Word: onto
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...line of trucks filled with soldiers had circled the square to act as a barricade, but the marchers swarmed onto the trucks...
Adults may care a lot, but in ways that are often distorted by their own zealous professional lives. Eager parents arrive home late and pour a day's stored attention onto a child who is more ready to be tucked in than talked at. "It may be that the same loss of leisure among parents produces this pressure for rapid achievement and overprogramming of children," argues Allan Carlson, president of the conservative Rockford Institute, an Illinois think tank. If parents see parenting largely as an investment of their precious time, they may end up viewing children as objects...
...uninteresting have living, breathing candidates become that California is leading the move to dispense with them. Last fall 29 initiatives and referendums made it onto the state ballot; voters were asked to decide everything from taxes to bonds to insurance rates. The movie community also prefers causes to people: the Hollywood Women's Political Committee devoted most of its efforts this year to the April 9 abortion march on Washington, with Morgan Fairchild, Jane Fonda, Whoopi Goldberg, Cybill Shepherd and others leading the charge...
...question: How much computing power can be packed onto a desktop? Last week the company gave a startling new answer by delivering its lowest-cost and most compact computer yet, the SPARCstation 1. The machine is priced at $9,000, about the same as a top-of-the-line Apple Macintosh, yet Sun claims the SPARCstation 1 has more than five times the power. The Sun machine's main operating unit is only the size of a pizza box; older units with equivalent power were too big to fit on a desktop. Two years in the making, SPARCstation...
Four months after Pan Am Flight 103 was blown up by a bomb concealed in a radio-cassette player, nobody has been charged with the crime. But U.S. Government sources say it is now believed that the bomb was carried onto the Boeing 747, apparently unknowingly, by a passenger who died in the explosion...