Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Twenty-five years ago, President Lyndon Johnson unveiled his War on Poverty. According to his rhetoric, there would be no more hunger, homelessness or destitution anywhere in America. The poor were Americans just like everyone else, except they weren't sharing in the American dream. It was vogue to talk about the poor; poverty was seen as the evil, but the "poor" were...
...woman lies in bed listening to Christmas songs, crooning to her husband about their children. Abruptly he leaps from her side, explains that he has hired a hit man to kill her and regrets the action, but that it is too late for her to do anything except flee. This does not make much sense, nor will most of what happens to the woman during the next two hours onstage, yet bolt she does. So begins what seems to be a years-long trek that brings her into contact with tacky game shows, corrupt charities, alcoholic despondency and mass murder...
...however, is unique for each individual, and a matchup between a crime-scene sample and material obtained from the accused (usually in a blood sample) is virtually unassailable, say experts. Declares John Huss of Cellmark Diagnostics in Germantown, Md., another DNA-testing firm: "Except for identical twins, one in 4 trillion or 5 trillion people might share the same genetic fingerprint...
...communities rely heavily on the income they bring scoff at what they consider the alarmist fears being raised. Charges John Poynor, mayor of Richland, the closest town to the vast Hanford spread: "The types of people who are critical of Hanford and other nuclear reactors don't like anything except whales. I'd ship them all off to Alaska and let them rescue those three whales that are stuck...
True to its name, the Wursthaus was Germanic in its decorations--carved horses and shields and barrels and dark wood. It seemed as if everything around us was made of wood, except, of course, for the plastic grapes hanging from the shelves...