Word: excepting
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...propping his boots on a chair. "Only a weak person makes it a weak position." In fact, the Texas state constitution of 1876 made it weak in order to prevent Reconstruction-era carpetbaggers from wielding too much influence. "The Governor has no power," says Texas house speaker Pete Laney, "except what the legislature gives him or he takes with the force of his own personality." A 1997 study by the University of North Carolina ranked the powers of the office 49th out of the 50 governorships--which makes Texas "a perfectly good training ground for the [weak] Executive power...
...Bush is promising relief to taxpayers is for someone else to get there first. Especially since it poses the prospect of the photo op from hell--the image of Al Gore smiling over the shoulder of Bill Clinton as he signs a tax cut for which everyone gets credit except the Republican nominee...
Shakespeare takes this all in with a shadow's unobtrusiveness, never putting himself forward except to throw in a perfect quote from Henry David Thoreau or Blaise Cendrars. More even than his encompassing research, it is his undeluded sympathy that persuades us. Chatwin "needed someone both to run away from and to come back to," Shakespeare writes, with typical shrewdness, "and he found in Elizabeth that person." In the woman who was forced to work as a cashier in a Toad Hall garden center while her now famous husband gallivanted around the world collecting lovers, the author finds a hero...
...rolling rhythm and blues beats, all of which are pulled off with considerable ease considering the great diversity of styles. It's difficult to ascribe credit in this case because we don't know where Hutchence ends and his posthumous producing team begins. Regardless, the work rarely falters, except occasionally in the lyrics' poetic expression. It's very eerie, considering the scandal and controversy surrounding Hutchence's death to hear him wail "I just wanna slide away and come alive again" on the parting "Slide Away," but fortunately, the music makes you celebrate his art rather than lament...
...star out of many at Santa Ynez High School, a high school volleyball powerhouse. While there, he played volleyball with future first-team All-Americans Andy Witt and George Roumain. The team went an unprecedented 22-0 in Pankau's junior year and won all except one of their matches in 3-0 routs...