Word: zeroed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Bison ran only three plays between the tackles on Saturday, netting zero yards, in the second half before the team's final possession when it solely sought to run out the clock. Meanwhile, Bucknell racked up 116 yards rushing at the corner of the Harvard defense, and 88 yards passing, averaging 6.7 yards-per-pass play...
...professional career, and how much Alan means to his friends and family. Since Alan's likely tissue type match will likely be Asian, the drive pushed to register Asian donors. Promotional posters singled out the Asian community, and volunteers distributing flyers around campus waded their way through crowds to zero in on Asians (or at least those who appeared to be Asian). Unfortunately, the drive was only an effort to save the life of one particular individual-but the drive could have been so much more...
...that chapter, Gould retraces the history of malfunctioning Christian calendars back to a monk named Dionysius Exigus who began the A.D. calendar at the year 1 rather than the year zero. From there sprang the simmering academic debate over whether the new millennium begins on Jan. 1, 2000, or one year later. Based on extensive research of fin de siecle newspapers and magazines, Gould observes that pop culture has generally favored the 1999 New Year's Day as the dawning of the new century. The other view "has always been over-whelmingly favored by scholars and by people in power...
This is largely due to the fact that almost all medical schools in the United States address issues of death inadequately and dying in their training programs, offering on average zero to four hours of relevant lecture time. Only five of the 126 U.S. medical schools have a separate required course on the care of the dying. Physicians are taught how to cure diseases, heal patients and save lives at almost all costs, but not how to cope with life's inevitable final chapter...
Gelbart says that while the department does allow its students to do a "library thesis," seniors rarely choose to do it because "it's actually much harder than a research thesis." Gelbart adds that "about exactly zero" students opted to do a library thesis last year...