Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Baseball has achieved a certain degree of competitive parity. Except for the Pittsburgh Pirates, no team played under .400 ball last year. In fact, out of the 28 teams, 17 won 75 games or more. The Mets were the only team to win 100 games, and no team lost 100 contests...
...refused to characterize the exchange or say how Shevardnadze reacted, except that the Soviet foreign minister "had some points to make...
...Everything is ready to go, except that there is not a building," Herold said. "I've been looking for several years and haven't found one, so I'm reluctant to put a date" on when the city will establish a permanent shelter, Herold said...
...guided their spirited horses at a brisk trot around the track as if they were aristocrats circling an Edwardian park. The celebrities treated the race with the mock seriousness typical of such events. Their real goal, besides the charity, was to have fun without making absolute fools of themselves. Except, that is, for Steinbrenner, whose only goal in everything he does is to win, which often guarantees that he makes a fool of himself. "George owns his own harness horses," said Plimpton, "and feels he has to uphold his image...
...obliged to spend the war years as governor of the Bahamas on account of his thinly veiled Nazi sympathies. Nevertheless, this pair of calcified drones, who wrote to each other in baby talk ("Eanum Pig" was his code for her) but never said a memorable thing to anyone else -- except for the Duchess's mot, refuted by her own person, that one cannot be "too rich or too thin" -- are still imagined, especially by elderly Americans, to be a modern version of Tristan and Isolde. Hence Sotheby's spent a bundle before the sale hyping the jewels and went into...