Word: zeros
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Peace Council, too, continues to push for detente and disarmament. These international movements are working closely with non-governmental organizations all over the globe to create maximum impact on the U.N. Special Assembly on Disarmament in May, 1978. There is clearly a growing international sentiment expressing the demand for zero nuclear weapons and a stop in the arms trade...
...good price for their product when the two chambers meet in conference to thrash out a final bill. Said James Abourezk, the South Dakota Democrat who launched the filibuster in hopes of thwarting the deregulators: "If you want to talk about lobbying, wait until the oil and gas boys zero in on the conference committee members...
...conflict is also apparent in her Lowell House single: her book shelves are full of the normal Harvard fare, while the signed photographs of people she's performed with--John Davidson, Zero Mostel, Joan Rives--paper her walls, along with a hat collection that started, she says, when admirers sent her various hats. Even a high grade average in Government, she says, "is not at all appropriate to the theater world...
...simple solution containing common salt, baking soda, potassium chloride and glucose. If the patient is conscious and not vomiting too severely, he can take the solution orally. Otherwise, fluids must be given intravenously. Either way, if treatment is begun promptly, it can reduce the cholera death rate to near zero. The major obstacle to universal use of the lifesaving solution is that the poorer countries, which need it most, have difficulty obtaining sufficient medication and training enough nurses and technicians to administer it. Thus, while effective sanitation can prevent the disease, and treatment for a near-certain cure is available...
...avoid inflation, the Federal Reserve Board strives to hold the annual increase in money supply with-in a narrow range-at present, 4% to 6½%. Yet for most of the past year, money growth has been riding a wild roller coaster-dropping all the way down to zero in one month, soaring to an annual rate of almost 20% in another. In the past few months, the money supply has been swelling at such a fevered rate as to cause anxiety even among powerful congressional Democrats, who usually favor an easy-money policy...