Word: zeroed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this from a highly touted sophomore whose last varsity start came almost two years ago for her high school team. Before Saturday. Clifton's number of Harvard varsity starts was equaled only by her number of Harvard varsity goals--zero...
With their ultimatum in effect rejected, the Indian National Congress was at zero hour last week when Mr. Gandhi, attended by ascetic gentlemen in white loin cloths and lean ladies in pink girdles, squatted down cross-legged on the rostrum and announced that the executive committee of the Congress had adopted unanimously his draft Declaration of Independence and would put it to vote after suitable debate. As the debate began, the weather turned bitter cold. Mr. Gandhi drew a piece of cloth over his shoulders and sat quiet, knitting something woolen...
...billion in new revenue during the next three fiscal years. Any bill to increase taxes, says Tip O'Neill, Speaker of the Democratic-controlled House, "would have to come from the President or the Republican Party." As O'Neill well knows, the chances of that are zero. "Tip's point is that if the President is not willing to deal with this, he-Tip-isn't going to put Democratic heads on the block," explains a House Democratic leader. "That may be good politics, but it's bad economics...
Political pundits and fellow Democrats hardly concurred. "I might as well run my bloodhound, Blue," declared Atlanta Pollster Claibourne Darden. "The possibility of his being elected President is zero." Only slightly more enthusiastic was Colorado Senator Gary Hart, McGovern's 1972 campaign manager and one of his six declared presidential opponents. "He has as much right as anyone else to get into the race," said Hart...
...efforts to slow inflation, currently running at an annual rate of about 150%. In return for roughly $850 million in loans from the IMF and commercial banks, the administration of President João Figueiredo is pledging to trim inflation to 55% next year and cut to zero the rate of growth of its budget deficit, which last year totaled an estimated $50 billion...