Word: excepts
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...think there's anything we can do to prepare except to prepare as a team," said member Jeffrey S. Baron...
Greek authorities know little about the 17th November group except the origin of its name: a bloody 1973 uprising by students at Athens Polytechnic School against the U.S.-backed military junta that ruled Greece from 1967 to 1974. The Tsantes slaying was clearly timed to coincide with the tenth anniversary of the Polytechnic rebellion. Greek authorities are worried about the rise of Athens as a focus of terrorism. Tsantes' killing was the third political murder in the city since August. The other victims were an aide to P.L.O. Chairman Yasser Arafat and a security officer at the Jordanian embassy...
Orwell was enchanted, "breathing the air of equality." A hotel manager scolded him for offering a tip to an elevator operator; barbers posted anarchist placards by their chairs announcing that they were no longer slaves. The signs of class he so detested in his own country had disappeared: "Except for a small number of women and foreigners there were no 'well-dressed' people at all. Practically everyone wore rough working-class clothes, or blue overalls, or some variant of the militia uniform. There was much in it that I did not understand, in some ways...
This may not seem front-page news, except on the Star; it is a most unpromising premise for an 80-minute monologue. But Pryor deals in shock therapy, self-applied. He exorcises his demons by turning them into imps from the underworld. And so he gives his impression of Old Richard emerging from the utopia of inebriation to "wake up in a car drivin' 90" and then wallpaper his bathroom with last night's dinner. His enactment of a heroin addict killing himself with a fix is no joke; it is a flat-out, Oscar-time horror show...
...largest infant formula company in the world, with a large and often dominant share in many Third World countries. Furthermore, the Commission itself has found that Nestle does not always follow the WHO codes, though spokesperson Jack Greenwald feels that the company now generally complies with the codes except in a few areas...