Word: overnight
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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With the baby-boom generation growing older, said the bureau, the number of women in their prime childbearing age has already begun to decline. But a smaller work force does not necessarily mean economic stagnation. "These changes don't come upon us overnight," says Thomas Espenshade, a population expert at Princeton University. "We should be able to accommodate them...
South of the border, the cold wave brought a sudden end to unseasonably warm weather in the American West. In Great Falls, Mont., the temperature fell overnight from a high of 62 degrees to-10 degrees and then down to -34 degrees the next night. Over in Helena, the thermometer reading plummeted from 44 degrees to -6 degrees in just two hours. As far south as Valentine, Neb., a balmy high of 70 degrees turned to 0 degrees in ten hours...
...women, additional cultural constraints become confining. "As Americans we're used to having a certain amount of privacy, freedom, especially women," says Brown, "Kenyans have less privacy and are more critical of late night parties and overnight guests...
...marijuana smoke and good vibrations, the world -- especially the world of youth -- exploded into the Theater of Revolution. Chicago. Paris. Prague. Mexico City. Berkeley and ) the London School of Economics. Everywhere and all at once, students rose in protest and revolt. Red and black flags, mycelia of defiance, sprouted overnight. France ground to a standstill. Charles de Gaulle tottered. Lyndon Johnson left politics. To revolution's fervid practitioners, it was 1848 and the 1871 Paris Commune rolled into one, then mixed with modern hedonism. THE MORE I MAKE REVOLUTION, THE MORE I WANT TO MAKE LOVE! proclaimed a slogan...
...were long in the works. Says Joseph Stewart, a vice president at Kellogg, which in December began replacing the coconut oil in its Cracklin' Oat Bran cereal with a blend of cottonseed and soybean oil: "It would be impossible to do the R. and D. and change our ingredients overnight." But he concedes that "Mr. Sokolof did create a sense of urgency for us to move faster...