Word: overnight
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...administrators now say that it was the Kennedy Administration, the Great Society and consciousness-raising of the 1960s that brought the issue of race to the forefront. The Harvard admissions office responded full steam ahead, changing its recruiting strategies "almost overnight," according...
...think the opposition to women was something that was going to disappear overnight. I think the passage of time has shown people that there were no disadvantages to having women in the library," she says...
...NATO bomb. That is a rerun of the scene from Mogadishu in 1993, when Somalis dragged a G.I.'s body through the streets of their capital. The searing footage, the result of a helicopter assault gone awry, turned Capitol Hill and the American public against the humanitarian Somalia mission overnight. That's what haunts the Clinton team as it struggles to attain victory in Kosovo. "Downed helicopters and dead pilots," an Army officer said last week, "scare this Administration to death...
Pryor also mentioned problems of women being stolen from the camps, presumably to be sold into sexual slavery, and supplies being stolen for the black market. He described one instance where trucks parked near a camp and full of provisions for the refugees disappeared overnight...
That evening she left on an overnight flight to Europe with the President. In the conference room aboard Air Force One, after Berger and Cohen briefed Clinton on military issues, she presented her plan for getting Russia to accept publicly an international security force for Kosovo at a G-8 (the seven major industrial nations plus Russia) foreign ministers' meeting she had convened in Bonn...