Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Last March, Reagan signed a controversial directive permitting the use of lie detectors on the 2.5 million federal employees who hold high security clearances. Despite these actions, the leaks have continued and no sources have been uncovered. In fact, the prospect of facing a polygraph has done little except provoke discontent within the Administration. Said one outraged official: 'If Reagan cannot trust his own people without giving them a lie-detector test, then he ought to fire them...
...more unexpected sights of the postinvasion period is that of U.S. soldiers, both men and women, sunbathing on the island's beaches, looking every bit like tourists-except for their M-16 rifles. The G.I.s even found time to play a soccer match with a group of young Grenadians, who graciously held down the score while defeating the invaders 6-2. The postcombat letdown may have spawned one tragedy: at midweek, a G.I. accidentally shot and killed a fellow soldier while cleaning a .45-cal. pistol. Said Major General Jack Farris, commander of the U.S. forces in Grenada...
...multitiered wedding cake was topped by two turkeys, one with a stethoscope, the other wearing ballet shoes. Except for that quaint nod to Thanksgiving, the marriage last week of Mary Tyler Moore, 45, to Manhattan Cardiologist Robert Levine, 29, went on without any of the giddy glitches that usually bedeviled Mary Richards, her old TV alter ego. After the traditional Jewish ceremony (Moore, a Catholic, took instruction in Judaism but has not converted to her husband's faith), the bride cut the cake for some 300 guests, including such MTM alumni as Valerie ("Rhoda") Harper, Cloris Leachman...
...insulting and, of course, untrue to say that there is nothing in Nebraska except a Big Red football team, but there is nothing else quite of the kind...
...have never had a war with them," he said, "except that now tensions are at an all-time high...