Word: excepting
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...anybody's veep and joked about being Bush's "Secretary of Reform," a position he'll now fill in the Senate, on the trail and in front of the cameras with new and improved clout from now until at least November. Meanwhile, Bush didn't have much to do except stand there and remind everybody that the two have honest and manly beefs but "a lot more agreements than disagreements." He also paid a couple of obligatory compliments, calling McCain a "friend" and a "good man" and saying, "I look forward to working with him." Just don't count...
...surprise. Taylor evicted her husband Eddie Fisher, and Burton cashiered his wife Sybil. The Queen of the Nile and the Prince of Denmark fell into each other's boozy, lascivious arms and set off on a saga of extravagant narcissism that became a celebrity contribution to '60s excess--except that it had no redeeming social value. As the civil rights movement marched, and Vietnam tore America apart, and Presidents were assassinated or driven from office, Richard and Elizabeth traveled with retinues, like royalty. They made memorable scenes and drank each other into stupors and blackouts. They dined with Rothschilds...
...selfishness, an unwillingness to credit other people with feelings as pure as her own. And Ronnee, who imagines herself a cool, calculating gold digger, is actually a vulnerable young woman burdened by society with conflicting identities. "Yeah, I know," she says at one point. "Nothing is black and white. Except me. I'm black and white...
...nice house to have grown up in," Katie says, settling into the dark sitting room, a room decorated with gold lamps and some chinoiserie. She averts her eyes. Perhaps it would have been an entirely average house to grow up in, except for the troubles that began when Katie was 13. One day she entered a teen chat room on AOL, and all at once her adolescence became unlike those of her upper-class conservative teen peers...
...ministers have already signed away all their powers to the ECB. And though speculators' hearts raced Friday after a sorrowful Duisenberg hinted at a euro-buying intervention to goose demand, such moves are usually stopgap measures at best. Long-term, there's not a whole lot Duisenberg can do except wait for Greenspan's rate-hike medicine to take effect in the U.S., because it's the U.S.' supercharged economy - 4.5 percent annual growth to Europe's 3.4 percent - that's the most visible culprit, attracting dollar investment and leaving the euro stranded...