Word: zeros
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...shattering 60-m.p.h. gusts of one of those demonic snowstorms that have helped claim the lives of at least 50 climbers on Mount Hood since the turn of the century. Overwhelmed suddenly by the fury of snow, the bitterness of the wind and the blindness of a near zero-visibility whiteout, the climbers came to a desperate, shivering halt. In a frantic effort to save themselves, they crammed their bodies, sardine close, into a small snow cave...
Rodney McRay threw an ordinary inbounds pass to Sampson with one second showing on the clock. There's still the controversy as to whether "00:01" means that there is between zero and one second, or one and two seconds of play remaining--but that's another story...
...critical moment in history. Smith, who is half Pueblo Indian, has a good grip on the Southwest, a region that drew many artists and intellectuals decades before J. Robert Oppenheimer suggested Los Alamos, N. Mex., as an ideal research and engineering site for the Manhattan Project. Ground zero on July 16, 1945, was more than 150 miles south of Los Alamos at a spot designated Trinity. Hundreds of years earlier, Spanish explorers named the place Jornada del Muerto, Dead Man's Journey...
...less extreme surgery can often help. At Atlanta's Northside Hospital, Dr. Camran Nezhat has had success with a high- tech procedure called videolaseroscopy, which employs a laparoscope rigged with a tiny video camera and a laser. The camera images, enlarged on a video screen, enable Nezhat to zero in on endometrial tissue and vaporize it with the laser. In a study of 102 previously infertile patients, Nezhat found that 60.7% were able to conceive within two years of videolaseroscopy treatment...
...jurors went on to award Lakian zero damagesfor his "actual injury," which Jacobs had definedas an essential of libel...