Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Life went on, except that I was split between being the good student that everyone else saw and dealing with the emotional trauma I carried with...
Clark's provides the prefect background for a pleasant night--or even for an unpleasant one. this is due to the atmosphere of calm indifference, where even an altercation will garner little attention, except perhaps from the very attentive waitstaff. The clientele here seems to understand the positive relationship between drinking and waiting for trains. Patrons are not interested in forming life-long acquaintances--or even a one-night acquaintance...
Across Concord Street from the church is the Boston Fire Department's Engine Number 22. The metal garage door rolls up to reveal a vast space, empty except for a single bright red fire engine and an ambulance parked nearby. Inside the Fire Department office, a group of firemen's voices are drowned out by the loud whirring noise of a saw working somewhere in the back of the building. Apparently it's been a slow day--there've been no calls...
...Except, that is, in the thorny context of our social lives...
...then, having leveled the heart of Central Square, the Holmes Trust now proposes to build six stories of upscale shops and apartments, renting out the district and generating windfall profits for all concerned. Everyone, that is, except the people who currently live and work in Central Square. The developers have been met with opposition everywhere they have gone to peddle their plans. More than 3,000 residents have signed petitions opposing the project, and hundreds of people have packed every city organization meeting considering the special permissions the project needs because it violates planning and zoning board requirements...