Word: onto
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...attempt to strengthen gun laws only end up strengthening their opponents' wallets. In the face of such a formidable lobby, civil law suits are the government's only option to control the flow of guns. Lawsuits allow politicians to appear tough on crime while in reality passing the buck onto the court system. They hope that targeted companies will lose large enough verdicts so that the monetary interests of manufacturers fall in line with their moral responsibilities...
...child of Jefferson and Hemings, see themselves as white and for generations had never claimed any link to their slave ancestor (or to Thomas Jefferson, for that matter, though there was some talk of a connection to one of his uncles). The story of how the Hemings family diverged onto opposite sides of the color line says much about "passing," a social practice that shakes more than a few family trees and forces one to question the validity of neat racial categories...
...says most applications she sees are copiesof originals onto which text has been pasted. Butshe says applications for nationalcompetitions--like the Truman Scholarship--aremost challenging for students because they havethe most restrictive spacing requirements...
...confusing set-up unfortunately detracts from the production. The actors, for instance, walk onto the stage through the audience, often distorting reality. It is difficult to see Mattie, in the epilogue, walk through the audience and climb right onto the stage, only to pretend to be paralyzed from a sledding accident. Although we all fundamentally realize that what happens on the stage is not reality, the opera Ethan Frome could use some fine tuning--from the unpolished scene changes to the deficient set to the fact that one might have a better view of the orchestra than the stage...
...Peace will come to the Middle East when the Arabs learn to yield land and the Jews learn how to hold onto it," Wisse said...