Word: exception
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Harvard] student, I could hardly be against shopping period," Lewis says. "I don't think there is really any way for an incoming freshman to know for sure whether she belongs in Math 25 and will enjoy it except to go to the first couple of classes and try to do the first problem...
...Except perhaps the bank. Crichton's 1995 entertainment earnings, according to Forbes magazine, amounted to $22 million--not from principal, not from interest, but just from words he thought up himself. His remuneration casts a consequential shadow, but the author isn't comfortable talking about it. He would sooner cogitate on those literary niggles--the charges that his characters have no depth. Back as far as The Andromeda Strain, Crichton concedes, he wasn't much for delving into character ("It didn't matter who the people were"). Still, he's human: criticism stings. "You know, I'm not very well...
Okay, they thought. Not that bad, all we have to do is fill out this card. (Now at the top of the form.) Looks pretty much the same as the one they gave us, except here there's a blank for an e-mail address. Maybe they're entering the information age, maybe this will speed up communications with OCS, Sounds reasonable...
...Further down the form.) Hmm, looks the same except--what's this--they want to know race! Don't they have this sort of information on file already? Suppose it's easier for us to fill it in than for them to look it up. But why? Is race going to play a part in this process? At the University level? At the national level...
...doubt it. Big Business stands to make a large profit from a successful undertaking in the communications field when they are allowed to use the convergence of modes technology. Congress stands to gain nothing, except more money from special interests and the power over the lives of the millions of people who rely on communications services. I would prefer to have the service planned by those motivated by profit because they must compete for my subscription to their service. They will set up an efficient and easy-to-use system that will enhance the lives of consumers. Congress would just...