Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...very important that we bring the deficit to balance. However, in seeking to do this, the Balanced Budget Amendment ties up our ability to effectively deal with our country's future. By mandating that the federal government, except in times of grave emergency, balance its books every year, the Balanced Budget Amendment will effectively prevent our generation from making the investments it feels are needed...
...stand in Gore's way except Bill Clinton. The president should put political ambitions aside and let Gore do the best thing for the party and the nation. Why take chances, when Gore has such an easy road ahead? No Party contributors find him distasteful; his financial support will surely outweigh what Clinton drew from...
...with all such stories, everything can be explained about Stevenson except genius. He was born in 1850 in Edinburgh, the precocious, cosseted only child of wealthy parents. R.L.S. got the attention that would have served a dozen siblings, and the enormous coziness and safety of an indulged small boy in an upper-middle-class Victorian household was what he evoked years later in the poems of A Child's Garden of Verses. His father Thomas was a mighty builder of lighthouses and breakwaters, and the future author of Treasure Island and Kidnapped saw more of the sea than most Scottish...
Nolde's life was subject to good and bad bouts of fortune, and he is presented as alienated from most of society, except for his devoted wife. The exhibit's biographical materials portray him as a man interested in the simple things in life--his family, his home, his garden. Nolde's skill was his ability to make the outlandish appear from the mundane, and to make it irresistably enticing...
Moore slathers a thick Southern accent on the empty chatter that fills up the life of a woman who can name all of Snow White's seven dwarfs, except Happy. Moore and Ashong's encounters sizzle, changing an innocent game of pool into the dangerous terrain it represents for both of them...