Word: overnighter
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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None of the above, replied the Soviets. As Yuri Dubinin, former Soviet ambassador to the U.S., once put it, "Gorbachev has only one hobby: perestroika." The visitor from the Kremlin politely declined to go to Kennebunkport at all, or even to stay overnight at Camp David. The most he would agree to was eight hours of informal talks with Bush there Saturday. Still, the leaders and their aides did shed coats and ties in Maryland, and Gorbachev told a few of the salty jokes that Bush enjoys. The President took Gorbachev on a tour in a golf cart, and later...
...October 1979, the then new Thatcher government, in what the Financial Times calls one of the great turning points in Britain's postwar economic history, abolished exchange controls overnight. The effect was breathtaking. British companies and investors seized the new freedom with both hands. In recent years, net foreign direct investment by British companies has run between $55 billion and $70 billion a year; net portfolio investment abroad, almost nonexistent before 1979, is around $170 billion. In terms of its net foreign asset position, Britain ranks third in the world after Japan and West Germany...
...Significant actions don't happen overnight," Wolf says. "Many cities and towns are laying people off. Financially we have worked hard and we are moving forward...
...ratings, Diane. No, not just ABC vs. CBS vs. NBC. Since January there has been a dramatic and inexplicable falloff in all TV viewing. Overall, almost 4% of the audience seems to have vanished overnight. The drop is even greater for network viewing and for the demographic group that advertisers value most: adults between 18 and 49. Worse, the news comes just when the networks are getting ready to sell commercial spots for the fall season...
...When one wanted to arrive overnight at the incomparable, the fabulous, the like-nothing-else-in-the-world, where was it one went?" wrote Thomas Mann. "Why obviously . . . Venice." Italy's floating city, fragile as colored glass, has long been loved too well. Each year 2.3 million boisterous and devoted suitors importune this village of 79,000, clogging its narrow walkways, cluttering its wide canals, disturbing its hushed churches and driving its harried residents to distraction. Last summer when 200,000 fans camped in the Piazza San Marco for a Pink Floyd concert, it took the Italian army three days...