Word: zeros
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...Those professors] are all visiting, and they're here for no more than a semester," Cho said. "There is zero stability as far as education in race and ethnic studies are concerned, aside from Afro-American studies...
...another peculiar development, during the televised New Hampshire primary debate Dole criticized Steve Forbes for airing television commercials which he believed were responsible for driving his "positive ratings" towards zero. (Imagine Fidel Castro making a similar complaint against the Kennedy administration.) Forget about proposals, ideas, ability to lead--these guys are too busy criticizing each other's criticisms...
Engler's work on last week's welfare and Medicaid compromise can be seen as a further refinement of that strategy. In January the Governor threw a scare into some true believers by announcing a limited-area research effort called Project Zero. The still sketchy project involves intensive (and presumably expensive) intervention by welfare workers to learn why some people won't work; it includes no time limits, so some thought it signaled Engler's opposition to the congressional Republicans' five-years-and-you're-out philosophy. His fellow Governors knew better. Wisconsin's Tommy Thompson reports that Engler...
...immature policemen must control a desperate population of 7 million, propped up by a rapidly dwindling U.N. force. The country has acquired the image but not the substance of democracy: it has a duly elected President and parliament but a completely dysfunctional government. The economy is still at ground zero: no jobs, no investment, no roads, virtually no electricity or telecommunications or running water, sporadic fuel. The people's adoration of Aristide has buffered their bitter disappointment, but they do not hold Preval in the same regard, and he will have to produce concrete proof of democracy's shiny promises...
...musing has taken on great urgency because friendship, it turns out, is one of the few exceptions to the draconian new congressional ethics rules that took effect on Jan. 1. These rules replace older, looser ones about accepting gifts, meals and junkets. The new standard in the House is "Zero Tolerance"--no freebies other than trifling gewgaws and home-state souvenirs from anyone at all, except family or friends. The Senate still allows gifts up to $50 in value. No one has enough family members to supply all the goodies so many in Washington have become accustomed to--fine wines...