Word: zeros
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Academy Award nominations, as usual, are perversely inconsistent. There's always one movie that's favored to sweep the Oscars and comes up with a giant zero on Nomination Day. Usually these unpopularity candidates are Steven Spielberg movies, and this year Academy members greeted Empire of the Sun with the same resounding raspberry they offered E.T. and The Color Purple...
JEFF Faux of The Nation exposes three serious shortcomings in the Peterson plan. First, it seeks to bring down the deficits too fast. Peterson's goal of a $30-40 billion reduction in the first year equals a net public sector stimulus of zero, which increases the risks of recession. Second, it uses fiscal austerity as a pretext for undermining the role of government in domestic investment, especially in terms of human resources...
Harvard got caught on a line change. Freshmen Mollie Marcoux (M) and Shari Wolkon (W) skated two-on-zero on junior Jennifer White (29). The game could have been over right there, but White came up with a critical save...
...program, approved two weeks ago by the National Drug Policy Board, chaired by Attorney General Edwin Meese, is part of a larger Reagan Administration antidrug crusade known as "Zero Tolerance." The crackdown reflects the Administration's new "user accountability" strategy, which seeks to get occasional or moderate drug users to kick the habit by increasing the likelihood of some kind of penalty. The goal is to cut down on the flow of drugs into the country by curtailing domestic consumption. "If people know they will be arrested for bringing a gram of coke into this country, they will think twice...
...They go in front of the meter and turn the dial around until it goes to zero. If it has two to five minutes on it they give it one good flip or more," Chandler says, adding "I don't look out for it. I just see it in passing or look out the window and see them doing...