Word: zeroes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Apart from causing interest costs to rise, the mini-pound should benefit U.S. consumers. However, the price of British goods shipped abroad will fall not by the full 14.3% devaluation but from zero to about 10%, depending chiefly on how much of the final tab represents transportation, import duties, U.S. distribution and profit markups. Auto dealers expect to cut prices of British cars by 5% to 10% within weeks. On the other hand, importers predicted that the cost of a bottle of Scotch will drop only a few pennies-after the Christmas holidays. Devaluation will shave the profits of some...
...answer, suggests Davis, is a natural population growth rate of zero (births equal to deaths), "for any growth rate, if continued, will eventually use up the earth." Such a drastic reduction in births might require absolute government regulation of the size of families-a concept that most nations have found impossible to accept. In a more Orwellian guise, writes Davis, such control might include pressure through limits on availability of housing, manipulation of inflation to force mothers to work, increased city congestion by the deliberate neglect of transit systems, and increased personal insecurity through rigged unemployment...
Leak at Sea. Given Reagan's rep utation as a political Mr. Clean and Pearson's as a mud merchant who likes to zero in on conservatives, Reagan's vigorous denial should have left him in the clear. The trouble was that Lynn Nofziger, Reagan's communications director and one of his closest subordinates, had himself leaked a similar story to a number of reporters during last month's Governors' Conference aboard the S.S. Independence...
...bunkers one by one, dropping grenades through their slits. Soon only the command bunker and one other were still firing back, and in the command bunker Captain Tran Minh Cong and his twelve men were running out of ammunition. So Captain Cong radioed for Vietnamese army artillery to zero right in on his bunker. The artillerymen were reluctant to do so at first, but Cong, as he explained later, was unworried: "This is the best bunker in Viet Nam, even if you hit it with a B-52." Thereafter, every time the Viet Cong swarmed over the bunker, fused shells...
...Spanish miners, cowboy mouth, curfew gloves, child of the hoodlum, sheet-metal memories, magazine husband, a deck of cards missing the jack and the ace--he puts together the phrases and creates a person, the haunted Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands, a being made of objects. "Love Minus Zero/ No Limit" is a beautiful love song fashioned out of horsemen, pawns, hammer winds, doctors, bridges, statues, fire, ice, dime stores and bus stations, bankers' nieces and wise...