Word: zilch
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Robert Burchfield, editor of the just completed (after 29 years) supplement to the Oxford English Dictionary: "When we reached zilch and zillionaire, it was like having the finishing tape in sight in a marathon...
...Central Bank raised interest rates on treasury bills from about 20% to 30%. Commercial banks immediately hiked their prime and commercial lending rates. Reflecting a dip in business confidence, the peso fell 10% against the dollar. Said Felix Maramba, chairman of the Philippine Chamber of Commerce: "Marcos' credibility is zilch...
...helmets and went on to play a rousing game of intracollegiate football. And, each week for three straight seasons, the Lowell House Bellboys trudged back to Dillon, once again shut out by their mightier opponent. Last week, this week, next week...there was no singing in the showers. Zip, zilch, zero...again and again...
...other cities, men and women who looked like the couple were detained, then released. Said an investigator at task-force headquarters in Illinois: "Callers have spotted them in Hartford and Honolulu the same day, and in Miami and Missouri the same day. As of now, the hard info is zilch...
...banging spoons for breakfast. (They dutifully use chopsticks for every other meal.) After such curiosa as fish-flavored omelette and jasmine tea cakes, washed down with surprisingly good coffee, the Westerners stand meekly, punctually, hi line to See China. What they get to see ranges from astounding to zilch...