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...employees, including two who left to work for competitors and a third who was fired, charged that dangerous materials had been handled carelessly or even illegally. The attorney general of Illinois filed a $1.1 million lawsuit charging that 400,000 gal. of waste containing a potent carcinogen associated with dye manufacturing had been illegally dumped in a Calumet City landfill. And the company temporarily suspended disposal operations at an Ohio site after belatedly learning that PCB-contaminated oil had been improperly stored there. Waste Management's stock was hit by a huge sell-off at the beginning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Cleanup Men Get Spattered | 4/4/1983 | See Source »

...Sibrian, who denied being at the Sheraton that night, was put in a lineup to be viewed by witnesses of the incident. However, before appearing, he was allowed to dye his red hair black, cut it and shave off his mustache. Although nobody recognized him in the lineup, he was later identified by the killers. López Sibrian was also ordered to undergo a lie-detector test, and failed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: El Salvador: Slow Justice | 10/18/1982 | See Source »

...Harvard-Dartmouth game in Hanover. I was sitting in the stands, and it was raining so hard that my raincoat--one of those leak-proof, rubberized specials--had soaked through. My newish jeans were plastered to my legs, which by this time must have been Levi blue from the dye that was forming a nice pool at my feet. Ah yes, my feet. My feet, shriveled to nothingness, were floating inside my socks, which were floating inside my sneakers, which had water streaming out of the eyelets, diluting the Levi blue pool. The man who said the body...

Author: By Michael Bass, | Title: Love and Hate | 10/16/1982 | See Source »

After 18 months, the Grecian Formula myth is at last retired. "I say goody," says Ronald Reagan. "I think a little more gray is in there, which has stopped all those items that I dye my hair, which I never did." He is right. There is more gray in there. Whether it is the weight of leadership or nature belatedly catching up with him after 71 years is debatable. This morning the rest of him appears several decades younger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: A Conversation with Ronald Reagan | 8/23/1982 | See Source »

...anticrime packet consists of an electronic detonator, a tear-gas canister and dye, all packed together so tightly that they fit inside the carved-out center of a stack of bills. Bank tellers keep the funny money in their cash drawers and slip it into a robber's bag along with the other loot. An electronic beam at the bank doors trips the detonator as the money is carried outside, and the hidden package explodes within...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dividends: Funny Money | 7/26/1982 | See Source »

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