Word: zeros
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Tuesday morning, the first day of the fall, the sun had no warmth. GMA wanted me at Wall and Broad, the mainstream media now covering this sell-off from ground zero. Walking up Wall from my office at the corner of Wall and Water, I was set upon by reporters. Had they waited all night for me? Or did it have something to do with the fact that I was the only one there save for the vendor who sells coffee and bagels. Yet when the paratrooping reporters chute into Wall Street, it smells more like a bottom than...
Reiner added that society indirectly pays for negligence in child care during the "zero to five years" by paying welfare and taxes for children later become burdens on society...
...idea] seems like a good idea, but I'm not so sure about putting so much emphasis on the zero to three years, I think that people have the ability to overcome and create their own destinies," said...
...hasten to point out, a zero when it comes to digits: I've dealt for years with postal code numbers, telex codes and apartment-block addresses like 99-34 67th Road (#6D). But now, all of a sudden, I have to list extension numbers for voice mail, fax numbers for home (thus doubling the number of numbers to list and, in the process, often extending the length of each number, to cope with a digital dearth) and http://'s. To reach a friend a few blocks away, I have to type 38 letters that mean nothing, a numeral, two underlines...
...winter approaches, the probe that fired the imagination of the American public is shivering in sub-zero Martian temperatures, cut off from home, unable to send home pictures or receive the orders programmers are sending it to hit its restart button. The plucky Sojourner rover is left to run aimless circles round the craft ? and now NASA is about to give up on both of them...