Word: zeroed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Springtime at Stanford University usually means catching rays and flinging a tribe around the Quadrangle, But this year two Stanford students will associate springtime with temperatures of 50 degrees below zero and days that grow shorter and shorter...
Reagan is interested in economic and social issues but has trouble following or even getting interested in the complexities of arms control and national security. That is one reason why he has been drawn to appealing but deceptively simple-sounding schemes like the zero option and the idea of defending the U.S. with space-based missile killers. Earlier in the year, he commented to a friend that he "sometimes wished all this nuclear stuff would go away." It will not go away in any event, but will loom all the larger...
...morning for a 15-minute briefing and immediately afterward delivered his televised speech from the East Room. In it, he sought to depict the Soviets as the intransigent party and the U.S. as the flexible one. The failure of the Soviets to make a "serious" counterproposal to the U.S. zero-option plan, he said, "is a source of deep disappointment to all of us who have wished that these weapons might be eliminated ... But I do not intend to let this shadow that has been cast over the Geneva negotiations further darken our search for peace ... If the Soviets will...
...listed his occupation as "nun of the above," and he got 23,124 votes. This was not enough to win a supervisor's seat, but enough to encourage him to enter this fall's mayoral election. Also declaring: "Lady Lillian Chaucer-Peace, gentlewoman," "James Bond Zero, political exorcist" and "Ronnie B. Foxy, world's greatest pimp." Not to mention, "Crown Prince Arcadia...
Once in the U.S., cocaine is diluted at each step in the distribution chain, usually with vegetable starches or anesthetics like Novocain. A typical retail gram of "cocaine" is only about 15% pure, although concentrations as high as 40% and as low as zero are not unusual. The price markup from dockside to coffee table is roughly ten times...