Word: onto
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...next day, Knowles passed the complaint onto the elected members of the DocketCommittee-Professor of Economics David M. Cutler'87, Richards Professor of Chemistry Cynthia M.Friend and Pearson Professor of Modern Mathematicsand Mathematical Logic Warren D. Goldfarb '69-whomthe Guidelines charged with determining whether ornot the grievance was "clearly without merit...
...Justice said no again. Not until February, as the story was about to break, did investigators get a look inside his hard drive. They were appalled to discover he had downloaded the "legacy codes," containing all the most important data the U.S. had amassed from years of nuclear testing, onto his unclassified computer. Lee was fired but has not been charged, and no one knows if he sent those codes to Beijing. Attorney General Janet Reno and the FBI are engaged in an unseemly blame game, while Congress calls for someone's head to roll...
...Pristina, the provincial capital. Beauty shops and bookstores are burned; cafes, stationery stores, pharmacies, a baby shop with infant supplies and toddler toys, accountants' offices--all are a shambles. Desks and office chairs are overturned; drawers with papers are strewn about. Glass storefronts are shattered, window blinds protruding onto the street like broken ribs. There is no evidence of bombs or missiles: almost every roof is intact. The signs of rage and destruction--before the war, this was a city of 250,000 people, mostly Albanians, and the devastation is city-wide--evoke tornadoes and hurricanes...
...Sausalito, Calif., in San Francisco Bay. But his real home is the virtual world of the Net, an insight he achieved while hunched over a laptop in a hotel bathroom in Bhurban, Pakistan (the john being the only place where he could plug in his modem). He was logged onto the Web, fiddling with a line of code for one of his company's main computers, when the epiphany came: "This works! The Internet has happened! I'm placeless...
...Littleton tragedy then exposed a rift between the N.R.A. and gunmakers, who were willing to support Clinton proposals like raising the minimum age for buying a gun to 21. After that, the N.R.A. found itself embarrassed when its point man in the Senate, Larry Craig, steered his G.O.P. colleagues onto the rocks during the battle over the gun-show amendment...