Word: zeros
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...generation is just beginning to find out what grandma always knew: sex without love is a big zero...
...knows precisely when we can end conscription," Nixon said yesterday. However, he continued, "The objective of this administration is to reduce draft calls to zero, subject to the overriding considerations of the national security...
Nixon qualified this move by stating that although he "shall make every endeavor to reduce draft calls to zero by that time," the government would be "carefully and continually re-examining" its policy...
Alarmists claim that saving the U.S. environment requires "zero population growth," but last week the Government's chief demographer countered with a telling argument of his own. The key to pollution, said the Census Bureau's Conrad Taeuber, is "changing standards and habits," not excess people. While the U.S. population rose 13% in the 1960s, for example, national consumption of goods and services jumped 60%, thus loading the landscape with more and more beer cans, junked autos and other garbage. Even if "Z.P.G." were achieved overnight, said Taeuber, the U.S. population would not stabilize until the year...
...Sajer is brutally effective. He puts lice on that armchair reader, gives him an empty belly, and sticks him in a frozen mudhole. He loses him in the endless space of that "accursed Russian plain." He makes him feel the ache of the Russian winter, 35-40° below zero-the temperature at which, when a soldier urinated, three or four of his fellows thrust their cracked hands under the stream for momentary warmth...