Word: excepts
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...denied those charges. "There is no truth to the allegations," Zia told TIME. "To the contrary, Pakistan has gone out of its way to normalize its relations with India." He added that the Indians were only looking for "scapegoats." Indeed, the Indians offered no proof to support the charges except for two bodies purported to be those of Pakistanis and a few assault rifles bearing Chinese letters. In the classic "checkerboard diplomacy" of the region, India is the enemy of Pakistan, which is the friend of China, which, at least until recently, was the enemy of India...
...Kremlin's leadership crisis became even more apparent when, after four days of deliberation following Andropov's death, the Communist Party Central Committee announced that Chernenko had been named to the top position. Known more for his loyalty to Brezhnev than for his expertise in any area except the party bureaucracy, Chernenko had been conspicuously passed over 15 months earlier when Andropov succeeded Brezhnev; indeed, there was some speculation that Andropov had shunted his erstwhile rival aside...
...pander to the high school crowd that has flocked to Cambridge for the summer hold out the promise of pragmatism, only more subtly. What possible reason is there to take "our Mobile Earth," or "history of the English Language," or-get this--"Political Man, the Community, and the State," except to say you have sampled the liberal-mindedness of the Harvard education--which some poor, misguided soul from New Trier or St. Albans might think will help him or her get into this esteemed institution by the end of the year...
While tickets for all games are still available, the best seats are going fast, and tickets for the opening ceremonies have been sold out at all locations except some Sears stores, Olympic officials...
...Brookings economists offer detailed suggestions for meeting those goals. On the domestic spending side, the book advocates a one-year freeze on all social programs except those intended to help the poor. Beyond that, the proposal calls for long-term spending restraints concentrated in four major areas: Social Security, Medicare, federal pensions and farm benefits. The economists suggest, for example, that the initial level of Social Security benefits that people receive when they retire could be reduced by 5%. In addition, the book asserts that the rate of growth in payments that hospitals receive for each Medicare patient should...