Word: onto
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...investigation into the spectacular collision is still under way, but preliminary findings suggest that in the 'heavy fog the captain of the DC-9 missed the first right turn he should have taken after leaving the apron. Instead, he took the second right, onto the active runway and into the path of the Iberia...
...POST-WORLD WAR TWO period has been one of radical change in the international system. The liberation of peoples from colonial rule has ushered dozens of new states onto a stage previously occupied by only a handful. Concurrently, the advent and proliferation of nuclear weapons has given a new and possibly incomprehensible meaning to the concept of force...
Sears has been making more than cosmetic changes. It has also been revamping its operations. More inventory has been moved onto the floor to avoid time-wasting runs to the back room. Stockroom clerks who formerly stayed behind the scenes now put new goods on shelves in full view of customers. Shopping carts used to be anathema because they bore the aura of discount stores, but now they are being tested in some locations. Salespeople have been ordered to keep displays tidy and to fill in at cash registers to help cut average checkout time from three minutes...
...seniors, the players discover to their astonishment that Osborne is not the distant man who chilled them as freshmen. A few weeks ago, before the annual game between the freshmen and the redshirts (a task force, sophomores mostly, being held out a year), the varsity formed a funnel onto the field to usher in the next generation; the pure numbers of Nebraska football players collected all in one place brought to mind both the late movie director Cecil B. De Mille...
Without repeating itself, the SITE team subsequently designed equally startling Best Products showrooms all over suburbia. Outside Houston, their building seems to be collapsing, a cascade of brick tumbling onto the front entrance. Near Miami, the Best Products showroom façade seems ripped to pieces, and the fragments are surrealistically placed in front of one another like stage wings. There is a ten-foot space between each of the freestanding elements: doorways, a canopy over the sidewalk, a stripped, façadeless structure. And in Richmond a second showroom is built in segments amid a stand of trees, giving...