Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), the governing body of collegiate athletics, will have to approve any new goalpost design, committee members said. Fiering noted that there are no regulations specifying the design of goalposts, except for rules governing the height of the crossbar above the ground...
...Except on the ice, where the brand, if not the quality, of never-say-die hockey remained the same...
...proposing would enable Europeans to confront?on their own initiative and in their own context?issues that have been evaded for at least two decades: the precise definition of an adequate conventional defense; the nature of the so-called nuclear threshold?the point where there is no choice except conventional defeat or nuclear escalation; the relationship between strategy and arms control. Since nuclear weapons would presumably be used only if conventional defense failed, Europe would be responsible for setting the nuclear threshold by its own efforts; it could relieve its nuclear anxieties by the simple expedient of augmenting its conventional...
...pinpointing artillery targets, some passed the time making a sweepstakes of the hits and misses, as Lebanese shells exploded in the nearby mountains. Watching the Shi'ite residents of a Beirut suburb, Second Lieut. John La Torre remarked ruefully, "I guess they're just like other people, except that they've had a civil war going on for most of their lives...
...have been collecting air samples, and except for a couple of incidents, 99 percent of the samples have been safe," said Louis J. Di-Berardinis, the EHS officer in charge of Harvard asbestos removal