Word: zeros
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With just a skeleton crew of caretakers on hand, most of whom were unfamiliar with the shutdown plans, it's understandable that the temperatures could plummet to zero without anyone bothering to turn the heat back...
...cold Saturday night after Christmas. The temperature was nosediving, the thermometer was inching its way down to zero. At that point the administration realized that the drop in the mercury could cause the pipes to burst...
...months ago, Fort Chaffee was the ninth largest city in Arkansas. Just before Christmas, 25 Vietnamese men, women and children boarded an army bus and headed for Tennessee, reducing the Fort's refugee population to zero. Three other resettlement camps, through which more than 130,000 Indo-Chinese refugees passed, are also virtual ghost towns. This week, the first phase of the $500 million-plus resettlement effort officially came...
...Scott after he reached the South Pole in 1912. Scott, who was just beaten to the pole by the Norwegian Roald Amundsen, had good reason to complain. Temperatures regularly drop to -100º F. during the polar winter. Sudden storms bring gale-force winds, and visibility frequently drops to zero during a "whiteout," making it impossible to see perilous crevasses ahead. Yet in spite of its hostile environment, Antarctica is becoming the object of increasing worldwide interest. Its shrimplike krill and millions of seals make it a veritable storehouse of protein for the world's growing population. Also, scientists...
...neighbor heard the power saws at work and phoned police, who arrested the thieves. Such arrests are the exception, though, since guarding parks or forests is nearly impossible. "Some owners sleep by their lots," said a policeman in Bismarck, N.D. "But last night it was 18° below zero...