Word: excepts
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Healy's projections are based on several conditions. Both scenarios assume that the city will have no employee wage growth in fiscal years 1995 and 1996, except for school teachers...
...none of the 127 passengers or five crew members survived to help explain what might have triggered the 6,000-ft. nose dive. Nor have investigators found evidence of wing, rudder or engine failure in the charred rubble of the 737 jet. That leaves little to explain the tragedy except a "bump" -- a sudden airspeed increase detected by the plane's flight-data recorder. Wind has been ruled out, since only a 7-m.p.h. breeze was evident that evening. And earlier reports of the cry "Traffic!" on the cockpit voice recorder have proved false. So what was it? Some aviation...
...1980s, when Steven Spielberg read it and got interested. But Spielberg was more interested in another Crichton project -- Jurassic Park -- and ER sat around for a few more years, until someone at Spielberg's Amblin Productions suggested turning it into a TV pilot. "Almost nothing was changed," says Crichton, "except cleaning up the language...
...spiffy Peter Max rendition of the White House, a Camelot-ish photo of the President on horseback, recorded meows from Socks - these offerings and more are available at the White House's strenuously friendly new Internet site (http://www.whitehouse.gov) Users can also "tour" the mansion (except the family quarters) and download cartoons poking fun at Al Gore. More in the familiar style of the federal government are the retrievable studies and press releases from the likes of the EPA and the Small Business Administration. White House officials stress that the site was designed by non-taxpayer-funded interns...
...culprit didn't just take one foosball--five foosballs were removed from the Quincy House table by a mysterious kleptomaniac. You might ask, "What can you do with a foosball except play foosball?" Perhaps someone with a lot of time to waste could tell you. The value of the balls is only about $15, so this theft constitutes the most petty of larcenies...