Word: overnights
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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India is considerably less open about its capability to build nuclear bombs, though many analysts believe the country has atomic components on the shelf. One official close to the Prime Minister claims that India can produce a nuclear bomb "overnight," though Gandhi said in 1986 that it would take "maybe longer than . . . a few weeks" for India to deploy A-weapons. In February 1988 India successfully tested the Prithvi, a 150-mile-range ballistic missile that can carry a payload of 2,000 lbs., more than enough for a nuclear warhead...
...types of telemarketing cons are being hatched overnight, sometimes abetted by front-page news that provides a convincing sales pitch. After the 1987 stock-market crash shook investor confidence in securities, con artists began pushing such alternatives as rare coins, gold, oil and gas leases, and diamonds. One Tulsa-based telemarketing company cleaned up by selling shares in a "secret process" for converting volcanic sand on Costa Rican beaches into gold. A swindler who had been convicted of selling shares in a nonexistent gold mine continued to solicit new investors from a pay phone in his Wyoming prison...
...conversion of the Quad from wall flower to blushing beauty did not occur overnight nor without cost. In fact, the transformation of the beast required a physical facelift worth $32.5 million--concrete facial included...
Venezuela had not seen such mayhem since 1958, when a popular insurrection toppled dictator Marcos Perez Jimenez and ushered in democracy. Overnight, Venezuelans faced martial-law restrictions, including a 6 p.m.-to-6 a.m. curfew. When the riots ended, severe food shortages in the capital threatened to stir more disquiet. The most important victim of the upheaval was probably President Perez himself, who had begun his second term in office (the first was from 1974 to 1979) with a huge margin of popularity. That goodwill was suddenly forgotten when the rattled leader failed to stop the violence with a rambling...
...Obviously things have moved very quickly in the last 24 hours," Cheney said in referring to Bush's swift, overnight search for a replacement candidate for Tower. "I did agonize. It was not an easy decision...