Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Labor experts said the most recent joint statement seemed to be an indicator of progress in the contract discussions that have been going on since February. Both the union and the University have been publicly silent about the status of the negotiations--except for the occasional joint statements they have released...
...dolorous men, o dolors of omens--and not enough sun, but Wittman Ah Sing considered suicide every day." This phrase could be the bad opening of a bad novel, the unwieldy preface to an overbearing descriptive work, the sort of thing the Surrealists objected to in their first manifesto. Except, in this case it is intentional...
...believed the vision this New York City community conjures up in the minds of apprehensive whites: a postnuclear landscape of poverty and blight, where crack dealers plan gang wars in cratered tenements. To most Manhattanites from the wealthy southern part of the island, Harlem hardly exists, except as an old, obscure head wound -- the beast in the attic, a maximum-security prison for the American Dream's unruly losers. Why would a white person go to this Harlem, except to buy drugs...
...offer the Arabs the autonomy in the Camp David accords. Under autonomy, they would have freedom to conduct their lives without any interference whatever, except in matters of security. By security, I don't mean police, things like robbery, stealing and so forth. But when it comes to matters of defense or terror, that will always be a Jewish responsibility...
...dialogue is all song cues; Pitchford's songs are standard technopop, except for a comic showstopper, called Life Ain't Worth Livin' (When You're Dead), that the suicidal teens of Heathers might take to heart. Otherwise, Sing is strictly Gold Diggers turned to brass. In the latest teenpix class portrait, it's a dropout...