Overnight, a problem that had been brewing for years became glaringly apparent: the centre had lost control of the agenda.
An engineer in the Arup office in Darussalam, Brunei, say, can post a question in the appropriate Ovanet forum about the bending moment of a particular loaded beam, and be reasonably certain that, overnight, the problem will be taken up sequentially by colleagues in Arup offices around the world.
"He was trying to solve a problem overnight — the social problem with the blacks and the whites.
And we are not going to find a magic bullet that solves this problem overnight".
In Togo, unrest after a disputed election has generated "overnight" a refugee problem in Benin and Ghana.
"They can't fix that problem overnight," Fay Vincent, the former commissioner, said.
Eleanor Hamerow, former head of the department, told the Guardian in 2009: "He was trying to solve a problem overnight – the social problem with the blacks and the whites.
The director of the Campaign for Freedom of Information, Maurice Frankel, said: "People will understand that the Foreign Office can't fix this problem overnight.
Reigning world champions Red Bull and Sebastian Vettel sat in the garage throughout the morning after what chief technical officer Adrian Newey described as "a silly problem overnight".
"I can't promise you that if you get rid of the Board of Ed., get rid of the local school boards, and give everything, control, meaningful control, to the mayor, that it will fix your problem overnight," Mr. Bloomberg said.
Well why is it than that TFL will not allow me to fit a 2.5 replacement Petrol engine into my cab fitted to a Vortex exhaust which would resole this problem overnight.
