Word: zero
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...clock ticked down to zero, the reality set in. An underdog Ivy League team had just overturned the high-flying Eagles, and did so in a double digit, 82-70 win. The Crimson topped a ranked team for the first time in its existence...
...this is a different year, and Gates is a different sort of Defense Secretary. He warned the legislators that each decision was "zero sum." Any money that went to things he didn't want would come out of programs necessary to support the troops fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan. (Read "Can Robert Gates Tame the Pentagon...
Geithner has said he'd like to see the board reduced to 20 seats, with more say for the BRIC bloc. Although that makes economic sense, it will be very hard to achieve, warns Prasad: "It's a zero-sum game: for someone to gain a bigger role, someone else has to lose theirs...
That's the beauty of megafamily shows: left, right and center can find reasons to love and judge. Family-planning is the ground zero where the personal meets the political--where the rubber, or the lack of one, meets the road. It's the practical application of all those buzzwords: family values, life, choice, our children's futures. That's why we freaked over Octomom; it's why Sarah Palin's fans and foes fixated so much on her pregnancy and her daughter...
...French have 30 days of government-mandated paid leave per year. That compares with 20 in the U.K., 10 in Japan and zero...