Word: excepts
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...race for the state parliament, Kohl's conservative Christian Democratic Union made its poorest showing in 35 years, garnering just 36.5% of the vote. By contrast, the left-of-center Social Democratic Party posted its best performance ever, winning a majority of 52.1%. Every major city in the state except the federal capital of Bonn fell to the Social Democrats, as did more than half the districts formerly held by the Christian Democrats. Kohl called the results a "major defeat." His party, he admitted, lost large numbers from two of its most faithful constituencies: farmers and the elderly...
Downing Street's reaction was one of carefully orchestrated scorn. A senior Thatcher aide dismissed Pym as a "rejected" minister making one last effort to achieve the party leadership. As for the C.C.F., said the aide, it is "enormously long on criticism and extremely short on prescriptions, except to spend more money...
...every case for which the Committee has held hearings in the academic year 1971-72, except that of the April 20-26 occupation of Massachusetts Hall, the only persons charged and disciplined have been leaders of the student radical left...In each of these cases we believe that the complainants brought charges against all of the demonstrators whom they could identify with certainly, but the University administrators have not used the means at their disposal to make as many identifications as possible, and the consequence is that only those whose faces are well known have been charged...
...Packwood began hearings on at least three different taxreform packages, predicting flatly, "There will be a tax-reform bill this year." If there is not, declared Delaware Republican William Roth, the committee's first witness, "we will have in this country the tax equivalent of the Boston Tea Party, except that it will be the politicians instead of the tea that gets tossed overboard...
However this fight comes out, it was obvious early on to almost everyone except Reagan and Weinberger that even the Republican-controlled Senate would not pass any significant increase in military spending this year. The politics were simple: Senate Republicans figured they had to do something to cut the budget deficit before it did real damage to the already slowing U.S. economy. But the cuts in civilian spending that Reagan demanded were bitterly unpopular with many of their constituents. To mollify them, the Republicans felt they had to make the Pentagon share in the sacrifice. All those tales of military...