Word: zeroed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...auction market may be faring poorly this season, but over the years an insatiable demand for artworks and antiquities has kept the price trajectory rising well above the rate of inflation. What used to be upheld as things of beauty or objects of veneration are increasingly traded like zero- coupon bonds or pork-belly futures. According to U.S. government estimates, "art theft is a $2 billion-a-year business," says Constance Lowenthal, executive director of the nonprofit New York-based International Foundation for Art Research. "But it could be much larger." Trace, a three-year-old British magazine that tracks...
...fact, Mike Gallant, a freshman from Stoney Creek, Ontario, snagged ECAC Rookie of the Week honors for his performance against Vermont. He stopped 42 our of 45 shots and kept the 'Cats zero-for-six on power plays...
...nationwide organization, no cadre of experienced advisers and scant prospects for raising a large campaign chest. He is emphasizing a message of fiscal austerity that puts him to the right of many Democratic primary voters. A party strategist who knows Wilder well describes his guiding philosophy as "none, zip, zero." Wilder's insistence on playing the governorship by his own quirky rules has also caused his Virginia poll numbers to sink. Says Brad Coker, president of Mason-Dixon Opinion Research: "If he ran for re-election today, he could...
Grossman's script has some delightfully lighthearted segments. Richard describes "the basic love equation"--"We set the value of love as an arbitrary constant...Figure has an affect sum as a real and not an integer of the domain zero less than L less than two." Later, when teaching Raymond to fight, Darryl explains, "Every human being is born able to hunt and kill to survive. But you don't see it much in the suburbs." Grossman's script captivates during these moments when the dialogue is not overtly philosophical...
...bill provides $1.8 billion to keep the B-2 production line open but it does not authorize the purchase of any additional planes beyond the 15 already being built. The Senate had proposed building four, the House pushed for zero...