Word: onto
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sandy-haired man in an open-necked white shirt and corduroy trousers saunters in and heads for an empty table. He nonchalantly opens a tattered case and removes, then hooks together, the sections of an antique clarinet. Peering through his familiar black-rimmed glasses, he hops up onto the bandstand and takes his usual seat next to the piano. The trumpet player snaps his fingers twice, and suddenly the whole room is reverberating to the strains of a 1905 pop tune, In the Shade of the Old Apple Tree...
...report, I confessed, made no mention of setting. The Harvard man had made his point--but he was already onto another item...
Moreover, when only part of the housing market is rent-controlled, the costs of the system are pushed onto tenants of unregulated apartments, who must pay all the more to compete in the market for an artificially scarce good...
...Italy goes serenely on, racking up an enviable economic record and attracting little international criticism or even attention. Perhaps insolvency resides in the eye of the beholder, for there can be no doubt about the numbers. Italian governments have been abusing their credit cards for 20 years, piling debt onto debt. Only once in the past dozen years has the annual budget deficit been less than 10% of GDP. By contrast, the worst U.S. ratio was 3.8% in 1983; last year it was only 1.8%. Moreover, most of Italy's debt is short to medium term, subject to volatile interest...
After two months on crutches and three more months of rehabilitation, Johnston jogged onto her high school soccer field five games into the regular season. A little bit slower, in part because of a one-pound knee brace, Johnston struggled to regain the form...