Word: zeros
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...recession, the growth rate was 7.2% a year; so far this year demand for electricity is up, to 7% annually in the first quarter. An FPC advisory commission warned that if the growth in demand returned to 7.2%, "the industry reserve margin would fall to zero by 1983, and the risk of power outages would be vastly greater than today...
...state sputtered and wheezed as it geared down to the era of limits. It seemed to have more than its share of problems. Compton's street gangs and the Mexican mafia of East Los Angeles were just as bad as their counterparts back East. Men committed to zero defects and preoccupied with cosmic realities began to wonder if air you could taste was fit to breathe. California was distinctive no longer. The state that waltzed through the '60s now faced the same problems as those antediluvian provinces east of the Rockies...
Philosopher Roland Barthes believes a large part of the tower's fascination is its "fully useless" quality: "It achieved absolute zero as a monument." In a 1975 book, Author Joseph Harriss makes the same point: "Parisians have always recognized the human need for the superfluous." The late playwright Jean Giraudoux, who was born around the time of the tower's conception, came to its defense. It has reached an age, he observed, "when one likes to have children-and American girls-crawling all over...
...uneven: shortages of labor, port congestion and housing problems kept the Saudis from spending money as quickly as they would like. But Nazir is making breakthroughs. One example: a crash program to improve the ports has cut waiting time for unloading ships from 90 days last year to almost zero. Says Finance Minister Mohamed Abdel-Kheil: "The textbooks used to speak of the need for land, labor and capital, but we have to add another factor: time...
...Louis' Six Flags boasts the Screamin' Eagle; No. 1 in the Guinness Book of World Records, it is the longest, fastest, highest coaster. Its hills are less precipitous- 45° to 50°- but it features a series of close-set hills that repeatedly , flash passengers from zero G to 2.75 Gs. Other great wooden coasters include the Great American Scream Machine near Atlanta and the Twin Racer at Kings Island, near Cincinnati. The Scream Machine whirls above the glassy surface of a lagoon, providing a view that is as much a part of the ride...