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Agriculture | In food safety policy, a "zero tolerance" standard generally means that if a potentially dangerous substance (whether microbiological, chemical, or other) is present in or on a product, that product will be considered adulterated and unfit for human consumption. In the meat and poultry inspection program, "zero tolerance" usually refers to USDA's rule that permits no visible signs of fecal contamination (feces) on meat and poultry carcasses. See wash versus trim. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
As the name suggests, zero tolerance policies allow for absolutely no levels of tolerance or compromise for violators of the law in question. There will be no varying levels of punishment under zero tolerance, only the most severe.
For example, if a school has a zero tolerance policy in regards to students carrying weapons, a student who brings a knife to school might be suspended instantly. Another such example would be the drug laws of a nation such as Singapore, in which all drug dealers who are found guilty are executed.
In the United States, hundreds of students have been suspended or expelled from school for being in possession of over-the-counter drugs such as aspirin or for seemingly innocent activities such as drawing figures of military tanks and airplanes in their notebooks.
Like most approaches to law enforcement, zero tolerance policies are often controversial. The controversy stems from the fact that these policies go overboard and might not actually prevent the behavior they are supposed to control. For example, in Colorado Springs, a 6 year old was suspended under the school's zero tolerance for drugs policy when the boy gave another student a lemon drop. In another Colorado case in Greeley, three boys faced expulsion under a zero tolerance for guns policy because they were seen playing with squirt guns.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Zero tolerance."
Crosswords: ZERO TOLERANCE |
| Specialty definitions using "ZERO TOLERANCE": Karnal bunt ♦ TCK smut. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | Zero Tolerance (2002) | |
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Economic History | Botswana | Botswana has zero tolerance for corruption. (references) |
Italy | In both cases, a zero tolerance is expected for adventitious biotech presence. (references) | |
Nicaragua | Increasingly, donors are demanding more transparency and governability -- widely defined to mean more responsive and efficient administration, and zero tolerance for corruption. (references) | |
Political Economy | POLAND | Scientific evidence indicates that such weed seeds already exist in Poland and neighboring countries, yet Polish authorities have been unwilling to relax their zero tolerance policy. (references) |
POLAND | Imports of U.S. grain and oilseed imports, which had amounted to some $100 million in 1997, are blocked by Poland's zero tolerance phytosanitary inspection policy for several common weed seeds. (references) | |
EL SALVADOR | Since 1992, the government has imposed a zero tolerance requirement for several common avian diseases such as aviana denovirus, chicken anemia, and salmonella, effectively blocking all imports of U.S. poultry. (references) | |
Travel | Norway | Norway has adopted a zero tolerance policy regarding drinking and driving. (references) |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
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zero tolerance | 137 |
zero tolerance policy | 31 |
zero tolerance in school | 18 |
zero tolerance golf | 13 |
zero tolerance law | 8 |
zero tolerance boat | 5 |
zero tolerance golf club | 4 |
school violence zero tolerance | 3 |
zero tolerance policy in school | 2 |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-e-e-l-n-o-o-r-r-t-z" | |
-3 letters: coelentera, enterocoel. | |
-4 letters: centraler, coeternal, correlate, relocatee, tolerance. | |
-5 letters: careener, carotene, colorant, corelate, coronate, ecotonal, ectozoan, electron, entozoal, larcener, lateener, ratooner, recanter, recenter, recreant, recreate, relearnt, relocate, zoolater. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)5A 45 52 4F 54 4F 4C 45 52 41 4E 43 45 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01011010 01000101 01010010 01001111 00100000 01010100 01001111 01001100 01000101 01010010 01000001 01001110 01000011 01000101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)Z E R O   T O L E R A N C E |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)005A 0045 0052 004F 0054 004F 004C 0045 0052 0041 004E 0043 0045 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)603952492544946395235483739 |
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