Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...nursery in Avon Park, Fla. Ever since, state and federal agricultural officials have fought a widening battle to eradicate the deadly bacterial disease, last seen in Florida half a century ago. The canker now threatening the state's $1.2 billion citrus industry is resistant to every remedy except fire. But even after spending $24 million and burning nearly 9 million trees, officials are finding the canker in new locations. In the past month alone it has turned up in three nurseries and an orange grove...
...military project made use of available, published Western know-how. It also said that Harvard astrophysics and engineering research had been "targeted for acquisition" and that, horror of horrors, more applications by Soviet scientists to visit Harvard were filed in the early 1980's than for any other school except MIT. It did not say what the nine who actually came here took back with them or why it was important...
...Rose's warm moment was a distraction and counterbalance to the drug scandal, though redemption goes too far. During the Pittsburgh trial, Rose's name was tossed around loosely when one of those informed reformers, certainly not reformed informers, ran out of fresh cocaine and started throwing stale amphetamines. Except to say that he didn't think much of the proceedings, Rose resisted efforts to stretch a single into a symbol...
...Golden Girls, about a trio of unattached women in their late middle years, searching for husbands in Miami Beach. Bea Arthur plays an acerbic substitute teacher, Rue McClanahan is a fading Southern belle, and Betty White is one of those blank-eyed ninnies who exist nowhere except in TV sitcomland. In a typical exchange, Arthur laments that she is growing old: "I looked in the mirror and caught a glimpse of myself and almost had a heart attack. There was this old woman staring me in the face." White, after a pause: "Who was it?" Writer-Producer Susan Harris (Soap...
...struggle now joined is between Reagan's instincts and the statistics and computer printouts of the experts, the intuitive Westerner vs. the political-academic elite of the Potomac River valley. Reagan believes that Government spending, except for defense, should be cut much more, but if Congress refuses to cut enough, it is better to borrow the money than raise taxes. The irony is that Reagan, having educated the nation about the evils of huge deficits, now wants to change the subject...