Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Everybody except the Rockefellers stood up and cheered after the address," Lieberman recalls...
...Quinlan says she enjoyed her term in the military, from which she retired in the spring of 1992 to go into private practice. "I got to sky-dive, fly around in a helicopter and live in Hawaii," she says. "A doctor can't do that--except in the military...
...tools of muscles and marauding nearly obsolete; it urges him to put down swords and pick up phones, to value salon charm over brute force, to face adversity through nurturing and networking instead of a quick body chop. What a lovely evolution: men are becoming women. Except in movies, of course -- especially summer movies, where the O.K. Corral never closes and the footfalls of dinosaurs named Arnold and Sly still shake the earth...
Houtkin hits the keyboard, and prices for the stock of Cisco Systems, a volatile computer company, pop up on the screen. Fortunately, I'm told to ignore everything except two columns I can barely read anyway. One lists the prices that 47 marketmakers (firms like Morgan Stanley and Dean Witter) are willing to pay for Cisco. The second shows what they're willing to sell...
...kept its military edge at the height of the cold war. Without trying, Russell became the monument that the Russell Senate Office Building was named for. He basked in the Senate interplay, yet was so devoted to a larger cause it was said he never solicited a vote except on the merits of a bill. When he rose, the galleries quieted. He never looked up but spoke to the floor where his colleagues were collected. When asked once about his huge influence, he looked down that formidable nose of his and dismissed the question. "I cover the ground...