Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Except perhaps a bowl of ice cream
Granted, your news article (11/9/83, "Federal Linkage of Aid. Draft Increases Rate of Registration") focuses on how the vast majority of students are responding to U.S. strong-arm tactics. However, you quoted no one who was critical of the Solomon Amendement, except for a Boston Alliance Against Registration and Draft spokesperson, and even these ironic remarks on the amendment's efficacy were rather misleading...
...final American toll was put at 18 killed, 91 wounded. The Pentagon said it had no estimate of Cubans killed or wounded. There was no estimate either of civilian deaths, except for the probability of perhaps 20 at the mental hospital. Nor was there a count of casualties among the Grenadian soldiers. The Pentagon's vagueness on non-U.S. casualties led to suspicions, perhaps unfairly, that it was minimizing their extent...
...considers himself a frustrated writer and enjoys movies. (His favorite: Hiroshima Man Amour, a 1959 antiwar film by French Director Alain Resnais.) Asked once to elaborate on qualities necessary for leadership, he listed "honesty, courage to confront situations ... not to be ambiguous." He added, "Politics does not give satisfactions except for the sensation of duty accomplished. It is an unhealthy trade. But I believe it is what I should...
Chemical Bank last month began advertising its new Pronto system. With a TV set, an Atari 400 home computer (cost: about $60) and a modem ($75) to connect the terminal via a telephone line to the bank's computers, Pronto will do nearly every banking chore except dispense cash. Patrons can check their balances 24 hours a day, transfer money from one account to another, keep records on five separate budgets for such expenses as travel or household bills, and pay bills to about 350 companies ranging from Bloomingdale's to American Express. If the customers have...