Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...usually models of crisp journalistic prose. He has learned to take himself a little less seriously than he used to. Describing how he will cover the convention, he cracked, "I'll be going to a lot of parties and I hope to pick up what I can, except the check." He may be 68, but he is au courant: "What do Michael Jackson and the Giants have in common? They both wear gloves on one hand for no apparent reason...
...billion debt to foreign Danks and international organizations, a move almost unnoticed during the Argentine debt crisis. Capital flight in the past two years alone has been estimated at $1 billion. Although Costa Rica is substantially better off (it receives more U.S. aid per capita than any other country except Israel), it can barely meet the interest payments on its $4 billion foreign debt...
...EXCEPT FOR a summer tour of Europe and visits to New York for medical treatment. Alice lived in Cambridge or Boston for the next 18 years Despite her poor health, she participated in social life, joined a sewing circle and made friends. Although her upbringing did not incline her to participated in any of the more radical agitation for women's rights, such as the founding of the Harvard Annex--later Radcliffe in the 1880s, she taught history to other women through a correspondence school...
WHAT IS the point Nesmith is driving at, except the absolute futility of the modern world, as seen through the eyes of a twenty-year-old, out-of-work punk? Is it that life is not worth living? Or that life can't be lived--that events are beyond our control? Clearly, this movie's makers wanted to let us in on some Inner Message, but the connection between the weirdness on screen and this message is never made clear. The opaqueness of Nesmith's vision in the end makes Repo Man--well...dell, with only a very cool hardcore...
...Because Britain's agricultural system is so limited, the country was receiving fewer subsidies than other member states. As a result, Britain, one of the Community's poorest members in terms of per capita income, was contributing more to the $21.3 billion budget than any other nation except West Germany. Each member's contribution is based mainly on the country's receipts from the value-added tax, a type of sales tax. Thatcher argued that Britain paid 21% of the Community's revenues but got back only 13% in the form of grants and subsidies...