Word: overnighting
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...been trying to dampen expectations about what he can achieve in his first 100 days -- or even his first 1,000 days -- in the Oval Office. Clinton declared last week that "the American people understand that these problems are of long duration and there won't be any overnight miracles. But I think they expect aggressive and prompt action," he added, "and I'm going to give it to them...
...deliver. After promising change and offering hope during the campaign, the President-elect is currently counseling caution and patience. Each bow to urgency (the people want "aggressive and prompt action, and I'm going to give it to them") is coolly qualified: "We didn't get into this mess overnight, and we won't get out of it overnight...
...stressed that issues such as "security, settlements, Jerusalem, water and boundaries" are "real and painful," and compromise cannot be reached overnight...
...began, as he sailed into a greatest-hits reprise of his stump speech. But he also sounded a new note that aides said was designed to lower voter expectations of a Clinton Camelot after the election: "I'm here to tell you we didn't get into this mess overnight, and we won't get out of it overnight." By the time Clinton left Albuquerque around 4 a.m., the first polls were open on the East Coast...
...security never lasts. Beneath the surface stability lie fierce passions and unrest that could explode and return the world to the tense place it has been for the last 45 years. Internal changes in Russia or China could jerk the world back into turmoil overnight. Situations in other areas, such as Yugoslavia, could more slowly drag nearby countries into...