Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Samuel Ramey, opera' s booming superbass, is an American success story, except that most of the drama unfolded in Europe...
...that the accused is presumed innocent until proved guilty. In a 6-3 decision last week, the court upheld the controversial 1984 Bail Reform Act, by which Congress authorized the "preventive detention" of some federal suspects. For many years federal judges were forbidden to deny bail in most cases, except when there was reason to believe that a defendant might flee before trial. The new law has permitted those judges to refuse bail to thousands of suspects, most of them accused of violent and drug-related crimes, who could be shown to pose a danger to the "safety...
...equity the homeowner has accrued. Because home-equity loans can be used to buy consumer items, including anything from stereos to luxury cars, their newfound allure comes from a loophole in the Tax Reform Act of 1986, which phased out the deductibility of all interest payments except mortgage payments on principal and second homes. Home-equity borrowing currently offers markedly lower interest rates (about 10%) than an unsecured personal loan (14%) or credit-card loans (about...
...just sitting there with the TV, lost." It is an 18-ft. by 27-ft. room -- in all, enough lint to fill a U-Haul van, ceiling to floor, which it does. It is like one of those Koren cartoons in The New Yorker -- everything and everybody is fuzzy -- except it is not at all funny...
...hand, Mom.) A Whistler pose, she is content to sit staring outward much of the time, as if on the deck of a Cunard liner, or to dip into that biography of Abigail Adams you gave her (a lady for a lady), at manageable intervals. Television interests her not, except occasionally the nature shows that PBS specializes in. Motionless before the mating eland. The memory clicks on and off. The older the anecdote, the clearer in detail. Typical of her much analyzed years, she will forget the sentence before last but in the next will come up with a name...