Word: zeros
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...signals came shortly after the Soviet Union rejected a plan first outlined by President Reagan last March in an effort to end the deadlock in the Geneva talks on intermediate-range nuclear missiles in Europe. The U.S. negotiators asked the Soviets to propose a limit of anywhere from zero to 450 on the number of warheads each side could deploy; in effect, Washington was asking Moscow to trade some of its 360 SS-20 intermediate-range missiles, most of which are targeted on Western Europe, for a reduction in the number of missiles that NATO plans to deploy. Previously...
...Challenger crew members also activated an array of zero-g experiments, some, like a biological-materials separation test for making Pharmaceuticals, of potential commercial value. The space team acted as guinea pigs for Mission Specialist Norm Thagard, 39, the second medical doctor to fly the shuttle. He was trying to learn why some astronauts suffer from a form of queasiness known as space-adaptation syndrome during the initial hours of weightlessness. At the astronauts' request, Mission Control no longer publicly discusses medical problems during a flight. But judging by the demeanor of the five during television broadcasts from Challenger...
...reception we were given by the base leader, who is known as "Zero Three," was brief and faintly hostile, as if we were not only diverting his men from more urgent tasks but, as Americans, were in some way responsible for their predicament. The encampment had come under direct attack only three days before in an eleven-hour shelling siege, and Zero Three announced that two battalions of perhaps 1,500 Nicaraguan troops still surrounded them on three sides, leaving open only the mountainous retreat into Honduras. "This place is now dangerous," he said. "They have helicopters, mortars and troops...
College financial aid officials have "zero iden" how many of the approximately 4500 federal financial and recipients are non-registrants, Miller said
...called the Shuttle Pallet Satellite (SPAS) out of the cargo bay and let it orbit freely in space. The SPAS is a self-contained laboratory housing eight separate experiments. These involve such potentially important commercial processes as growing crystals for electronic components and forming superfine alloys in the favorable zero-g environment...