Word: zeroed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Hill scored 17 points against MJ, but more impressively, he collected 10 assists against zero turnovers in the narrow 81-76 Crimson loss. His defense against Jordan was also solid, helping force nine turnovers by the junior standout...
...economists agreed, however, that finally, the outlook for Japan is up. From a 3% contraction of the economy in 1998, Japan is likely to claw back to zero in 1999, on the way to real growth in 2000. "After being pessimistic about Japan for four or five years," says Courtis, who is based there, "I would give their economic management an A." The government is finally priming the pump in earnest: $550 billion to recapitalize banks, $250 billion to stimulate domestic demand, and "I'll bet you see another $250 billion this year...
...reforming their banks and other instruments of "crony capitalism," says Courtis, but are still managing to claw back toward growth by a simple strategy: "You crush domestic demand, you crush your currency, so imports collapse and everything goes to the export sector." A year ago, he explains, Korea had zero foreign exchange reserves; today it has $48 billion, equal to 12% of GNP. Thailand's are at 11% of GNP. But this strategy depends crucially on boosting exports to developed countries, particularly the U.S., which will hang on choices made in Washington and New York City...
...into containers--LPs, eight-track tapes, CDs. Now that musicians can reach fans directly, there's no need for "container makers," i.e., record labels. "Record companies are in a death struggle with the Web," says Barlow. "They're using techniques that have been used in the war on drugs--zero tolerance, ramping up education and enforcement and trying to use the law to preserve something that is no longer supported by public practice...
...this is February, it must be crackdown-on-drunken-drivers month. Three motorists arrested on charges of drunken driving had their cars seized on the spot by the NYPD on Monday, Day 1 of Mayor Rudolph Giuliani's new 'zero-tolerance' approach to DWI. "This is obviously an approach that will play to the bleachers," says TIME writer Adam Cohen. But since New York often seems to be governed from the bleachers, it may not be inappropriate...