Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Tigers could have opened up an even larger gap except for the gutsy swimming of sophomore Michelle Engh in the 1000 freestyle, who caught up to Princeton's Chris Spector during the last 50 yards to win the race by three-tenths of a second with a time...
...There were no dissents, except for a regret from Claus, who said he had no choice but to follow his lawyers' advice," said Dershowitz...
...past two years, and in real per capita terms now stands no higher than in 1972. Underemployment among the 21 million-member work force is estimated at 40%. Foreign debt exceeds $26 billion. These results may seem no worse than those of many Third World countries, except that the Philippines lies within the most economically dynamic region in the world. Marcos blames much of the country's doldrums on external causes. His critics, who now include most of the influential Philippine business community, place much of the blame for the stagnation on the regime's practices of economic favoritism, known...
...view, fashionable for a long time after Shultz became Secretary of State in July 1982, has faded as Shultz has continued to prevail over the more voluble personalities who once seemed to have more influence. The second opinion, though it still thunders through Washington, has failed to convince anyone except the right-wingers who voice it regularly; it has fallen on notably deaf ears at the White House. And so more and more people who once belittled him as hopelessly bland or philosophically out of step are now accepting the third image of Shultz. One by one, his more assertive...
...would feel very badly now if we would try to abandon the shuttle," said Ellis Miner, JPL's deputy project scientist for Voyager 2. "We have no way of launching anything to the planets except for the space shuttle...