Word: zeroes
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...those on the night of the accident. He concluded that a northward current could have been flowing that night, just as Kennedy said. But Mehaute found that by 1:30 a.m., when the Senator said he had jumped into the channel, the tide would have been "weak to zero." Moreover, Mehaute said, just about then the tide turned and the current through the channel started flowing south. The implication was that the current would have carried Kennedy toward Edgartown's narrow inner harbor and the shore, not north toward Nantucket Sound. In rebuttal, Kennedy Brother-in-Law Stephen Smith...
...finally by the Raiders. If he has done his job too well, the rules of the game are partly at fault, Tatum insists, and he proposes reforms: banning quick slant-in passes that leave receivers little running room, zone defenses that give a Tatum too much time to zero in on his target, and linebacker blitzes that take a heavy toll on quarterbacks. As for the spirit of the game that he so crassly violates, he can hardly be excused. But there are others to share the blame: the Raiders' owners, coaches and fans who pay Jack Tatum...
Despite the mechanization and scientific revolutions, the modern giants of the earth still fear the whims and challenges of nature. Last week, while farmers outside Fargo, N. Dak., fed their livestock and waited to plant their spring wheat, temperatures fell to 18° below zero, and the steady icy winds were a bone-numbing 15 m.p.h. Cracked U.S. Congressman Mark Andrews, who is a North Dakota farmer: "Up here we say that 40 below zero keeps the riffraff...
...Brien said this year's University budget will probably resemble last year's. "The weather right now is so good that if it keeps up like this, we'll be within the zero to $1 million surplus range this year," he added...