Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Harvard Square part of Cambridge is less urban than it might look to the neophyte emerging from the T stop. Far from being a concrete jungle (well, except for Holyoke Center) this region actually has trees. Many parts of the Square, including Harvard Yard, Radcliffe Yard and the Cambridge Common, are delightfully leafy, shaded enclaves. In the winter, the city's open space turns into mud. But during the summer months, students can sprawl on Harvard lawns that were carefully made green for the Commencement crowds...
...there hasn't been a theme at all except for the soothingly content-free notion of "change." The much battered economic program, for example: What is the theme, if any, of that? It maintains military spending at cold-war levels, thus foreclosing any serious new spending on domestic programs. It proposes to raise taxes on the six-figure crowd, though by no means up to pre-Reagan rates, while imposing a grossly regressive energy or sales tax on the average consumer. It offers earned-income tax credits for the poor but makes up for this leftish move with a surfeit...
...more stylized, visual cartoon like Family Dog is probably doomed without the sort of animation care that TV budgets don't permit. Second, big- name filmmakers venturing into TV need to do more than simply lend their big names. Burton and Spielberg, it seems, did little for Family Dog except use their clout to get it on the air. One expected more...
Helpless, Manju, like many in her profession, is resigned to her fate. Returning home would not be an improvement. "Even if you work 24 hours a day in Nepal, you do not get enough to eat," she explains. "One can endure anything except hunger. If I were a man, maybe I would have committed murder to fill my stomach. But as a woman, I became a prostitute." It is a choice being forced upon too many. Along the highway of cheap love that now circles the globe, the cost in destroyed lives has become a blight to rival...
...such indicators as how much market share certain highly competitive foreign products and services command in the Japanese market. This approach showed success last year, when Japan grudgingly achieved a U.S.-set target of 20% market share for U.S. semiconductor exports, which dominated the market everywhere in the world except Japan...