Word: exception
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...community, regardless of each person's income; the amount is decided by the local community, based on its financial needs. Thatcher fervently believed the old tax should be dumped because it affected only property owners, but the new assessment exacted the same amount from rich and poor alike. Nothing except perhaps Thatcher's personality provoked so much anti-Conservative sentiment among voters. The poor were as angry as the middle-class homeowners who found poll-tax bills several times higher than the previous property taxes. In various ways, the candidates made clear they were ready to make necessary changes. Foreign...
...pictures except a Sean Scully, a Brice Marden, two Dubuffets and the Rauschenberg reached or exceeded their low estimates, and most were well below them. A Rothko work estimated at $1.8 million to $2.2 million was unsold at $1.25 million. Nothing by Andy Warhol sold that night. Younger artists whose star had risen in the '80s did no better. An Eric Fischl, Northern Girl, estimated at $450,000 to $600,000, went begging...
Toward the end of the movie's two hours and 17 minutes, there is very little dialogue at all; half an hour passes with hardly a word spoken except in Tamashek, the language of the Tuareg nomads, with whom Kit hitches a fateful ride. But there are many profound images of the desert in all its pitiless grandeur, courtesy of Bertolucci and his peerless cinematographer, Vittorio Storaro. The wind sculpts mountains and minarets out of the shifting sand. On a rocky spot where Port and Kit have just made desperate love, the setting sun alights for a moment...
...clubs are private institutions, and, therefore, have no official responsibility to anyone except to themselves and the alcohol laws," said one member, who requested anonymity...
Furthermore, we readily acknowledge that the SAT is a poor indicator of an applicant's worthiness. That's why we noted in our editorials that legacies and athletes--according to Harvard's own figures--score significantly worse than non-athlete, non-legacies in every single area of comparison, (except for the athletic rating, of course...