Word: overnighter
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...military police to prevent Haitian police and military officers from beating pro-democracy demonstrators in Port-au-Prince, but it was unclear whether the move was tough enough to scare the junta's overzealous cops into civil behavior. "The habits of violence will not be shed overnight," Clinton said of the beatings, which embarrassed the Administration just a day after Haiti's military rulers agreed to make nice with the U.S. Clinton made clear that U.S. forces in Haiti -- expected to number 8,500 by tonight -- would "work to moderate the conduct of Haitian security forces without assuming their responsibilities...
...Government department is paying for every faculty member's accommodations. Junior faculty are not required to stay overnight but may if they choose...
...begun to pull the country back from the brink of disaster after the collapse of the Soviet bloc cut Moscow's aid from a torrent to a trickle and then to nothing. When he legalized individual private business last September, Havana suddenly sprouted plumbers, hairdressers, restaurateurs, repairmen and other overnight entrepreneurs permitted to work for themselves. But the July 1993 legalization of dollar holdings was a two-edged sword. It brought much needed hard currency into Cuba, but also split what had been a largely egalitarian society into two classes: the haves, who had access to dollars earned...
...magazines, and whatever other express routes the mass media command, they get passed over to mass-marketers who shear off the rough edges and ship them to the malls. So body piercing and ambient technomusic and performance art and couture motorcycle boots and the huggie drug Ecstasy are shipped overnight throughout the merchandise mart that is America...
...said they had never seen anything like the fireworks produced when comet chunks, one of them roughly as big as an alp, crashed into the planet Jupiter. International relief workers said the same thing, only they were referring to the tide of refugees streaming out of Rwanda and into overnight cities of misery, disease and death. Certainly the millions of people who watched these two cataclysms unfold through news photographs and televised images had never seen anything like them either...