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Word: overnights (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...tried to go too fast. Even the intensely partisan and conservative Funderburk caught this spirit. The past two years, he said, had had "a sobering effect" on the Republican class of '94. "You're slapped in the face by the reality that you can't make things happen overnight," he said. "We're going to have to project a more conciliatory image." Funderburk himself could not manage to do so, at least to the satisfaction of his constituents, but other Republicans had more success with the same kind of talk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE BALANCE OF POWER | 11/18/1996 | See Source »

...Babel would indicate that there are boundaries. One lesson in Genesis is that history often repeats itself. Could science get to the point where our attempts to learn could get cut off again? By turning off all the electricity, God could throw us back to the Stone Age overnight. KENNETH BERRY Riverview, New Brunswick Via E-mail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 18, 1996 | 11/18/1996 | See Source »

...Maybe I shouldn't send it," she said as she stood in line to send her ballot through overnight mail...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Students Rush to Send Absentee Ballots | 11/5/1996 | See Source »

Although registered Massachusetts voters will line up at the polls today, Harvard students from out of state waited on long lines at the Cambridge post office yesterday to send their absentee ballots via overnight mail...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Students Rush to Send Absentee Ballots | 11/5/1996 | See Source »

...public opinion does count. Suzanne Jenkins and her Florida neighbors have been living since August in the shadow of a 150-ft. tower that sprouted, toadstool-like, almost overnight. A month ago, however, the company that built it, InterCel, bowed to community pressure and consented to take the tower down. Here in Du Page County, PrimeCo has agreed to consider other sites. "If these companies aren't careful," says Gayle Franzen, chairman of the Du Page County board, "they may get the one thing they don't want"--a tough new set of regulations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NOT IN MY FRONT YARD! | 11/4/1996 | See Source »

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