In June 2011, a huge instance of fraud led to a market crash, with the value of Bitcoins at one point plummeting to almost zero.

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Park, who read a prepublication copy of Zero Point, chuckles at some of Cook's conclusions.

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While still among the elite top-five shoo-ins for Best Picture (the others being Lincoln, Zero Dark Thirty, Silver Lining Playbook, and Les Miserables), I think this picture needs strong showings in the early awards season to make a comeback and really challenge Lincoln and Zero Dark Thirty at this point.

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Just as suddenly the air deadened, and at one point during the night the wind meter read zero.

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At some point, borrowers must pay the piper and the zero hour appears to be fast approaching.

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At some point corporate buying will become corporate selling, even in a zero interest rate environment.

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The point guard had a clear look at the clock as it raced toward zero atop the backboard.

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As Jay Yarow and Henry Blodget at the BusinessInsider point out, even assuming a steep drop in margins and zero revenue growth, Apple still represents a reasonably good investment.

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While the illustration may have moved some investors from zero to a token weight in foreign, many investors and advisors fixed on the optimum point at 20 to 30 percent as a maximum foreign weighting.

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