Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...more than twelve tons of wine and other delectables were flown to the mainland. Said Cardin: "I am using capitalism to serve socialism." But the restaurant will have to rely heavily on foreigners living in Peking because citizens of the People's Republic are forbidden to go, except with special government permission...
...Times: "Fanning is always asking a series of questions to get your opinion on this or that. Yet she does not edit a paper by public opinion polls, but by her conscience." At gatherings of news executives, Fanning seemingly commands perhaps more attention than any other woman except Katherine Graham, owner of the Washington Post...
...hardly anyone thinks those old grudges will enhance the intensity of today's contest at Cornell's Schoellkopf Field, except perhaps the guy with the old t-shirt, or maybe Big Red Coach Maxie Baughan. Baughan, in his first year as a college coach, has taken a strong liking to ancient Ivy League traditions. "Cornell and Harvard have a super rivalry," he says, "and I'm certain that this game will have the fans on the edge of their seats...
...Spiral" ads have been discontinued except one cooperative ad with the Lauriat bookshop, according to Adrienne Alger, a public relations officer at Houghton Mifflin...
...world. Ironically, poliomyelitis has always been a relatively uncommon disease with a comparatively low death rate.** Polio is actually less of a public-health problem than rheumatic fever and some forms of cancer which single out the young. But, largely because of its long-term crippling effects, no disease except cancer has been so widely feared in the last three decades. With polio's dramatic defeat, as the Detroit Free Press wrote, "The prayers and hopes of millions . . . in all parts of the world were answered...