Word: colorlessness
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...Menance of PCB Environmentalists were confident that they had ferreted out the nation's major pollutants after they put the finger on substances like DDT, mercury, lead and phosphates. Now an important newcomer has cropped up in the form of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), colorless, odorless, syrupy chemicals that are manufactured in the U.S. under the trade name Aroclor by the Monsanto Co. Until recently, PCBs were used in industry in many ways, for instance as softeners in plastics, paints and rubber, as additives in printing inks and papers. Although they are now used primarily as agents in heat exchangers...
...results were briefly miraculous. For all of two days last week. New Yorkers were treated to the rare sight of a virtually hookerless Times Square. Gone also were the "pimpmobiles," the gaudy cars of the girls' "managers." The place seemed eerily empty and colorless. Even more curious was the situation in the courts. For the first time in 15 years, a day passed without a single arraignment for prostitution. "We usually have 75 to 80 prostitutes in here every day,"' said an unbelieving court clerk. "Today we had none...
...surface, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters seemed to have acquired a new respectability. It had shed its convicted longtime president Jimmy Hoffa and elected a colorless and apparently untroublesome union veteran, Frank E. Fitzsimmons, to replace him. And there was Nixon Administration Labor Secretary James Hodgson on hand at the Teamsters' convention in Miami Beach to congratulate the new leader. Nixon sent a warm letter of "appreciation for the contributions" the union had made "to our way of life...
...lights. Brown-Forman got Government approval to bring out a new light drink this year-a clear-as-vodka, 80-proof potion called "white whisky." The drink, named Frost 8/80, is distilled at more than 160 proof, then filtered through hardwood, softwood and nutshell charcoal to make it colorless. Schenley, National Distillers and American Distilling have brought suit -so far unsuccessfully-to halt the marketing of Frost 8/80. They accuse Brown-Forman of jumping the gun on their spirits of '72 and of causing confusion that could hurt light whisky's introduction...
...lighter ranks of boxing take place before crowds in Rome or Bangkok or Mexico City, rather than in the Garden or the Miami Beach Convention Hall. Even among the heavyweights?a division that remains pretty much an American province?the really good fighters are too few and too colorless...