Word: onto
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...detail." Better yet, nearly half of the almost 5,000 ships that unloaded goods in the Pakistani port of Karachi last year were carrying cargo from the Persian Gulf. A special arrangement allows vessels transporting food or medicine for Afghan refugees in Pakistan to be unloaded quickly and waved onto waiting trucks without going through normal customs procedures. The Afghans probably make use of this system to send along their arms...
...computer science students will be logging onto the latest technological phenomena...
Meichun Hsu, an instructor in computer science, says that the use of home computers will give students greater flexibility in their courses, but adds, "there will still have to be some coordination." Programs developed on the mainframe VAX System would somehow "have to make their way" onto the students' personal computers, she says...
Instead, it took the efforts of one of America's great writers--Eudora Welty--to catapsult a Harvard University Press publication onto the New York Times bestseller list for the first time in the scholarly press's history. One Writer's Beginnings, Welty's autobiographical account of her childhood, has dotted the list for 13 weeks this spring; the book was based on material from the author's presentations at the first William E. Massey lecture series at Harvard
...plan of attack on education came in two waves. First Verba concentrated on the Faculty procedures of education--the rules and regulations that kept students from easily getting credit for study outside of the University, or that made independent study an amorphous get. And then the attack moved onto a less well-defined plane, "the quality of undergraduate education." The result of these efforts was Rosovsky's recent report on education as well as several recommendations...