Word: zeroed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...more invasive sampling of the cervix or urethra.) Such tests should permit more extensive screening campaigns. Already, a pilot program in the Pacific Northwest has achieved a dramatic decline, from 9% to 3%, in chlamydia rates among women in family-planning clinics. But the goal should be getting to zero, which means that both men and women need to be tested and treated. Otherwise, they'll just be reinfected...
...Such zero-sum policies are the focus of widespread debate on campuses, with some schools ignoring outside help completely and others applying formulas to reduce their own offers. The growing use of merit scholarships to snag the best students will only intensify the controversy. Since merit-based and need-based aid come out of the same till, there is a larger downside risk that this trend will come at the expense of the poor. So far, the effect is marginal, but, as Tim McDonough of ACE notes, "there's enough movement for people to be concerned about...
...than ever before, and they have a strong incentive to seek any edge they can. Since 1972, the Federal Government has required colleges and universities to expand women's athletic scholarships to reflect more closely the number of women athletes. The number of full scholarships grew from 0 (yes, zero) in 1972 to nearly 20,000 in 1997. According to Charles Yesalis, a professor of sports science and senior author of the Penn State report, many young women view steroid use as a straightforward investment in their future. "Most of the time, after you stop taking steroids...
...profit. After all, Amazon.com the online bookseller, is up 312% this year on strong sales growth--but still without earnings. And Broadcast.com which streams music and video over the Net, blew from 18 to 61 in its first six days of trading through last Friday, also with zero earnings. If you invest now, will you play the trend or get played for a chump...
This summer core Dead members Hart, guitarist Bob Weir and bassist Phil Lesh--along with Hornsby, guitarist Steve Kimock (from the Bay Area-band Zero), guitarist Mark Karan (who has played with the Rembrandts), drummer John Molo (from Hornsby's band) and jazz saxophonist Dave Ellis--are touring as "the Other Ones," a band that, while not the Dead, is named after a Dead song and performs material from the Dead catalog. Weir, for his part, was eager to play the old Dead songs again but reluctant to tour under the Grateful Dead name. Says Weir: "Without Pigpen [keyboardist...