Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...international behavior of the Soviet Union [under Andropov] will not necessarily differ much from the behavior under Brezhnev, except that Brezhnev as a person was deeply afraid of the possibility of war. How does Andropov compare with him? My feeling is, if I may oversimplify, that Brezhnev was a Russian soul as we think of a Russian soul from having read Dostoyevsky or Pushkin, whereas Andropov is a modern computer filled with Russian software...
...They admired him, they respected him and they forgave him almost everything, except that he had grown old." Such was the assessment of Vienna's daily Kurier last week when one of the senior statesmen of the Western world announced his retirement after 13 years in office. Added the conservative newspaper, which had been a sharp critic of the Chancellor: "Kreisky has lost the elections. But Austria has lost Kreisky...
Though Congress in 1975 legislated a gradual and voluntary changeover in weights and measures, nothing seems harder to do than to get Americans to adopt metric, the system used by all the world except Brunei, Burma, North and South Yemen-and the U.S. In 1977, a Gallup poll found Americans opposed to metric by better than 2 to 1. As part of their continuing struggle to bring the U.S. in line with the rest of humanity, leading proponents of metric, or, more formally, the International System of Units (known by its French initials SI), gathered in Arlington, Va., last week...
...crowd gave a standing ovation at the end of the two-hour production--which was performed in English except for the choral dialogue, spoken in Ancient Greek...
...Princeton undergraduates, in part because they simply do not have the time. "We work awfully hard," said senior Kathy Levy Unlike other schools where the workload might taper off in the senior year. Princeton's academic demands become significantly heavier in the junior and senior years. All students, except a few engineers, are required to write two junior papers, or "J.P's," and do a thesis in their senior year...