Word: zeroed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...year-old black Missourian who, they believe, died of AIDS in 1969. The case may represent the earliest documented instance of AIDS in North America, predating that of Gaetan Dugas, a Canadian flight attendant. Dugas, who contracted AIDS before 1980 and died in 1984, was publicly identified as "Patient Zero" only last month. Tissue samples from Robert R. may eventually reveal what caused the virus to spread...
Thurow, author of the "Zero Sum Society," said the world is entering what he called a "black hole," which will pull economies down and turn traditional rules on their head...
...market's extremely fragile," said Peter J. DaPuzzo, manager of the retail equity group at Shearson Lehman Brothers Inc. in New York. "Any negative news causes it to break and people to sell out equities. There's so much tension and nervousness, the confidence level is very close to zero...
...stunning book tells of the tragic mishandling of the AIDS epidemic and the $ eerie role of Patient Zero. -- AIDS and circumcision...
...Bret Easton Ellis' Less than Zero, a timely bit of voyeurism about the sordid lives of rich Los Angeles youth. As the title suggests, the characters are intellectual and emotional ciphers. Ellis' documentary intentions are clear, but his laconic descriptions of numb fornications, pharmacological excesses and teenage nihilism come dangerously close to violating Mark Twain's third rule of writing: "That the personages in a tale shall be alive, except in the case of corpses, and that always the reader shall be able to tell the corpses from the others...