Word: zeros
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...officials of Nicaragua's Sandinista government inspected the damage, the Revolutionary Democratic Alliance (A.R.D.E.), a group of anti-Sandinista rebels based in neighboring Costa Rica, claimed responsibility for the air raid. The rebel group is led by Edén Pastora Gómez, "Commander Zero," a hero of the revolution that overthrew Dictator Anastasio Somoza Debayle in 1979 and now a bitter opponent of the Sandinista government. Dozens of people were in the terminal at the moment of the attack, but only four people were injured, mostly by shrapnel and flying debris. One, a young military reservist, died...
...violence is often absurdly out of proportion to the take. "They'll knock out a $400 window for a box of paper clips. They'll kill you for your belt buckle," says Patrolman Dennis Hansen. "They have no value system-zero." Drug dealing is so blatant that a visiting city councilman and plainclothes policeman were solicited at their car windows. Young Cuban entrepreneurs drop plastic Baggies of "Mexican brown" from their hotel fire escapes to accomplices in the street. Heroin, packaged in balloons, is hawked in the park like soda...
...percentage of male self-described heavy drinkers rose from 2.6 to 6.5 from 1977 to 1981, and the percentage of women heavy drinkers jumped from zero...
...original zero option would have required the Soviets to dismantle every last one of their SS-20s, from one end of the U.S.S.R. to the other, in exchange for cancellation of the NATO package. Earlier this year, Reagan offered a less drastic trade: a scaled-down NATO deployment for a scaled-back SS-20 force. But the U.S. is still insisting that SS-20s in the Far East, aimed at Japan and China, be treated as part of the Euromissile deal, since they could be moved westward in a crisis. As part of a final offer before the new American...
...Most of the gelati are made with expensive imported equipment and costly ingredients, such as vanilla extract at $55 a gallon. Some of the recipes call for painstaking manufacture. The Geláre mix is quickly cooled, "aged" in tubs, churned and finally frozen to 20° F below zero over a 24-hour period...