Word: nils
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Damage was nil. Our being closed has nothing to do with that. We were scheduled to do some remodeling anyway," Martel said...
...vacuum has been filled by Attorney General Edwin Meese, whose advice has nearly always led to disaster. Even David Broder, the Washington Post's normally temperate columnist, last week joined the growing cry for Meese's firing. The likelihood that Reagan will heed that recommendation is virtually nil; Meese is the last of his California cronies left in the Administration. Still, the two Bakers, Secretary of State George Shultz and Defense Secretary- designate Frank Carlucci are all people of sound judgment to whom the President should listen...
...hands-on President, was arguably the most intelligent, experienced, compassionate and diligent President of the century. He was all the things Reagan is not. But Hoover's problems were different, his Government far less powerful than today's, and his ability to warm and win people was almost nil...
There is no guarantee, even no likelihood, of success. Even if they do find a weakness, the chances of exploiting it sucessfully are quite small. The chances of something like this clicking three weeks in a row are nearly nil...
...frequently and vehemently has criticized as usurpative "judicial coups d'etat" are Roe v. Wade, in which the Court found a (limited) right to abortion, and Griswold v. Connecticut, in which it established the right of married couples to purchase contraceptives. But, we are told, the chances are virtually nil that the infringements upon liberty they sought to combat would return if a Bork-inspired court overturned them. America has changed, the argument goes, and even if, say, the abortion issue were thrown back to the states, few would re-enact the draconian antiabortion statutes of the past. And, surely...