Word: nils
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...while, Japanese Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone had seemed headed for a forced retirement. Both Japanese and international opinion makers predicted that his chances for a third term in office after this month's parliamentary elections were all but nil. After the Tokyo economic summit in May, Nakasone appeared to be in deep trouble, having failed to persuade Japan's major trading partners to cool off the country's overheated currency. Worse, Japan's $ gross national product recently declined by .5%, the first such drop in eleven years. His policies of "administrative reform," aimed at curbing exports, cutting government expenditures...
...police have long been common. Says Dieter Kersting, a leading opponent of plans to build a fuel-reprocessing facility in a forest clearing near the Bavarian town of Wackersdorf: "The Chernobyl catastrophe clearly strengthens our position." Noting that officials have consistently called the chances of a meltdown virtually nil, Kersting added, "Who can believe those assertions...
...withdrawal of the Israelis from our country. After a few days, we suspected that this goal could not be reached. When the Israelis began their withdrawal (from the Chouf Mountains) without any coordination with us, bringing chaos to the areas they had occupied, we concluded that this agreement was nil. The Israelis were so insistent on getting everything they wanted that they lost the opportunity for a peaceful withdrawal. In retrospect, we all made mistakes...
...Israel does not look kindly on pressure to release prisoners. Chances are nil that this will be successful," said Lisa Anderson, assistant professor of government and a specialist in Middle Eastern politics...
...Michoacan, Mexico, and drifted north to Seattle, hoping to earn enough to start his own business back home ("upholstery or construction, senor, it would not matter"). But by 1979 ! his wife Guadelupe advised him that prospects for founding a business or even earning a living wage in Michoacan were nil, so Guillermo brought Guadelupe and their four children to join him in Seattle. Today he earns $400 a month from a boss who deducts $250 for rent on a ramshackle apartment that the boss owns. Somehow, though, Guillermo is saving money to buy a sewing machine and once more dreams...