Word: zeroed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...replacement, Baltimore Consultant Robert Goodman, promised to show "not the old Rizzo or the new Rizzo, but the real Rizzo." Shortly after, Rizzo endorsed Bernard Epton, Washington's Republican opponent in Chicago, compared Civil Rights Leader Jesse Jackson to Adolf Hitler and called Goode "a big zero." Now Rizzo's TV ads close with: "You don't have to like Frank Rizzo to vote for him as mayor...
...November 1981, as the U.S. and the Soviet Union were preparing to meet in Geneva, President Reagan proposed the "zero option": NATO would forgo its planned deployment altogether if the Soviets would dismantle a11 of their aging SS-4 and SS-5 missiles, plus all 250 of the more accurate SS-20s then in place (the current number: 351). This offer came to be widely criticized in Western Europe, first by the peace movement and later by some governments, as inflexible and unrealistic. Yet it appears that the zero-option concept originated in Western Europe. It had been mentioned...
...more importantly, it's the very same Dartmouth squad that didn't win one Ivy game all last season. That's zero. Not a one. The very same lacrosse squad that finished dead last, clinging to its all-too-familiar doormat position in the Ivies...
...promising prospect for theatrical adaptation could hardly be imagined; it is difficult even to conceive of what convinced the mainstage selection committee to lavish a coveted slot and budget on so ill-conceived a venture. And in viewing the results, one is reminded, sadly, of the mathematical axiom that zero, no matter how many times, multiplied, can never equal anything but zero. A typical verse from any of Maurice Sendak's clever, malicious little tours de force--take "Stir it once, stir it twice, stir it chicken soup with rice"--means virtually nothing, and therein lies its charm. Blow...
...says he didn't have as hard a time readjusting to civilization as he thought he would He trained as much as he could for a marathon in which he finished 38th three weeks after coming home Included in his training was a half-hour run in 102 below, zero weather, which he thinks may be some sort of record...