He saw this latest proposition seemingly breeze through yesterday by a vote of eight-to-zero, with one abstention.
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Short-term interest rates such as the overnight bank borrowing rate and one-month and one- year Treasury bill rates are already close to zero.
For one, zero-sum austerity rooted in bank failures is a false presumption.
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An environmental campaigner, considered to be the driving force behind Italy's zero-waste movement, is one of the winners of the 2013 Goldman Prize.
But in Northern Ireland politics is seen as a zero-sum game: if one side gains, it stands to reason that the other must have lost.
We have demonstrated, as no other economy has, that life need not be a zero-sum game, that one person's gain is not necessarily another person's loss.
If one researches zero-point energy and the discoveries of broken parity (Dr. Lee, Nobel Price winner in 1958 for demonstrating broken parity) found to exist in the fundamental atom forces, there is no reason why magnetic energy devices can not be developed.
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Madoff is a liar and a thief, but he may have also provided Jeffry Picower with one of the largest zero-interest margin loans in history.
The authorities have been forced to push interest rates close to zero in order to give investors a one-way bet.
Journalists at mainstream media organizations wallow in a zero-sum world: There can be only one evening television anchor and one top editor at a newspaper.
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.
When completed, it will be one of the first net-zero energy and net-zero water-waste buildings in the country.
Device display must be dimmable (in one-percent increments, from zero to 100%) to prevent blinding operators during night time and NVG operations.
We then assigned each level of performance a number from zero to 10. (The highest one-tenth in each category received a 10, the second tenth a 9, and so on.) The higher the number, we assumed, the more pain that industry would suffer with respect to that specific variable.
On the one hand, with its near-zero emissions, it stacks up favorably against conventional, polluting sources of energy.
Let's put it this way: If we screen 1, 000 50-year-old women for 10 years, somewhere between zero and one will benefit.
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.
Rich expects this issue to attract the same broad cross-section of contributors that were a hallmark of issues zero and one.
On the one hand, voters appear to like the strict, zero-tolerance migration controls which the minister, a candidate for her party's leadership, has pioneered.
One a larger level, we came up with an idea and started to learn fashion industry from zero and we strategized everything as if it was a ordinary for-profit one.
As a job with zero commuting, blogging could be one of the most environmentally friendly jobs around -- but it can also be quite profitable.
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One implication of the pie metaphor is that wealth is a zero-sum game: there is a fixed amount of houses, cars, medicines, etc. to go around, and the more Steve Jobs gets the less is left for the rest of us.
The new era is one in which governments are using floating exchange rates, near-zero interest rates and vast fiscal deficits to protect their economies.
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.
Only 25% of homes listed for one million dollars or more have a 9 as the last non-zero digit, compared to 53% of all listed homes.
"So safety is still of utmost importance for Volvo, " he adds, pointing to how Volvo is aiming for "zero accidents" for its customers by 2020 - or rather, by then "no-one should be killed or injured in a Volvo".
Starting in January and running through July, users will be able to demo one select title per month from the eShop: Balloon Fight, F-Zero, Punch-Out featuring Mr. Dream, Kirby's Adventure, Super Metroid, Yoshi and Donkey Kong.
One way would be to announce that it will hold short-term rates at zero for an extended period.
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