Word: zeroed
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Murphy, who entered state politics as Gov. Michael S. Dukakis's secretary for environmental affairs in 1975, also said she would back a "zero-pollution initiative...
...remarkable demonstration of the precision with which single atoms can now be manipulated, a skill that could conceivably be used someday to build atom-size transistors or to custom-design molecules. Using an instrument called a scanning tunneling microscope and working on a surface chilled to near absolute zero, researchers Donald Eigler and Erhard Schweizer were able to get individual atoms to respond to the magnet-like tug of a fine tungsten needle. But don't expect to see atom-etching booths at your local science fair. It took 22 hours to haul 35 xenon atoms across the bumpy nickel...
...cold war adds new pressures. In spite of Gorbachev's insistence that there are no military solutions to East-West relations, his high command still tends to believe it is a zero-sum contest, a question of who prevails over whom. When Moscow loses the West wins, and vice versa. These days the Soviet Union is losing Eastern Europe and digging in hard to keep from losing one of its own republics. The U.S. is not only winning, many senior Soviet commanders feel, but gloating about the Soviet decline. "The American invasion of Panama was a gift for the generals...
There was virtually no money in Brazil last week. The stock exchange in Sao Paulo registered zero transactions on Monday. Shopping centers were deserted, restaurants empty. Cash-strapped companies laid off thousands of employees. Most flights on Varig, Brazil's international air carrier, and Vasp, the domestic line, were either canceled or flew empty...
What was once considered a lifetime job is no longer such a sure thing. Dismissals of faculty "for cause" -- ranging from sexual harassment and misappropriation to sheer ineptitude -- have risen from virtually zero in the '60s and '70s to about a dozen a year. For the first time in its 123-year history, for example, the University of Kansas is trying to fire a tenured teacher, anthropology Professor Dorothy Willner, 62, who is accused of failing to carry out her "academic responsibilities" and of behaving abusively toward her colleagues and superiors. Says Willner, who denied all the charges...