Word: perlis
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Recycling has another appeal to companies that use plastic: it is relatively cheap. Second-generation plastic costs 40 cents per lb., about 20 cents less than new, pure plastic. "Recycling is simply a good business opportunity," says Du Pont spokesman Paul Wyche...
...edition. If one obscure fact or another happens to be missing from the volume, which costs $32 hardbound and $26 in paperback, the statisticians can probably find it -- as they did when an Australian wanted to know how much yogurt Americans consume. Answer: an average of 4.6 lbs. per person in 1987, a nearly sixfold increase since...
Start with his 12.0 points per game, third on the squad behind sophomore Ralph James and senior Mike Gielen, and add in his teamleading 6.6 rebounds per game and you've got some interest. Throw in the fact that he started every game at power forward as a freshman, and you've got yourself a strong candidate...
Vukonich wasn't far from the truth. With 63 points, Ciavaglia averaged just under two points per game during Harvard's 31-3 season. He topped the Crimson in scoring for the second-straight season--netting 33 points and Harvard Rookie of the Year honors as a freshman...
...view from your office so nice that you should be charged admission? In Hartford, companies are being asked to pay a voluntary fee of $10-per-window for the privilege of gazing upon the vintage architecture and serene greenery of the Old State House building, which is now home to a museum. Wilson Faude, the statehouse's executive director, came up with the view tax as a fund- raising gimmick. The total panes with a view...