Word: overnighter
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...Populist), once for the vice presidency (in New Hampshire), once for the state legislature (as a Republican) and now for the Senate (as a Republican without the party's endorsement). Even as a Klan member, he won 33% of the vote in his 1975 Senate race. As an overnight Republican, he won 51% in his runoff victory for the statehouse seat he holds. The latest polls show him with 25% going into the Oct. 6 primary against incumbent J. Bennett Johnston's 42%, but Duke claims he has a secret vote from people who will not confess their preference...
...lucky presence beneath their feet of the world's largest reservoir of oil. The revenues from black crude -- which reached a high of $113 billion in 1981 and this year are expected to top $60 billion -- have enabled the House of Saud to create a modern state almost overnight and, in the process, buy the continued fealty of its subjects. First-class medical care is free. So is education from kindergarten to postgraduate levels. Each Saudi family receives 750 sq. yds. of free land and a 30-year interest-free loan of $80,000 to build a house...
Last spring, student protesters held several rallies--including two overnight sit-ins in the office of Dean Robert C. Clark--designed to increase the administration's awareness of what they left was a lack of minorities and women on the school's faculty. The Law School currently has three Blacks and five women among its tenured faculty, but it does not have any tenured Black women...
...York City's five brugads and 11 smaller Italian gangs in cities ranging from Denver to Kansas City to New Orleans. The bloodletting has decimated two major New York City families (Colombo and Bonanno) and enabled Gambino family boss John Gotti, a flamboyant newcomer, to rise up overnight as America's leading media mobstar...
When Alberto Fujimori was running for President, he promised he would not try to revive Peru's disastrous economy with shock tactics. Last week Fujimori's two-week-old government unveiled an austerity plan that prompted protests and food riots. Overnight the price of gasoline jumped from 10 cents per gal. to more than $2, and food prices rose 300%. In Lima at least three people were killed by police and army troops, who were enforcing a state of emergency invoked two days before the measures were made public. The plan calls for taxes to be raised, import duties...