Word: zeroed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...they were content, it seemed, to party on in a Wayne's Netherworld, one with more antiheroes--Kurt Cobain, Dennis Rodman, the Menendez brothers--than role models. The label that stuck was from Douglas Coupland's 1991 novel, Generation X, a tale of languid youths musing over "mental ground zero--the location where one visualizes oneself during the dropping of the atomic bomb: frequently a shopping mall...
Fred Scott '95 hit a basket to put Harvard up 56-55, and then power forward Darren Rankin '96 banked in a three-pointer with the shot clock near zero. Penn still couldn't bring Harvard down to earth...
Critics of affirmative action say the results in California and Texas bear out what they have been saying all along--that selective schools rely far too heavily on racial double standards. Some, like Abigail Thernstrom, co-author of a forthcoming book on race, used the new numbers to zero in on what she feels is the real problem: the public schools. "Our high schools graduate black and Hispanic students who are way behind whites and Asians in basic cognitive skills," she says. Admitting minorities with lower scores "lets these schools off the hook." That is why even such anti-affirmative...
This arrangement has been complicated by the influx of tens of thousands of women into the armed forces since the early 1980s. Many married service members have chosen to cheat with one another instead of using prostitutes. Linda Bird Francke notes in her new book, Ground Zero, that 64% of the Air Force personnel responding to a Roper Poll of Gulf War units reported sexual activity in their squads. Not that it bothered them: 77% of the Roper respondents said it had little or no effect on readiness for battle. Yet the brass has been unconvinced, especially when fraternization...
Unlike such capital-intensive alterations as installing ramps or lowering drinking fountains, accommodating the mentally ill in fact often requires little more than an attitude adjustment. The Sears, Roebuck 1996 Work Force report showed that the average cost to the company for such accommodation in 1993-95 was zero. Employees with a learning disability were permitted to work at a slower pace; those with mental illness were offered shorter shifts, lower-stress duties or flexible work hours. According to studies conducted by the Matrix Research Institute in Philadelphia, which specializes in mental-health disorders, the majority of accommodations cost less...