Word: onto
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When Harvard player Jamie Chu, who started in midfield, fell to the ground in agony in the 18th minute, the referee stopped play and summoned Harvard's trainer onto the pitch. An obviously concerned Wheaton followed the trainer to check on Chu, which drew protests from Daniels, as the referee had called for only one member of the Harvard staff to enter the field of play. Wheaton was given a yellow card caution for his actions, at Daniels' insistence...
...Phoenix murders have turned a light onto a dark corner of the criminal-justice system. Bounty hunters are largely independent contractors hired by the nation's estimated $4 billion bail-bond industry to track down criminal defendants who jump bail. Lately, they have taken to calling themselves "bail-enforcement agents" or "fugitive-recovery agents." There are more than 10,000 nationwide, and last year they found tens of thousands of fugitives, generally taking home a fee of about 10% of the bail in question. The profession dates back in the U.S. to the days of the Wild West, when shorthanded...
...naval force that crept onto the Lebanese coast in the blackness of last Thursday night consisted of 16 men. Some of them swam ashore; the Lebanese found their wet suits and fins. At 12:41 a.m., on the outskirts of the town of Insariyeh, two miles inland, a pre-planted bomb suddenly detonated in the midst of the unit. Within seconds the Israelis were raked by machine-gun fire. Eleven died, and four lay wounded, leaving just one soldier unscathed and able to radio for help...
Since the moment she first touched a soccer ball, she has been waiting for this season. From the moment she stepped onto the grass of Ohiri Field, she had been dreaming of a golden senior year...
From drifters who log onto accounts that are left open when users fail to log out at public terminals-such as those in the Science Center-to hackers who continually test the system for quick ins, Osterberg said the pitfalls of just one user's compromising a password can snowball into major security concerns...