Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...abortion is the decisive factor in the disparity. "I trust the women of Virginia," Wilder taunted his opponent in a televised debate last week. "That's the difference between you and I." Coleman is trying the hang-tough route, sticking to his staunch opposition to abortion in all cases except where the life of the woman is in danger. But he has promised that if he wins the election he will not propose legislation to outlaw the termination of pregnancies that result from rape or incest...
...TIME poll last week indicated increasing, if still rather vague, doubts about the future. Moreover, signs of strain are beginning to show at the state and local levels. State officials generally find their constituents as opposed to new local taxes as they are to the federal kind, except, in several states, when a tax is earmarked for a specific need: schools, say, or roads...
...Harvard man didn't see it that way. "This university doesn't have to answer to anyone," he snorted, "except possibly the Justice Department. But certainly not to any pagan journalists...
...Harvard denizen was puzzled. "Is there nothing else in the rankings concerning athletics?" he asked. "No mention of financial support, facilities or tradition; not even the intramurals are considered. Is there nothing to be said for sports except retention rates...
...frustrated [that] the state's housing programs are paralyzed. On the federal level funding has been cut 80 percent during the Reagan years. There is nothing left except local action and local commitment," Barrett said...