With interest rates near zero, no equivalent action is available to the Fed today.

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The Federal Reserve, trying to kick-start the economy, is keeping short-term interest rates at zero and is taking action to drive down long-term rates as well.

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Everybody I know is going to a Super Bowl party, including my football-ambivalent wife, who has watched exactly zero hours and zero minutes of NFL action this year.

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The Bank of Japan has kept interest rates close to zero but remains otherwise oddly reluctant to take stronger action.

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The union said the action was part of a campaign against a zero pay rise.

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If price inflation starts to fall towards zero at a time when interest rates are already low, drastic action might be needed to head off deflation.

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In "Captain Falcon's Twister Race, " an F-Zero shout out, you hold the GamePad vertically, viewing the action top-down while twisting the controller left or right to guide a racer along a flashing track.

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Health Minister Jacqui Smith promised immediate action would be taken to start improving performance in councils with a zero rating.

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