Word: onto
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Some of the new models feature Spanish-language controls and instructions. Others have oversize knobs and large-type instructions for those with poor eyesight. For blind customers, a Braille operating manual and a Braille overlay that easily snaps onto the control panel of the machines are available. All of the machines are simple push-button models with no fancy electronic controls...
Offutt did not hold onto the council's chair by mouthing grand slogans or issuing statements of intent like those associated with the earlier days of the campaign. He won after outlining specific ideas to improve the quality of student life. None of the changes he outlined is as captivating as "controversial political questions," but each would have a positive effect on the life of undergraduates...
...White House briefing, in preparation for Tuesday's scheduled State of the Union address, when Presidential Chief of Staff Donald Regan announced the news. The two anchormen raced out of the room together, heading for their Washington studios. Brokaw got a taxi first, but Jennings beat him onto the air, sliding into a seat next to Morning Newsman Steve Bell shortly after noon. Brokaw joined NBC's John Palmer, anchoring in New York, a few minutes later...
...phone call ever made." It was even more, and Nixon knew it. He launched a global diplomatic odyssey timed to take advantage of the Apollo 11 success. His itinerary placed him on the aircraft carrier Hornet just as the moon crew was fished out of the ocean and lifted onto the TV screens of people all over the globe. Without the continuing spectaculars in space, Nixon's demise because of Watergate would have produced even more of a national trauma than...
...dismay among many of the world's major oil-producing countries, as they seem unable to halt a major price war that has dramatically depressed the value of their most important product. The war, caused by a surplus of some 2 million bbl. of crude oil a day flooding onto world markets, showed no signs of abating last week. The spot price of oil, which two weeks ago fell through the $20-per-bbl. barrier for the first time in seven years, closed last week at about...