Word: except
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...There is going to be more beuracracy you haveto file the same report with a different level ofgovernment you are already filing with two otherlevels," Taylor said. "You aren't doing anythingdifferent except spending more money...
...itself, that proves nothing. Who cares about the size of the slices if the pie is larger? But Government interest payments do nothing to make the pie any larger -- except to the extent that the borrowed money was invested productively. And the share of Government spending going to productive investment has declined over the decade, as our crumbling infrastructure can attest. So interest payments on the national debt have made at least a small contribution to income inequality without any growth payoff. If traditional welfare is paying people not to work (a common gripe), this is the capitalist equivalent: paying...
...with my thesis past amd friends taking honors hourlies--knocking off courses one by one like mechanical ducks--it's time to pull up a chair, relax. Except for one nagging issue...
...unable to provide a meaningful education to Afro-American Studies students. The tenure system and the additional, arbitrary restrictions placed upon hiring for the department have strangled growth. The best scholars in the field, lured by offers of immediate tenure and extraordinary salaries, go anywhere in the country except Harvard...
...never won an Oscar. She worked with few good directors, made fewer great films than any star of comparable magnitude. She appeared in 14 silent features, then 14 talkies beginning in 1930 -- but even in that era her fervid, hypnotic style of acting was an odd anachronism. Except in drag clubs, she inspired no real imitators. But Garbo was more than a camp goddess. She was just the most haunting beauty, and the finest actress, in movie history...