Word: junking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Americans have a friskily self-destructive habit of turning even their best impulses into junk and kitsch; a Beverly Hills hair salon lately had eight models in tank tops and khaki trousers parading around the shop carrying flags and sporting new "military" hair styles. The entrepreneur turns militarism into a profitable fad. Love of country, by such associations, comes to seem vaguely sick and stupid...
...daily existence-cans, bottles, newspapers-into recycling systems. Some restaurants report more calls for doggie bags for taking home leftovers. A few garbage collectors complain about a decrease in good recyclable items in the trash. Observers report an increase in the number of otherwise genteel people scouting curbside junk heaps for usable stuff such as carpets and furniture. Many people, it is said, are even learning to turn out lights when they...
Paul, from neighboring Brookfield, takes a coffee break at the Crossroads Restaurant. The subject is money, and ways to make it, and ways to lose it. There's the story of the old man in the area who makes his living recognizing valuables in other people's junk, and the examples pour out--a Boston antique dealer who wrote out a $750 Check for a $40 clock, the booming market for old (and empty) bottles. "Never throw anything away," he says, sipping his coffee. When he leaves, others finish his story. Paul is an erstwhile real-estate developer--his goal...
...Junk oil furnaces are economical only in service stations, factories or other industrial enterprises that generate waste oil. Homeowners would not want to use the devices because buying, transporting and storing the fuel would be a problem. For all that, the heaters make an important point: even so lowly a product as junk oil from a jalopy can help the nation conserve energy...
Savings on heating bills can be considerable. Aaron Zuckerman, owner of a car wrecking yard in Winchester, Va., installed a junk oil furnace in his warehouse last December and has cut his heating fuel bill from $600 a month to nothing...