Word: zeroes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Down to Zero. The first is an immediate slash in present price supports, which tend to perpetuate overproduction by making it profitable to grow crops that are already in oversupply. C.E.D. proposes to cut the supports to the estimated levels that would prevail in a free market after supply and demand had come into equilibrium. The U.S. Government would maintain these "adjustment" supports for five years, then get out of the price-support business completely and permanently. For wheat and a few other oversupply crops, the cut in price would be so great that growers would suffer too drastic...
...Down to Zero. What saved the bill, in the final analysis, was its merit. It is probably the best and the boldest measure presented so far to the Congress by the Kennedy Administration. If passed by the Senate (which seems highly probable), it will give the President, for the first time in U.S. history, sweeping powers to slash tariffs down as far as zero on many products in return for tariff concessions by other nations. Only a few years ago, such a bill would have seemed hopelessly visionary. But in just the past few months the European Common Market, long...
When the X rays show that the tip of the tube is in the thalamus, Dr. Cooper lets in enough liquid nitrogen to drop the tip temperature to zero or -10° C. This knocks out the nerves, but does not destroy them. He asks the patient to raise an arm, or leg, or both: if the patient has full control of his limbs, with no tremor remaining, the tip is in the right place...
Seven years ago, John Henry Faulk was making $36,000 a year as a radio and television monologuist and comic chatterer. Suddenly, his radio-TV income dropped to zero. He had been blacklisted as a Communist sympathizer in a pamphlet published by AWARE, Inc., a private group of lawyers, professors, businessmen and actors whose declared objective was "to combat the Communist conspiracy in entertainment communications...
...Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum. Initially conceived by Plautus and cunningly performed by Zero Mostel, his fellow clowns and six delectable houris, this zany burlesquerie is good for high, low, and furrowed brows...