Word: zeroed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Brian Dyson, president of Coca-Cola USA, believes some people are tasting things in the new drink that are not there. Example: the new Coke is not less fizzy as some complain. "There is a zero difference in carbonation between the new and the old," he says. Dyson insists that the bickering will not work: "We are going to stick with what we have done...
...sign of traditional vastness, the 19th century view of limitless America. But look closer and the ideal landscape is fatally cankered, the America of Natty Bumppo is no more: acid rain has stripped the needles off the pine, or a sinister cloud spreads upward from a distant ground zero. Technical perfection evokes a compromised world...
...combination of lower rates, a higher personal exemption and a higher zero-bracket amount would mean that nearly all individuals and families below or just above the poverty line would pay no federal income tax at all. In 1986, the poverty line for a family of four is expected to be $11,400. Under present law, if that family had one wage earner, it would pay tax on any income above $9,575. Under the Reagan plan, taxes would start only if its income exceeded $12,798. Another tax break would give a family with one working spouse the opportunity...
...Ellis, 21, is a student at Bennington College and obviously an enterprising and successful young man. But the story he tells about members of his generation is lurid in the extreme. Most readers who are not helplessly zonked on sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll will finish Less Than Zero with the conviction that they have not fretted over the current condition of young people nearly enough...
...forces that made him so passive and world-weary at age 18. That such questions about the central character seem important is a tribute to Ellis' talent; his refusal to address them is thus all the more unsettling. In spite of its surface vitality and macabre glitter, Less Than Zero offers little more than its title promises...