Word: nils
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Union and other Communist countries has recently found fresh and juicy evidence of capitalist decline: the double-digit inflation now ravaging Western nations. By contrast, Red journalists crow, living standards in the socialist bloc have markedly improved in the past decade or so, while price rises have been virtually nil. There is some truth to that claim, but like vodka, it has to be taken cautiously in order to avoid losing touch with reality...
Television has a government-licensed monopoly over the public airwaves. The cost of "distributing" a program is virtually nil, and it is no higher for 40 million viewers than for 4 million. There is no correlation between cost and audience size. But every added magazine mailed through the Postal Service-another monopoly-means added cost...
...level of participation is any accurate measure, student interest in Harvard's functions as a stockholder is practically nil...
Terry Kintop, a counselor for the Minnesota Department of Manpower Services, says that summer jobs for middle-class youths have been "nearly nil" in his area. "They don't qualify for special programs for poor kids, and they don't have the contacts the rich kids have." Last spring, his advice to job seekers was: "Go out and pound the pavements and show you are really interested." Many have been doing just that-all summer long...
...Vietnam, Michener went on to explain, was "of course" that it was waged on behalf of a nation that could not profit from our help and against a nation with whom we had no substantive quarrel. The fact that it killed several million innocent people counted for just about nil, apparently. My Lai does merit special attention, in Michener's view, however, because it "resulted in a kind of moral schizophrenia in the American people...