Word: overnighting
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...rally in the nearby town of Rawalpindi to celebrate her return to Islamabad, the nation's capital, but when President Pervez Musharraf declared emergency rule last Saturday, the rally morphed into an anti-emergency protest. By Friday morning, however, the protest was hardly able to get off the ground. Overnight, police blocked all private vehicles from entering Ralwalpindi, spread barbed wire across the streets of the protest venue and flooded the park grounds where she was to speak in order to prevent supporters from sitting on the ground. A few hundred protesters clashed with police at the barricades...
...anything to regain power, even if it means making a deal with a dictator. The lack of a popular turnout at today's protests, say some analysts, is an indication of public indifference. Not so, say party leaders, who claim that more than 5,000 workers were arrested overnight. Islamabad police say the number is half that - for the week...
...when I wrote my first novel. But I was 45 when I quit for good. I was a 16-year overnight success...
...when I wrote my first novel. But I was 45 when I quit for good. I was a 16-year overnight success...
Experts blame the emergence of these souped-up bugs in part on our habit of treating so many infections with powerful antibiotics; the microbes battle back by mutating to become resistant to the drugs. It's a process that can't be reversed overnight, but there are ways to keep the bugs at bay. Schools and other fertile breeding grounds like health clubs should be kept clean. Adults and kids should stay alert to news of outbreaks. And everyone should take care to keep hands washed and cuts covered. Bacteria can't thrive where they aren't welcome...