Word: zeroes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fact that 75% ended in losses. So strong is the possibility of loss that brokers do not want to do business with women speculators because they "cry about it." In this specialized market, says University of Illinois Professor of Agricultural Economics T. A. Hieronymus, "speculation is a zero sum game in which speculators vie with each other for profits that they, in the aggregate, cannot achieve...
...youngster who could be the best tennis player the world has ever seen. This youngster himself may never know it. Or even care. Little that surrounds the game of tennis today is likely to appeal to him much. For a starter, there is the scoring system, in which 1) "zero" for some reason is "love," 2) one point counts as ten, or 15, or merely "advantage," and 3) a "set" may be six games or go on forever. And then there is the hypocrisy of a sport in which amateurs refuse to turn pro, because that could mean taking...
...game's archaic scoring system may be replaced with something akin to James Van Alen's VASSS (for Van Alen Simplified Scoring System), in which zero is zero, a point is a point, one game of 31 points decides a match, and both spectators and players are spared such dreary marathons as one of the doubles contests at last month's Newport Hall of Fame Invitational. The match lasted 6 hrs. 10 min., and the final score was 3-6, 49-41, 22-20. With that ever-present possibility, it is no wonder that the West Side...
...nonetheless known for the worst mountain weather in the world. Soar ing 20,320 ft. into the subArctic sky, McKinley is exposed to 150 m.p.h. winds that batter the mountain's upper reaches with sledgehammer blows and are even more fierce than McKinley's 72-below-zero cold...
Eastern Europeans love to acquire dollars as inflation hedges and status symbols, but few of them are familiar enough with U.S. currency to spot the fakes. So forgers are indulging in such crudities as adding a zero to single-dollar bills to make them tens, and changing other bills into century notes. They even peddle U.S. currency in brown, blue and beige. In Yugoslavia, a batch of grey hundred-dollar bills printed up for a movie were soon fetching $120 worth of dinars on the black market. Another Eastern European buck passer got away with putting some pink "play money...