Word: excepts
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...city's measure--the strictest of its kind in the state--bans smoking in public places throughout Cambridge. It also makes smoking illegal in workplaces except for designated areas where the smoke will not disturb other workers. The ordinance does not alter regulations already in effect for the city's restaurants, which require that only one-quarter of all seating remain kept smoke-free...
...Crimson won all of its matches in straight sets except the number-one match, in which racquetman Darius Pandole defeated Tufts' number-one player, Rusty Hashim, 3-2, in five sets...
Ransacking thousands of original sources, Hughes punctures many of the myths about the new arrivals and how they fared. Except for Irish political dissidents, for whom Australia was the "official Siberia," the typical transportee was apt to be a small-time thief with at least one previous conviction. Those sent over for more genteel crimes inevitably felt superior to the cruder types, and the colony's earliest bureaucracy had the distinction of being "almost wholly made up of forgers...
...prostate operation in early January, says one White House official, Nancy Reagan "was yelling -- and I mean yelling -- insisting that her husband be given the same four-to-six-week recovery time that any other man would get." So virtually every appearance for six weeks has been canceled except the State of the Union. As a result, his aides are hyping that single half-hour speech, written by others and read off a TelePrompTer, as an event of such magnitude that it will reassert Reagan's vigorous leadership all by itself...
...office is also located in Langdell Hall, behind several stacks of law books on the third floor. He claims that his office, adorned with paintings of clipper ships in Boston Harbor and Georgetown, is "the biggest, except for the dean...