Word: noughts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...turned out, their planning went for nought. At 8:15 p.m., NBC anchorman John Chancellor looked up from his script, shook his head in amazement and told the American people that they had already elected a president--and his name was Ronald Reagan...
...golden opportunity to score seemed to go for nought when Paul Connors lunged into the line and went nowhere and Buckley missed on a pair of passes--the second a strike to tight end Linus O'Donnell, which he dropped...
...might distract them from the job of forecasting the 1980s.) Still, a certain amount of carefully aimed derision is justified in a world increasingly buffeted by overblown future schlock. Most of all, it is useful to try to understand why the predictions about the 1970s so often came to nought...