Word: excepting
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...club holds no formal meetings, except for introductory membership meetings, and is connected mainly through the activities it sponsors and participates...
...every chance he gets and then cries foul about "attack ads" Bush has aired. On the Democratic side, Al Gore says he respects Bill Bradley--and then demolishes him for quitting the Senate, "eliminating" Medicaid, voting once for a school-voucher experiment and supporting the 1981 Reagan budget cuts. Except for that, though, he really respects...
Energetic, tough, charismatic, a winner, a leader. That should make for a pretty good suit. We'll find out, because Michael Jordan is now a suit. Gone, except for practice sessions, are the short pants. Last week he became a pinstriped part owner of the NBA's Washington Wizards (13-29), a team whose skills can make fans disappear. The title on his office will read PRESIDENT OF BASKETBALL OPERATIONS, meaning that Jordan will supervise both players and coaches. His part ownership comes from his buying into a company run by America Online executive Ted Leonsis and businessman Jonathan Ledecky...
...squeaked Buckwheat before dropping into the deep baritone and Standard English he uses except when he's in character. "You mean the Society for Turning Up Phony Issues and Diversions, that secret outfit that goes around making us black folks look like fools by stirring up dumb racial controversies like the idiotic fuss in Washington last year over the word niggardly? Cut the Ebonics, Kingfish! If there's another STUPID racial fight going on, it's a serious issue...
...meantime, Zorn, having shed his NotComGuy handle, remains unimpressed by his rival's novelty act. "I don't think it's very hard what he's doing. It's like Bio-Dome. It's Gilligan's Island, except he has everything." Zorn may have a point. If his own experience is a guide, the true test of DotComGuy's character will come 11 months from now, when he will have to face the outside world again, no longer safely cocooned inside the Web. Perhaps he'll retreat when he finally sees his shadow...