Word: nil
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Permanent Minority. After Shafer won the governorship in 1966, Joe Napolitan, a gifted political manager who had worked for the Democrats, inspected his party's hardening arteries and concluded. "The Democratic Party in Pennsylvania is ready for a major reorganization." Progress since Napolitan's critique has been nil. Former Governor George Leader observes that his party has shown "no sense of urgency" in coping with its problems...
Worse, the antigens come in many different shapes and compositions even among individuals of the same species. Result: the chance that any two people (except identical twins) will have the same "antigenic constitution" is virtually nil. Transplanters have tried to get around that by matching donor organs with recipients whose antigen patterns seem fairly similar, but these resemblances are not close enough to exclude the rejection mechanism...
...leaders of the campaign have announced repeatedly that the marchers will remain in Washington until they are assured that their demands will be met, although the probability that Congress will respond positively to those demands is now generally thought to be nil...
...party "guiltier" than the other. A man shown to have been having an affair is often "punished" by a judge's harsh alimony award, whether or not his ex-wife has plenty of money of her own. Conversely, an adulteress may get nothing, even though her resources are nil...
...well-you sound just fine, and I can tell it's all right, so I'll tell you something. I get a lot of calls from crackpots and curiosity seekers . . ." The result, as it was with all the other ardent seekers of love partners she called, was nil, and they wondered about what kind of hang-up it was that made her call...