Word: overnighter
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...career, announced that he had been infected by the human immune-deficiency virus (HIV) that causes AIDS and would "have to retire from the Lakers today." Although he has as yet no symptoms of AIDS, the man who had defied gravity, and belief, for so long would suddenly, overnight, vanish from the court. "I'm going to miss playing," said Johnson, dry-eyed and dignified as ever, "but my life is going to go on. I'm going to go on a happy...
When state-run lotteries first became popular in the late 1970s, "instant millionaires" were the isolated stuff of media sensation. Now Porchia, Ryan and Palermo are part of something else entirely: an expanding niche of American society filled with overnight plutocrats. As lottomania has swept the nation, one result is an entirely new social stratum of millionaires, over 3,000 in all, and more are added each month. With some prizes soaring past nine digits (the largest: $118 million in California last April), a few recipients even approach being superrich. But America's pot-of-gold winners...
America's first big winner, Lou Eisenberg of Brooklyn, whose $5 million ticket made him an overnight celebrity in 1981, hardly ranks in the major leagues anymore. Before his ship came in, he says, "my job was changing light bulbs in an office building, making $225 a week. I had anxiety attacks; I was not functioning. I won the lotto, and the anxiety disappeared." An ebullient Eisenberg still lives in Brooklyn, but with an ocean view. The biggest flyer he takes these days is modest but steady betting at local racetracks...
...weak were the new numbers that analysts expected the Federal Reserve to provide a new round of interest rate cuts. But there was no immediate movement from the central bank, which apparently took a small step on Wednesday by cutting short-term rates that banks charge each other overnight...
...overnight curfew ended, a squad of soldiers lifted barbed-wire barricades from the middle of Rangoon's tree-lined University Avenue. Then they took up positions, as they do every day, at four sentry boxes in front of the residential compound where Aung San Suu Kyi, 46, the leader of Burma's democratic opposition, has been under house arrest since July...