Word: fiberglass
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hold on a mo', mates. A shrewdly unsettling tack by a New Zealand banker, Michael Fay, aims to sink San Diego's big party. When Fay sent his unconventional fiberglass New Zealand into the elimination series in the last go-around, Conner tweaked the Kiwis, intimating they "wanted to cheat" their way to victory with design legerdemain. Within seven months, Fay had conceived a comeuppance from Down Under...
...then observed the pole vault competition. I always thought that this event was so easy: in order to set a world record, just buy a 50-foot long fiberglass pole...
...must first carry it while hoping that it springs you up and over the bar. Anyone who brings a 50-foot fiberglass pole will have problems just lifting it. But even if the pole is made of a lighter substance, like bamboo, it is still difficult to obtain any extra spring from the pole...
Harvard's Department of Environmental Healthand Safety (EHS) receives five to 10 abestosemergency calls a week, but only 10 percent ofthem end up requiring work, said EHS asbestoscoordinator Nancy Curtin. "A lot of people don'tknow the difference between fiberglass andasbestos," she said...
...debris and fiberglass particles filled the cabin, blown about by the intrusive wind, terror gripped the passengers. Pushing away from the gaping hole, a few grabbed their hand baggage and irrationally told flight attendants they wanted to leave the plane. Stewardess Catherine Erickson, 30, scooped up some linen napkins and handed them out to passengers whose legs and feet were bleeding...