Word: zeros
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Seeking the answer, the scientist set up an experiment in which he eagerly served as a guinea pig. After each daily shave with an electric razor, he meticulously collected and weighed the amount of hair that had been removed. He also devised a zero-to-five scale for rating each day's activities-including mental and physical exertion, degree of nervousness, amount of sleep and occurrence of intercourse...
...Zero Tolerance. Two recent decisions by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia promise to unsnarl these problems. The court ordered Secretary of Agriculture Clifford M. Hardin to stop all interstate shipments of DDT within 30 days or else show the court why such an absolute ban would be a mistake. In the other case, the court ordered Health, Education and Welfare Secretary Robert H. Finch to publish in the Federal Register a proposal to establish "zero tolerance" levels for DDT residues in foods for humans. In effect, this will force manufacturers to prove to HEW that...
...difficult to understand why. Under the Faculty of Arts and Sciences women are 25 per cent of the undergraduates and 22 per cent of the graduate students: yet they are only 4.6 per cent of the assistant professors, zero per cent of full professors. Figures for the higher ranks of the administration are only slightly better...
...crisis. The fear of such a crisis had in recent weeks become Wall Street's greatest nightmare. Financiers worried about a possible wave of bankruptcies among marginal companies that had exhausted their cash and bank credit while the Federal Reserve was holding the growth of money supply to zero late last year...
...last ten years he has published three major articles in the leading professional journal, the Journal of the American Institute of Planners; the other 13 professors in the department combined have produced only one article. The Harvard-M.I.T. Joint Center for Urban Studies lists three publications by Hartman; zero by other professors in the department. In the last few months Herbert Gans, Nathan Glazer, and other leading housing experts have testified to Hartman's academic ability. The School has produced no evidence to support its view that Hartman is not "the best person available...