Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Except for its responses to the indignant Sandinistas, Washington maintained a studied silence as news of the fighting in Nicaragua emerged. The official U.S. view of Nicaragua, State Department Spokesman Hughes said last week, is that "we do not support any return to Somocista government...
...Prune Minister Bob Hawke, who inherited a multitude of economic woes upon taking office earlier this month, has so far offered no solutions except for a $435,000 short-term trial of cloud seeding. Yet the drought's consequences are seeping into every pore of his nation's welfare. Some areas are suffering 40% unemployment. One estimate predicts that the total loss to the nation may amount to $7.5 billion. Australia, which relies on agriculture for half its export earnings, may also find it difficult to regain the markets it is steadily losing. Lamented the national daily...
...Yanks think life back home is pretty tough. In Thorn Birds the characters bellyache about the flies and heat all the time and talk about "being stuck out here in this hellish place" beyond the black stump. Actually, they never leave Northern California, except to go to Hawaii, which is the network's idea of Queensland. You don't see many gum trees either, and Qantas didn't lend the filmmakers its koala, but they did borrow a kangaroo, and now and again the director, Daryl Duke, shoos it across the set for local color. It died...
...teenager, Rudi jumped and twirled in local folk dances. Battling the disapproval of his Tatar father, a Communist commissar, the youth made his way into Leningrad's celebrated Kirov company. Following his defection in Paris in 1961, he danced non-stop in virtually every Western company except the New York City Ballet. Now 45, he can still dance seven performances a week, apparently without tiring. Barnes insists that Nureyev can keep performing, albeit in increasingly less demanding roles, for 20 or 30 more years, though such endurance is rare among dancers. Certainly, the final color photo of Nureyev...
...December, the Massachusetts Legislature voted to repeal the statutes prohibiting retail sales on Sundays, the outgrowth of a Massachusetts tradition as old as the Pilgrims. The new law--which formally goes into effect Sunday--affects most retail establishments except for liquor stores...