Word: zeroed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...cars are regaining fans, including a few in powerful places. In an unprecedented collaboration, Ford, General Motors and Chrysler are working to develop a new electric battery that would serve the U.S. industry -- driven at least in part by rules in California that will require carmakers to sell affordable "zero emission" (translation: electric) vehicles by the end of the decade...
...growing number of other earthlings. Not only is Klingon a real language, sort of, it is the fastest growing language in the universe (if you consider that it started with a base line of zero speakers in the mid-1980s). It was invented by a linguist named Marc Okrand, whose business is producing closed captions for television. He happened to be in the Paramount cafeteria having lunch with a friend just when the producers of the film Star Trek II were desperately looking for someone with a Ph.D. to do a bit of Vulcan dialogue. Okrand offered his services...
...drove in over a snow-covered mountain track and encountered the reality of Srebrenica: refugees trudging south from captured towns had swollen the population from 9,000 to as many as 80,000. Everywhere there were ragged, hungry crowds, sleeping in the snow, huddling around sputtering bonfires in sub-zero temperatures...
Carr pitches both games, give up a total of five hits, zero runs, and gets the game-winning hits in both battles. Harvard sweeps the double header, wins the Ancient Eight title and crowns Carr queen...
...anticipation of nuclear destruction, modestly titled The Fate of the Earth, was rapturously received. The Day After, a re-creation of the End, was the TV event of the year. Psychologists were dispatched to help kids deal with its anticipated psychological fallout. Hundreds of thousands took to observing "Ground Zero Week," which featured the loving re-creation of every detail of the apocalypse -- in the weird expectation that rehearsing the End would prevent it. Those who refused to join the hysteria were diagnosed as suffering from "nuclearism" or "psychic numbing...