Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...date, only two councillors--Michael A. Sullivan and Katherine Triantafillou--have officially declared their candidacies, but pundits predict that all incumbent councillors except Jonathan S. Myers will seek re-election...
Some free-lance terrorists have taken up residence in the U.S. They have brought with them a brand of activism previously almost unknown except for occasional episodes of violence among their kind, as when Sikh extremists attacked officials of the Indian government in U.S. cities...
...Except for a few dissenters, the citizens of Savannah have welcomed the influx of Midnight enthusiasts. Locals give guided tours of the book's notable sites, like the Bonaventure Cemetery, where the homicide victim used to collect his thoughts and rendezvous with his girlfriend, and Mercer House, the scene of the killing. Predictably, Savannah's merchants offer plenty of Midnight memorabilia like maps and T shirts. A cafa featured in the book now serves "fresh salads from our garden of good and evil...
...million to $900 million as the talks progressed. That night the guest list swelled too, to more than a dozen, and Kate Capshaw, Spielberg's actress wife, had to scurry to a local store for extra table linen. The elegant meal of Chilean sea bass and white wine (except for Katzenberg, who sipped his usual Diet Coke) at the home of the most successful filmmaker in history had to impress Samsung's reclusive chairman Lee Kun Hee, an ardent movie fan with a private library of some 6,000 titles...
...become "the capital of culture." How right he was. Between the end of World War I and the Crash of 1929, the Big Apple (yes, they called it that even then) emerged as the world's most powerful city in finance, music making, theater, literature--practically everything, in fact, except politics. Then, as now, New York had the dubious honor of being the world's largest city that was not also a seat of government...