Word: except
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Freeman has no regrets about being an athlete at Harvard, except that it takes a lot of time...
...were produced for the Education Development Commission with Jerome Bruner, for fifth-graders. DeVore now gets fan-mail from ten-year-olds, asking how they can get to Kenya, and-even better-how they can go there with him. He tries to answer all his mail, except, he says, when teachers have had all of their students write to him as a class project...
...year and this cleared a few heads, blew a few minds, and raised a lot of consciousnesses. Kids who went to Europe returned appalled and nauseated by the generally carnivorous attitudes of the continental man on the street. Some who went to California said it was better than Cambridge, except for Telegraph Avenue which was worse, and the ones who stayed in New York had no fixed opinions on street life whatsoever, having been forced to stay indoors all summer to avoid death by smog poisoning. There were also, of course, hundreds of kids dispersed across the country, picking watermelons...
Facing such a specific threat to their victory, the leaders of Allende's Popular Unity coalition conferred for 16 hours and agreed to meet with the Christian Democrats to consider a constitutional amendment incorporating all the C.D.P. demands except one rescinding the President's right to make military appointments. It was a thin concession on Allende's part, but it was enough to swing the C.D.P. In a session at week's end, the party agreed to support Allende unanimously. Barring an unlikely military coup or even more unlikely outside intervention, he will be inaugurated Chile's next President...
...clear the deck-tighten our belts, cut officers' salaries, drop employees. I get nothing. The shareholders will get paid." That, of course, remains to be seen. Gramco places such generous valuations on its properties that some U.S. real estate men doubt that they could be sold now-except at a loss...