Word: onto
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...lives. Now we are mourning our dead." As he spoke, silent processions of survivors carried the dead, wrapped in white cotton shrouds and covered with flowers, through the streets of the poisoned city to the nearby Chhola Vishram cremation site. There, four, five, six bodies were thrown onto a pyre that usually served only one. Rows upon rows of pyres burned through the night. -By Pico Iyer...
...eerie morning stillness was broken by the sound of shooting in the airplane cabin. The terrorists, led by a young man identified only as Abu Saleh, pushed open the door and flung the body of their first victim onto the runway. The hijackers had ordered all Kuwaitis and Americans to move to the forward section soon after the plane landed. During the ensuing confusion they apparently selected one American and summarily executed him. Assisted by Swiss diplomats, who made visits to the Tehran morgue, U.S. officials confirmed later in the week that they were "99% certain" that the murdered...
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...line snaked out of the Treasury Department building onto the sidewalk and down the street. Lobbyists in three-piece suits and Gucci shoes were waiting for the Treasury Department's 262-page, blue-bound Tax Reform for Fairness, Simplicity and Economic Growth. The Government printed 5,500 copies but quickly sold out the $8 volume, so great was the demand. Marveled a Treasury spokesman: "It looked like a soup kitchen for the well-heeled...
...acceleration of inflation seemed a real possibility. As demand for loans surged, the Reserve Board let the prime rate creep up from 11% in March to 13% by the end of June. Volcker kept the prime at that lofty level all summer in hopes of easing the economy onto a slower, more sustainable growth path...