Word: overnighter
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...real deficit-elimination plan could hardly be enacted overnight. Perot himself says it would take at least a year. And a five-year plan would suffer inevitable slippage. Look at past fiscal diets, like Gramm-Rudman. If the goal of a balanced budget actually produced, say, an annual deficit under $100 billion by the year 2000, that would be widely regarded as a spectacular success...
Meanwhile, a large crowd of students protested outside the building, chanting "One, two, three, four, Dean Rosovsky, open the door...this is bullshit, bullshit." A number of protestors also camped outside the building overnight...
...what if it's still more than seven years away? Grand ideas don't take shape overnight. Just ask the 6,000 members of the Millennium Society. Founded by American college students, this group of youngsters first began dreaming and scheming about New Millennium's Eve back in 1979. The society, which boasts a worldwide membership, already has an agreement to charter the Queen Elizabeth 2 (assuming she's seaworthy) to transport 1,750 people from New York City to Alexandria, Egypt. By ground, the celebrators will continue on to the environs of Cairo to toast the millennium...
...night in question, Ugwuegbu said she was exhausted from working "several nights consecutively." In the letter, Ugwuegbu said Behenna demanded she work the overnight shift despite her fatigue...
Harvard students with visions of overnight stardom may have their big chance this weekend when the director of Madonna's Truth or Dare comes to town...