Word: overnighter
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...wields power in the country's second largest city is the classic political outsider. Sobchak was a little-known professor of economic law at Leningrad State University until he was elected last year to the Soviet parliament. Then almost overnight, his witty and acerbic exchanges with Mikhail Gorbachev on legal fine points won him national prominence. When Sobchak became chairman of the Leningrad city council last May, the move was hailed as a victory for radical democrats opposed to the Communist Party's monopoly on power. Sobchak is still the most admired politician in his native city -- with a popularity...
...holdings (it has a Gutenberg Bible and a garden donated by the King of Siam), help give Eton more the air of a university than a high school. That impression is intensified by the precocious self-possession of its students, who seem to have nothing teenage about them, maturing overnight from short pants into three-piece suits. Recent issues of the Eton College Chronicle, the boys' magazine, feature long articles on perestroika, detailed surveys of Malawi, rhymed quatrains about Salman Rushdie. Boys put on plays by Ken Kesey and Lope de Vega, flock to a newly formed Green Society, gather...
Recent student protests--particularly lastmonth's overnight University Hall sit-in--havedrawn campus attention to the ever-thinning ranksof the Afro-American Studies Department...
...mark in a nation of 38 million, the government acknowledges that there are limits to people's patience. Elsewhere in the region those limits are already being tested. Earlier this month, when the Romanian government withdrew state subsidies on a wide range of goods, many prices more than doubled overnight. Workers and students took to the streets demanding the government's resignation and shouting slogans against President Ion Iliescu and Prime Minister Petre Roman: "Down with Iliescu!" and "Roman, resign!" Says Nica Leon, leader of the Free Democratic Party: "It is a very bleak economic picture. The shops are nearly...
Public acceptance of farmed fish has generally been good, in part because the busy shopper is more interested in freshness than provenance, and cultivation can virtually guarantee overnight delivery. Aquaculturists claim that their facilities have high hygienic standards, but whether wild or farmed, fish are not subject to continuous government inspection. About eight therapeutant drugs and some 30 other chemicals are allowed in the cultivation of fish, according to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and antibiotics are used extensively even in the genetic restructuring of some species. For instance, the triploid oyster, still in the experimental phase, is rendered...