Word: zeroes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...methods that yield an unlimited food supply and continues to increase at an ever-quickening rate as, he says, it has been doing since the time of Christ. The climax will come at a calculable date in the future, which Von Foerster, in mathematical terms, calls to (t sub zero). "For obvious reasons," he says, "to shall be called 'doomsday,' since it is on that date that N (the number of 'elements,' or people) goes to infinity, and the clever population annihilates itself. Our great-great-grandchildren will not starve. They will be squeezed to death...
...cold war. Western Europe, with its thriving economies, has unmistakably opted for the U.S. way rather than the Russian way of organizing society and producing goods. In most of the free world, the popular appeal of Communism as an alternative way of life has shrunk to nearly zero, and once-strong Communist parties have dwindled to shrill slivers. U.S. styles of living have spread around the world; even behind the Iron Curtain, teen-agers imitate their U.S. counterparts in dress and musical tastes...
...that will be spent on economic aid by the International Cooperation Administration, more than half will be spent abroad. To make the balance of payments even more lopsided, foreign investments in the U.S., which usually run at a rate of about $500 million a year, have fallen to almost zero. What can the U.S. do, without angering or hurting its allies and friends, to improve its unfavorable balance of payments...
...government. Warned Bomboko: "If tomorrow morning the U.N. has not delivered up Lumumba to the Congolese National Army, the army will assume its responsibilities. If we fight the U.N., well, we fight the U.N. We have delayed long enough." But as usual in the Congo, when the zero hour arrived, nothing happened. Mobutu and his men backed down, and the threatening Congolese soldiers at Lumumba's house relaxed their trigger fingers and began to doze on the lawn...
...that Cornell would gain from not having to put up with a star who rarely did anything but shoot and dribble. Now, with Chite, the Big Red is back in the same old rut. Although the speedy inside was the flashiest player on the field, he couldn't zero in on the Crimson goal, and he refused to set up his teammates...