Word: overnighting
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...black township, where tourists can visit the ghetto hostels set up by the apartheid government to house migrant workers, and Khayelitsha, Cape Town 's largest settlement, now with its own vibrant unofficial economy for everything from clothes to cars. The complete tour costs $45. If you want to stay overnight, Khayelitsha resident Vicki Balman runs a guesthouse from her shanty home. Bed and breakfast costs $25 per person...
Echoing the judges’ enthusiasm, Shawn P. Doyle, staff assistant in the English department, said that all students had radically improved their acts overnight...
...altering election laws has to begin soon. More importantly, public pressure is intensifying. Last July, half a million people took to Hong Kong's streets to protest security legislation proposed by the government of Chief Executive Tung Chee-hwa. That bill has since been shelved indefinitely. But almost overnight the movement rallied to a new demand: direct elections. And now Beijing wants to rule on that issue. Its concern is that direct elections will define the debate during the next round of polls for Legco, set for September, and that the democratic camp might end up dominating the legislature. Last...
...jobs entail such obvious stress as that of a pro coach. And the stakes are higher than ever before. In the free-agent era of millionaire coaches, owners expect improvement overnight: Win now or turn in your whistle. Six NFL headmen were fired at the end of last year. Since the beginning of the 2002-2003 season, 18 NBA coaches have lost their jobs, including six canned since the start of this season. Washington Wizards coach Eddie Jordan holds the longest tenure of the seven coaches in the NBA's Atlantic Division; he has been on the job for less...
Most of America is sleeping, but deep within CIA headquarters in northern Virginia, officials pulling overnight duty are scarfing junk food, soft drinks and coffee as they surf mountains of intelligence reports for the latest potential threat to Americans. These are the men and women of the year-old Terrorist Threat Integration Center (TTIC). As they sit at gray, modular workstations equipped with secure computer terminals and phones, their toil is long and arduous but never dull. "It's day right now in half the world, so this shift's pretty fast paced," says an official. "In another hour...