Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...next year. If Harvard cared about its students, it would allow anyone who didn't love Harvard after Freshman Week an automatic transfer to Stanford or Amherst, to spare them a wasted and unhappy year. How come you can return anything you buy if it's unused, except for your freshman year...
...officials are disturbed by the trend. Says Betty Smith, state chairman for Northern California: "The most appalling thing for me is that this is certainly not a solution to a serious drug problem." San Francisco Supervisor Bill Maher, author of a bill banning all drug testing within city limits except for uniformed civil servants, mocks the craze. "I think they ought to test the urine for brain cells instead of drugs," says he. "The political leadership of urinating into a test tube eludes...
...volcanic Maerose. "It was like being locked in a mailbag with eleven boa constrictors . . . His head came to a point where it suddenly melted and flopped all over his shoulders and out all over the bed. His toes fell off." This is sex with Maerose -- all very well, except that she is the granddaughter of Don Corrado Prizzi, a Mafia eminence not to be messed with...
...abuse of illegal drugs has certainly become the Issue of the Year, except that the main issue involved seems to be how far politicians scramble to outdo one another in leading the crusade. The Administration last week came up with a plan to require more than 1 million federal employees who deal with sensitive information (everyone from defense-contract employees to diplomats) to submit urine samples for drug testing...
...that poverty can never be ameliorated. It can. But not by a simple act of political will. In the West, for example, the conquest of mass poverty was the product of two centuries of painful industrialization.) The term root tends to be assigned to the most intractable of conditions. Except in the mind of the revolutionary, that is. The idea of root causes is therefore an invitation to surrender -- to the resistant reality of misery or to the revolutionary who alone offers the promise of instant redemption...