Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...summer house, which was shared by several young couples, would have been a friendly enough place except for frizzball. This was at a time when society mandated different cultural norms for males and females--the days before women began following the NFL and men began weeping softly in movies about doomed love or lost pets. The women in the house couldn't understand why anyone would want to spend hours playing frizzball and more hours analyzing each game. They didn't understand how the men could judge someone's character by the way he played frizzball. Cruelly burdened...
...shouldn't be that way. A child's claim on a mother--or father--should be every bit as unambiguous (and unbigamous) as the marital claim two adults make on each other. Except in cases of abuse or neglect, once that claim is forged, it should be unassailable. Kids know who their parents are; we should...
...something was still missing. I moved back into Winthrop House that September content but empty, feeling as if I had learned everything about everything--except myself...
...Kabila had no agenda except power," says TIME reporter Clive Mutiso. "He spent almost 30 years in opposition and Mobutu's demise took him completely by surprise. Once he achieved power he didn't know what to do with it." It was his failure to clamp down on Hutu rebels using eastern Congo as a base from which to attack Rwanda that prompted Kabila's erstwhile sponsors to seek his ouster. "When Kabila last week began recruiting 12-year-olds to fight off these seasoned, well-trained, well-equipped fighters, it was clear that he had little chance of holding...
...says Fortune correspondent Nelson Schwartz. "Exxon and other companies have actually boosted their profits despite the depressed market by improving their efficiency." The merger will allow BP and Amoco to remain competitive by pursuing an economy of scale. Says Schwartz, "Bigger is better in oil as in everything else." Except, perhaps, if you're an Amoco employee...