Word: zeros
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...large extent, the sales campaigns launched by the makers of infant products beginning in the early sixties--when the prospect of zero or negative population growth and declining profits in the industrialized West led to the search for new markets--has been very successful...
...worker's raises have become a hollow joke; for him the '70s has been a decade of nearly zero growth in living standards. Weekly wages of the average nonsupervisory employee have jumped 86% since 1967, but because of high inflation and high taxes, real spendable earnings have increased only 2.8%. The squeezed, middle-class homeowner often reaps little or nothing from the rise in value of his house; if he sells, he will have to buy another that probably costs even more for the same or less room. Many of the poor have been denied the opportunity...
...amount of money their parents contribute toward their college expenses. This year men with a parental contribution level of up to $3000 were able to take work-study jobs for at least part of the academic year while the contribution level for women never inched above the zero mark. This led to a higher percentage of undergraduate men than women with work-study jobs and a fairly vehement campaign by the Radcliffe Union of Students (RUS) protesting the disparity...
...instantaneous nuclear radiation, first gamma rays, then neutrons, become predominant, and the blast thermal effects become less and less important." As a result, if a typical bomb of this sort is exploded 500 ft. above the target, the blast and heat effects extend only about 400 yds. from ground zero, but the high-energy neutrons, hurtling in all directions and penetrating even the thick armor of tanks and other vehicles, can kill at distances of up to a mile. Victims of radiation sickness suffer from vomiting, fever, hemorrhaging and convulsions. Yet proponents of the bomb argue that because the radiation...
...been reading you Washington Post style section, you'd know that the bookmakers had Richard Burton at two-to-one. Zero-for-eight in the old "Best Actor" category. A shoo-in, match...