Word: onto
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...percent reduction in truck traffic--hardly the dent he had hoped for. The media concluded the affair by losing interest after the obligatory violence was curtailed, and the more fanatical independents and the lunatics who took advantage of the situation to delight in dropping bricks onto trucks from overpasses were checked (though not entirely stopped) by increased police protection...
...lecterns for their first classes of the semester last week and told the students gathered before them to get lost. "Please don't take this course," implored Alan Brinkley, the Dunwalke Associate Professor of History, as he stared at an auditorium where the class filled the aisles and spilled onto the stage. Other instructors who faced unworkable crowds excluded pass-fail students from enrolling in their courses...
...hint of a fighting tone in McClean's words may reflect the Financial Times' decision to foray onto Dow Jones' U.S. turf: the paper is offering U.S. newspapers a weekly insert of international business coverage that made its debut Jan. 10 in the Houston Chronicle. Bigger efforts may follow. Says a Financial Times executive: "We are not printing a U.S. edition, but we should be. That is the logical next step...
Moral considerations aside, the sale of the building could have consequences that would help balance Harvard's cost-benefit analysis. Offering the building to Cambridge can only serve to boost relations between the University and the city. A favor now could help in a future negotiation. Holding onto a deteriorating shell of a building in a city facing a housing emergency on the other hand, can do nothing but harm. Craigie Arms is not likely to become the $900-a-month apartment complex the University has envisioned. Harvard should realize this--finally--and stop trying...
...last year and we want to hold onto it," he says. "It was nice during my junior year, but it certainly wouldn't mean anything unless we win it during my senior year. I'd say it's probably my biggest aspiration to get the championship back. It would be a fitting ending...