Word: zeros
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...forced to step down as president of Covenant House while the allegations are investigated by state and local prosecutors and his religious order. Whether or not the probes result in formal charges, says an observer close to the church, "the chances of Father Ritter returning to Covenant House are zero...
...time all those forces were pushed back or negotiated away, the Soviets' hastily nationalized and collectivized economy was a shambles. By 1920 industrial production had dropped to about 15% of the prewar level; runaway inflation had made the ruble nearly worthless; foreign trade had plummeted to almost zero. Peasants whose crops were requisitioned for the cities began hiding their harvests or not harvesting at all, and in 1921 famine killed uncounted millions...
...heat-seeking surface-to-air missile hurtles skyward faster than the speed of sound. In a matter of seconds, it can zero in on a plane, blasting it from the sky in a sickening burst of flame and smoke. Moreover, such missiles are all too available to terrorist groups and criminals around the world. Last week intelligence reports indicated that the Colombian cocaine cartels may be stockpiling just such antiaircraft devices. The fear is that the drug lords could use them to mount an attack on President George Bush when he flies into the Colombian city of Cartagena...
...Turkish rule over the Slavic nation. Since the resignation of Stalinist dictator Todor Zhivkov last November, that statue has become the rallying point for a revived nationalist movement using the old hatred of the Turks to fight new political battles. Day after day, thousands of Bulgarians ignored sub-zero temperatures to gather around it. They shook their fists and cheered rabble-rousing speeches protesting a decision by the country's new reformist government to restore to 1.2 million ethnic Turks the civil and religious rights they lost in 1984. "Turks to Turkey!" they roared. "Bulgaria for the Bulgarians...
Hughes evened up the perfect-game tally with a shutout of Yale--matching Roy's blanking of Cornell earlier this season--and gained more ground in the point-scoring column with an assist Friday, giving him two points to Roy's zero...