Word: overnighter
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...much demand for their services by schools, which has some wondering whether chronically fad-driven school administrators aren't overreacting. Says Kenneth Trump, president of National School Safety and Security Services in Cleveland, Ohio: "We tell people to calm down and think. There has been an explosion of overnight experts and charlatans. Schools are hiring all sorts of people with no expertise in school security." It's understandable, though, given the recent headlines, that principals and boards of education would rather be accused of going too far than have to explain someday why they didn't do everything they could...
...conduct rules for SSP students are considerably tighter than those for the rest of the summer school. Students are not allowed to visit upperclass Houses or to leave the campus overnight. Just attending a party where alcohol is being served also carries stiff consequences...
Kosovo?s armed peace may be turning into a bigger headache for NATO than the war was ?- because this time, the alliance doesn?t know who to support. U.S. troops overnight Wednesday rushed to the rescue of their Russian comrades in the village of Dobrcane, firing over the heads of a crowd of ethnic-Albanians pelting the Russians with rocks. It was one of three clashes overnight between peacekeepers and supporters of the Kosovo Liberation Army, incidents which have become an almost daily occurrence as returning refugees seek vengeance on the province?s remaining Serbs and Russian peacekeepers...
...from the mainland, his ashes and those of Carolyn and Lauren Bessette committed to the deep from the deck of an American warship. Seventeen relatives arrived at Woods Hole at 9 a.m. to be taken by the cutter Sanibel to the U.S.S. Briscoe, which had steamed up from Virginia overnight by special request of the Secretary of Defense. The only things those left onshore could see were the bright whites of the officials, the black of the mourners and a puff of smoke as the Briscoe motored out to the point at which the most powerful telephoto lenses could register...
...horse were right for the slain President. So when it came time to think about how to lay her brother to rest, Caroline sensed that she should take her brother to sea, not to a plot at Arlington National Cemetery, and not to a cemetery that might be transformed overnight into another Graceland...