Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Business School, which was able to meet its goals for all faculty posts except tenured positions, will likely not meet goals for tenured faculty within the coming year for that reason, according to Robert H. Hayes, the school's administrative dean...
...NAVY HAS RECOMMENDED TO SECRETARY OF DEFENSE Les Aspin that women be allowed to serve in all combat positions -- except in submarines, where quarters are close. But because the Air Force still adamantly opposes using women in fighter and bomber combat aircraft, Aspin doesn't want to take on the Air Force now over this issue. He has asked the Navy to hold off on putting women into combat aircraft. Personally, the Secretary believes that prohibition should be lifted...
...proof. They managed to procure some food aid parachuted out of U.S. airplanes by rushing to the drop sites with thousands of other hungry refugees. But that soon ran out. "For the past three days we didn't eat anything. It was like we were in the forests again except we were in a town, in front of U.N. soldiers...
...draw 4 million fans and the Florida Marlins marketing themselves to the nation's fourth largest state, why not put two more major-league cities (maybe Phoenix and St. Petersburg) on the map by 1996? There's only one problem with this beautiful scenario: virtually no team in baseball except Atlanta can point to five solid starting pitchers. Just ask Detroit Tigers manager Sparky Anderson, who went without a victory in 16 straight spring-training games because his pitching staff resembles that of the Bad News Bears. "Pitching's been thin for so long," he moans, "that I just...
...students will not complain about a decent grade even if they think it is a hollow one. Who can blame them for that? I freely admit (for the second time now) that I am part of this trend to inflate grades. And I reiterate that nothing will change this except increased direct involvement of tenured faculty in the related processes of grading students and evaluating...