Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Maybe the Crimson thinks it can turn the juice on and off like so many light switches. Granted, the games this weekend didn't mean much except in terms of NCAA seedings, where Harvard's third seed is relatively secure...
...would see no other reason why it wouldn't [support the coalition] except the administration's own stubbornness," he said
...erratic and unreliable shuttle service can be potentially dangerous at night Students often wait in vain at Johnston Gate for the last shuttle bus. What options are left, except to walk back to the Quad or to Mather alone...
...subtitle ought to provoke knowing smiles from Philip Roth's devoted readers. A confession, from this guy? C'mon. Throughout his career, which is now in its 36th year, Roth has reacted with high exasperation to suggestions that his novels document his life or reveal anything about him except his imagination. It hasn't helped his case, of course, that he has filled his best books (among them, Portnoy's Complaint, My Life as a Man and The Ghost Writer) with heroes who, like him, are brainy, funny, Jewish men -- usually writers -- with intense memories of Newark, New Jersey, childhoods...
...reality, nobody except the dead stopped eating. Restaurant employment jumped from 8 million in 1985 to more than 9 million today. Table-service revenues actually jumped in 1986 -- the year of the tax act -- and they grew more than 6% a year until 1989, when the recession prompted a dip. In 1992 sales began to rebound. Of course, high-ticket restaurants in particular have taken a beating, but that probably has more to do with a general post-1980s decline in lavish spending than it does with the deductibility of meals...