Word: overnighter
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Secretary of State Warren Christopher today set out for Cairo to begin a five-nation drive to get Mideast peace talks back on track. Christopher is flying overnight to Cairo and is slated to continue to Israel, Saudi Arabia, Syria and Jordan, plus a Gaza visit with PLO chairman Yasser Arafat. Since Christopher last touched down in the region three months ago, the peace process has gotten bogged down by Israel's quarreling with the Palestinians, Syria and Egypt, while Israel's tentative peace deal with Jordan hit a financial snag...
Even before the loss of traffic to the Internet and related technologies, government-operated mail service was losing the overnight letter- and parcel- delivery businesses to firms such as Federal Express and United Parcel Service. So far the post office has held its own because of the growing volume of mail between businesses and homes, mainly catalogs, credit-card offers, bills and payments. But as more private citizens get computer- connected, even that revenue source will face fierce competition from electronic shopping and banking services. America Online, for example, gives its members access to a service called 2Market, allowing them...
...Justice doesn't come overnight," he said. "People have to hang in there...
What remained of that mindless optimism-inflation had already eroded it badly-was exploded by the Arab oil embargo and energy crisis of 1973. Almost overnight, opinion swung to the blackest pessimism: the industrial West would be permanently crippled by oil shortages, while Middle Eastern sheiks and emirs raked in -well, just about all the money in the world. One economist, who has since become one of the most respected and powerful in the country, prophesied that in a few years motorists on the New Jersey Turnpike would see oil refineries adorned with signs written in Arabic and pictures...
...student says he uses the microwave to heat food his mother sends overnight from home and makes rice to go along with...