Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Susan Weld was about the only Republican here, and all the Democrats were partisan, except Bob Reich," said Thomas B. Cotton...
...everything seemed to the gathering I had just attended in San Diego. The state identification cards were the same three-sided posters encasing a pole. The pictures showed similarly devout throngs of supporters. And the "election room" footage from the night Kennedy won seemed identical to our modern coverage, except it was in black-and-white...
Again, the women's draw was a chance to see Graf prove herself to be the most dominating figure in the game. When she waxed Monica Seles--then co-ranked number one with Graf--7-5, 6-4, there were no questions to ask, except, who will be next...
...first issue-free campaign, and without issues, we were left to ponder such pointless dichotomies as age vs. middle age, wounded right hand vs. groping one, brunet power wife vs. blond. When these palled, as they inevitably did by late August, there was nothing to think about except the peculiar fact that a D.C. dominatrix had been one of the first 12 people on earth to learn about life on Mars. That and the important finding that the macarena is a remarkably effective way of rousing people from life-threatening stupor...
Last Wednesday, Speaker Newt Gingrich announced that he was giving up on passing the "crown jewel of the Contract with America"--tax cuts--before Congress recesses in October. Indeed, the Congress has given up on doing much of anything before the election, except for one piece of business--the Defense of Marriage bill, a pre-emptive strike at the possibility that a Hawaiian court may recognize unions between homosexuals. It's not immediately apparent why this bill should jump the queue ahead of the potential bankruptcy of Medicare and bills to keep the government running. The Hawaiian courts will...