Word: exception
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...much of the voters and that like many of the initiatives that proliferate on California ballots, it represents an abdication of the legislature's responsibility. Yet Van de Kamp's opponents give the cleanup measure their grudging respect. Neither Feinstein nor Wilson seriously challenges most of its provisions, except for the creation of an environmental advocate. Feinstein says she wants to be "my own environmental advocate." Wilson similarly complains that the move would Balkanize the Governor's office. Taunts a Wilson adviser: "Why not a health advocate, an education advocate and an everything-else advocate...
Most of the concerns about German unity have traditionally come from Moscow, but anti-German sentiment has by no means disappeared in Western Europe, despite nearly four decades of close cooperation inside the European Community. A Dutch official, who asked not to be identified, said last week, "Except for the Germans, no one in Europe wants reunification." British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher has given broad hints of her feelings. At a dinner at 10 Downing Street in honor of Polish Prime Minister Tadeusz Mazowiecki last week, she said the developments in Europe "may stir deeply felt anxieties." Poland and Britain...
...mullah takes the microphone and sings out the traditional Muslim call to prayer in Arabic. "Allahu akbar! Allahu akbar! Allahu akbar!" the call begins. Mesmerized, the Tadzhiks as one man -- there is not a woman in sight among the 10,000 except Alexandra -- raise their hands in the traditional Muslim posture of worship. The Soviets stiffen. The officers disappear from the windows. Except for the wail of the mullah, a total hush has descended upon the gathering. After the prayer call, the mullah reads a sura from the Koran honoring the dead. Three minutes later, the prayer and reading...
...foil, except for Okumura's loss in the first round, all bouts went to the Crimson. And in epee, Harvard again dominated by taking seven of nine bouts. Loeser lost in the first and second rounds...
...except this time the system is also changing. The best comparison for me is the middle of the 19th century...