Word: overnights
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...cannot decommunize a whole society overnight," says Friedrich Magirius, superintendent of Leipzig's Protestant churches, who notes that East Germany was "a typical dictatorship in which anybody who wanted to achieve something, to climb professionally, had to adapt." Hans Meyer, a law professor at the University of Frankfurt, argues that in East Germany the line between victim and criminal was perilously thin. "Very often," he says, "a person will have resisted in one respect but helped the regime in another...
Notwithstanding the religious imagery, what characterized the first few hours after a savage temblor struck northern Iran last week was the stunning silence. Not until 7 a.m. or so, 6 1/2 hours after the quake, did Iran radio begin to report the damage suffered overnight in the fertile agricultural belt along the Caspian Sea. First accounts spoke of 50 dead, but the number soon mounted geometrically. By noon, it was 1,000; by evening, 10,000; by midnight, 25,000. By the next day, it was 45,000, plus 130,000 injured. There were fears that the final death toll...
...Overnight a shrine rose at the place where he was killed, a lace-covered altar laden with plastic flowers in vases, Madonna and Christ icons, and a photograph of the boy. Above it a cardboard plaque read, S. DUFFY MURDERED BY RUC AUGUST 9TH, 1989. Along a wall near Duffy's house, someone wrote in giant white letters, 20 YEARS ON AND STILL MURDERING CHILDREN. His funeral, a nightmarishly slow procession, overflowed with grief...
None of the above, replied the Soviets. As Yuri Dubinin, former Soviet ambassador to the U.S., once put it, "Gorbachev has only one hobby: perestroika." The visitor from the Kremlin politely declined to go to Kennebunkport at all, or even to stay overnight at Camp David. The most he would agree to was eight hours of informal talks with Bush there Saturday. Still, the leaders and their aides did shed coats and ties in Maryland, and Gorbachev told a few of the salty jokes that Bush enjoys. The President took Gorbachev on a tour in a golf cart, and later...
...October 1979, the then new Thatcher government, in what the Financial Times calls one of the great turning points in Britain's postwar economic history, abolished exchange controls overnight. The effect was breathtaking. British companies and investors seized the new freedom with both hands. In recent years, net foreign direct investment by British companies has run between $55 billion and $70 billion a year; net portfolio investment abroad, almost nonexistent before 1979, is around $170 billion. In terms of its net foreign asset position, Britain ranks third in the world after Japan and West Germany...