Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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HANOVER, N.H.-- The Harvard football team entered Saturday afternoon's contest against winless Dartmouth with just about everything on its side except history--a disheartening five year winless streak against the Big Green made a victory look next to impossible...
Bush was unwavering in his support for Reagan's policies, admitting only minor differences with the President on the issue of abortion: while Reagan supports a constitutional amendment that would protect unborn fetuses except when the mother's life is threatened, the Vice President would add rape and incest as grounds for ending a pregnancy. Although in 1980 he labeled Reagan's tax and spending programs "voodoo economics," Bush now insisted he was fully behind Reaganomics. "Of course I support the President's economic program, and I support him in everything else," said Bush. Then, going...
...last two years of the Carter Administration--El Salvador descended into a bloody civil war a revolution in Nicaragua was followed by a ruthless purging of non-Sandinista revolutionaries, and the resultant junta set out to militarize the Nicaraguan people on a soul never before seen in Central America, except possible in Soviet-supported Cuba. Considering the last four years in comparison. We are extremely skeptical of the flippant dismissal of the Reagan approach as "peace destroying...
...bloodier than any we have seen so far--in which the embittered minority in the North would attempt to destroy the occupying force of the South. This is the nightmare which Noraid's bombs are designed to create and sustain: for how could such a state be held together except by the superior use of terror? Yet this is the reality of the romantic dream Irish Americans think they are in the process of creating...
According to a survey of the seven other Ivy League colleges, only Yale and Dartmouth offer round-the-clock operator service. All the others except Harvard do not offer operator service early weekday mornings. The main switchboards at Cornell and the University of Pennsylvania are closed all weekend...