Word: overnighting
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CDIED. SARAH MCCLENDON, 92, tenacious White House reporter; of pneumonia; in Washington. A single mother who wrote for small Texas papers, McClendon has pestered every President since Franklin D. Roosevelt. In the 1990s, she still rose at 4:30 a.m. to check the White House information line for overnight updates...
...said that, contrary to popular belief, there is not just one type of student who feels compelled to study overnight in the library...
...Bush Administration has done its best to counsel the world not to panic, making daily appeals to give diplomacy a chance. Secretary of State Colin Powell refused even to call the situation a "crisis." But with each new North Korean gambit, that official insouciance sounds more off-key. Seemingly overnight, the U.S. begins the New Year eyeball to eyeball with a paranoid, ruthless regime hell-bent on obtaining nuclear weapons to complement an army the Pentagon rates among the most formidable in the world. And so, despite their stoic miens, White House officials are grasping for some way to yank...
...chance to plaster an Under Armour logo front and center. When the movie premiered in December 1999, Plank gambled his working capital to buy his first ad, a half page in ESPN magazine. That and the buzz about Foxx's eye-popping jock brought $500,000 in sales almost overnight and boosted the year's revenues to $1.35 million. Plank, who had been getting by on only occasional $250 paychecks, was so excited that he started paying himself a regular salary...
...military is setting itself up all around the perimeter. Diplomats went to Turkey to negotiate for basing rights and got a half-yes. Chief of the U.S. Central Command, General Tommy Franks, flew to his forward command center in Qatar to play war games that could turn into combat overnight. An armada of a dozen ships steamed off to possible war stations, and Pentagon planners prepared to call up a first batch of reserves. One way or another, the U.S. insists, Saddam is going to be disarmed. --Reported by Massimo Calabresi and Mark Thompson/Washington, Lisa Clausen/Melbourne, Kim Ghattas/Baghdad, Andrew Purvis/Vienna...