Word: except
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Trailing Vice President Agnew and his small army of security agents, John Stacks noted that in Phoenix ever-vigilant Secret Service men carefully ignored some reporters' vice-presidential credentials and locked them out of the hall. Local police tended to reject all credentials-"except," says Stacks, "a ticket to whatever $100-a-plate function was taking place...
...EXCEPT for the unmistakably modern odor of tear gas and burning rubber, the southern Italian city of Reggio di Calabria could have passed for one of the fortified city-states that made up Italy before the nation was unified 100 years ago. For most of the week, towering barricades of tree trunks, paving stones and junk sealed the city off from the outside world while nearly 5,000 armed police and carabinieri laid siege to it. At one point, two columns of cops in full riot regalia, spearheaded by bulldozers and a construction crane, charged into a district that...
...growth rates. Ultimately, they would have to adopt a common tax system and jointly set national budgets. Having done all that, the Common Market could expand its present customs union into a full economic and monetary confederation. Thereafter, member countries would no longer be able to finance government deficits (except with the consent of the confederation) in the old, easy way by expanding their money supply. Instead, deficits would have to be met by higher taxes or government borrowing from individuals...
...Lynch: "I don't think it's fair to the small investor that institutions can do some things in the stock market that he can't do." It certainly does not seem fair that a listed stock can be actively traded without anybody knowing about it, except a few insiders...
...more respectable work. Chet eventually gives it all up to wed the hardware-store widow, but Monte won't relinquish his ways even for the golden-hearted, dross-tongued whore (Jeanne Moreau) he loves. By the time the film ends, just about everyone has been killed off except Marvin and Director Wil liam Fraker, who might well have been the first target...