Word: overnight
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...alliance kept up heavy bombing overnight Wednesday, encouraged no doubt by signs that Milosevic's will to resist may be crumbling. Belgrade Thursday upped its official casualty toll in the conflict to 1,200 killed and 5,000 wounded, double the previous figures -- the enlargement may be designed to prepare the Serbs for a compromise by Milosevic. For NATO, the political dynamic may be getting easier, with 50 days of continual attacks having made the Western public more accustomed to the air war over Kosovo. "The key thing there is lack of casualties," says Thompson. "As in the slow-simmering...
Random Television Executive: "WOW! Our ratings for 'The Best of Hee-Haw' just doubled overnight! Let's add two hours during primetime...
...simple apology won't necessarily be enough this time. U.S. diplomatic facilities in Chinese cities came under fire from enraged rock-throwing demonstrators Saturday, following NATO's overnight bombing of China's Belgrade embassy that killed four people and wounded 26. The error -- which NATO officials said resulted from an intelligence failure in which the building was wrongly identified as a Yugoslav arms procurement office -- may further cloud the troubled relationship between Washington and Beijing. China denounced the act as "barbaric," demanded that NATO immediately halt its bombing campaign. Russia backed that call, insisting that the peace plan agreed with...
...pleased with at least one aspect of AT&T's new role as the Cable Guy -- AT&T will be using its cable lines to provide local phone service, creating needed competition for its old kin, the Baby Bells. But regulators are worried about how to bell the cat. "Overnight, AT&T has not only become the No. 1 cable company but also the de facto standard-bearer for the future of telecom," says TIME senior economics reporter Bernard Baumhol. "They're now the only company really positioned to offer the one-stop Internet, cable and phone service that...
...nothing beats an overnight expedition. Fifth-grader Ryan Gregson spots a herd of deer in a meadow and exclaims, "Wow, I didn't know there were so many deer so close to where I live." And he won't soon forget...