As for the two-and-20 crowd, you can add another zero if the Senate Finance Committee gets its way.
The Fed has to lower federal funds close to zero if for no other reason than allowing banks to arbitrage money.
However, since they have less than 30 full time employees, their fine would be zero if they do not offer insurance.
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Marilyn Monroe would be trying to diet herself to a size zero if she was on the cinema screen now, which is such a shame.
In fact, having already been funded by taxpayers, the NSF research involved would have zero return if it were simply left on the shelf.
The long-term goal of PS4 is to reduce download times of digital titles to zero: if the system knows enough about a player to predict the next game they will purchase, then that game can be loaded and ready to go before they even click the "buy" button.
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If zero interest rates cannot get consumers to spend, then governments must spend instead.
Workers may be prepared to accept zero wage increases if inflation is 3%, implying a 3% real pay cut.
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Nominal interest rates should reflect real interest rates in a world of zero inflation, if they are to perform their function of allocating capital efficiently.
The choices in the electric motorcycle market just keep getting juicier, and while you'll still have to stick with the more established brands like Brammo, Zero or BRD if you're looking to make a purchase, a hot new prototype has just been unveiled that threatens to make them all look a little bit... pedestrian.
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In short, we can keep at zero by scaring folks about what will happen if we go above zero.
This means that for individuals who have little or no net investment income, their 3.8% Medicare Surtax will be minimal if not zero.
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But if a zero-sum, winner-take-all struggle for leverage is the name of the game, those games seldom conclude as the winners might hope.
If "Zero Dark Thirty" does win Best Picture, it will be one of only five times in the past 25 years when the director of the best film didn't also get an Oscar.
That can be a challenge, forcing couples to slice into massive credit card debt by using retirement savings or even home equity to reduce the burden to a more manageable level if not zero it out all together.
In a zero hours scenario, if cardiology is having a quiet day, the cardiologist might be asked to spend the day at home, unpaid, watching television or doing the gardening, rather than being paid by his or her NHS Trust for tidying the desk.
Washington sees Social Security reform as a zero-sum gain-if someone gains, someone else loses.
If there were zero guns available in the U.S., then by definition there would be zero gun-related deaths.
But, if there was zero chance of getting caught, fifty-eight per cent said that they would break the law.
So if inflation is zero, real wages cannot easily fall in declining regions or industries, and unemployment will rise.
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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.
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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Think about it: what would happen if the government spent zero but still collected taxes?
If inflation trends toward zero (before moving much higher later in the decade), then long term bond yields could naturally fall toward 2%.
"This is very exciting because if the spin-zero determination is confirmed, it would be the first elementary particle to have zero spin, " he said.
Under a performance-share plan launched in 2007, executive officers get no shares if Lilly investors see zero or negative returns over a three-year period.
For zero nukes would make no sense if this left the world safe for the sorts of mass conventional warfare that consumed the first half of the 20th century.
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.
Even if interest rates hit zero, they argue, central banks can use other measures, such as flooding the banking system with money, buying government bonds or intervening in the currency markets.
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