Word: exception
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Prince is used to doing it all. At just 19 Prince arranged, produced, and composed his own album. He also sang vocals and played all the instruments except for a few backup ones...
...Liberty? By modern high-rise standards, it is dinky, a dozen stories from head to toe. And by the standards of statuary, Lady Liberty is absurdly huge, unnecessarily literal, a giant trinket as vulgar as a sign on the Las Vegas strip. It is hardly an ancient monument. Except for Richard Morris Hunt's pedestal, the thing was not even Made in America. (Perfect protectionist irony: an imported patriotic icon...
...have a wide range of restrictions on contacts with South Africa, ranging from sporting events to the sale of oil. It was in an atmosphere of protest that the House of Representatives two weeks ago passed a bill calling for a ban on all U.S. trade with South Africa, except for strategic minerals necessary for national defense. In the Senate, a milder bill is expected to pass later in the summer...
...summer's last City Council meeting featured a debate less heated than most--for everyone except the mosquitoes...
...would never lose business over a few pickles. With billions and billions of hamburgers, that would translate into trillions of pickles and at least millions of dollars. In addition, it would all be tax deductible as charitable donations. There was no possible reason not to adopt the plan, except they did not know...