Word: zeros
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...activity. A team led by researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles, found that of 31 who carried the AIDS virus, 27 had not produced antibodies up to three years after the virus was detected. While the study raises questions about the effectiveness of current screening tests, which zero in on AIDS antibodies and not the virus itself, there is a bright side: some infected people may remain healthy for longer than was previously thought...
...masochistic middle-aged climber stands panting into the gaping dark, wondering what in God's name he is doing here. He is 17,000 ft. up, with 1,650 ft. still to go to the top. The temperature is unreasonably far below zero, hands and feet are numb, and the air is so thin that a few tentative steps leave the body screaming for relief. Perhaps this is how Hans Meyer felt when, 100 years ago, the German geologist became the first to ascend to the rarefied heights of Mount Kilimanjaro, an immense dormant volcano 49 miles long...
...problem is that the result of a negotiation might be different. We could be railroaded into something we don't want to do, which is to wipe out all nuclear weapons in Europe, the so-called third zero...
...range nuclear weapons -- and that they've modernized their short-range missiles while we are still relying on our old Lance, we nevertheless have a sufficient capability to create that crucial uncertainty in their mind regarding a war's outcome. I don't want to risk a run to zero by opening up a negotiation in the current climate...
...admit it sounds fine. But, again, there is so much uncertainty about everything now that I wouldn't want to risk that kind of tied-together negotiation's running away from us to a third zero...