Word: overnights
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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James Baker (interrupting). That is so incorrect that I'd like to answer. What took us overnight -- we stayed up almost all night Wednesday, into the next day -- was an attempt to knock down rumor after rumor. That was a much bigger job than dealing with the underlying facts...
...mentality of profits-at-any-price will not change overnight, but new deterrents are on the way. Last week House Democrats John Dingell of Michigan and Edward Markey of Massachusetts introduced a bill that would raise the maximum penalty for insider trading for individuals to $1 million from the current $100,000, and would provide a bounty for informants. This fall 60 universities will teach ethics courses developed in a $5 million program sponsored by the Arthur Andersen accounting firm. Says James Bere, chairman of Borg-Warner: "I'm impressed by the number of people of my generation...
...this gentle fable, a twelve-year-old gets gonads overnight, and Tom Hanks proves himself the prince of '80s romantic comedy...
...Overnight the five regional offices of the Florida game and freshwater-fish commission were inundated with demands for alligator annihilation. Legally sanctioned revenge will begin Sept. 1, when Florida institutes a 30-day open gator hunt similar to those held annually in Louisiana and Texas. The kill will be limited to 3,000 gators by 200 or so selected hunters...
...first the KGB seemed content to watch from the sidelines as some 100 dissidents gathered last week. But as the group was winding up its second day of political meetings at a dacha outside Moscow, the authorities moved in and detained 23 people, keeping almost half of them overnight. Reason: the dissidents had proclaimed the birth of an independent political party, the Democratic Union, to challenge the Communists...