Word: exception
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Astros-Red Sox series will parallel the Rockets--Celtics series. Except the Houston team will win this time...
...Inherent Ultimately Safe) reactor, which is immersed in a giant pool of water. If the primary cooling system on PIUS fails, pool water floods and cools the core. A reactor being developed by General Electric, Rockwell International and Argonne National Laboratory is cooled directly by submersion in a pool, except that the liquid is molten sodium, which can absorb far more heat than can water before boiling away. Still, should some accident -- an earthquake, for example -- empty the pool, these reactors could conceivably melt...
...down 12% from fiscal 1985 and 37% from 1981. At the same time, U.S. imports of such products as fish, fruit and vegetables have increased. Earlier this month the USDA announced that during May the U.S. became a net importer of farm products for the first time since 1959, except for occasions when dockworkers were on strike. May's farm deficit was $348.7 million. Although the USDA predicts a $7.5 billion agricultural-trade surplus for the year as a whole, the historic one-month deficit outraged farm-state legislators. Said Senate Majority Leader Robert Dole of Kansas: "Something is radically...
...ease among his Iron Curtain allies, Turner visited Soviet Georgia and went climbing and hunting in the distant Caucasus. He shot a mountain goat; its stuffed head is decorating his hotel suite. So far, this is Turner Broadcasting's only tangible trophy. In a unified show of indifference, except for the gala opening ceremony, Muscovites have matched American television audiences, empty seat for measly rating point. Once Turner hoped to make $20 million or $30 million on his inaugural games, but now he expects to lose $10 million or $15 million. "Moscow's just not a great sports town," Turner...
...drive to boost Rumania's population. Under the program, designed to raise the national birthrate from 15 per 1,000 inhabitants to 20 or more, mothers receive $125 for each child after their first. Families are urged to follow the Ceausescus' example by having three children. Abortion is illegal except in certain highly restricted cases, and those convicted of performing the operation may be sent to jail. To enforce the law gynecological wards are watched by police representatives, who must approve obstetric operations...