Word: onto
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...erupted. Mondale and his aides cheered, shook hands and, in a strange gesture for that controlled group, slapped palms in the high-five manner of basketball players celebrating a slam dunk. Mondale a few minutes later strolled out onto the patio, lit a cigar and savored the moment alone. His younger son William, 22, joined him; they talked about, of all things, mosquitoes, which are plaguing North Oaks this summer...
...inestimable advantages of wealth is the immunity that it can purchase from serious waiting. The rich do not wait in long lines to buy groceries or airplane tickets. The help sees to it. The limousine takes the privileged right out onto the tarmac, their shoes barely grazing the ground...
...crude meant nightmarish gasoline prices and stagnant economies for the industrialized world. But along with staggering energy costs came recessions and conservation measures that whave resulted in a worldwide oil glut. Last week the 13 members of OPEC 1 gathered in Vienna and struggled to hold onto their bench-mark price of $29 per bbl. and a production ceiling of 17.5 million bbl. a day that they established in March...
...likes of Buddy Holly and James Dean, and are as much a talisman of the '50s as white socks and penny loafers. John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd wore them in the movie The Blues Brothers, and in Terms of Endearment Jack Nicholson seemed to have Wayfarers grafted onto his face. They became a mass pop phenomenon when Tom Cruise hid himself behind a pair in Risky Business in 1983. As a result, says Paul Brickman, the movie's writerdirector, kids are buying attitude, a "street-bad kind of look." In 1981 Bausch & Lomb produced 18,000 Wayfarers. This...
...Atari but will pick up $240 million of the company's debts. He will also get rights to buy 1 mil lion Warner shares at $22 each, about equal to last week's price. Warner, which evidently believes that Tramiel can succeed where it failed, will hold onto a 32% stake in Atari...