Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...like it, except I can't figure out where anything is, " Dowling said. "It seems like they carry everything...
...outlook for the 1997-'98 season again looks promising. With everyone returning except for Majmudar, the Crimson should be tops in the Ivies and also make a strong run in the Eastern Regionals...
...pains me, what you're doing.' But the gulf between me and my mother was greater, because the change from the '50s to the '60s was greater. I mean, what could you tell your mother about Berkeley? Sex, drugs, rock 'n' roll--she didn't have a clue, except it wasn't kosher. I know what's going on. But saying, no, no, no--I saw that wasn't going to work. No, no, no meant yes, yes, yes. They have to do it to set themselves apart from their parents...
...Except...Wait a minute...Could I see those orders again? That him, in this instance, is a her--Lieut. Jordan O'Neil, who is played by Demi Moore, muscles aripple, attitude aflare and buzz-cut hairdo a sight. She is, to be strictly honest, traveling under false colors; G.I. Jane should probably be called Swabbie Jane since it is the Navy SEALS that O'Neil is trying so painfully to join. She is also traveling a few years in the future when, the movie's makers imagine, feminist pressure to accord women full military equality, by allowing them to serve...
...heady world of international business, so many interests seem to overlap. PAUL VOLCKER, a former chairman of the Federal Reserve who serves on a variety of high-powered boards, is a paid director of Nestle, Switzerland's largest company. Nothing odd there, except that other Nestle directors include the bosses of Switzerland's three largest banks, and these are among the banks Volcker is charged with investigating as head of a committee of "eminent persons" looking into Switzerland's role during World War II. Why are questions about Volcker's Nestle position being raised now? Perhaps because in a recent...