Word: foams
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...narrative with his own juicily vernacular translations of Catalan poetry, Hughes lights up even the structure of Catalan fishing nets with indelibly vivid descriptions ("gauzy forecourts and inner rooms hanging in the sea, into which whole schools of tuna would stray and be compressed to a frenzy of foam and chunky thrashing bodies...
...good guy, he has a horror of appearing pretentious. He's a man who has often spent 300 nights a year on the road, and yet demurs at ordering room service. He jokes that he's not comfortable eating something that doesn't come wrapped in plastic foam. In Las Vegas, at Caesars Palace, where he regularly performs, he and his wife of 11 years, Mavis Nicholson, disagree about whether they are staying in the same room as last time. "Honey, I know it's the same room," he says with a slight whine. "I fixed the toilet last time...
...easy to fix because CFCs are ubiquitous in almost every society. They are used in refrigeration and air conditioning, as cleaning solvents in factories and as blowing agents to create certain kinds of plastic foam. In many countries CFCs are still spewed into the air as part of aerosol sprays...
Think for a moment about the world's 1 billion refrigerators and its hundreds of millions of air conditioners. Picture mountains of foam insulation, seat cushions, furniture stuffing and carpet padding. Imagine streams of cleaning fluids, rivers of industrial solvents, wafting clouds of aerosol spray...
...Union have tougher problems. Faced with a collapsing economy, rising crime and open fighting among its members, the new Commonwealth of Independent States has pushed environmental issues far down on its list of priorities. The Russian people show no special interest in the ozone problem. Whatever aerosol cans and foam products make it to market in Moscow these days are immediately snapped up by buyers who either do not know about CFCs or do not particularly care...