Word: onto
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Biden is listening as Senate Candidate Sam Beard introduces him, recalling the night he got a call from the state police accompanying Biden's ambulance saying "We don't think he's going to make it." Biden whispers to his wife Jill, "Neither did I." He takes her onto the podium with him, along with his kids, although he says he "usually does not go in for that type of stuff." His talk is simple, without the oratory that made his presidential campaign speeches soar but created doubts that this ambitious young Senator meant what he said. He talks...
...paths of mass transit and major thoroughfares. But the majority of work is no longer downtown: the suburbs contain 60% of current metropolitan jobs and 67% of all new ones, according to the Transportation Department. As a result, many workers commute from one suburb to another, and they crowd onto the beltways because mass transit and other roads are not well developed along those routes...
...Chips & Technologies and Cypress Semiconductor -- as proof that such start-ups are the best hope for continued U.S. economic growth. In what Gilder calls the "law of the microcosm," he contends that the use of computers has given individuals more opportunity to innovate. Says he: "As circuitry is compressed onto single chips, it enhances enormously the power of individual designers and entrepreneurial creators...
...other words, he has tried to cram too much onto the screen in too little time. Perhaps if he had focused tightly on the team's inner dynamics, seen the unfolding tragedy entirely through the players' eyes and kept everyone else at a distance, he might have done better. But outsiders, ranging from ) sportswriters like Ring Lardner (played by Sayles himself) to Supergambler Arnold Rothstein, are present and superficially accounted for. They take screen time away from the team, where the only ones who lay full claim to our attention are the great but aging pitcher Eddie Cicotte (David Strathairn...
...Bush in his early oil travels lived briefly in Nixon's hometown of Whittier, Calif. But the tie with Nixon was deeper than that. The ex-Vice President of the early 1960s, while cultivating Goldwaterites, was also acquiring a covey of "walking gentlemen" to escort him back onto the public scene -- young talents like Robert Finch and William Ruckelshaus. Bush was one of this circle -- and one who would fall for Nixon's own locker-room bravado as a political style. It did not work well for Nixon, but he managed to persuade some people, including Bush, that they could...