Word: exception
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...there was kind of an isolationist fervor in some quarters. People saying, 'Hey, that's not any of our business.' There's a parallel there for what some feel about the Persian Gulf today: let somebody else figure this out. And it's my view that nobody can, except the United States...
...same time, the decision ruffled right-wingers who steadfastly oppose even the mildest forms of minority-preference programs and who are already unhappy with Bush for his retreat on taxes, among other things. Jeered John Scully of the conservative Washington Legal Foundation: "We've had everything on this except another 'Read my hips' statement...
EDWARD SCISSORHANDS. The Jesus story retold in pop pastel colors -- except that Edward, poor gentle creature, nearly gets crucified at Christmastime. Tim Burton (Batman) directs the season's funniest, bittersweetest film...
...Most Kuwaitis were spoiled beyond imagination," says Saud Nasser al- Sabah, Kuwait's ambassador to the U.S. Except at KPC and the investment office, lean and mean because they were (and still are) the lifeblood of the country, merit counted for nothing. "There was no accountability," says Khalifa, "because government employees were promoted automatically. It was impossible to fire civil servants. Several years ago the parliament passed an amazing law. In effect, it said that if someone was performing poorly, he would have been fired. But, says this law, since he was not fired, then by definition he was performing...
...Kennedys of Massachusetts, an immigrant clan that reaped power and pain in almost equal measure. They were like the Ewings of Dallas, with a brilliant, scheming son wrapping his dirty deals in a whisper and a smile. They were like every family, the Corleones of Mario Puzo's imagination, except they wrote their quarrels in blood. They killed their rivals, and when they felt betrayed from within, they killed each other...