Word: zeroed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...three sleds, each loaded with nearly 450 kg (1,000 lbs.) of food and gear, left the base of the Seal Nunataks mountains and started gliding across the Antarctic Peninsula. But Antarctica's ferocity proved to be stunning. Although it is now summer there, windblown snow has produced near- zero visibility, and frozen drifts have periodically caused the heavily < laden sleds to tip over...
...minuscule for the task, the declaration signals a change in philosophy for the Administration, which had resisted calls for tighter banking regulations. Only hours after Bush unveiled his antidrug offensive last September, a federal task force began taking shape. The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FINCEN) hopes to zero in on money launderers with computer programs capable of spotting suspicious movements of electronic money...
Under the nom de guerre Commander Zero, Pastora became a revolutionary superstar in 1978 after leading a raid on the National Palace that helped topple the Somoza regime a year later. Partly because he was unhappy with the Sandinistas' growing dependence on Moscow, he quit as Vice Minister of Defense and in 1983 launched a guerrilla war against his former comrades. But he rejected CIA pressure to join the main contra faction and was finally forced to quit fighting...
Substantial inequality between rich and poor can coexist with Rawls' scheme. True, the Difference Principle would veto an increase in income at the top with zero redistribution to the bottom. But this limitation, in place in many industrial societies, is not exactly bringing capitalism to its knees...
Despite sub-zero temperatures outside thearena, the Crimson would not stay cold for long.Two minutes later, after UVM defender StethaneVenne was sent to the penalty box for tripping, abeautifully organized Crimson power play putHarvard on the scoreboard. Kevan Melrose fired apass from the left blue line to Weisbrod at theright crease, who deflected the puck into the goalat...