Word: exceptions
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...Hampshire, the only state in the union with no sales or broad-based income tax, has been growing faster than any other Eastern state except Florida. More than one-third of its manufacturing labor force is now employed in technological industries. Exxon and Burroughs have recently bought land for construction of major new plants in Connecticut. "We were arrogant and half asleep for 25 years, allowing what we had here to be drained away," says Connecticut Economic Development Commissioner Edward Stockton. "Now we have incentives to encourage businesses to settle and stay here...
...tiny room was so jammed with people that Strauss had to stand in the doorway, stretching his neck to see the screen. Except for Kennedy's voice, there was no sound in the trailer. Jody Powell broke the stillness with a crack about the Senator's being in an easy position to suggest things, and the group grunted approval. Jerry Rafshoon piped up: "You tell them, Teddy," voicing the resentment in the room...
...evening of Carter's renomination, Wilkie produced a carefully crafted 1,000-word analysis of the cultural and political gulf between Carter and Kennedy. He finished that at 7 p.m., cracked open a beer and ten minutes later started writing background material for the lead story. Except for a brief sortie to the hall, Wilkie remained at the typewriter for the next seven hours, revising his stories for the paper's three morning and two afternoon editions. All told he turned out more than 3,000 words, the equivalent of a full-length magazine article...
Today the National Council of Churches likes to boast that Sunday schools are still the nation's biggest volunteer enterprise, with a total enrollment of 35.6 million (27.1 million Protestant, 8.5 million Catholic). Still, if Wesley were alive, he would be glum. Except for conservative churches like the Southern Baptists, who are doing well, Sunday school participation has dropped by almost 25% in the past ten years. "Mainline" Protestant churches-Methodist, Presbyterian, Episcopal, have been worst hit. Says California's Institute for American Church Growth: "The Sunday school is in a desperate struggle for its very existence...
...dancing." He is 75 now, and those words may well stand as his artistic creed. For the Royal Ballet, he has whirled up Rhapsody, a dazzling, sun-drenched frolic that premiered last week as part of England's birthday tribute to the Queen Mother. There is no plot except from the music, Rachmaninoff's Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini for piano and orchestra...