This is a ten-year follow-on to a similar conference in Rio de Janeiro that was a big zero.
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.
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Friday morning, many on Wall Street were stunned by the big fat zero put up by the August jobs report, the worst showing in 11 months.
In some cases, investors could lose principal, or they may find that low or negative market returns add a big fat zero to their initial deposit.
There were basically zero big surprises, and in particular, no hardware news at all.
As Obama administration spokespersons float the big round trial balloon of zero troops in Afghanistan, soldiers here talk about the spring 2013 drawdown of 20 percent of the remaining 66, 000 US troops, with another 50 percent to be gone soon after.
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Pepsi Next and Dr Pepper 10 each have less than a 1% market share and Coke's last big diet cola launch, Coke Zero, was in 2005.
Controversy continues to boost the Kathryn Bigelow-directed drama's profile, but great word-of-mouth seems to be playing just as big of a role in "Zero Dark Thirty's" success.
Its lead in hybrid technology is under threat as other big carmakers scramble to bring low- and zero-emission vehicles to market before low-carbon legislation bites.
Even when there were bumps (BIG bumps) in the road, there was ZERO doubt in my mind that we could pull it all off.
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And let's not forget the fearsome Big Nuke -- get caught too close to ground zero and you're, well, nuked.
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The Federal Reserve made a big announcement today, promising to keep interest rates near zero until either the unemployment rate fell below 6.5 percent or the inflation rate rose above 2.5 percent.
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While I admittedly have zero knowledge about it, birding is also a big tourist attraction here, but I know more about beer.
With information, the big change of course is that the stuff can be copied at near-zero cost.
There was "Zero Dark Thirty, " which was nominated in a number of big categories on Sunday and ended up in a tie for the best sound editing Oscar.
One, stock prices get so expensive that even at zero interest rates corporate America stops shrinking the float and begins selling shares big time.
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The big upsets were in this category as Ben Affleck for Argo, Kathryn Bigelow for Zero Dark Thirty, and Tom Hooper for Les Miserables were shut out.
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Car sales gave a big boost to America's economy, but much of that was owing to zero-interest-rate financing and other incentives, which are now reaching their limit.
States like Florida fill up with older folks in part because of good weather but zero state income tax, real estate exemptions and other tax breaks are a big draw, too.
The 35% federal corporate tax rate is now the highest in the industrial world, leading companies to locate their most profitable operations outside the U.S. Big multi-national corporations such as GE have secured enough special deductions and tax credits to zero out their U.S. tax liabilities on their existing operations even as the high marginal rate encourages them to expand overseas.
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In less than five short years the number of U.S. households with a Wi-Fi network has gone from zero to 4.3 million, and you can barely pass a street corner in any big U.S. city without seeing a public Wi-Fi hot spot.
So, even if SAARC really comes together to deal with the effects of climate change while the big players in the region and elsewhere fail to cut down their emissions, experts say it will be a zero-sum game.
Even this matters: with the economy currently close to zero growth (second-quarter GDP figures will be released on July 25th) tiny changes make a big difference to headlines and political fortunes.
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