Word: zeroed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...cost of the National Endowment for the Arts amounts to about 69 cents -- not dollars, just pocket change -- per U.S. citizen per year. Its share of total public spending is so small that in the short form of the federal budget, it is rounded off to zero. Of the nearly 90,000 NEA grants awarded over the past quarter-century, at most a few dozen have sparked any significant public controversy -- and the cumulative cost of all those was less than a cent a person, at a time when people often won't stoop to pick up a penny from...
...undergraduate gave ample detail when queried about his methods, explaining that students born in 1973 can easily make the last digit look like a computer-generated zero, which has a diagonal line across the circle...
...Carefully draw a line across the three to make a zero with pencil, and then iron it back together between two shirts," says the student, who swears by his recipe for deceit...
...luger Harington Telford was saying the same thing. "The past four years have been a struggle to get here," he said, noting how his 19th-place finish in Calgary had become an 18th-place finish here. "I am 25 years old now, and I've really managed to make zero progress in the past four years." A few feet away, Robert Pipkins, a 19-year-old American in the first flush of Olympic enthusiasm, his beaming parents waving a GO ROB. SLIDE IN PRIDE banner around him, looked over at the snowcaps, the blue skies and the pines, and said...
...organization of the former Soviet bloc. Exports to Russia and other once communist countries have shriveled faster than new markets can be developed in the West, and imports of Russian oil now have to be paid for in scarce hard currency. Czechoslovak production fell 16% last year; unemployment, officially zero under communism, has risen to 8% and is certain to go higher, bringing some of the same calls heard in Poland for pumping more money into sick state enterprises...