Word: zeroed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Pentagon seemed to postpone the plan, only to be reversed by the White House. It has also become hard to assess the chances that the U.S. will dispatch 25,000 troops to help police a peace agreement in Bosnia, should one ever be reached. At present the chances are zero. It would be a supreme irony if the brave venture in Somalia winds up by effectively putting the U.S. out of the peacekeeping business. But it would be unwise to bet now against that happening...
Recently, Cornell (0-3 overall, 0-1 Ivy) has been the team fumbling the year away, and although the Big Red has come up with big numbers statistically, a zero still looms in the win column...
...have a soft spot for old Andrew. He was my favorite brat packer back in the mid '80s. I adored the tortured journalist he played in "St. Elmo's Fire" and the tortured rich kids he played in "Pretty in Pink" and "Less than Zero." His on-screen whining and whimpering moved me. And he was cute. My heart warmed to see his adorable face, after all these years, in a real quality film--don't even mention "Weekend at Bernie's I & II." Actually any flash from the '80s warms my heart. As I'm writing this little intro...
...advocates "zero-based budgeting" as a solution to increased city spending. Under such a system, each program is annually evaluated as if it were a new proposal...
...single question it raises that cannot be seen in a dozen different ways, and few that do not involve deciding that someone may die sooner than if the treatment had been given. To accept the need for rationing involves a certain pessimism -- the embracing of a zero-sum system where the only way to pay for one thing is to drop another. The pragmatic wonk in Clinton might want to wrestle with it; but the optimist in him, and his political instincts, will ensure that he will try to to keep it from becoming a focus of debate. He will...