Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...divests from foreign companies, Columbia will not own any stock in companies doing business in South Africa except for $2.1 million worth in corporations with licensing or distribution agreements there, such as Coca-Cola Company, IBM and General Motors, Weil said...
...member all-Indian crew were safe except for breathing problems when smoke covered the tanker during a 30-minute fire on the bridge...
...Except for a year he spent travelling in Franceon a Tower Fellowship after his graduation andsabbaticals from his various deanships, Jewett haslived and worked at Harvard continuously since hemoved into the fifth floor of Matthews Hall as afreshman in 1953. While an undergraduate, hehelped pay his tuition, according to theregulations of his financial aid package, andworked 10 to 15 hours a week on dorm crew.Eventually, he became a dorm crew student captain...
...billions of degrees, and elements like silicon, sulfur and platinum, synthesized by the star, began spewing out over a vast region of space, where they will form clouds of gas and dust that can coalesce into new stars and planets. Indeed, most of the elements abundant on earth today, except hydrogen, were cooked up in some star that became a supernova. Says Woosley: "The calcium in our bones, the iron in hemoglobin and the oxygen we all breathe came from explosions like this...
...political prisoners, but they punished us severely. With criminals it was the other way around. They spoke rudely to them, but they treated them gently." Because of his defiance, Begun was often sent to the punishment cells, where conditions were even worse. "There is nothing in the cell except a toilet or a bucket. There is a plank for a bed, but no pad and no blanket, and it must be folded up against the wall in the daytime. There is a half-ration of food every other day." The cells were bitterly cold in winter. Begun estimated that...