Word: unless
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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However, the court would not order the university to admit Bakke unless he could demonstrate that in the absence of the special program he would not have been rejected...
Harvard has lost five straight at The Stadium. They haven't lost on the road since 1974, or before anyone who calls himself an undergraduate was enrolled here. Unless, that is, you're '77-4, '76-3, or something weird like that...
...companies struggling to find economical ways of coaxing oil out of otherwise exhausted wells, burning it out of shale or extracting it out of tar sands. Russell Long, the Louisiana Democrat who heads the Senate Finance Committee, has threatened to eliminate the wellhead tax from the Carter program unless the revenues are used to help expand production. He has a powerful point. Politically, it would be improper to let the oil companies reap "windfall" profits from raising the domestic price to OPEC levels, and adequate safeguards can be drafted to ensure that R. and D. aid to the companies...
...since he witnessed a close friend drown two years ago; they even sent him to a therapist ten days before the crime. The Zamoras will also testify Ronald was a confirmed TV addict who spent at least six hours a day staring at the screen; he refused to eat unless the television was on and sometimes sneaked out of bed to catch a late movie. His favorite shows: such cops-and-robbers series as Kojak, Baretta and Starsky and Hutch. According to Mrs. Zamora, Ronald is such a Kojak fan, "he even asked his father to shave his head because...
...persistently mistakes sanctimoniousness for sanctity, guile for goodness. His chosen saint in residence, Tartuffe (John Wood), is a monster of false piety, a dark prince of humbug and hypocrisy. More significantly, he is the stinking essence of the world's wisdom: that a crime is no crime unless one gets caught...