Word: excepts
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Several ways of taxing consumption are being discussed. One option is the value-added tax (VAT), which is used in most West European countries. The VAT is similar to a national sales tax, except that it is paid at every link in the production and distribution chain as more value is added to a product. A furniture store, for example, pays a tax on the sofas that it buys from a manufacturer, and consumers pay the tax when they purchase the couches in the store. The VAT is also levied on services such as hairdressing, home repairs and car rentals...
...except for the low Black yield, the percentage of other minorities deciding to enroll has improved significantly. The class has: 38 Chicanos, 76 percent of those admitted: 161 Asian Americans, 78.5 percent of those admitted, 27 Puerto Ricans, 82 percent, 13 other Hispanics, 76 percent, and five Native Americans, 62.5 percent...
...five lives have been claimed so far by the swift Colorado River, which is sluicing over dikes, sandbag barriers and splashboards. William Wert was on a raft excursion with 14 other vacationers shooting the Grand Canyon's Crystal Rapids when the 33-ft. rubber raft flipped; all passengers except Wert made it to shore. Farther downstream on the 1,450-mile river, in Mexico, four people drowned. "We cannot blame the Americans," said Francisco Gonzales, deputy police chief of the town of Luis B. Sanchez. "They did not make the rain and snow that are causing the river...
...also forgot how to play tennis and ultimately she had trouble recognizing her friends. Once an active Y.M.C.A. employee, Tony Marzillo, 61, gradually lost all ability to care for himself, becoming incontinent, unruly and destructive. "It was like chasing a 6-ft.-tall toddler around," his wife recalls, "except you knew that a toddler would eventually learn the rules of the house." Today both Marzillo and Holmes are institutionalized. Says Eleanor Marzillo of her husband: "He cannot speak, he cannot eat, he cannot ask for water...
...fact is the public welcome in a war, except when one assumes that it may be aroused in support of one's own side. Open as they are, wars are essentially private acts, guilty violations of civilized standards. "Now and then," wrote Ernest Bennett about "potting Dervishes" in the Westminster Gazette in 1898, "I caught in a man's eye the curious gleam which comes from the joy of shedding blood-that mysterious impulse which, despite all the veneer of civilization, still holds its own in a man's nature." If most generals had their way, wars...