Word: except
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...first be an American, and second you will be a Puerto Rican." Anti-statehooders seized on the statement as proof that the island's cultural identity would disappear, but Connally later recovered, sort of. "You'll hardly know you have it [statehood]," he told a cocktail gathering, "except for a few more benefits...
...week's end the FBI had questioned some two dozen controllers, but a number of others were refusing to provide any information to the investigators except their names, ages and home addresses. Anthony Maimone, head of Local 160, insisted that human error or mechanical failure was to blame and accused the FAA of "blowing this thing out of proportion." Said a former PATCO official: "I just cannot believe that a controller who was not certifiably psychotic would do a thing like that." Whatever the case, said Gabriel Hartl, a spokesman for the Air Traffic Control Association, only...
...Except for the obvious risk of sunburn from overexposure, medical specialists see no immediate danger from such tanning. But, cautions Madhukar Pathak, research professor of dermatology at Harvard Medical School, "we don't know the long-term effects of exposure to ultraviolet lamps." He warns that prolonged use of the lamps found in most clinics may cause skin cancer in fair-complexioned people. Although this is usually treatable, the aging and wrinkling of the skin that also come from too much exposure are irreversible. Those who do not use goggles risk developing cataracts. As of next...
...bishops said they would forbid laymen and -women to perform certain priestly functions, including baptizing children (except in emergencies). Because of the wide opposition to celibacy in Holland and a worsening shortage of priests, there are now some 280 full-time "pastoral cooperators" performing such tasks...
...dream that launched the upbeat, activist 1960s in U.S. Protestantism. Why not arbitrate the seemingly passe traditions that divide Methodists, Presbyterians, Episcopalians and others, to create one grand united church? The bold vision produced the "Consultation on Church Union" (COCU), a series of discussions involving most major groups except the Baptists and Lutherans, COCU lost some of its momentum in the 1970s but is still very much alive. Ten denominations, with 22.7 million members -nearly a third of the nation's Protestants-are now involved...