Word: overnighter
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...would be naive to suppose that the Republicans have changed their motivations for cutting CPB's funding overnight. The budget issue is being used as a screen to hide their ideological aims...
...Korean nuclear crisis last spring -- and then posted classified messages on the Internet, London's Independent newspaper reported today. The paper said the teenager, known as "Datastream" among Internet users, was finally nabbed by U.S. investigators last July because he left his terminal connected to an American defense computer overnight. (Prosecutors will decide this month whether they can charge him, the paper said.) Said another British hacker, who told the Independent he'd seen Datastream's postings: "He kept detailed logs of communication traffic. He really couldn't believe his luck. The Americans thought...
Their tactics, often devised on the spot, have been unusual, to say the least. To clear the streets of thugs, Green Berets on patrol took to inverting their night-vision goggles so that they glowed in the dark. In Les Cayes, the Special Forces jailed a judge overnight to teach him how inhumane prison conditions were. They have also moved aggressively to arrest anyone they thought might be a bad guy. "We detained them. We cuffed them," acknowledges the commanding officer, Colonel Mark Boyatt. "We did this without a whole lot of proof. But it was a very visible symbol...
...occasion for a thousand playground taunts, which taught him early on how to steel himself with humor. At age 11, however, Allen faced a far more serious trauma: on the way home from a college football game, his father was killed in a car accident. "My world changed overnight," Allen recalls in his book...
...Republicans, in the manner of Jesse Helms, will overplay their hand and that strains within the new G.O.P. leadership will open up soon. A few are already visible in the differences between the House and Senate about how fast to move. Cut middle-class taxes? "It won't happen overnight," Dole said last week on Face the Nation. Increase defense spending? He figures, "It may be -- very, very slowly." And with cuts in Social Security out of reach, as all sides agree, balancing the budget while enacting the tax cuts in the "Contract with America" will be "very, very difficult...