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About 39% of the paper and paperboard going into landfills and incinerators comes from packaging. The German example shows how that number can be dramatically reduced. Lever Bros., for instance, manufactures a superconcentrated powder laundry detergent in small boxes, saving the equivalent of 13 million plastic bottles a year. L & F Products sells its Lysol brand and other liquid cleaners in Smart Packs that take up 65% less landfill space than the jet-spray containers they are designed to refill. Imperial Chemical Industries of London has developed a plastic, soon to be distributed in the U.S., that biodegrades with...
...converting the movement into a durable third-party effort had already cropped up in a few local organizations. And if some activists felt betrayed by his noncandidacy, many Perot supporters still seemed intrigued. The latest TIME/CNN poll found that 23% of registered voters would still pull the Perot lever if he remained on the ballot in their states...
...used raise international concerns. Though Ukraine has + pledged to withdraw the remaining 176 Soviet strategic missiles on its territory and become a non-nuclear state by 1994, some nationalist parliamentarians have suggested holding on to the 46 weapons not targeted for destruction under the start treaty as a lever to get the West's attention and respect. Concerned that bickering between Kiev and Moscow might degenerate into a violent conflict, the West has been pressuring both sides to come to terms peacefully. Russian President Boris Yeltsin recently took a step in that direction, announcing that Moscow had dropped its insistence...
...factors that will affect this year's political equation. When voters go to the polls in November, they are likely to remember Ronald Reagan's famous 1980 question: "Are you better off than you were four years ago?" The answer to that, more than anything else, may determine which lever they will pull...
...sensibility with the language and techniques of vernacular carpentry. There are echoes of the great Romanian right through this show, from the roughly notched beam like a huge crosscut-saw blade in Some Tales, 1975-77, to the somber egglike or coffin- shaped forms of Maroon, 1987-88, or Lever...