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Word: excepts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Except for the first three minutes, when San Francisco's Jerry Rice fumbled away a sure touchdown, the Giants were totally dominant, winning their 15th game in 17 starts and 10th straight to move into the NFC title game here against Washington next Sunday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Giants Win Big, 49-3 | 1/5/1987 | See Source »

...opportunity to strike a blow for enlightenment and freedom on three continents. The exile tells Bok of the heroic efforts of a group of moderate Iranian educators who are struggling to give students a liberal arts education despite the mullahs' decision to eliminate funding for all programs except Religious and Terroristic Studies, an interdisciplinary degree-granting program in military arts and the humanities. Bani-Sadr wants Bok's help getting forbidden books and purely defensive rhetorical devices to these educators...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Taurus and Tea Leaves | 1/5/1987 | See Source »

During reading and exam periods, January 5-31, The Crimson will publish three times per week, on Monday, Wednesday and Friday, except for Monday, January 19, which is Martin Luther King Day. The Crimson will not publish during intercession , February 1-3, but will resume its regular daily schedule on Wednesday, February...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TO OUR READERS | 1/5/1987 | See Source »

...fine, except for a White House mess of the moment (you | don't want to know about it), and a grinning Wall Street thief who was fined $100 million (real money these days), and a touch of the flu. Have you heard of the flu? In late December 1986 the nation half skips, half drags itself toward Christmas. We trust that your Christmases are the same. Or have you licked the season too? Have you solved everything? This letter will be propped up in a capsule at the Statue of Liberty, to be opened on the statue's bicentennial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Time Capsule: A Letter to the Year 2086 | 12/29/1986 | See Source »

...painful and complicated moral problems, but you will also see that no age did so much to create them. Thanks to our dogged inventiveness, we are now in a position to keep a body functioning as a biological organism without allowing it real life. We know everything about sex, except how to keep teenage girls from pregnancy. We are on the verge of being able to juggle our genes without the slightest grasp of the emotional consequences. If I have a fatal brain tumor, I know exactly where to go for the best mechanical support. But who will tell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Time Capsule: A Letter to the Year 2086 | 12/29/1986 | See Source »

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