Word: onto
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...MAFIA MAVENS try not to miss The Godfather when, every few years, that movie is shown on television. This summer was no exception, once again, the story unfolded about a small group of ruthless criminals who used cunning, blackmail, brutality and cold-blooded murder to seize and hold onto a vast empire of wealth and power...
...fields." I read very precisely what he meant. Now that a peasant is responsible for the land allotted to him, he cultivates it like a garden. His excrement, pig excrement, chicken droppings are all sumped together with urine, then ladled into buckets. The peasant then pours the mixture onto each stalk. Ladling the slime onto the seedlings is smelly, unpleasant duty. But the slime works; production had been rising for three years, and the peasants ate well...
...business-oriented groups, right to lifers found they'd also bought into a sharply conservative ideology that was in some ways antithetical to their own religious principles. Still more troubling was the realization that the New Right was milking the anti-abortion movement even as they themselves were grasping onto the coattails of the conservatives. And the New Right was not giving them much in return. Paige contends that the 1980 election only proved "that the New Right was using abortion to accomplish its real objective--seizing power; and that its power, once ostensibly sized, was not quite what...
...wind was worth two goals," said Coach Jape Shattuck. "We knew we had to get ahead with the wind because holding onto a lead is always easier...
...sense the coalition is an inherent contradiction for these groups. Special interests abandon conventional party politics when they feel the political consensus does not respond to their needs. Interests become movements because compromise isn't enough: their proponents want to elbow their issues onto the national agenda. Taking the cue from civil rights, they establish their own organizations, constituencies and power bases...