Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...described her attacker as a male, approximately 5' 11", "burly, with sandy hair, a straight nose, not particularly distinctive except for being very pale...[He was] wearing a sandy duffle coat...
...except a few athletics department big-wigs knows how much the department spends each year. You can't find out. We can't find out. The members of the oversight committee can't find...
...last week, 11 newly < elected Senators and 110 fledgling members of the House fumbled their way around Capitol Hill. But as they consulted with senior lawmakers about the bewilderingly complex rules of their august institutions, the office of Oregon's normally gregarious five-term Republican Senator was eerily silent, except for an occasional reporter's unwelcome call...
Since the Supreme Court reaffirmed the right to abortion last June, antiabortion forces eager to overturn Roe v. Wade have been watching the small island of Guam. In 1990 Guam enacted one of the nation's stiffest antiabortion laws, prohibiting all abortions except those necessary to save a pregnant woman's life or to prevent a "grave" threat to her health. But a federal court declared it unconstitutional last April, and last week the Supreme Court refused to hear Guam's appeal. The National Right to Life Committee called the decision "disappointing but unsurprising...
...enormous shed, unheated, dark except for a few short-wicked oil lanterns -- smudged night-lights. The hundreds of prisoners sleep close together, in orderly right-angle ranks. They have straw mats and blankets (though how many blankets is a point of argument -- the colonel says five, which seems extravagant, and the men say fewer). They keep their possessions in cardboard boxes that they hang from what look like the railings to hold dairy cows as they are milked. The shed smells of cows (an effect both disturbing and distantly wholesome, a smell from childhood). The army insists that the building...