Word: overnighter
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...what was worse -- that he was a Nixon apologist, a right-winger or a non-journalist. "What impressed me was how quickly he became a Times person," says A.M. Rosenthal, the paper's former executive editor. In fact, when Rosenthal began writing his own pugnacious Times column, Safire cracked, "Overnight, you've made me a centrist...
...would be naive to suggest that the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) could make some policy decisions that would transform overnight our attitudes toward education...
...desktop fax came in with the yuppies, with greed, with quick-profit materialism. They pushed courier services and Federal Express overnight delivery almost out of the market...
When fax machines became "affordable"--current prices range from $1000 to $6000--overnight mail was apt to lose business. But who could have predicted how many others would profit from...
After almost 70 years as a republic of the U.S.S.R., Azerbaijan seemed to peel off its Soviet trappings almost overnight, turning into a foreign country under occupation by invaders. Enraged Azerbaijanis called for guerrilla warfare and swore to "fight to the last drop of blood" to drive the Soviets out. Almost a third of the republic's 380,000 Communist Party members burned their membership cards. Local government offices and police units ignored Moscow and looked to the ten-month-old Azerbaijani Popular Front for leadership. "If Gorbachev wants a second Afghanistan," shouted Ekhtibar Mamedov, the Front's representative...