Word: overnighter
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...newfangled concepts as political pluralism or free-market economics. The vast majority of the population lives a rural life, cut off from urban political developments. Robbed of their natural resources and even their cultural identity by the Kremlin, the Central Asians were forced to take charge of their destiny overnight. Their struggle to define the future is even more basic than in the old Soviet European republics...
...Nicosia, Coleman saw the supposedly controlled shipments of heroin, called kourah in Lebanon -- inspiration for the CIA operation's code name COREA -- grow into a torrent. The drugs were delivered by couriers who arrived on the overnight ferry from the Lebanese port of Jounieh. After receiving their travel orders from the DEA, the couriers were escorted to the Larnaca airport by the Cypriot national police and sent on their way to Frankfurt and other European transit points. The DEA testified at hearings in Washington that no "controlled deliveries" of drugs through Frankfurt were made...
...probably will not leap in and make changesimmediately without spending some time and gettingto know the place," said Jewett. "She has noready-made agenda to make overnight changes...
...have spent tens of billions of dollars for technical collection systems that will return information to us on almost a real-time basis, and then in Washington we revert to a 19th century approach to dealing with that information by holding it overnight before we can present it to policymakers. We can never compete with CNN and don't intend to, but I want an arrangement where we can provide updated intelligence information throughout the day to policymakers...
...letter sent to Dean Robert C. Clark and the Law School administrative board, Jackson compared the students' overnight sit-in outside Clark's Griswold Hall office to civil rights protests of the 1960s...