Word: onto
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Latching onto the mantle of a popular President should not be so difficult. Clinton has gladly shared kudos for the economy with Gore, handing off such happy tasks as announcing fresh indicators of how rosy it all is. But cloning works only to a point. Clinton won voters' hearts with his poll-tested, microbrewed policies, but it can be jarring--or laughable--to see someone with a reputation for deep thought on arms control and the environment elbow aside Cabinet Secretaries to take a bow for improving concrete pavements, increasing lost-luggage compensation and offering a three-digit phone number...
...sign a three-year autonomy agreement. To back it up, she would put 28,000 NATO peacekeepers, including 4,000 Americans, on the line. After weeks of talks in France, the Kosovar Albanians signed on March 18. Milosevic refused, saying he would not even consider allowing alien soldiers onto the sacred soil of Kosovo. And the U.S. prepared its war machine...
...Milosevic into two major deals before, zipped into Belgrade with a "final, final" warning. In an ornate reception room with a Rembrandt on the wall, Holbrooke settled into the sofa on which he had sat for hours on other diplomatic shuttles, his back to a window that looked out onto a garden. Milosevic settled into his usual armchair...
...Blessed is the Purell in hand" [NOTEBOOK, March 15], Joel Stein writes, "A woman who must have been a model removed a bottle from her purse. She raised it high and squirted a long stream down onto her cupped hands." The woman must have been very nimble, three-armed or a magician. CHRISTOPHER FEY Los Angeles...
...French boys searching for their dog stumble onto the Lascaux cave, whose walls are covered with spectacular paintings and engravings dating from...