Word: onto
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...problem with the current goalpost structure is that "a student can crawl out onto the crossbar and create a large torque," said Frederick H. Abernathy, Gordon McKay Professor of Mechanical Engineering...
...Uemura waved, a prearranged signal that all was well. When he failed to reappear by Feb. 19, rescue efforts were begun, but they were frustrated by thick clouds, high winds and blinding snow. Two of Uemura's friends, Climbers Jim Wickwire and Eiho Otani, were dropped onto the mountain by helicopter at the 14,300-ft. level to continue the search. Their major concerns: Uemura carried no tent, and his supplies of raw caribou meat, seal oil, fruit and fuel to melt snow for water would have been exhausted the day after he was spotted from the air. Even...
...says Peter Hoffman of the U.S. Parole Commission. At the same time, those horror stories tend to obscure the reality that both the parole system and the fixed-time approach have some advantages. A few states now appear to be trying to graft some of parole's benefits onto fixed-sentencing plans. In 1982 California legislators, for example, passed a law permitting inmates to earn reductions of up to 50% in their sentences by participating in work or study programs. That kind of early release, of course, is just parole by another name. So are Connecticut's "supervised...
...case by case analysis, the Ad Board has voted an unnecessarily inflexible rule. The College should certainly inform graduate schools of serious offenses such as plagiarism. But do tutors have a similar moral obligation to describe, in a schoolmarmish way, less serious and often trivial cases? Does walking out onto the fire escape in the student's sophomore year warrant's several paragraphs in the House letter...
...remainder of the tour covered everything from a fancy Hungarian restaurant to a pizza parlor, where we were joined by others. It culminated outside a donut shop where Joseph tossed out donuts onto the pavement in case I was hungry, dryly calling out the flavors: "Coconut...cinnamon...jelly..." Over the next few weeks I often went along on Joseph's lonely hunts. I never ate anything, but Joseph appreciated the company...