Word: zeroed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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McCartney took the zero-risk option and waited until his LP faded off of Billboard's charts, lest recent success detract from his old standards. The crowds, desperately weary of the soundbite, searching for a bit of the past, seemed to especially appreciate the old Beatle ballads...
...chewed up market share by buying local banks, particularly on the West Coast. Mitsubishi Bank bought the Bank of California in 1984, while the Bank of Tokyo acquired the Union Bank of Los Angeles in 1988. The Japanese own four of California's 10 largest banks. Starting from near zero five years ago, Japanese banks account for at least 10% of all commercial loans made...
Bret Easton Ellis, author of Less Than Zero and a leader of Manhattan's literary brat pack, has a novel due out next February that is already causing controversy. Staff members at Simon & Schuster who have read the manuscript, titled American Psycho, say it chronicles a young Wall Street banker who is involved in sexual perversities, murders, mutilations and diverse other grotesqueries and degradations. Robert Asahina, Ellis' editor, allows, "It is a book that can be at times upsetting to read." Some are so upset that they have balked at working on the novel. But Ellis has his defenders...
Just one of the 192 nuclear warheads aboard the U.S. missile submarine Tennessee, currently at sea, would be enough to flatten the Kremlin and every building within half a mile if detonated 6,000 ft. over Moscow. Up to two miles from ground zero, all but the toughest structures would be destroyed, and even as far as four miles away, wood and brick buildings would collapse and burst into flames. But that devastation is not sufficient for the Pentagon. U.S. nuclear-attack plans call for raining 120 warheads on Moscow alone -- a level of targeting, says veteran arms expert Peter...
...Cascades in the east to the Pacific Ocean on the west. There one can tune in to Timber Radio KTBR, feel the roads tremble beneath logging trucks and watch children use Lego sets to haul sticks out of imaginary forests. In the current struggle, Douglas County is ground zero, likely to take as direct an economic hit as any site in the region. "Something is going to happen in the next few months that will rip the rug right out from under us," says Lonnie Burson, who works in a sawmill and presides over the union, Local 2949, that represents...