Word: zeroed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Abigail Thernstrom has observed, minorities, especially those from low-income backgrounds, have entered graduate schools in large numbers only recently and are more likely to take high-paying jobs after graduation than to pursue less lucrative careers in teaching. Thus, the scramble to sign minority scholars has become a zero-sum game in which the participants compete over a tiny selection of candidates and win only by snatching each other's faculty--or worse, by lowering hiring standards...
They walked and hitched rides for six days to reach the border, enduring sub-zero cold, rain and snowstorms that left the children shivering uncontrollably. They marched high into the hills of Kurdistan along narrow mountain roads deep in slippery mud, thinking a thousand times that their world had come to an end. The worst moment came at a mobbed road crossing, where Omar and Talia, each with two children, were separated as they struggled aboard different trucks. Omar did not see his wife again for two days, and in his arms was their seven-month-old daughter, weakly sobbing...
...problem with the polyurethane is that when left in the body it can be attacked by cells in the immune system that zero in on foreign objects, chewing them up and walling them off. Just how much polyurethane is broken down in this way is not yet known, though Surgitek has estimated that 10% to 30% might disappear within eight years of insertion...
...FEEL kind of sorry for the UC. Members often skip meetings, the Council doesn't have much power and their events are usually not well-attended. As a result, student respect for the Council is at the low end of zero...
...supremely laid back here. The aggression level is zero; nobody bothers you. The favorite late-night game in San Pedro is called Chicken Drop: Mother Nature's own organic form of roulette. A pit is marked out in 100 numbered squares, 10 by 10. One bets on the numbers. The croupier takes a live chicken by the legs, blows sharply up its behind and throws it into the ring. The first number the chicken defecates on wins. The winning number takes all. It will be a while before the Mob moves in on Belizean gambling...