Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this is now illegal in soccer, as defenders can no longer play the ball back to the keeper, except if she is just going to use her feet. Again, there was popular disapproval but no call...
...Union, Morris blew a gasket. He summoned Penn and Schoen to his house in Connecticut and told Penn that Clinton was his client, the White House his show. Penn could submit or get out. Morris laid down a new law: Penn could see anyone in the White House except the President. (Later, Morris came up with an even stricter rule: Penn had to be at Morris' side at every interminable, Morris-dominated meeting.) Schoen, the peacemaker, advised his partner to accept. "You do what you're doing," he told Penn. "I'll deal with Dick...
...cool bureaucrat who had no ties to Dole but who had run the Republican National Committee for Haley Barbour. Reed had to be persuaded that Dole would let the campaign manager actually manage the campaign. By the time Dole locked up the nomination, every member of the original family except Coe was history, replaced by professionals chosen by Reed. They shared one trait: greater loyalty to their careers than to the candidate...
...swing vote, more or less deserted them. The old swing vote, blue-collar Reagan Democrats, who are culturally conservative but not so crazy about Big Business, drifted away after Pat Buchanan faded. In polls conducted only days before the election, practically every gender, racial and age group favored Clinton except for households with incomes over $75,000. The latter group constitutes about 12% of the country. This is not good news for the Republican future...
...lawyers energetically maintain that none of these items were true. The backpack? Jewell never owned one. "He had a green knapsack he took to work every day, and they took that," says lawyer L. Lin Wood. The explosion? "Richard doesn't have a clue what they are talking about, except that he burns trash, and it could have been an aerosol can," says Wood. He points out that a government memorandum states that investigators could find no metal fragments near where the explosion supposedly took place. The boast "I'm going to be famous"? The government memorandum says the colleagues...