Word: plasticities
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Abrams tanks would roll across. Yes, that information was nice to have, but such requests diverted CIA resources from strategic intelligence. Rather than answering the question of whether Saddam had kept his weapons of mass destruction, the CIA sent its clandestine sources into Iraq with baggies and little plastic shovels...
...odder realities found by digging beyond broad categories of companies is that a number of firms related to the housing market have been doing quite well this year. Trex Company, which makes decking and railing out of reclaimed plastic and waste wood, is up 69%, to $14.35. Beacon Roofing Supply, which sells roofs for homes and commercial buildings, has seen its stock jump...
...thousands of fibers pierced with holes 1/300th the size of a human hair. Anything larger than 0.2 millionth of a meter - which includes suspended solids and bacteria - is left behind. The cleansed water is then forced at high pressure through hundreds of tubes that are filled with tightly wound plastic membranes. Reverse osmosis, as the process is called, stops nonwater molecules - including viruses and pharmaceuticals. (The last part is particularly important; an Associated Press investigation earlier this year found trace amounts of prescription drugs in the drinking water of more than 40 million Americans.) Lastly, the filtered water is treated...
...party at the Harvard Business School a shabby affair. Last year’s shindig featured holiday decor anchored by a reindeer ice sculpture, according to Elizabeth Sweeny, a faculty assistant at the Business School.“I remember thinking initially, that’s like a pretty plastic thing, and oh, wait, no, actually, that’s made of ice,” Sweeny laughed, recalling the moment when she realized that plastic would not be melting under the lights.Even with the financial crisis growing hotter, a reappearance for the reindeer does not appear...
...first introduced a year ago, with an intensive pilot program in the Bronx. Mills and other inspectors scoured the streets, building by building, cataloging rat hot spots - places that show so-called active rat signs, such as lived-in burrows, fresh droppings, telltale gnaw marks on plastic garbage bags - in an effort to target rodent-control measures more effectively. That geocoding information was entered into each inspector's handheld indexing computer and aggregated with similar data from all across the borough. (See the top 10 animal stories...