Word: carbonated
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ticket counter blush at you, and one finds it scrawled on the walls of the bathroom. It's also, I admit, fun to print in newspapers, especially considering that local papers chickened out this week and puzzled thousands with mysterious reviews of "CS Blues" (Caribou Shit? Carrot Sticks? Carbon Sulfate...
...band launched into Jimi Hendrix's "Little Wing," a song which got the band a standing ovation on Saturday Night Live. The inevitable Hendrix-style guitar solo chore went to Jeff Campbell, who seemed to handle the duty tastefully, as he played a tribute to Hendrix rather than a carbon copy...
...West Pennsylvania Water Co., which serves 500,000 people, was able to reopen its river intake at Becks Run by midweek, though it had to filter the diluted oil through ten times the usual amount of activated carbon. But other water systems still reported critical shortages. Warned Allegheny County Commissioner Tom Foerster: "We're still a long way from being out of this situation. If people go back to using water as they usually do, the system will break down...
...British subsidiary of a New Jersey firm, Consarc Corp. U.S. officials discovered in 1985 that Consarc had been shipping vacuum furnaces to the Soviet Union for two years, with the approval of British authorities. The high-temperature furnaces had the potential of producing an extremely light and durable fiber, carbon-carbon, used to improve the accuracy of intercontinental ballistic missiles. When the U.S. learned of the case, officials rushed to halt the deal. Though most of the order had already been filled, U.S. authorities prevailed on the British government to stop shipment of the vital heating elements that the Soviets...
...remarkable scientific expedition takes the measure of the Antarctic ozone hole and spurs concern that life on earth may become increasingly vulnerable to cancer- causing ultraviolet radiation. Disturbing evidence is mounting that emissions of carbon dioxide and other gases are heating up the world' s climate at a rate unseen since the end of the ice age. See ENVIRONMENT...