Word: overnighter
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...year-old New York City woman with multiple sclerosis, the race went overnight and well into the next afternoon...
...only other difficulty on the shoots resulted from equipment problems. The otherwise user-friendly digital video cameras had a battery life of about five minutes for every overnight charge. "We'd have to sneak into a McDonald's and plug it in for an hour and-a half to get a couple more minutes," says Novak. "Meanwhile our actors and crew would be standing around, waiting...
...Club is more then just an eating establishment: breakfasters include overnight visitors who stay in the third-floor bedrooms, and participants in committee meetings held in the second-floor conference rooms. The rooms above the more public first floor are furnished with the same attention to detail...
...this potent hit the sensory systems of a relatively unsophisticated animal, they pack a big behavioral wallop. Pheromones emitted by queen bees prevent other females from maturing sexually, ensuring that the queen's genes remain dominant. Among fish, scent markers released by females cause male sperm counts to quintuple overnight. When injured by a predator, some amphibians emit a compound that warns others of their species to keep out of harm...
...damned things!) Thus technology added mightily to this decade's prosperity, which reinforced the prestige of capitalism. Capitalism, meanwhile, repaid the favor. A few years ago there was talk of the government's spending billions to build the "information superhighway." Then that highway sprang up overnight. Although the roots of the Internet are in the Defense Department, the Web's sudden arrival as a society-transforming force is largely the result of capitalism in almost textbook-pure form: not IBM or even Microsoft, but vast crowds of garage-shop inventors and hungry entrepreneurs...