Word: zeros
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...list of targets expands steadily: harmful food additives, explosion-prone natural-gas pipelines, radiation emissions from color television sets, unwholesome poultry, polluted water and air, bureaucratic sloth, corporate oligopoly, laborunion corruption, Union Carbide, the Du Fonts of Delaware, California land use, the Bureau of Reclamation. Next, Nader plans to zero in on the lassitude of the Congress of the United States...
...current goings-on. A few months ago, as supposedly hip a publication as Rolling Stone took time, in an article on the Cockettes, to review San Francisco's sexual underground, concluding. "We are seeing the beginning of the 21st century here, and it feels like sitting ground zero during an explosion of sexuality and hedonism and dope and sensation-seeking unparalleled in American history. "Their tone was one more of condemnation than of delight...
...slave. It's the same sort of cyclical thing with black studies. They say, "Well, you know, you didn't really come up to what we thought you were going to be, you didn't have any earth shattering insights in two and a half years with a zero budget, so that we don't see why the university ought to go on committing itself. Or, you haven't sufficiently related to the rest of the university...
Suzanne considers herself an aggressive feminist, and works hard for the newly organized Women's Legal Defense Fund. She says that the concept of zero population growth is important to her, but she acknowledges that her decision is much more personal. "If you are a career woman, how can you bring the child up?'' she asks. "If a woman has a child, it should be a full-time occupation for at least the first year, perhaps two or three. Three years is an awful big bite out of a career, and I've spent a long...
...with those of mightier European nations, the Portugese could not bear to give it up. As one trader-colonist wrote in 1882, "In the land of the blind, the one-eyed are king. As poor as I am now, if I returned to Portugal today, I would amount to zero. On the other hand, I am who I am here as long as I possess one piece of trade cloth...