Word: excepted
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...show for it. Darman calculated months ago that Bush could survive the political hit for his U-turn on taxes if in return he solved the deficit problem. As an Administration official admitted, "We got suckered. Now we're in the same place we were three months ago except we've taken a 10-point hit in the polls...
That's when George became the show. With nothing to watch on the field except ghosts of a great past, fans could only turn their heads toward The Boss's box and complain, chanting "George Must Go" and "Steinbrenner Sucks...
...measure, passed unanimously by the 15-member Council except for abstentions by Cuba and Yemen, bans all imports of commodities from Iraq or Kuwait. The sanctions--only the third to be imposed by the Council in its 45-year history--came five days after Iraq invaded Kuwait and overthrew that country's government, after about two weeks of threats that it would do so if Kuwait did not curtail its oil production...
...state of mind called "Southern." Nor was it that way in the Mississippi to which I returned in 1959. It and the entire South could still be bound by an old set of propositions. It segregated the races by law and custom, was poor in every index except natural resources, and held fervently to a one-party politics whose ultimate, if often obscured, objective was the perpetuation of a class and caste system distinctly different from the . national ideal...
...object's significance may be as much artistic as it is religious: incredibly well preserved, it is intact except for a missing left horn. Israeli archaeologists are in awe of its beauty. Says Avraham Biran, former director of the Israeli Department of Antiquities: "People will be copying this because it's so pretty, so delicately done. It's in a class by itself...