Word: zeros
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...didn't. Instead Lewis has surprised skeptics, including investors, by guiding TLC Beatrice with just as much spunk and savvy as her high-profile spouse did. Despite zero management experience and little firsthand knowledge of the global food business, this immigration lawyer and mother of two led the money-losing conglomerate through a perilous economy and a painful downsizing. She recharged Beatrice's slumping operations, restored its credibility--and credit rating--on Wall Street and returned the company to the black. After reporting its first significant profit in three years in 1994, TLC Beatrice continues to improve the bottom line...
...working with helium-3, a rare isotope of the common gas, looking for a "phase transition," analogous to the changes in water when it turns from vapor to liquid and from liquid to ice. They had cooled a sample to within two one-thousandths of a degree of absolute zero (-459.67[degrees] F), the temperature at which atomic motion ceases...
When the U.S. fired cruise missiles at Iraq last month, Net users raced for their computers to get the news. At CNN Interactive, traffic tripled in minutes; the site's computers served up more than 18 million pages of info that week--CNN's record. "We went from zero to 60 like that," says the Website's executive producer, Jeff Garrard, snapping his fingers...
Although I enjoyed Jeffrey Kluger's piece "Call of the Mild" [ESSAY, Sept. 30], I must take issue with his theory that as we enter middle age we make noises that signify our physical decline. I am approaching 40, and I have had to make zero concessions to getting older. Well, sure, when I wake up my joints sound like monkeys on drugs fencing with baseball bats. Think I'll just sit right down here and Uhhh!...Oh, my, oh, my, Hmm, hmm, hmm. Ah, what the heck, if those young lions want me, they can come...
...teachers were coping with kids' misbehavior long before there was zero drug tolerance or gender sensitivity. What has changed is the parents. The welter of written regulations that have supplanted the rule of common sense in America's schools did not arise in a vacuum but in an atmosphere where parents think they know best--and certainly know how to call a lawyer. In response, skittish school boards have pursued rule codification as a way to narrow discretion and defend lawsuits. Yet trying to write detailed regulations about what is permissible between boys and girls during their most chaotic years...