Word: zeros
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...current production opens stiffly (as though conversation had to be slower in the 19th century because contractions hadn't yet been invented), the actors soon zero in on their thrillingly cold target. As is often true in James, we witness a battle that can have no victors. Dr. Austin Sloper (Philip Bosco) is a wealthy widower whose earnest daughter Catherine (Cherry Jones) pales beside his resplendent memories of his wife (who, to make the comparison all the more pointed and painful, died giving birth to Catherine). Reared in an atmosphere of genteel censure, Catherine only gradually surmises that...
Iacocca insists the takeover bid is not a strategy to get the old cowboy back in the saddle. "I'm an investor, period," he says. "No directorship, no management, nothing--zero." But even as he says that, he can't resist kibbitzing. For one thing, Iacocca has wanted for years to make Chrysler a truly international operation with sales and manufacturing capabilities around the world. In the 1980s he tried to enter his company into deals first with Volkswagen, then with Fiat, but to no avail. "We do not have a global presence," he complained last week...
...strike cost the owners an estimated $700 million, the players $250 million and the fans 921 regular-season games, not counting the World Series and other postseason games. Yet the most staggering figure to come out of the strike the players called-and the owners asked for-was zero. That was what both sides accomplished by the work stoppage, which officially ended at 11:59 p.m. on April Fools' Day, when the owners decided to tell their replacement players to stand down. The previous day, the Players Association had scored a major victory when U.S. District Judge Sonia Sotomayor issued...
However, "anytime you have a superconductor in a magnetic field... it tends to destroy the phenomenon: the zero resistance," Nelson said...
...theKennedy Administration in the wake of the Berlincrisis. Kennedy's advisors believed that theshelters could save millions of lives byprotecting populations from radioactive fallout.The idea was that when a nuclear bomb hits, theimmediate surrounding area is demolished, andnothing can be done to save anyone unfortunateenough to be at ground zero. But people living amile or so from the bomb may not be immediatelykilled. For them, the danger lies in radioactivebits of pulverized earth and buildings that fallto the ground in the hours and days following theexplosion. A fallout shelter is simply a sealedroom that has walls thick enough to block...