Word: overnights
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...pipeline through hundreds of miles of rain forest to an electrical plant in neighboring Thailand. At that point, villagers contend, the government began to view them as another kind of natural resource to be exploited. Burmese troops were brought in to provide security and build infrastructure for the project. Overnight, claim the villagers, soldiers forced them at gunpoint to build army camps, helipads and roads. Many fled into the jungle, but others could not escape what they charge were terrible abuses. One victim, a slightly built, middle-aged rice farmer, told TIME of beatings by Burmese soldiers, who forced villagers...
Back in the audience before the film starts, there’s a debate whether a post-makeover Campbell, who works the overnight shift at a chain hotel in Newton, can wear her current outfit of pink crushed-velvet turtleneck and black miniskirt to work tonight. “My manager is okay with my cross-dressing, but I’d probably have to wear a regulation white blouse,” Campbell reflects...
Volunteers are divided into dinner, evening, overnight and breakfast shifts...
...soldiers from the garrison in Basra. Merchants walk up and down the dock, shouting purchase orders into satellite phones as young men in jeans with AK-47s guard against pirates who prowl the river in motorboats. As in the American frontier a century ago, fortunes are being made almost overnight in Iraq, and with the same lack of control. As Saghair hoists a load of fruit from the bottom of the hold, a coconut falls out of the lifting net, narrowly missing a docker's head. What safety procedures are in place at the port? he is asked. He smiles...
That's an awesome task, and it won't be completed overnight. "These threats are not new," asserts Robert Liscouski, Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security, who is shuffling several far-flung federal agencies into one National Cyber Security Division (NCSD). He says "digital Pearl Harbor" scenarios are exaggerated: "That's a bit of an overplay for me, and I get paid to worry about this stuff." In October, Amit Yoran, a former vice president of the Internet security firm Symantec, became head of the NCSD, which will attempt to seek and destroy vulnerabilities in cyberspace, issue warnings in real time...