Word: dyed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...their disposable diapers and turn back to cloth. Their environmental awareness has fueled a rebirth for diaper services in hospitals and homes, sending revenues up 38.5% last year, to $250 million. Riteway Diaper Service of Brooklyn, N.Y., has had a 300% increase in demand over the past twelve months. Dy-Dee Service of Washington, D.C., kept more than 400 families on a waiting list late last year. General Health Care, which owns a string of 13 diaper services from New York's Long Island to Phoenix, is adding 1,200 new customers a week and reopening an office in Hackensack...
...were left high and dry with the introduction of disposables. When Procter & Gamble's Pampers appeared in 1961, disposables held only 1% of the market; today they account for 85% of the $3.5 billion diaper industry. "We were against the ropes in the '70s," recalls Nan Scott, president of Dy-Dee Wash in San Francisco. "A lot of companies went bankrupt. Now we're bouncing back...