Word: zeros
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Terrestrial life exists in many unexpected places. One variety of tiny plant survives in hot sulfuric acid; others flourish at 9°F. below zero. One species of algae grows only among the hairs of the three-toed sloth; another rides the backs of turtles. Now it appears that even clouds floating through the earth's atmosphere provide a precarious home for tiny organisms. Microbiologist Bruce Parker of Virginia Polytechnic Institute, writing in Natural History, argues that tiny animals and plants are feeding, growing and even reproducing high...
...guns lined up behind the plan. Defense Secretary Melvin Laird announced that he had ordered all services to begin the "zero draft" campaign immediately; Army Chief of Staff William Westmoreland vowed that "unnecessary irritants and unattractive features of Army life" will be eliminated as quickly as possible; and Laird's top manpower assistant, Roger T. Kelley, spent 90 minutes briefing newsmen on the program...
...fulfilled its charter by schooling waves of immigrant youths, especially Jews, who were barred by many private colleges of the time. From the 1920s on, the "proletarian Harvard" produced more students who went on to doctorates than any other U.S. college, to say nothing of alumni as diverse as Zero Mostel, Bernard Malamud and Jonas Salk plus the current managing editor of the New York Times and the chief judge of New York State's highest court...
Real gross national product will climb about 4% next year, compared with a 1970 increase that board members estimate will wind up somewhere between zero and 2%. Nixon's economists figure that the nation's "optimum growth" is 4.3%, and they hope to achieve it during 1972. The rise in G.N.P. will send corporate profits climbing again, after a 7% or 8% fall this year, but after-tax profits will not reach the $48.5 billion level of 1969. Nor will the production gain even begin to close the gap between actual and potential output. Next year...
...staffed open-admissions program. Guaranteed admissions, they argue, may lead to insidious pressures for guaranteed diplomas. At the moment the biggest worry is how to keep many students from dropping out, but "20% of these kids get a degree," says Vice-Chancellor Healy. "That's 20% above zero." Even those who earn two-year degrees will benefit the city, which sorely needs trained people in fields ranging from medicine to police work...