Word: overnighting
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...tried to anticipate traders with a 7% devaluation at the beginning of the week. Italy quickly followed Britain out of the European Monetary System. Meanwhile, the Spanish peseta was devalued by 5%, and Sweden (not a member of the European Community, but exposed to its economic winds) raised its overnight interbank lending rate to a towering 500% in a desperate bid to support the % krona. As the Germans resisted pressure for a further cut in interest rates, the French, Danish and Irish currencies all found themselves struggling at the bottom of their permitted exchange rates, and the European monetary system...
...clutches an aluminum pot or gourd to be filled, they hope, with a meal of brown gruel before the day is over. For four weeks now they have been been arriving at the rate of 150 to 200 a day from villages as far as 125 miles away, camping overnight in abandoned huts and making their way to the center in the predawn hours through the wide, dusty streets...
...scare the elderly, veterans and students with unfounded charges that Bush would savage programs on which they depend. But suddenly last Thursday, Bush jerked attention away from all that and onto the issue many Americans suspected he had been doing almost anything to avoid: the nation's economic future. Overnight, the President had moved toward a clarification of the choice between his approach and that of his rival...
...think she will make some changes, but won't change things overnight," said Jewett. "She wants to go through it for a year...
...They don't expect any changes overnight," Veno said...