Word: zeros
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...oceans of fossil fuel and polluting the universe for about 100 years. GM, in fact, will begin selling a battery-powered electric car in California this year. California, locked in a perpetual automotive smog, requires that by 2003, 10% of the cars offered for sale in the state produce zero emissions; many states are expected to follow suit...
...only does the turbine re-spin the flywheel, but so does braking, which in today's cars produces energy that is lost. The same goes for fuel. With a catalytic "combustor" on the turbine that burns gas more efficiently, the power train will produce what is, by EPA standards, "zero emissions." According to the Rosens, the turbo-flywheel combination will at least double the gas mileage of the car in which it is used, produce a satisfying sound not unlike that of a Lear Jet (albeit far quieter), and push a Mercedes-Benz from 0 to 60 in a tidy...
...Yard, we mocked the first-years sporting '00 shirts, wondering how one could take pride in any attire proudly proclaiming one as a "zero." And we visited our old dorm rooms, imparing unwarranted advice to this year's new denizens as they stared at us with looks of amusement and/or disdain and/or both. Sometimes they mistook us for first-years, launching into the name and where you're from (in Harvard life and in real life) diatribe, but otherwise, they saw us as superfluous appendages, people who had long since passed their prime and outlived their usefulness...
...whole proposition in one sentence. I believe in the dignity of the individual, in government by law, in respect for the truth and in a good God; those beliefs are worth my life, and more; they are not shared by Adolf Hitler," Bundy wrote in a 1940 anthology, Zero Hour...
...Zero! Zero! Zero!" --Bob Dole, describing the amount of tolerance a Dole Administration would have toward drug...