Word: overnighter
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Post, tells of an operation against a Washington-based KGB officer who was trying to recruit a Pentagon employee. As the Soviet official slept, FBI agents stole his car to plant a bug in it. To avoid suspicion, they put an identical car in the official's parking space overnight. They also made sure that the replacement odometer's mileage read exactly the same as that of the real car. Meanwhile, the KGB car's odometer was temporarily removed to keep it from registering miles the Soviet would not be able to account for. Within three hours...
Technological advances have meant that patients spend less time overnight in hospitals, Kane says...
Boutros Boutros-Ghali is justifiably angry. Another U.N. contingent, reportedly Saudi, was similarly insubordinate. If the troops don't obey the orders of the U.N. commander, then the U.N. force dissolves overnight. But there is no cure for this dilemma, because at its heart lies the U.N. fiction. Its soldiers wear the same colored hats, but they have differently colored , allegiances. When ordered into danger, they will always phone home. How are we going to abolish the allegiance soldiers feel to their flag and country? And how are we going to prevent governments from exercising sovereign control over their...
...began when Earl and Mary Triplett returned from a 61st wedding anniversary vacation in Alaska to their home near Tacoma, Washington, popped open a Diet Pepsi, and then trundled off to bed. The next morning Earl picked up the container, which had been left overnight on a table, heard a rattle and was surprised to find a syringe inside. The couple called their lawyer, who called the press and local health officials, who alerted the police. And thus a frenzy was born...
...Overnight, Ashe, the professional athlete, became, as he put it, "a professional patient." Physicians replaced coaches. He learned to handle 30 pills a day and gently swing a golf club. Even though the former tennis star was a top-10 patient, his coronary artery disease worsened. Feeling especially low after a second bypass operation in 1983, he asked his doctor about clinical options. " 'You can wait it out, Arthur, and you'll feel better after a while,' he said. 'Or we can give you a couple of units of blood. That would be no problem...