decided only that a state's voting strength should be based on the number of free citizens "and three-fifths of all other persons except Indians paying taxes...
...President sends U.S. military forces into an area where they come under enemy fire. Congressmen denounce him for dragging the nation into battle "unconstitutionally." But it is too late; war has begun, and Congress has no choice except to let it continue...
...living with 2.2 million other people. I moved to a town of about 300 residents, where I live on 67 acres of land, which includes a barn and a pond teeming with bass and bluegill. To the person who claims life in Southern California is "like being on vacation except you get to live here," I say small-town life is better yet: like being retired, except you get to go to work...
Neither Peale nor any other American painter of the late 18th century except Copley produced a masterpiece within his own field comparable to the architecture of Jefferson or to the legal and moral qualities of the Constitution. But by 1800 an answer to the haunting question posed by Michel- Guillaume-Jean de Crevecoeur -- "What then is the American, this new man?" -- was latent in the young Republic's art, and explicit in its architecture...
...improved? One common response from media executives is to compel the loser to pay the winner's legal bills, a standard British practice. Because most plaintiffs ultimately lose, that would greatly reduce the media's expenses but could also have the practical effect of cutting off litigation, except to the best-financed plaintiffs...