Word: zeroed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...overwhelming that the earth's stratospheric ozone layer -- our shield against the sun's hazardous ultraviolet rays -- is being eaten away by man-made chemicals far faster than any scientist had predicted. No longer is the threat just to our future; the threat is here and now. Ground zero is not just the South Pole anymore; ozone holes could soon open over heavily populated regions in the northern hemisphere as well as the southern. This unprecedented assault on the planet's life-support system could have horrendous long-term effects on human health, animal life, the plants that support...
Harvard, which has always prided itself on its power play performance, went a woeful zero-for-six on extra-man opportunities...
...Senator Bob Kerrey guarding a hockey net while warning the Japanese that "if we can't sell in their market, they can't sell in ours." Harkin vows to send a similarly shrill message to Tokyo: "We're going to reduce our trade deficit with you, Japan, down to zero in five years. Two ways you can do it: buy more or sell us less." Even soft- spoken Democrat Paul Tsongas cracks, "The cold war is over, and Japan won." And if Buchanan puts "America First," guess what country is last...
...with guests Maria Diez-Canedo, recorder and flute; Owen Watkins, recorder; Suzanne Stump, flute; Daniel Ryan, cello; Larry Hamberlin, harpsicord. Old South Meeting House, 310 Washington St., Boston. Thursday, Feb. 6, 6 p.m. First Parish, Boston Post Rd. at Cochituate Rd., Wayland. Friday, Feb. 7, 8 p.m. Christ Church, Zero Garden St., Cambridge. Saturday, Feb. 8, 8 p.m. $10 for adults, $5 for students, elders, and contributors at Wayland performance. $12 for adults, $6 for students, elders, and contributors at Boston or Cambridge performance...
...tenured profs in mid- career, the inquisitions by the House Committee on Un-American Activities on the content of libraries and courses, the campus loyalty oaths, the whole sordid atmosphere of persecution, betrayal and paranoia. The number of conservative academics fired by the lefty thought police, by contrast, is zero. There has been heckling. There have been baseless accusations of racism. And certainly there is no shortage of the zealots, authoritarians and scramblers who view PC as a shrewd career move or as a vent for their own frustrations...