Word: zeros
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...inexorably downward. The target is $171.9 billion for the fiscal year that began Oct. 1, and $144 billion for 1987. Then the bill decrees that the deficit go down by $36 billion annual increments: to $108 billion in 1988, $72 billion in 1989, $36 billion in 1990 and finally zero in 1991. If Congress fails to meet these targets, the cuts that automatically kick in will be evenly divided between defense and domestic programs, and they are likely to be applied with about as much discrimination as a lawn mower shows high grass...
Intimately related to this is the veil of ignorance. This concept merely extends and completes the previous thought: Not only is everyone starting at some hypothetical ground zero, but no one, including the legislative mind, knows what his position in society will be after the laws are enacted...
...current medical knowledge is completely applied--if all donated blood is tested for the virus (as it is in Massachusetts), and people refrain from exchanging body fluids, especially during sex, and from sharing hypodermic needles--the spread of HTLV-III from person to person will be reduced to zero...
...Oort Cloud, explains Berkeley's Spinrad, would consist of at least a trillion "dull blocks of ice," ranging from a few inches to a few miles in diameter. Out in that velvet blackness of space, where temperatures approach absolute zero, the snowballs remain unchanged, well beyond the effects of solar radiation, meteorite impacts, volcanic activity, atmosphere and other phenomena that have gradually changed the inner members of the solar system. Every once in a while, however, a passing star gives the cloud a gravitational jiggle, releasing hundreds of these fragments. Most of them are sent outward into interstellar space...
...including a reconciliation, was possible before Dec. 21, when the tickets must be officially declared. After all, they noted, both Laurel and Aquino know that without a unified opposition ticket, the anti- Marcos vote will be split and the chances of defeating the President will be reduced virtually to zero...