Word: excepts
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Precinct 6-3 Adams House, Apley Court, Claverly Hall, Divinity Hall, Eliot House, Hastings Hall, Kirkland House, Leverett House (except E and Gentries). Lowell House, Quincy House, Winthrop House and all Freshman dorms. --Fire House, Broadway St. entrance...
Republican congressional candidates have been set adrift with nothing they can latch onto except a controversial party platform that serves only to alienate much of the electorate. That document has been abandoned by practically everyone, but there really isn't anything, except for the promise of on tax increases, to take its place. And the tax issue, with the looming deficit, isn't going to carry an entire party...
...Meeker. Rarely does anyone inquire after his family, or his health. Madison and his wife are both from Grand Junction, just 100 miles away, where Madison's father is a doctor. But in Meeker they are never invited to anyone's home, not even for Christmas parties, except occasionally by local police officers. "People are friendly on the surface, but we're somewhere below the dogcatcher on the social scale, and there's no dogcatcher in Meeker," says Madison. Nancy is concerned that their two-year-old son Isaac will be shunned in school when...
Reagan leads Mondale in all regions of the country, at all age levels, among both women and men, Roman Catholics and Protestants, union and nonunion members and at all income levels except the very lowest. Indeed, Mondale has a clear edge in only two somewhat overlapping groups: blacks (who support him 70% to 12% over Reagan) and people earning $10,000 or less (who favor him 45% to 36%). Even among Democrats, Mondale commands a less than overwhelming majority (54%). Reagan, however, is the choice of 88% of Republicans and a full 63% of the critical independents...
...protocol officer, Leonore Annenberg, curtsied to Prince Charles on his 1981 visit to Washington. "If there is any basic principle of American life, it is that we do not recognize that anyone is born at a higher level than anyone else. We do not bend the knee to anyone except God, or in some cases his representative. I found it incredibly offensive to see an American official doing so to royalty. We fought a war over that...