Word: overnights
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...students and area residents acquired new wardrobes overnight, many retailers reported heavy volumes of shoppers over the holiday weekend. Throughout Cambridge and Boston, stores are marking down their merchandise and posting "Sale" signs. Even Filene's Basement, long acknowledged by bargain hunters of all breeds as a mecca for the best grabs, had record sales during the celebratory sale commemorating Washington's Birthday...
...promotional gimmick, which was designed to call attention to the company's new $59 fares on many routes, was overwhelming. About 20,000 tickets were sold. "A bus ride is sure worth the cost of a cup of coffee," said Blondeane Jones, 35, of Dallas, who stood in line overnight for a chance to visit her brother in Columbus...
...that anyone expects the creaky 50-year-old system of providing Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) and other welfare services to be + transformed overnight. The problems of training and finding jobs for welfare recipients -- teenage girls who drop out of school to have illegitimate children, to take the most stark example -- are immense. In the long run, money could be saved if a significant number of long-term welfare recipients could be placed in unsubsidized jobs and more absent fathers could be required to contribute to the support of children they have abandoned. But there is a problem...
...Carter, Milt knew the morning the photo came out showing he had switched his part from right to left and restyled his country thatch that Carter was a one-termer. "You never change your style so dramatically overnight while you are on the job," declares Milt. "It unsettles people. It indicates a vacillating nature." Pitts' rule of political hairstyling: get it right the minute you become serious about running and stick with the basic style...
There will be no overnight cures, but New York Senator Moynihan calls the emerging consensus for reform a "rare alignment" that could effect worthwhile change. -- Robert Gates succeeds his ailing mentor William Casey as CIA Director. -- Gary Hart is the Voyager of American politics: lean, / proficient and built for the long haul...