Word: onto
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Minnesota High Technology Council, with more than 600 corporate members, realizes. The council has put up billboards along California highways. One pictures a lush forest and proclaims: "In Silicon Valley this is a park. In Minnesota, it's a yard." Those driving by are invited to click onto a Web page where they can find information on Minnesota real estate costs and school systems, and on how much more a given salary will buy in Minnesota than in California...
...course, there were unusual circumstances exacerbating my tribulations at De Gaulle Airport. Because of the Air France strike, the airport truly resembled the Paris zoo. Luggage of all shapes and sizes spilled out into the hall and angry passengers were fighting to reclaim their precious suitcases. My trek out onto the runway to grab my luggage resulted from the lack of any noticeable ground transportation...
...pumps at the gas station to the Slurpee machine at the 7-Eleven. It's a plausible theory. The conventional and nuclear power plants that produce our electricity are all controlled to some degree--usually a large degree--by computers, and some of the suspect programs are etched directly onto silicon chips, making them even harder to find and fix. Some utilities have only recently begun the process of ferreting out potentially weak links in their delivery systems. Worse, since most utilities are linked to one another in gridlike fashion, there could be a domino effect, turning local failures into...
...ceremony's opening video montage blasts the crowd with classic perfume-related moments in film, far too many of which involve Barbra Streisand. Then Annette Green, president of the Fragrance Foundation and creator of the FiFi, is escorted onto the stage. Green, who has spawned annual FiFi award shows in Britain, France, Germany and Spain, announces that the vast proceeds from this event will go to a worthy cause. That cause is not homelessness or AIDS babies, but the Olfactory Research Fund, which Green also heads. The fund counts among its latest projects a joint study with the Kinsey Institute...
About a billion of those magnetic word tiles already decorate refrigerators and file cabinets. This week the makers of Magnetic Poetry kits leap onto your PC. A $30 ElectroMagnetic Poetry CD-ROM sends word chips skimming the background of your choice (our favorite: the Fruit Loops). Just click and drag the words you want onto a palette, and voila...