Word: onto
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Once mothers do find their way onto the Medicaid rolls, they must locate physicians willing to deliver care to Medicaid patients. But partly because of huge medical school debts and tremendous malpractice premiums, more than half of American obstetricians cannot afford to provide prenatal care at Medicaid rates. As a result, one-third of low-income women who received inadequate prenatal care last year attributed this failure to their inability to locate a health care provider, according to a study done by the General Accounting Office...
Plant officials inside said 51 people were arrested at a railroad entry point to the site, where demonstrators reenacted a 1976 protest and then climbed onto the plant property. Another 81 were arrested inside the north gate and hundreds more inside the south gate, where they sat down after encountering a police line...
News of the controversy and the apparent ineffectiveness of parietal rules spread onto the pages of national tabloids like the Record American. Wire services like the Associated Press and United Press International carried the stories, and papers similar to the National Enquirer sported headlines about the supposed salubrious and origiastic fests at the College, setting off a chain of rumors no doubt worse than the potentially scandalous situations College Deans had feared the year before...
...Foley moved onto the first rung of the leadership ladder when he was elected chairman of the Democratic caucus. In one of those "accidents" of his career, he was chosen as House whip soon after, when Tip O'Neill's first two choices were not available. As whip, Foley added to his formidable reputation as a coalition builder, which helped him win the majority leader post when Wright climbed to the Speaker's chair...
...Lockerbie, Scotland, killing 270. Britain's Ministry of Transport came under fire for having failed to respond soon enough to terrorist bomb threats against U.S. airliners. Last week West German officials were embarrassed by charges that Bonn may have fumbled a chance to prevent the bomb from being smuggled onto the plane...