Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Nobody gets terribly bent out of shape about results now, except for the players," Fish said...
...Crimson's ludicrous accusation that "Supply-side economics has been ridiculed by every economist except Jack Kemp...," I suppose I shouldn't be surprised that Nobel laureates Gary Becker and Milton Friedman, both of whom have endorsed the Dole tax cut plan, aren't credible enough for The Crimson. And perhaps John F. Kennedy '40, who said on September 18, 1963 that "By lowering tax rates, by increasing jobs and income, we can expand tax revenues and finally bring our budget into balance," doesn't meet the Crimson's exacting standards--despite having been a Crimson editor. But what about...
...year went on, however, and despite a weekly e-mail update I sent to 75 of my constituents, I gradually lost touch. No one showed up at my office hours, and so I stopped holding them. No one replied to my e-mails (except those that regarded band selection for Springfest), so I stopped expecting any feedback. No more than two or three students showed up to observe council meetings over the entire year, and so I stopped thinking that we had an audience any bigger than the council itself...
...fact is, according to Article IV, Section 1, of the council's constitution, any undergraduate may do everything a representative does in any Sunday council meeting except vote and make motions. That means that not only can I show up Sunday nights to hear how my reps claim to be representing me, but I can speak for myself, for the record, as well. I can remind the council myself that the advising system needs serious attention and that Karaoke Night in Loker Commons last year was not worth the money...
...There goes the set," I said, realizing that my attempting to find a television repairman would be the equivalent of Stanley attempting to find Livingstone, except that Stanley didn't get overcharged at the end of the journey. Then we saw a ray of hope. Maybe it was the cable. If we were lucky, all of our neighbors' television sets were also receiving electroshock therapy. The cable people, who value our monthly subscription checks, would send out a repairman right away...