Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...endorsement process is two-tiered. First, 11 advisers, one from each of the houses except the applicant's house, review each application, he said...
...Except Kravitz -- says Kravitz. Archaeologists wish him well but seriously doubt his claims. Says Adam Kessler, who put together the Genghis Khan exhibit: "He has access to the same sources as everyone else, and we haven't managed to find the tomb. If he has any other information, he hasn't shared it." The latest unsuccessful attempt to locate the tomb took place between 1990 and 1992, when a Japanese team mounted an intensive high-tech search. "Maybe they didn't look thoroughly enough," Kravitz chuckles. Whatever Kravitz knows, he has persuaded the Mongolian government to give him exclusive rights...
...that in the "narrow, traditional" sense of the words, Haiti is not a vital interest for the U.S. It has no strategic position, no economic importance in terms of raw materials, markets or U.S. investment. Its army is no threat to the U.S., the Caribbean, Latin America or anybody except the unfortunate subjects of the dictatorship. The sarcastic summary of this position is that "Haiti is a dagger pointed at the heart of Dade County," the Florida region around Miami that might be overwhelmed by a flood of refugees...
...human voice is attached to a living being; it is not a mechanical instrument. It has a well-defined range within which it (and the listener) is most comfortable; and it is best suited to singing stepwise melodies rather than tunes that leap crazily all over the scale, except for dramatic effect. Honoring these principles is not pandering; it is professionalism, and The Dangerous Liaisons is its glorious expression...
While driving PBHA vans, Nero was involved in three accidents in three days this July. After the accidents, Kenneth G. Smith, assistant director of Phillips Brooks House, told Nero not to drive except in "emergency situations...