Word: zeroed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...question: how to counter Andropov's not-so-zero offer...
...there be a set of numbers between zero and zero-zero? It sounds like the most abstruse speculation in mathematics. But the math in this case is the potentially lethal calculus of nuclear weaponry, and so the question is leading to a backstage brawl in Washington...
Andropov's plan has already been rejected by the U.S. and its allies as a deceptive response to Ronald Reagan's original proposal to eliminate all U.S. and Soviet missiles in the European theater. Initially known as the "zero option," this proposal has been rechristened in Washington the "zero-zero" plan. Said Reagan last week, with intense sarcasm: "The Soviets have met us halfway .. . they have proposed zero on our part...
...Crimson was out shooting B.C. on the period, 7-1, but the Eagles second shot of the period trickled under McEvoy at the 9.42 mark. A few minutes later, linemates Ed Rauseo and Chris Delaney had the beleaguered freshmen net-minder at their mercy on a two-on-zero, mercifully, they each hit one post...
Since computers can understand only two words, variously defined as yes and no, on and off, or zero and one, computer scientists have devised a babel of "languages" that translate human wishes into some variation of the computer's two words. BASIC is the language of most desktop personal computers, originally written for Dartmouth students in the mid-1960s; FORTRAN is an earlier attempt used mainly for scientific problems; Logo is designed for children; and Ada is used mainly for military problems...