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Despite strong anti-CFC laws in the U.S. and Canada, many countries . continued to allow the compound to be used as a propellant in aerosol products and as a cooling agent in refrigerators, air conditioners and other appliances. Finally, last week representatives of 31 nations, including Britain, West Germany and the Soviet Union, agreed that by 1992 they would cut back on their production of chlorofluorocarbons by 20%. Mostafa Tolba, executive director of the U.N. Environment Program, felt the agreement did not go far enough. He warned, "If we mess up this planet, we can't go and look...
...symptom. Sculpture has largely lost the commemorative uses it had a century ago. It seems that Government bodies like the GSA think of it as a vague sort of visual fluoride. Its role has also withered as social compacts about the use of public space have been trashed. The aerosol valve has done for eyes in American cities what the suitcase radio has done for ears: civility dies before the corrosive jibber-jabber and the intrusive spray can. Graffiti are the strangling weeds on the ruins of the idea of public art. No wonder most city dwellers today think...
...critics point out that the country has long maintained a maze of product standards, inspection procedures and testing requirements that effectively exclude many foreign goods. The government is sensitive to this charge, and since 1981 it has been dismantling such import barriers. No longer, for example, are all aerosol cans imported into Japan required to have precisely the same thickness...
...design has a piston mechanism. The new containers generally cost 20% more than tubes. Even so, the companies think they will have far more success than the last time they tried a radical departure from the tube. In the late 1950s an attempt to market toothpaste in aerosol cans was a bomb...
While Anderson has some suspicions about the extent of the danger to the ozone, he is treading very carefully, mindful of the enormous caution with which the government is approaching the issue. Clamping down on the production of certain types of gasses in, for instance, the aerosol industry could draw a backlash from businessmen...