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...charting a course of zero growth for next year after two successive years of meager increases, the Corporation has opted to preserve the endowment rather than bail out schools during the current recession...
...walk into this dorm room and there’s nothing whatsoever in the common room. Not a thing. Zero. No bedclothes...
...cuts in the museums are the latest in a series of staff cuts across the University that have come as it struggles to deal with the sluggish economy and, according to Office of Human Resources spokesperson Marilyn D. Touborg, zero or negative returns on endowment investment...
...Captain Math, he’s our hero—gonna take confusion down to zero!” they chant together as one of the teachers struts across the stage in a red cape...
...need for imports. In each instance, legislation was accompanied by extravagant forecasts not only by lawmakers but by energy-company officials as well. In 1974 policymakers predicted that U.S. oil production "could increase to more than 17 million bbl. a day, which is more than sufficient to be at zero imports by 1985." The Reagan White House shared the optimism. A spokesman said that "the ranges that any reasonable person is considering include zero [imports] by 2000." By that year, however, imports were at their highest level ever, and domestic production had declined to levels not seen since...