• Of the 20 prime ministers in the list, Neville Chamberlain and Sir Anthony Eden both scored zero - in Chamberlain's case because he "utterly failed in his principal objective of averting war".

    BBC: Margaret Thatcher ruled from 1979 to 1990

  • Zero-in on discrepancies between your home and comparable ones the assessor used in the estimate. (In most places, both assessments and descriptions of all properties are open to public inspection.) Your neighbor might have a finished basement with teak paneling while yours is a dingy repository of spare furniture.

    FORBES: Assessing the Taxman

  • When completed, it will be one of the first net-zero energy and net-zero water-waste buildings in the country.

    FORBES: See green

  • But now when we ask your advisors about the lack of bipartisanship so far -- zero votes in the House, three in the Senate -- they say, well, it's not the number of votes that matters, it's the number of jobs that will be created.

    WHITEHOUSE: Presidential Press Conference

  • It was shoved back into recession partly by its own policies: an ill-timed tax increase in 1997 and the (temporary) ending of the Bank of Japan's zero-interest-rate policy in 2000.

    ECONOMIST: The American economy

  • In practice, zero-tolerance policing in New York has mostly been the job of the Street Crimes Unit.

    ECONOMIST: The dark side of zero tolerance

  • The most recent, in May, involved him swimming 0.75 miles (1.2km) in sub-zero temperatures in Nigards Glacier Lake in Norway.

    BBC: NEWS | UK | England | Swimmer planning Thames challenge

  • David's enthusiasm was contagious, which made him a delight to be around, especially in sub-zero weather in Iowa or New Hampshire.

    FORBES: Good Man Suddenly Gone

  • It is zero-sum in nature, i.e. it has little value to society.

    FORBES: Five Steps That Banks Must Take To Achieve The Good Society

  • Multinationals such as Google are highly skilled at reducing their U.S. tax bill to near-zero, in part by shifting income to low-tax countries.

    FORBES: Two Bad Tax Ideas for Creating Jobs

  • Boston, for instance, has seen similar falls in its murder rate, yet it rejected zero-tolerance policing in favour of close co-ordination between the police, probation officers and black leaders, and an effort to get guns off the streets.

    ECONOMIST: The dark side of zero tolerance

  • So the Obama administration's policies have the potential for moving Beijing officials, who still view the world in mercantilist and zero-sum terms, in the wrong direction.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • This 2007 article in Forbes shows how his firm loaded up on 30-year zero-coupon bonds in 2007, when just about everybody else thought the strategy was nuts.

    FORBES: Treasury Downgrade Isn't Worth Worrying About. Long-Term Deficits Are.

  • "When you engineer a technology-filled, all-electric mini car that goes from zero-to-60 mph in less than eight seconds, customers won't miss the gas, " said Mark Reuss, president, General Motors North America.

    ENGADGET: Chevy details 2014 Spark EV: under $25,000, 0-60 in 8 seconds and a 20-minute fast charge

  • Corporate taxation is so heavy in the U.S. relative to other countries that even while enjoying its near-zero rate in Ireland, Apple ends up with roughly the same overall effective tax rate, 14%, as South Korea's Samsung, its main global competitor.

    WSJ: Review & Outlook: The Apple Tax Diversion

  • But currently fewer than one in 200 British homes would qualify as zero-carbon, so in order to bring major reductions in domestic greenhouse gas emissions, the government has to tackle existing homes too.

    BBC: ANALYSIS

  • The second eternal truth: Success is not a zero-sum game, though most academic economists, pundits and politicians act as if it were--maybe because they vie for glory in zero-sum professions. (There can be only 1 U.S. President and 100 senators, for example.) The third eternal truth: The Golden Rule is more than a spiritual truth, it is a business truth.

    FORBES: Digital Rules

  • In a profession offering a limited number of powerful slots--100 senators, 50 governors, 1 President--politicians live in a zero-sum world, where the gains of one necessarily come at the expense of others.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • Earth-orientated sciences in a zero-g environment will always be its priority, and with six individuals living permanently on the station the amount of astronaut time dedicated to experimentation has now been raised to something like 70 hours a week.

    BBC: Manned flight around Moon considered

  • That included big zero-percent-loan programs in March and April, and this month Toyota is offering zero-percent loans on its seven most popular models and good lease deals across its product lineup.

    FORBES: Toyota Is Back, Serving Notice Of Renewed Global Ambitions

  • The region was hit by snow and temperatures remained sub-zero in Church Lawford for most of Friday.

    BBC: Snow in Coventry

  • IR You state that zero-tolerance policing in New York is mainly the job of the Street Crimes Unit.

    ECONOMIST: The infernal regions

  • Slow or near-zero growth in domestic demand has made the inflexibility of the German labour market ever more costly for businesses.

    ECONOMIST: From bad to worse | The

  • Two additional pieces of welcome news emerged from the video: The iOS version will contain the full game, and there will be zero in-app purchases.

    FORBES: iOS To Receive Turn-Based Strategy Game 'XCOM: Enemy Unknown' This Summer

  • California late last month issued rules requiring that one in seven cars for sale in the state in 2025 be zero-emission or a plug-in hybrid.

    WSJ: Is Chevy's Cruze Dulling the Spark of its Volt?

  • The university put him on a zero-tolerance policy in 2000 after an investigation into a former player's allegations that the coach had choked him during a practice.

    WSJ: Rutgers fires basketball coach over abuse, taunts

  • The Tories hope that by taking the power of veto over new schools away from officials, they would end the zero-sum game in which a good school place for one child means one fewer for others.

    ECONOMIST: Transforming Britain's schools

  • The quest for security on the continent is no longer a zero-sum game in which we must choose between protecting the interests of Central Europe or the interests of Russia, but not both at the same time.

    CNN: AllPolitics - Albright Press Conference

  • Renault chose Seville as the city to launch its three new zero-emission models in October 2011, and ultimately these vehicles and others will be able to make use of 75 battery-recharging points that are being built around the city as part of Proyecto Movele, a government-sponsored plan to boost electric car use.

    BBC: Seville goes green

  • Target 2025 invests in zero-coupon bonds, whose payout, as the fund's name suggests, is years in the future.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

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