Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...SHOW also attempted to tell the history of the United States as it related to Harvard (and vice-versa) from the College's inception in 1636. Yet it seems, from the show's chronology, that nothing much happened between 1776 and Harvard's 250th birthday in 1886 except for the one Emerson selection that Lithgow read...
...proposal, if passed, would prohibit smoking in all public places except for restaurants and certain other areas and would ban smoking in any workplace unless the employer and employees specifically agreed otherwise. Even such agreements would be governed by restrictions preventing favoritism toward smokers, such as a provision requiring that employers provide a non-smoking lounge at least as large as any lounge where smoking is permitted...
...same as Question 4, except you are Sissela rather than Derek. What...
...media can also report whatever is said on the record in the Australian proceedings. To head off extensive disclosure, the British government earlier this month asked the court to "treat the allegations made in the book as being true." But the government stressed that "except for the limited procedural purposes of this action," it was not conceding the truth of the charges. Still, the Guardian crowed, BRITAIN ADMITS MI5 ALLEGATIONS. Such headlines dismayed some intelligence agents. Said one operative: "They may end up making Wright's book a best seller...
...sharpest exchanges came during debate on a proposal by Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts to prohibit use of U.S. troops in Nicaragua except in cases of declared war or prior congressional approval. Kennedy demanded to know whether Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Richard Lugar, who opposed the amendment, could personally guarantee that troops would not be sent. Lugar stated his personal opposition to deploying U.S. troops but declined to make any pledge. Asserted Lugar: "The thrust of our foreign policy is not to go to war. It is to try to bring about democracy." As the outgunned and outnumbered contras acknowledge, that...