Word: excepts
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...report is an except from a longer document required to be to be filed annually with with the federal government. The increase are concentrated in the Humanities and social science with no growth in the female tenure ranks in the natural sciences...
...helped ignite full-scale ethnic rivalry among some of the country's other republics. During that period, even the intellectual elite supported his nationalist euphoria. But once he had used them to cement his position, he cast them aside. He is faithful, says biographer Slavoljub Djukic, to no one except his wife once a person's usefulness is past...
Besides, working on the rough edge of nature offers its vagrant epiphanies. "One day," Chen recalls, "it started raining. We got on the bus, and everyone was so tired, they dozed off. Except for me; I'm an insomniac. I was listening to Rachmaninoff and staring out the window. The black clouds were rolling, but at the end of the horizon a strip of blue showed up, then a rainbow. It was very intense--strong and beautiful, like a gate to heaven. I woke everybody up, and we got it in the movie. So seldom do you see beauty face...
Kids develop the darnedest eating habits. You've heard of the purity rule: potatoes and carrots must never touch, or they're "contaminated." Or the idea that any food is fine as long as it's peanut butter. I've even heard of youngsters who won't eat vegetables except in Chinese restaurants. But that hasn't stopped the experts at the U.S. Department of Agriculture from coming up with a new set of guidelines, published last week in the form of a pint-size food pyramid, to help parents and teachers encourage kids to eat a healthy, balanced diet...
...Clinton used this one too, recalling that World War I started in this part of Europe. Here the differences are revealing. In 1914 the great powers of Europe lined up on opposing sides. Today they are united--except for Russia, but it won't go to war for Serbia...