Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Chen '98, whose alarm clock did not go off last Monday morning because of the unexpected power outage, said, "[Today's] outage is not going to affect me that much, except that I can't use my computer...
Without a doubt Jackie: An American Life rejoices in investigating all of the comic possibilities of caricature and farce. The play's irreverence is accountable to no one perhaps except itself. As we would expect, Jackie rises above the outright madness and sordidness surrounding her; and it is one of the show's triumphs that this is plausible. Throughout she has remained somewhat aloof in an inaccessible world, protected by her acute moral sense...
...Except for Mansfield, who plans to vote for Republican nominee Robert J. Dole, the panelists expressed luke-warm support for President Clinton, viewing him as the lesser of two evils...
...Except for not having time to watch it anymore, I generally have nothing against television. Sure, I can't tell you what night "ER" comes on, but I appreciate the lure of the set--after all, I'm a child who grew up watching anything that was on, from "The Facts of Life" to the local news. Even though I don't watch it, lately I've had a few opportunities to see it being made, and one thing is clear: from the courtroom to the moon, if anything happens, television crews won't be far behind...
...rhetoric has been heated, but the stakes in the 24-hour news battle seem, at first glance, relatively small. CNN's audience averages only about 300,000 households except during major national crises and murder trials of former N.F.L. superstars. But CNN made $280 million last year. Murdoch, who plans to spend more than $200 million on his new venture, sees not only money to be made but, equally important, the prestige of finally adding a news component to his U.S. television empire. Both domestically and overseas, no media giant can afford to stay out of the news competition...