Word: zeros
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What preposterous assumptions. Dullness does not produce competence. Beyond the shattering moral issues in the Watergate case is the revelation that the Haldeman-Ehrlichman-Colson-Dean staff operation was, for the most part, a tragic failure. Legislative achievements were almost zero. Congress and the federal bureaucracy were systematically alienated. Trouble was rarely detected in the early stages-My Lai, Carswell, Cambodia, Watergate. When it arrived full-grown on the President's doorstep, the energies of these men were directed not at solving the problems but at ignoring or minimizing them, which in the end only magnified the difficulties. Building...
Rifle competition in the New England area is run along international rules. Under this format, each competitor shoots 30 shots, 10 each from prone, kneeling and standing positions. Each shot is rated from zero to ten, with a score of 300 the maximum possible. Each team can send up as many as ten competitors, but only the top five finishers count for each team...
...notion of infinity was conceived, as was the zero, by the Eastern mind. Yet it seems a peculiarly Western need to determine the indeterminable. Scottish Essayist Thomas Carlyle once noted that man must "always worship something−always see the Infinite shadowed forth in something finite." At the moment, the something worshiped is science, and the something finite is quasar OH471, the blaze marking the edge of the universe. But before the poetic notion of infinity is crushed between the calipers of science, it is best to remember that quasars were discovered only a decade ago. More probably, what astronomers...
...dozens of major banks, insurance companies and brokerage houses are involved, the biggest losers are likely to be holders of the company's 8,000,000 shares of outstanding stock, which was once worth $80 a share but is now valued by some brokers at a round, dismal zero. At week's end, after three of Equity's top managers, including President Stanley Goldblum, had resigned, the company began bankruptcy proceedings...
...present a good 60 years away from zero population growth [in the U.S.]," Hicks said. By the time that plateau is reached, he added, our population will be about 300 million...