Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...visitors' defensive efforts, however, were simply not enough to sustain the team. The offense, except for occasional spurts, looked tired, and its passing simply was not crisp enough to elude a brawny UMass defense...
Usher regards Boston College as at least on par with all of Harvard's Ivy competition except for Princeton...
Every Labor Day the demigod of bad taste, Jerry Lewis, holds his famous telethon for muscular dystrophy. Every year this mawkish tribute to human misery makes money. But though Lewis is cheesy, he is still trying to reach some lowest common denominator of kindness. Without a reputation to enhance (except in France) and lacking the really big talents that would bring Nielsen points by their very presence. Lewis has to rely on a barrage of sympathy-grabbing images to make people even a little concerned. USA for Africa does the exact opposite, attempting to emotionally shield people from the problem...
Because they are natural food scavengers, roaches prefer to live near kitchens and other food areas. All breeds, except the Oriental cockroach, thrive in warm temperatures--around 30 degree celsius. The German roaches live best in warm climates, but most other breeds prefer damp areas like sewers...
...ratings, they trimmed the production to a svelte 3 hr. 9 min. (37 minutes less than 1984), banned long speeches and jazzed up the musical numbers. As a result, they met half their goal: this year's ceremony was not one of the world's longest shows. But except for the introduction of a beguiling elephant--symbol of A Passage to India --it was still one of the most boring. The ratings were the lowest ever...