Word: except
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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High Cost of Living has no value, of course, on a practical level but director Scheerer cannot be accused of not trying. Except for the outlandishness of the robbery plot, his portrait of three middle-aged middle-class women in Eugene, Oregon is devastatingly accurate. Their adventures with the police, with gas station attendants, exhusbands, husbands, and little leaguers have the all too humid air of authenticity about them...
...That Congress may require 10% of the money spent on a federally funded public works program to go only to contracting firms controlled by members of racial and ethnic minority groups. The vote: 6 to 3. > That judges must open all criminal trials to the press and public, except under special circumstances, such as when public attendance might jeopardize the fairness of the trial. This was the high court's first assertion of a constitutional basis for the press's "right of access" to important public information. The vote...
Nine months earlier, Congress had gone much further and enacted the Hyde Amendment, named after Henry Hyde, a Republican Congressman from Illinois. In its latest form it forbids federal funding for any abortions, except those necessary to save a woman's life or those performed on victims of promptly reported rape or incest. Last January, New York Federal District Court Judge John Dooling found the Hyde Amendment unconstitutional. Since the Federal Government helps states pay for almost all other medical services required by the poor, he reasoned in part, it cannot refuse to pay for abortions...
...smiling wife and a bevy of pink-cheeked children. But a long tradition claims that the voters want a close look at every prospective First Family, and that they want any such family to be very familial indeed. No divorced man has ever been elected President, and except for Warren Harding, there has not been a childless President since James Buchanan (1857-61), who was also the only President to remain a lifelong bachelor...
...except a victim can truly understand the complete sense of helpless ness and despair that overcomes a once vigorous adult who is suddenly struck down by this devastating, if usually tem porary, ailment. The victim's world quickly shrinks, often limited at the onset to bed or couch. Work and household chores are almost totally ignored, and every movement is fraught with peril. Dressing becomes