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Word: zeros (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wondering what life would have been like if I had known all of this four years ago--that you don't really have to dial five-five-thousand, just zero, that you get cancer if you put lemon in your tea in a Styrofoam cup, that people are still looking at your freshman facebook picture when you are a senior...

Author: By Thomas J. Meyer, | Title: Trivial Pursuit | 4/30/1984 | See Source »

...fall and recapture of San Juan del Norte are not so much military struggle as they are psychological warfare. Before the battle, fighting on Nicaragua's southern front had seemed little more than the personal crusade of Edén Pastora Gémez, 47. The charismatic "Commander Zero" of the Sandinista revolution, Pastora went into exile in 1981 when he became disillusioned with the growing Soviet and Cuban influence in Nicaragua. Within months the fortunes of ARDE had reached such a low point that his financially strapped army moved into Costa Rican refugee camps. Critics joked that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Central America: Zero Scores One | 4/30/1984 | See Source »

Relying on personal experience, Sabath adds that he purposely steered his portrayal of Tevye away from Zero Mostel's acclaimed rendition of the character. "I think that Mostel perhaps did a little too much comedy with Tevye. He played him too much like a clown so that the audience was laughing at him rather than with him. I try to play the character with a little more pathos...

Author: By Melanie Moses, | Title: Upholding Tradition | 4/27/1984 | See Source »

...should not worry too much about the technical details of weapons and delivery "systems," Dyson writes. "The basic issue before us is simple. As we, or are we not, ready to face the uncertainties of a world in which nuclear weapons have been negotiated all the way down to zero...

Author: By Simon J. Frankel, | Title: Stepping Back From the Brink | 4/25/1984 | See Source »

tablet that translated his lines into patterns of ones and zeros, where one represents a dot of color and zero a blank space. The image of Captain Goodnight's airplane is stored in the computer as a list of 798 zeros and ones that look like this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Computers: Forty Days and Forty Nights | 4/16/1984 | See Source »

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