Word: zeroed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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From the spectacular mountain setting of McMurdo Station, Lemonick flew 800 miles to the South Pole, a featureless expanse of white that stretches to the horizon. "We arrived at 2 a.m. on a brilliantly sunny night," he recalls. "They were having a heat wave -- ten below zero, the record high for the year." Lemonick was relieved to return to the relatively mild climes of McMurdo Station, where the temperatures hovered in the 30s. He might have enjoyed McMurdo even more had he known what was waiting for him back in New York City: a cold snap, with temperatures dipping into...
Even where crops were not affected, the cold struck a blow at agriculture by snarling transportation. On the Mississippi River, barges were frozen north of Cairo, Ill. The sub-zero temperatures hit midway through the biggest single delivery of corn -- 11 million tons -- to the Soviet Union. Some 6 million tons had already been shipped from Gulf ports, but the rest was still in storage in elevators along the Mississippi...
...factored in an ideological multiplier. Here was a political system that, seen from the outside, seemed to have a flat belly, a thick neck, big biceps and plenty of intestinal fortitude; it was also thought to have, in communism, a coherent and all too plausible plan for winning the zero-sum game of history...