Word: overnighting
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...hard to function after a night of fitful sleep and harder still after forgoing sleep altogether. In a study of medical residents published in J.A.M.A., researchers found that after an overnight shift during a month of 90-hour workweeks, new doctors showed the same deficits on tests of vigilance, attention and driving skills as they did after downing three 12-oz. vodka-and-tonic cocktails during a regular 44-hour-a-week rotation...
...appeared at all-was generally relegated to gardeners, maids and barrio gangsters. When sales of salsa overtook ketchup in the early 1990s only Heinz seemed to care. Then came Ricky Martin and his bilingual anthem to "Living La Vida Loca." The song redefined urban pop and Latinos, almost overnight, became cool...
...United Nations World Food Program (wfp). Badly malnourished children are dying and thousands more are at risk. How can this be happening again? The depressing answer: all too easily. The G-8 pledges of debt relief and a doubling of aid were never going to change the continent overnight. For one thing, many of the details of how those promises will be implemented still have to be worked out. That's if they are implemented at all - Canada, Germany and Italy are already backpedaling on their commitments and the World Bank is muttering that forgiving poor countries' debt will hurt...
Conrad K. Harper had an urgent letter to deliver last month, so naturally, he turned to FedEx. “Priority Overnight,” he recalls. “Gets it there on time...
...black or blue!" Monica is dismissive, laughing about fastidious friends who spend 20 minutes doing their hair, 30 minutes on makeup. Kelsie, however, says she watches not only her hair and makeup but also her junk-food intake. Sponsors say that gaining weight, especially during pizza pig-outs at overnight competitions, is a more common problem for 13-year-olds than eating disorders like bulimia, which can become a serious issue for cheerleaders in high school...