Near the summit, temperatures can be 40 degrees below zero.

Baseline levels are near zero, without some stimulus to cause its release.

Will near zero interest rates, financial sector bailouts, and fiscal stimulus work? What else could be done?

The world economy today, desperate for demand, can t count on either mechanism. Interest rates in many countries are already near zero.

In Germany, for example, interest rates on public debt up to five years will be negative, and only slightly positive beyond that, producing a weighted average of zero. Clearly, Japan s near zero interest rate environment is no longer unique.

Global Zero at Ground Zero

In any case, the eurozone seems stuck with near zero rates at increasingly long maturities. What does this actually mean for its investors and debtors?

(1) Fome Zero (Zero Hunger Program)

Equally deleterious to economic health is the recent vogue of cutting interest rates to near zero and holding them there for a sustained period. It is far from clear that near zero short term interest rates (as compared to just low interest rates) have much additional effect in encouraging firms to create jobs when powerful economic forces make them reluctant to hire.

He got his paper back expecting a near perfect score, and couldn't believe it when he looked across the room at me and held up a zero.

The two numbers are zero as in zero footprint or zero oil and scale it infinity.

It's about zero sum and non zero sum games.

Zero.

The foremost is that if we're blank slates, then, by definition, we are equal, because zero equals zero equals zero.

Zero is Zero, a little hero of the 21st Century, and Zero can touch so many more people than I possibly could.

Pang Zero

Seven zero.

With the price level falling and the population aging, the Japanese consider the real return attractive. As long as US banks can borrow at near zero and buy government bonds without having to commit equity, and the dollar does not depreciate against the renminbi, interest rates on US government bonds may well be heading in the same direction.

Either way, your fortunes add up to zero. That's a zero sum game.

Media representatives will be able to cover the signature and ratification of treaties during the High level Plenary Meeting from a special platform near the Delegates' Entrance (ground level).

But, provided that the returns are positive, such investments are still worth making. Given near zero interest rates and idle workers, it is time for the state to undertake the rebuilding of infrastructure.

Zero. Very good.

Period. None. Zero.

Germany s Zero Hour

They put 180 percent tax on gasoline cars and zero tax on zero emission cars.

Violence against women, including domestic violence, continued to be widespread and required the application of a zero tolerance policy at the national level with support from the international community.

We reckon that we are a bit over halfway to our goal zero impact, zero footprint.

So I'm not really worried about it. So I mean, we're going to have to work on a lot of fronts, but if we succeed if we succeed then once again, non zero sumness and the recognition of non zero sum dynamics will have forced us to a higher moral level.

Zero dollars a month.

Day zero nothing happening.

That's zero food waste.

America s G Zero Moment

Our G Zero World

Zero comes before one.

Despite their great promise, however, superconductors have limits, the primary one being that most superconduct at very low temperatures indeed, near absolute zero ( 273 ºC). Such temperatures can be achieved only through liquid helium cooling.

Policymakers should focus on boosting productivity, not competitiveness, with workers being paid their due. The government should take advantage of near zero interest rates to invest, and encourage businesses especially start ups to do likewise.

Japan faces a different conundrum. Haruhiko Kuroda, the Bank of Japan s new governor, has sent a clear signal to markets that the BOJ is targeting 2 annual inflation, after years of near zero price growth.

These countries, too, are facing a recession, and, while the interest rate has not yet reached its zero bound everywhere, incentives to depreciate might grow in the near future. In fact, the incentives are already there.

Thermometers often go below zero.

Zero, not a single one.

The first is zero tolerance.

We call this Mission Zero.

Fresh water freezes at zero.

Of those, 67 percent are most lonely when their kids are zero to five probably really zero to two.

Considering that fact, Japan wished once again to emphasize its strong belief that the Organization could achieve the same high level of performance under a zero real growth budget for 2006 2007.