Word: except
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...phone at the presidential house on Arlegui Street began ringing at 5 a.m. despite a long-standing order that the resident not be awakened except in the event of another coup attempt. For Corazon Aquino, the news that Imelda Marcos had just been acquitted of fraud and racketeering charges in a New York court must have been nearly as distressing. The President's office reacted by tersely reaffirming Aquino's decision "not to allow the return of Mrs. Marcos at the present time." But across the Pacific, a vindicated Marcos told reporters, "I think I should be able to come...
These are people with whom we empathize and with whom we empathize and with whom we want to identify. But except for a single heterosexual woman friend (Mary-Louise parker), all of the characters are gay men. The attention to gay men is crucial, since they are among the highest risk groups for AIDS, and it is clear that Lucas intended to concentrate on the group that has been most dramatically affected...
...this seems extreme, the same is true -- but with the sides reversed -- on the equally emotional issue of what to do about a child conceived in the violence of rape or incest. The pro-life movement brooks no exception to the absolute position that all abortions, except those to save the life of the mother, are wrong, even ones intended to terminate the progeny of a rapist. Yet this stance may be their undoing. Louisiana's Governor Buddy Roemer, a self-described "right-to-lifer," has promised to veto the just-passed antiabortion bill because it makes no exceptions...
...House Ways and Means Chair Richard Voke (D-Chelsea) said he was willing to compromise on extending the sales tax to other areas--except for professional services...
Hunsberger's colleagues' only complaint was that they might have included more Square newcomers had they been writing the guide. Except for Majestic Bellowphone player Leonard Solomon, described in the guide as a "one-man-band," who was upset that his photo looked excessively "serious and strange...