Word: zeroed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Harvard's momentum was short-lived, however. The Crimson's Jim Coady was called for hooking just three minutes after the goal and the Golden Knights found an opportune moment to break out of its zero-for-10 slump on the man advantage...
...lines. Thus Schwarzkopf was able to hoodwink Baghdad into concentrating its forces in the wrong places until the very end. Six of Iraq's 42 divisions were massed along the Kuwaiti coast, guarding against a seaborne invasion. U.S. Marines repeatedly practiced amphibious landings, as conspicuously as possible, and as zero hour approached, an armada of 31 ships swung into position to put them ashore near Kuwait City. The battleships Missouri and Wisconsin took turns, an hour at a time, firing their 16-in. guns at Iraqi shore defenses. It was all a feint; * the war ended with 17,000 Marines...
...treatment, reported by Dr. Elizabeth Ziegler and colleagues in the New England Journal of Medicine, employs a man-made antibody called HA-1A designed to zero in on the endotoxin molecule and render it harmless. Although the Food and Drug Administration has yet to approve HA-1A for use in the U.S., the agency has given the Pentagon special permission to utilize the antibody in the gulf. Large quantities are on hand in MASH units and field hospitals...
...fact that the council put up a kind of innocuous banner and it passed nine to zero shows that things have kind of settled in," Ackermann observes. But she adds that when the war heats up the council's unified front may shatter under pressure from the public because of the greater freedom for protest now allowed, and because of the wide spectrum of ideologies Cambridge citizens represent...
...start at ground zero with these women," says Cione. For five months, they are drilled in tap, jazz, how to walk as a show girl, theatrical makeup and stage presence. When Cione's done with them, women who have never had Lesson 1 in tap will hoof their way through a 10-minute routine without a glitch. They may not know a single other step, but they'll nail their numbers every performance. The director has a penchant for squeezing the last drop of showmanship from what he has to work with. He pushes each performer to her limit...