Word: overnighters
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...meager tip-give him none at all. If you are elbowed aside by some pushy character in a queue or at a counter, ask his name-it has a surprisingly sobering effect on aggressiveness. If a merry crew of jokesters and shouters make it impossible to sleep on an overnight flight, call the stewardess, and if that doesn't work, call her again, and again, and again...
...turn an agency like this on its ear overnight, even if it's needed, and I'm not convinced yet that wholesale change here is either necessary or desirable." So says L. Patrick Gray III after one month on the job as acting director of the FBI. Wholesale they may not be, but some changes have already been made in the post-Hoover era-largely for the better...
Though the recession cut into the profits of most motel chains in the past couple of years, the lodging business is now surging in the midst of a sharp economic rise. An alltime high of 123.5 million Americans will hit the road on overnight trips this year. Meanwhile, a record 14.7 million foreign visitors will travel to the U.S. Every night, close to 200,000 of these travelers will stay in Holiday Inns...
...along. Time and again, would-be negotiators from the West have been enraged and frustrated by the Soviets' capacity to back off from an agreement at the last possible moment or undermine it later. Goals and policies in the all but unknown deliberations of the Politburo can change overnight...
...Almost overnight, Miralles became a martyr-hero to the lawyers of Spain, who have never been noted for their radicalism. The powerful 8,500-member Madrid bar took up Miralles' cause. Risking contempt sentences of their own, 200 lawyers issued a joint statement protesting Miralles' punishment. When influential church leaders joined the protest, he was released on Franco's personal orders...