Word: overnighters
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...little plot had backfied. I had thought I could make this handsome, not Jewish, Oxford-educated poet fall in love with me if I stayed overnight at his house. Then we would get married. I would cook for him and clean his house. (I neither knew how to cook nor how to clean, but these could not be difficult to learn...
Dear Janet: I regret that it has come to my attention that you were absent overnight from Founders' House without signing out on the night of Saturday, December 29. A hearing of your case before the Honor Board has been scheduled for Tuesday, January 8, at 10 a.m. in my office. If you find that you are unable to appear at that time, will you please notify this office immediately...
...York: When one asks me the cities I prefer, I put New York in the ranks of Venice, Ghent, Florence, Jerusalem. The first time I saw New York it was from the sky. How dazzling! I had flown there overnight, and the rising sun had not dissipated the mist of the early morning. Manhattan, gray and golden in its geometric relief, had a full softness. I have returned there five or six times. By plane I have always experienced the same shock, the same impression of entering the future through the window...
...their own reserve requirements will now have to pay that rate, plus a 4% penalty if they borrow too frequently, bringing the total cost of funds to some banks to 18%. At the same time, the central bank allowed the federal funds rate, the interest charged by banks on overnight loans to each other, to rise above 20%. The hoped-for result of last week's action: borrowing will lessen, demand for goods and services will ease, the economy will slow down, and inflation will ameliorate...
Exactly 16 days after its fiery liftoff, the space shuttle Columbia last week reappeared in the Florida skies. This time it was only a piggyback passenger, riding on a Boeing 747. The coast-to-coast flight required an overnight refueling stop in Oklahoma. As a result, the ship that circled the earth in 90 minutes and plunged back into the atmosphere at 25 times the speed of sound took a full day to complete the final lap of its epic journey...