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Word: excepts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Scott Fusco owes Lane MacDonald $10. Janfaza won't get anything out of the transaction. Except, maybe, a little satisfaction...

Author: By Mark Brazaitis, | Title: A Long Shot Comes Through | 3/4/1988 | See Source »

...lobbying group," though, says Hitchcock. "We just want to show people what the options are in quitting. The general idea, except among the tobacco industry, is that smoking is bad for your health. We're trying to give people a wide range of topics...

Author: By Katherine E. Bliss, | Title: Smoking: Policy and Politics | 3/4/1988 | See Source »

Once the laughter subsides, however, there is nothing to take its place except an occasional chant of "sieve, sieve" and scattered applause better suited to an amateur golf tournament...

Author: By Mark Brazaitis, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: In the ECAC, Rinks to Rile You Up | 3/1/1988 | See Source »

...marital breakup, especially when small children are involved, and emerges as a feminist cautionary tale about the futility of devoting one's life to pleasing others. With pitiable candor the author portrays herself as a poor, under-educated country girl who thought she had no way up except through a man, and no way to hold a man except through her body, fun-loving spirit and compliance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bookends: Feb. 29, 1988 | 2/29/1988 | See Source »

...thought it really identified one of the real defects of decentralization," says Pierce Professor of Psychology Richard J. Herrnstein, who is chairman of the Core Curriculum subcommittee on Social Analysis. "Except for the Core, there isn't very much communal discussion of academic matters...

Author: By Susan B. Glasser, | Title: An Outside View of a Harvard Education | 2/27/1988 | See Source »

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