Word: nil
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...than 52,000 road fatalities were suicides-or the unwitting victims of some other driver's suicidal impulse -range from less than 1% to about 10%. The evidence is almost always circumstantial, and the chance of identifying an automobile death as anything other than "accidental" is just about nil unless the suicide himself thoughtfully provides a note or blurts out his intent before he takes the wheel...
...Quid pro Nil. It was difficult not to conclude that Hanoi's aim is to induce Washington to end bombing of the North on a quid pro nil basis. Thant has already urged the U.S. to "show an enlightened and humanitarian spirit" by calling off the raids, "even without conditions," and the pressure from European capitals is intense. Said a U.S. official: "If Ho Chi Minh announces that his representatives are on their way to Geneva to meet with us, the pressure to stop bombing would be tremendous and perhaps irresistible." The Administration nonetheless is bent on resisting that...
...Longo moved up to board chairman and an aging interim director-general was named; Pagliazzi was made a deputy director-general, along with Lolli, who was running most of the bank's operations. Two weeks ago, Carli quietly informed Lolli that his chances of becoming director-general were nil; to solve the impasse the government will probably name another candidate...
...throaty voice is pleasant enough, but not even 135 lighting changes could disguise the fact that as a stage personality, she is strictly run-of-the-nil. But no matter; Rosemont has $50,000 tied up in Bobbe, and she is currently riding the crest of a super-promotion campaign that should carry her for months to come...
...Premier of France, part petty household tyrant, part national monument, lives in impatient retirement, awaiting his chance to settle old scores and topple old foes. When he discovers that his servants are all government spies, that his secret papers are no longer secret, and that his power is nil, he decides that since he has been politically dead for years, he may as well relax and die physically...