Word: clogs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...airlines are not ignoring complaints about crowding when planes fly close to capacity. Pan Am is contemplating discarding the food-service wagons that clog the aisles. Continental Airlines, which began 747 service on the Los Angeles-Honolulu run two weeks ago, reduced its seating capacity from 360 to 335. Using the extra space, it added a tourist-class bar and lounge in the tail...
...Opposition to any duly elected government's acts can come only from those who have elected it and feel their mandate has been misinterpreted. And even they-men and women of age and position -cannot take it upon themselves to claim they are the majority just because they clog squares and streets...
...more varieties of plastics that can be burned, provided the local air-pollution code allows the hospital to use an incinerator. But the PVC (polyvinyl chloride) plastics may generate lethal fumes containing hydrochloric acid and phosgene, a poisonous gas once used in chemical warfare. Other plastics melt and clog the incinerators...
...trouble with modern plastics is that they seem to be as immortal as they are useful. Plastic garbage bags litter Italy; Florida's discarded containers clog Bahama beaches. Each year one Kansas plant makes enough cellophane to wrap the earth with a 15-inch band 40 times; most of it becomes enduring garbage. Even getting rid of plastics can be dangerous. When polyvinyls like Saran Wrap are burned, they produce corrosive hydrochloric acid...
...week one top Justice official fretted that U.S. attorneys may be forced to choose between prosecuting minor violations and permitting draft evasion. "We're afraid that the people counseling antiwar protesters may urge a massive refusal to obey the regulations," he said. "If that happens, they could so clog up the courts that the entire system could break down...