Word: onto
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Perhaps the most spectacular example of the peril of venturing onto technology's edge is Trilogy Ltd. Founded in 1980 by Gene Amdahl, a former IBM engineer, it was to have been a bravura business encore by the man who created Amdahl Corp., a successful maker of big mainframe computers. Amdahl audaciously planned to build a new supercomputer based on a revolutionary semiconductor chip that would be far faster than conventional ones. But, concedes Trilogy President Frederick White, "it was just too much to bite off." The company abandoned plans for both its superchip and its supercomputer earlier this...
...dullest one I ever covered was the 1956 convention that renominated Eisenhower. But this here may well win." There was almost no conflict, surprise or suspense, none of the drama that TV thrives on. Thus network floor reporters like Wallace had to hustle to find interviews that would get onto the air. They had no breaking news to follow, no deep divisions to exemplify. They did not even have many big names to interview: more than ever, the party's major celebrities were being taken up to the anchor booth...
...Coliseum was a Haitian with a lovely, euphonious name, Dieudonne Lamothe. He ran his last lap stolidly, engulfed by applause, and when he crossed the finish line he was the 78th runner to do so. The orange Halloween-hat traffic cones used to guide Lamothe and his swifter brethren onto the track from the tunnel were picked up; the tunnel was blocked off so that such scheduled rituals as the awarding of the final medals, the reintroduction of the athletes, the arrival of a spaceship, the performance of 200 break dancers, Lionel Richie, the fireworks and so forth, could begin...
...there is a husband who decides to return home ahead of schedule, you may be sure Teddy will encounter him-and scramble out onto a ledge 100 ft. above the ground...
...course, all the speculation proved pointless. The American women beat their opponents by an average margin of 33; the men by 32. Even the scores did not fully convey the sense of hopelessness with which the other teams went onto the court. Coach Antonio Diaz-Miguel of Spain, whose men's team lost by 101-68 in a preliminary game and by 96-65 for the gold medal, predicted from the outset that the U.S. men would not lose a game. Said he: "American basketball is 50 years ahead of other countries, and I think no one will ever...