Word: aluminum
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Mezzanine seems a virtual dictionary of questions of popular culture--who thought to wrinkle up the aluminum foil on the top of Jiffy-Pop popcorn pans? Why do men have trouble urinating in public bathrooms? Why do store clerks bag purchases that could be carried more easily by themselves? And why, after several years, do Baker's two shoelaces break within a day of each other...
...shantytowns on Mexico City's outskirts, tens of thousands of people shelter in huts made of cardboard with aluminum roofs. There is no running water and no sanitation. The stench is overpowering: garbage and human waste heap up in piles. Rats roam freely, like stray domestic animals...
...with its affluence and industrial might, is by far the most profligate offender. Each year Americans throw away 16 billion disposable diapers, 1.6 billion pens, 2 billion razors and blades and 220 million tires. They discard enough aluminum to rebuild the entire U.S. commercial airline fleet every three months. And the country is still struggling to clean up the mess created by the indiscriminate dumping of toxic waste. Said David Rall, director of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences: "In the old days, waste was disposed of anywhere you wanted -- an old lake, a back lot, a swamp...
BOEING. Nearly every day, a silvery aluminum-skinned Boeing airliner rolls out of one of the company's four giant hangars in suburban Seattle and is sprayed with the colors of its new owner: red and blue for American, yellow and blue for Lufthansa, emerald green for Aer Lingus. The world's largest aircraft manufacturer (a record $29 billion in orders this year, up from $20 billion in 1987) is stepping up production, from 25 jetliners a month...
...Yorkers seem to have succeeded in marketing it piece by piece. Ruffino Sauco and John Baressi were arrested Nov. 19 after being spotted prying off 200-lb. sections of the bridge and flinging them down to the shoreline. Workmen had noticed that huge chunks of an aluminum grillwork under the span had been mysteriously disappearing for two days. The apparent motive: selling the metal for scrap. City officials estimate that repairing the damage will cost $37,000. That's no joke...