Word: zeros
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...systems. The Soviet agents soon had to use their skills. No sooner had they settled into the Hilton than they routinely set about checking out the rooms for electronic listening bugs. They found instead a huge time bomb, planted by persons unknown, which they managed to defuse just before zero hour. After some understandably excited exchanges with their Iranian hosts, the newcomers packed up their gear and departed for presumably safer quarters...
...unique aspect of Fazio's project is that the telescope's mirror will be cooled to a few degrees above absolute zero in order to ensure that the mirror does not give off infrared light of its own and distort the telescope's reception...
...released revised edition of "The Death Penalty in America," Bedau said, "We have approximately 900 criminals awaiting execution of their death sentences in the United States today. Only if we were to have three executions a day, every day for a solid year would that number be reduced to zero...
...Gleneagles, Scotland, NATO defense ministers endorsed the doctrine of "flexible response" and the NATO plan for deployment of the theater nuclear weapons. But implicitly recognizing the growing power of the neutralists, the NATO ministers' communiqué also supported a plan favored by the peace movement, the so-called "zero solution" under which both Soviet and American theater nuclear weapons would be removed...
...money in circulation. To keep up with demand, the bureau last year worked three shifts a day, six days a week, cranking out 4 billion pieces of paper currency. With demand expected to grow at a rate of 5% annually even in the unlikely event that inflation falls to zero, the Government has gone shopping for ways to increase the productivity of its printing operation...