The first of the five digits defines a broad region of the country (zero is the Northeast, nine is the West Coast).

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It's still free ninety-nine (aka zip, zero, zilch).

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Last quarter, four of nine rated it a buy and zero rated it a sell.

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And its customer count has zoomed from zero to 100 in the first nine months of 2012.

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The volunteers were then asked to describe how they would rate a series of acts on an ethical scale ranging from zero (perfectly okay) to nine (very wrong).

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All nine of them put this rate between zero and 2%, with most around 1%.

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Last quarter, nine of 18 rated it a buy and zero rated it a sell.

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Seventy fully-electric, zero-emission BMW ActiveE cars will be located at nine DriveNow stations across the entire city for the launch of DriveNow in San Francisco.

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Nine-figure fines paid by the banks, and zero prosecutions of individuals simply passes the tab onto the shareholders and does nothing to root out of the causes of this corruption?

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Nine states and the District of Columbia now recognize same-sex marriages, up from zero less than a generation ago.

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There were nine deaths from infection among patients taking torcetrapib in the 15, 000-patient trial, compared to zero among the patients who did not get the drug.

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