Word: exception
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...root cause of East-West tension -- the repressive, predatory nature of Soviet communism -- was nonnegotiable. The old men in the Kremlin refused to brook "interference in the internal affairs of the U.S.S.R.," and they would not accept meaningful constraints on Soviet international behavior. That left little to talk about, except how many warheads should be allowed to dance on the head of an intercontinental ballistic missile...
...closings on the people of Flint, has provoked raves and outrages at film festivals, in movie theaters and especially in the city where it was filmed. Last week, when Moore was the guest on Phil Donahue's talk show, Whiting Auditorium was packed with every species of Flint citizen except GM executives; they were busy warning their ad agencies against placing spots on those Donahue episodes. Slouched in a center-stage chair, Moore got an earful from the audience. Some came to pick nits and fights. Said an audience member: "I'd just like to know what Michael Moore...
...once again become the united fatherland of all the citizens of the German nation," he said. Modrow unveiled a four-step process for the gradual merger of the two Germanys' economies, legal systems and governments that closely paralleled the plan presented in December by West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, except on one critical point. Modrow unequivocally called for a neutral Germany, demanding that both states "detach themselves" from their respective military alliances...
...robots could find the location of the puck by sensing an infrared light emitted by it, except of course when the organizers forgot to "turn the puck on." This occurred in the first round...
Women's Studies here is a degree-granting committee, not a full-fledged department. It cannot make tenure appointments except in conjunction with one of the other officially recognized academic disciplines. It has no graduate students, and no tradition of acceptance as a legitimate field of inquiry at the University...