Word: overnights
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Significant actions don't happen overnight," Wolf says. "Many cities and towns are laying people off. Financially we have worked hard and we are moving forward...
...ratings, Diane. No, not just ABC vs. CBS vs. NBC. Since January there has been a dramatic and inexplicable falloff in all TV viewing. Overall, almost 4% of the audience seems to have vanished overnight. The drop is even greater for network viewing and for the demographic group that advertisers value most: adults between 18 and 49. Worse, the news comes just when the networks are getting ready to sell commercial spots for the fall season...
...When one wanted to arrive overnight at the incomparable, the fabulous, the like-nothing-else-in-the-world, where was it one went?" wrote Thomas Mann. "Why obviously . . . Venice." Italy's floating city, fragile as colored glass, has long been loved too well. Each year 2.3 million boisterous and devoted suitors importune this village of 79,000, clogging its narrow walkways, cluttering its wide canals, disturbing its hushed churches and driving its harried residents to distraction. Last summer when 200,000 fans camped in the Piazza San Marco for a Pink Floyd concert, it took the Italian army three days...
...Overnight President Felix Houphouet-Boigny, 85, whom Ivorians had been & conditioned to regard in reverential terms since he took power at independence in 1960, became an object of vilification. Step by step, the government gave ground. Houphouet-Boigny announced that he would relinquish leadership of the party at its congress later this month. Next the tax hikes were scrapped, and finally, two weeks ago, opposition parties were legalized...
...prescribes a "Campus Compact" that universities must adopt if they are to restore peace to the ivory tower. The compact embraces principles of justice, openness and discipline that are meant to form the foundation of a "community of learning." But no seminar or speech or required reading will change overnight the attitudes embedded in a culture that children absorb while growing up. Nor will they easily break the cycle of hate. "If you can't have a university that lives together with some degree of civility and integrity amidst the diversity," asks Boyer, "how can we expect our cities...