Word: overnighter
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...excited I'd been at the outset, I felt deflated that none were as spectacular as they looked. And when I tried to get my film developed, finding same-day APS processing on a Sunday was a pain. Estimates ranged from overnight to three days, until I located a shop (Fromex) on Manhattan's Upper East Side. As for the prints, the Konica did better on close-ups, but overall it was a toss...
...process, saying he hadn?t been so na?ve as to expect a smooth implementation of last year?s historic Good Friday Agreement. "I am not surprised, but I am disappointed," said Mitchell, after holding meetings in Belfast with Northern Ireland?s political parties. His job got a lot harder overnight, following an IRA statement that not only dimmed hopes of imminent disarmament but actually contained veiled threats of renewed violence, and also blamed the collapse of the peace process on Britain for failing to stand up to the Ulster Unionists. The Unionists had brought the process crashing to a halt...
There were plenty of good stories waiting to be discovered too--"eight- or nine-year overnight sensations," said Nike president Thomas Clarke. After all, this is a veteran group whose members have known one another and played together for a decade in some cases. They won the Olympic gold medal in 1996, and some, including Akers, were around in 1991, when the team won the inaugural World Cup, held in China, where the event apparently was kept a state secret. Indeed, the team barely played the next year because U.S. Soccer couldn't afford to pay anyone...
...Unionist Party brought last year?s peace agreement crashing to a standstill Thursday by refusing to take their seats in the new Northern Ireland assembly, insisting they would boycott until the IRA begins to disarm. Having failed to navigate a way through the impasse, Britain picked up the phone overnight and summoned former U.S. senator George Mitchell to reprise the crucial mediating role he played in last year?s agreement. "They?re hoping he?ll pull something out of a hat," says TIME London correspondent Helen Gibson. "While everyone is talking about picking up the pieces, there?s no indication...
...American as apple pie, but barbecuing can also produce cancer-causing compounds. Now there is a tasty alternative. Researchers report that marinating beef before grilling--they chose Hawaiian teriyaki and Indian turmeric-garlic marinades--can reduce carcinogens as much as 67%. The meat was marinated overnight, but researchers think just an hour or two may suffice...