Word: zeros
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...midnight passed and the countdown approached zero, tension increased inside the lead-enclosed control room three miles from Ground Zero, and at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CFA), where project scientists put aside their munchies and listened intently--by an audio hook...
After this bit of luck, Raffi began to zero in on the tin with his putter. He drained a 20-footer for par on nine, got another one-putt par on the 11th green that is ringed by towering pines with black velvet trunks, and then saved bogey by holing a ten-footer...
...Jerry Rafshoon, the Atlanta advertising man and old friend whom Carter brought in to refurbish the President's image. "We expected the press to give more attention to issues, to be bet ter informed," he complains. Back in 1976 Carter had said to Playboy: "The traveling press have zero interest in any issue unless it's a matter of making a mistake. What they're looking for is a 47-second argument between me and another candidate or something like that...
...lead, but more importantly, solid backchecking and clutch defense kept the slightly nervous (at first) Gaudet from being too severely tested. Everything hung together for the Big Green until 8:32 of the second, when a miserably-timed line and defense change gave UNH a three-on-zero break and a tie game. The Wildcats needed only 37 seconds to go out in front, but Dartmouth fought back until Steve Higgins made the match, as Bud Collins would say, "dead even" with less than 14 minutes left in regulation...
Indeed the Administration was savoring a rare bit of encouraging news from Iran. After four months of revolution that cut its export production from 5.5 million barrels a day to zero, the country's 27,000 drillers, engineers, technicians and other oil workers began returning to their jobs. In the fields of Marun and Ahwax Asmari, in the refineries of Abadan, and at the pumping center of Ahvaz, precious petroleum is beginning to flow anew as the industry struggles to resume limited export production...