Word: zeros
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hearings have established only that the Justice Department figures involved have both frail memories and a rather chummy relationship with certain ITT executives. Kleindienst may well survive further testimony with his reputation unsullied. Now, though, the chances of his confirmation being defeated were put at 25%-up from zero the week before...
...actors do little to enliven the improbable but predictable proceedings. Peter Yates keeps the general energy level so low that not even the masterly Zero Mostel, as a shyster lawyer, can lend any perceptible zest...
Waiting on the corner for the morning bus is at best a frustrating experience in any city. In Regina, Saskatchewan (pop. 143,000), where temperatures often hover at 20° below zero, it can be downright hazardous. For some residents of Regina's south side, however, bus waiting is no longer a problem. A simple phone call will bring a city bus right to their front door...
Volpe--they introduce him here as local boy made good--he comes on like a fighter, you can't keep a good man down. Two things he has to say--the President will not rest for one moment until zero boys are in Vietnam, that Mrs. Volpe has assured him that the housewives of America know Nixon's done...
...easy to convince the world (in 25 years?) that growth gets to be pathology, that we must cease reverence for the plus sign; it will be painful to show us how to view zero as a worthwhile goal, as in the zero population growth of Japan, zero pollution, zero waste. But it must be done...