Word: overnighters
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...worked on my thesis with him, for example, he rearranged his schedule so that I could drop off a chapter with him in the evenings, and pick it up the next morning at 9 a.m. with his comments. I felt like my crudely drawn icon had been labored on overnight by an ego-less angel liberal with light and gold-leaf...
...this phrase, Rosovsky invokes the two biggest stumbling blocks to educational reform at Harvard. First, the main agitators for change are invariably students, each of whom attends Harvard for a fraction of its 350-year history. In what amounts to little more than an overnight stay in Cambridge, no student preoccupied with the exigencies of academic life can afford to take on the institution. By the time he has learned the ropes, he has sheepskin in hand and is 'among the company of educated men and women...
...private people. No detailed plan emanating from a computer bank in some bureaucracy could ever store the information necessary to tell the would-be entrepreneur to open a new corner carry-out or Revlon to launch a new Charlie. No plan could foresee the economic effects of the overnight success of some new Xerox or IBM. Modern industrialized economics are far too complex to permit a rigid master plan. The state can provide its fallible view of future economic developments, but the best planning is still provided by private businessmen and -women making decisions on the basis of the information...
...male athletes stay in hotels the night before home games but 12 women athletes are forced to travel home squeezed into one van from an evening match in Washington D.C., arriving in Philadelphia at 4 a.m., because the women's budget is too small to pay for an overnight motel, someone's priorities are twisted," Rollin Haffer, president of the women's student athlete council, said last week...
...standard method of diagnosing hypoglycemia is the glucose tolerance test (GTT). After an overnight fast, the patient is given a high-glucose solution to drink. Blood samples are then taken at intervals over the next five to six hours and analyzed to see if the glucose content drops below normal levels...