Word: except
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...indebtedness at $4.30 an hour. "I felt good about working." Before a spinal injury incapacitated her, she was a nurse and a census enumerator. Afterward no one would hire her. "Lots of people who are capable of working don't get the opportunity," she says. Except for a pet rabbit named Kortina, she lives alone. The linoleum floors in her living room gleam. The white curtains above the radiator seem to have just come from the wash and the ironing board. "I'm going to do more work for the city," she says proudly. "I wish more people...
...progress on the hostages is made by May 17, the second stage-direct economic action-is to take effect. Under these measures, the Common Market and Japan would, among other things, refuse to service Iranian aircraft and ships, ban all trade with Iran except for food and medicine, and freeze Iranian assets (which in West Germany alone total some $6 billion). Lord Carrington, the British Foreign Secretary, stressed that the mere transfer of the American hostages from their militant captors to the custody of the Iranian government would not constitute sufficient progress to prevent the second-stage sanctions from taking...
...endless effort to cope with one of the world's higher crime rates, the U.S. has long sent more people to prison for longer terms than any other industrialized Western nation except South Africa. Yet the country's penal institutions add up to a national disgrace. Riotous prison disorders have become so common that it was only second-rate news last March when a guard was wounded and several others were taken hostage during a mutiny of 100 or so inmates in a Newark, N.J., jail. In fact, the event seemed trivial only because it came so soon...
...assumption she had, New Yorker Rosie Ruiz, 26, was crowned as the first woman finisher in the 26.2-mile Boston Marathon. But doubts arose about Rosie's remarkable physical condition and stunning time: 2 hr. 31 min. 56 sec. Nobody remembered seeing her, except near the finish line; two Harvard students insisted they watched her join the pack half a mile away. Doubts also arose, as a result, about her 24th-place finish in the 1979 New York Marathon. Rechecked finish-line video tapes showed no Ruiz, although a computer had checked in her number. Rosie tearfully insisted...
...Crimson number two player, future Q-Worlder Howard Sands, fell to John Hare, 7-5, 6-4. After the match, Sands could offer no explanations for the one upset of the day except, "He just played better than...