Word: onto
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...question is the Boland Amendment, a little-noticed rider tacked onto an omnibus Government-spending bill last December. Ironically, it was adopted at the urging of the Administration, as a substitute for a far more restrictive measure proposed by Democrat Thomas Harkin of Iowa. Harkin's rider would have banned U.S. support of any "military activities in or against Nicaragua"; the CIA argued that this would prevent necessary covert actions aimed at reducing the flow of arms supplied by the Nicaraguan government to Marxist-led guerrillas in El Salvador. So the House accepted, 411 to 0, a rider offered...
...floating around the gulf will cause extensive, and permanent, damage to the gulf. Only small fragments of the glutinous mass have washed ashore thus far, but a small change in the predominantly southeasterly wind could drive the main body of the slick onto hundreds of miles of Arab coastline. Says an environmentalist in the gulf: "The slick is not going to go around looking for a home forever." In Qatar alone, the tide of oil could close down two desalination plants that now produce 37 million gal. of fresh water daily, most of the supply for the population...
MASSACHUSETTS Democratic leaders proved last weekend that their skills in manipulation are still intact. They tacked onto a standard issues convention a nonbinding preference poll, and a dull weekend in Springfield was transformed into a national media event--"a meeting of the leaders of the free world," according to one such aspiring leader, former Vice President Walter F. Mondale...
Those, indeed, are legitimate complaints. But focusing on this criticism clouds over a more serious problem raised by the weekend festivities--that the "bosses" continue to latch onto their ironclad control of the party, and are willing to pull almost anything to maintain...
Witnesses said she was standing by herself on the station's platform and then jumped onto the tracks about six feet in front of the train as it was arriving in the station...