Word: onto
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...last week, the portraits that political leaders painted of their country were starkly different -- and the conflicting images at once turned into political battle flags. To the strains of Brahms' Fourth Symphony in London's Queen Elizabeth Conference Center, Neil Kinnock, the leader of the opposition Labor Party, strode onto the podium to describe a joyless, divided Britain, an "economically and socially disabled" country afflicted with Dickensian misery. Two hours later, at Conservative Party headquarters near Westminster Abbey, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, at the helm for the past eight years, evoked a very different nation, one with "revived spirit...
Rumors of what Citicorp Chairman John Reed was about to say had already roiled stock and bond markets last week as the trim executive stepped up onto a rostrum in Manhattan. Soon the confirmation flashed around the world: the largest U.S. bank (1986 assets: $196.1 billion) had made an almost heretical break with the U.S. financial community's long-standing practices in handling its crushing burden of $62 billion in Third World debt. Reed declared that Citicorp intends to set aside, effective immediately, no less than $3 billion in additional reserves to cover loan losses on its $133 billion portfolio...
...fail to understand the logic of the pump dispenser. Do we need a machine to tell us how much is the correct amount of toothpaste to dispense onto your brush? I, for one, never have had much difficulty in this calculation. Nor have I ever had much trouble in taming that pesky tube cap from running out of the bathroom before I could firmly reseal it onto the top of the tube...
Normally a birder starts in the backyard or a nearby wood, sees all the local birds, then graduates to more and more travel in search of new species. Next come vacations in the states with the most birds (California, Texas and Florida), followed by forays onto the big-time birding circuit: southeast Arizona for Mexican specialties, the Dry Tortugas for noddies and boobies, Alaska for arctic and Asian species. The final step is the long trip to see a single bird: Michigan for Kirtland's warbler, Calcasieu County in Louisiana for the black francolin, a grueling five-mile trek...
Then a 16-lb. steel ball rolled onto my foot. I remembered immediately the time I participated in a track meet in my fifth grade school in Austin, Texas...