Word: zeros
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...early and vehement critic of Washington's see-no-evil policy toward Panama strongman Manuel Noriega. He appalled civil libertarians by proposing to shoot down suspected drug-smuggling planes. He infuriated the State Department by trying to mark passports of drug smugglers caught at the border. He promoted the "zero tolerance" program that called for prosecuting people apprehended with small amounts of drugs and confiscating their cars, boats and planes...
...highlight of Hinz' Harvard career was the Crimson's Ivy League championship-clinching 14-10 victory over Yale in The Game on November 21, 1987. In sub-zero temperatures, Hinz rushed for 162 yards on 26 carries and scored the Crimson's two touchdowns on a 56-yard run and a 19-yard reception...
...gambling is nowhere near the bonanza for states it has been sold as. Illinois and Ohio, among other states, have reduced tax-paid financing of schools as the lottery cash came in. "So," says James Smith, superintendent of the Wolf Branch School in Belleville, Ill., "the real benefit is zero." Less than zero, actually. Smith complains that he cannot get a bond issue authorized because local officials think that schools are rolling in lottery money. Says Thomas Cummings, head of the Massachusetts Council on Compulsive Gambling: "Before this thing is through, there will be a legal bookie on every block...
...Hawaii last December, watching basketball games and getting paid to be there while it's zero degrees back in Boston," continues Veneziano, referring to his trip with the Boston University men's basketball team to the Rainbow Classic. "I grin whenever I think of that. Obviously, there's a lot of hard work, but I love the opportunity to travel and see parts of the country you don't normally...
...linkages will snap," says a State Department official. That is exactly what some policymakers fear is about to happen, and they see little that the U.S. can do to head it off. Says a White House official: "The U.S. has no influence over the Chinese government's behavior. Zero. None." A presidential adviser explains, "For the Chinese leaders this is a battle to the death, and they're not particularly interested in what we think of them...