Word: zeroed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Despite such criticism, Clark, 51, has grown increasingly self-confident. When he went to Washington 2½ years ago as Alexander Haig's deputy, Clark did not even pretend to be well informed on foreign affairs. "I had to start pretty much from ground zero and educate myself on subjects I'd never thought about before," he said. He was at his desk before 7 a.m. six and sometimes seven days a week, working his way through endless stacks of paper and earning the respect of his State Department colleagues. He played his role modestly and effectively, smoothing...
...both the Soviets and the Americans, a permanent space station could provide innumerable benefits. Everything from zero-g manufacturing of near perfect crystals for electronics to routine expeditions to the moon and the other planets could move from the realm of expensive experiment into everyday reality...
...Travel Guides; $14.95. Begun last year by the former editor in chief of the Fodor's Modern Guides, the 16-volume Fisher guides are aimed at travelers who like other people to make their decisions for them. Everything-hotels, restaurants, sights, museums and points of interest-gets from zero to five stars, which saves those who are in a rush to hit the beach the necessity of having to read the breezy text or the cute but helpful marginal annotations. Although the Fisher European tour whirls through 18 countries, it is often finely detailed, right down to the best...
These philosophical inconsistencies simply underscore the confused administration of the Solomon Amendment. Showing zero coordination and as little communication, the Education Department has handled the law's implementation poorly and colleges like Harvard are suffering because of that ineptitude. The House should pass the Moynihan amendment approved in the Senate this week so students do not needlessly lose already stringent federal aid. Congress should also use the last six months as a case study in how not to administer a controversial...
...also developing a raft of exotic technologies. These include Josephson Junction and quiteron switching devices that operate in trillionths of a second at temperatures that approach absolute zero (-459.67° F). Says one IBMer: "There's nothing, literally nothing, noteworthy in the field that IBM doesn't have its fingers into...