Word: zeros
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Canada this year faces bleak economic prospects: inflation is running at an 11.1% annual rate, production growth seems likely to be zero, and unemployment is expected to rise from the current 7.2% to 10%. One major reason for all this is a peculiarly vicious circle: to keep up with inflation, workers have been demanding huge wage settlements that fuel further inflation. Strikes have also disrupted production enough to increase unemployment more than the recession alone would have done...
...quip, "Martin got all 600 of his 500 Vietnamese out." Finally, at 5 p.m. Washington tune-it was then 5 a.m. in Saigon-Kissinger told the President that Martin was closing down the embassy and destroying its communications equipment. Minutes later, a helicopter broadcast the message: "Lady Ace Zero Nine, Code Two is aboard." Lady Ace 09 was the chopper's own call signal; Code Two designates an ambassador...
Under the consortium proposal, BEOG grants would be expanded to meet the average national tuition level of $2100, less an allowance for summer earnings of $500, giving any student with financial need access to a "zero-tuition" state institution...
...feet, only to yield to the victim's pleas that his wife be treated first. After administering first aid to the couple, Shigeto turned his attention to the others in the immediate vicinity. Many of them were hideously burned; the streetcar stop was only a mile from ground zero, well within the "zone of death" where the fatality rate exceeded...
...Funny Thing Happened On the Way to the Forum. One night when Zero Mostel hosted the Cavett show, he ran up and kissed the television camera lens, molested Paula Prentiss and danced with several old women in the audience. No time watching Zero could ever be called wasted--he is our funniest actor, and when he is harnessed properly, one of our best. This Richard Lester movie comes close to using him correctly, and besides, it has three other extremely talented comedians working for it: Phil Silvers, Jack Gilford and a battered depleted Buster Keaton. It never gets into...