zero

The Oxford American College Dictionary;      243 words ......os ) no quantity or number; naught; the figure 0: figures from zero to nine you've left off a zero—it should be five hundred million...quantity is reckoned: the gauge dropped to zero | [as adj. ] a zero rate of interest. ∎...

An ideal decade for zero tolerance

The Boston Globe;  January 24, 1999 ;     618 words ......eighteen, sixty- four, but zero, eighteen, sixty-four." (Most...start. No doubt because the figure 0 and the letter O look so similar, zero was called oh by the time...what we're going to call the zero- laden years of the next decade...predicting that we'll say two-zero-zero-five; ...

INVESTORS SHOULD KEEP EYE ON ZERO.NET, AND HAND ON WALLET

The Boston Globe;  June 20, 2000 ;     700+ words ......portfolio. As usual, our question: What's it all really worth? Zero.net first appeared in this space May 17 when we questioned...that has reported any sales to date. Subsequent news about Zero.net has come in dribs and drabs. Andrew Evans, notable for...Bill Gates, appeared to be the financial decision-maker at ...

54 ZERO in six figure web TV deal with Freeserve.

M2 Presswire;  November 14, 2001 ;     491 words ...M2 PRESSWIRE-14 November 2001-54 ZERO: 54 ZERO in six figure web TV deal with Freeserve (C)1994-2001 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:13112001 54 ZERO, the UK`s leading provider of text messaging content for corporate, entertainment and information applications across Europe, today secured a ...

`Zero': Nothing to Be Ashamed Of

The Washington Post;  January 30, 1998 ;     524 words ......keep an extremely low profile. However, he assures Stark, Zero's record is perfect, assuming the client is completely forthcoming with his information. Stark's request is odd. He wants Zero to retrieve the lost keys to a safety deposit box. It becomes...being blackmailed, but he won't explain the circumstances. ...

'ZERO' NEGATIVE EFFECTS EAST PLAYERS ENJOY COACH'S TOUGH-LOVE APPROACH

Wyoming Tribune-Eagle;  May 18, 2005 ;     700+ words ......at one of the first practices (when he first called me a zero)," he said. "You do something he doesn't like, he definitely...It was with the Sting that Dr. David Eldred earned his "zero" designation. "The first time I can remember him calling me a zero was after an under-16 game (with the Sting)," said ...

Is the zero grade too punitive?

The Record (Bergen County, NJ);  December 22, 2006 ;     700+ words ......for the whole semester? Yes, say some administrators. One zero can pull down the overall average by an entire letter grade...grade to be between a 50 and 60. They say that many times, a zero serves too much as a punitive tool rather than as an educational one. PRO: A zero carries so much weight and drags ...

AMI-to-NRZI-direct-conversion circuit tolerates unequalized pulse...

EDN Asia;  June 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ......FIGURE 1 OMITTED] [FIGURE 2 OMITTED] An interesting...NRZI (non-return-to-zero-inverted) code. The...twisted-pair polarity. Figure 1 shows the relationships...NRZ (non-return-to-zero), NRZI, and AMI codes...marks to cross the zero level and the subsequent...transmission line cause ...

Time to zero in on steady growth.

Sunday Business (London, England);  May 27, 2001 ;     700+ words ......investment trust, ahead of income or capital shares. Although no zero has missed its target since they were invented in the late...what you are getting before you buy. Any assessment of a zero should begin with its underlying portfolio. Look at who...sector. Next, look at the other indicators as to how the ...

Zero Growth Announced for First Quarter in Italy

Xinhua English Newswire;  May 14, 1997 ;     92 words ...Italy had a zero, or near zero, growth rate in the first quarter, the director general of...target of 1.2 percent growth this year. The first quarter figure could be slightly above or below zero the picture was not yet completely clear. He said there were...

`Zero' whodunit rings up high amusement factor Modern-day Holmes and...

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;  February 20, 1998 ;     471 words ......Zero relies on computers. And there the similarities end. "Zero Effect," an oddball detective riff by 24-year-old writer-direct...rattling around inside Kasdan's exaggerated frame. To know Zero is to understand, as does Arlo (played by Ben Stiller...intermediary to interview Ryan O'Neal's tycoon, who ...

A novel auto-zero servo-inclinometer: a next generation servo-inclinometer...

Sensors Magazine;  September 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ......compensated--with the exception of the random zero drift. A new auto-zero servo-inclinometer solves the zero-drift problems through geometry, and...their sensitive axis. As illustrated in Figure 1, [Figure 1 Omitted] a tilt angle, [PHI], results...

Zero Doesn't Count

The Washington Post;  January 6, 2001 ;     161 words ......your reporters still cannot figure out how to count years. It's...objects. You don't start with a "zero" pencil, for example - - just...first, second and third pencils. Zero has nothing to do with it. Take...life is "year one," not "year zero." The exact same thing applies...

AMI-to-NRZI-direct-conversion circuit tolerates unequalized pulse...

EDN;  March 6, 2008 ;     700+ words ......twisted-pair polarity. Figure 1 shows the relationships...NRZ (non-return-to-zero), NRZI, and AMI codes...two-level RZ code (Figure 2a through d ). The...slowly decays to zero. This effect becomes...data-recovery slicers (Figure 2e and f ). You can...marks to cross the zero level and ...

Government cuts forecast for economic growth this year to zero

AP Worldstream;  October 23, 2003 ;     299 words ......economic growth this year to zero from 0.75 percent. It also...draw up a budget based on a figure of 1.7 percent _ exactly the...percent growth next year. Zero growth for this year would...year. The ministry said the zero forecast for the year would be a "black zero," meaning close to ...