Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...having one, except a plastic sheet...
France's Valery Giscard d'Estaing gripes about windowless meeting room (later changed). All delegates are supplied with mineral water except the Americans, who get Coke. "They pay attention to where you come from," enthuses Powell...
...message?" What if, indeed? The author's fizz of comic energy is as wild and scornful as Richard Condon's, back when Condon was young and frisky. And as was true with such daft Condon fables as Some Angry Angel, Dooling's story has no detectable point or purpose, except to marvel at the rich variety of human wickedness...
...echelons of government are still nebulous to observers from the West. Acting alone, China could throw the whole world into ruin. A coordination with North Korea's forces would not achieve much more than a bankhead on the southeast coast of Asia. In any case, North Korea is expendable except as one of three strictly Communist or Socialist nations on the continent...
...referendum goes through, a vote against rent control would prohibit the practice in the state except when voluntarily adopted...