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Word: onto (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Yoshiaki "seems less concerned about the family past," says a leading Tokyo business writer. He may not see his brother's steps onto his turf as significant. "It's no use comparing us. Our philosophies are different, and we are in different lines of business," Yoshiaki has said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Joust of The Half Brothers | 1/23/1989 | See Source »

...park, but they are discovering something important here." Mary Rau, an American visitor to Florence who lives in London, curtailed time at the Uffizi Gallery to stare at the hole in the ground. "See the archways they are uncovering? And they're bringing up shards of pottery. They're onto something...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Travel: Uncommon Glimpses of Florence | 1/23/1989 | See Source »

Expect Harvard to hold onto its number-one spot a little longer than the Saints--the Crimson's perfect record won't be challenged until January 31, when Harvard travels to New Haven, Conn., to play Yale...

Author: By Julio R. Varela, | Title: More News From Number One | 1/18/1989 | See Source »

Investigators on both sides of the Atlantic have started interviewing relatives and friends of Flight 103's passengers to determine if any of the victims had suspicious associations or could have unwittingly carried the bomb onto the plane. Officials last week discounted a theory that Arab terrorists surreptitiously planted explosives in the luggage of Khalid Jafaar, a Lebanese-born student who had been visiting his grandfather in Beirut; Jafaar's suitcase was recovered intact...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Terrorism In Search of Answers | 1/16/1989 | See Source »

West German officials also ruled out the possibility that the bomb had been slipped into one of four uninspected U.S. military mail pouches loaded onto Flight 103 at its point of origin at the Frankfurt airport. It turned out that the mail was intended for American military personnel stationed in Britain and was unloaded at Heathrow Airport before the Pan Am plane's ill-fated takeoff for New York. But according to some West German reports, British investigators now suspect the bomb was planted by a worker at London's Heathrow Airport. British officials called the claim "pure speculation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Terrorism In Search of Answers | 1/16/1989 | See Source »

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