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...than the 1983 Department of Education report titled A Nation at Risk. The survey sounded an alarm over the "rising tide of mediocrity" sweeping American schools. It warned that had this mediocrity been imposed by a foreign power, "we might well have viewed it as an act of war." Overnight, the document became a spur for nationwide school reform...
...people lined up outside Houston's Immigration and Naturalization Service office had camped overnight with blankets and lawn chairs. At the Dallas INS office, a pregnant Hispanic woman stepped out of line into a bathroom and went into labor. Throughout the U.S. last month, 200,000 aliens rushed to apply for legal status before a yearlong amnesty program expires on May 4. To qualify, they must prove they were residing in the U.S. before...
...Once a year they go there to this religious monastery, and they camp out overnight. The next day, a priest gives a homily about the holiness of the road and its relation to spiritual value and responsibility. Then the motorcyclists go out between two priests who bless them...
Reagan's point is a valid one. Not only does the press refuse to closely analyze the Jackson candidacy, it seems to be conspiring to make Jackson into an overnight sensation...
...once party secretary responsible for agriculture, a committee of scientific experts is convened to consider "How many nipples on a cow's udder?" The answer: "It appears that there are four, although the cow was given a plan for five." Hard-to-get consumer goods arrive in shops overnight, goods that "we thought were entered in the Red Book," a Soviet compendium of rare and extinct plant and animal species...