Word: zeroed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Reeves said that the situation has been steadily deteriorating since the formation of the department in 1971. "What has happened in 20 years is that it has not gone back to zero; it has gone back to negative," Reeves said...
...cold war was near absolute zero, the Korean War was raging, and the West could almost hear the Soviet tanks gunning their engines on the other side of the Iron Curtain. The U.S. and its European allies were determined not to be caught as unprepared as they had been when the Nazis invaded. So in the early 1950s they began training "stay behind" networks of volunteers. If the Soviet army rolled west, the groups were to gather intelligence, open escape routes and form resistance movements...
...Enact a rifle-shot capital-gains break -- a zero tax bracket that would apply only to gains on the purchase of newly issued shares (including founders' stock in new ventures). It would cost little or nothing, as it would apply only to the first owner of the shares (not all those who subsequently traded them), yet it would encourage investment, new enterprise and expansion...
...Crimson offense would run off a grand total of four plays in the period to Yale's 26, rack up zero first downs to the Elis' seven and total 2:29 of ball posession to the Bulldogs' 12:31. By the time the quarter had ended, Yale (6-4, 4-2) had a 14-0 lead and was threatening to score again...
...short, for European carmakers Japan is becoming an export market like any other, only more so. Clearly a market in which a company can go from zero to a $1 billion-a-year business in less than a decade is worth the effort. And how are the U.S. companies doing in Japan? Not well. Total 1989 sales of the U.S. Big Three automakers combined were only about 3,500 more than Rover...