Word: plasticity
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...remember: it's all connections. And plastic...
...first saw her on a dawning Saturday morning in the basement of the Science Center. The four plastic bags which she carried with her bulged with items of clothing and personal-care accessories, cans of food and old newspapers. She seemed like an escapee from a nightmare scenario by Maurice Sendak...
...banks. He then merged them, effectively taking control of one-third of the Swiss watch industry, including such famous brands as Omega, Longines, Blancpain, Tissot, Rado and Hamilton. But his big coup was figuring out that a product invented before his arrival could be the high-quality, low-price, plastic quartz watch that would challenge the Japanese at the lower end of the market. The $35-to-$40 Swatch, which reduced by half the usual number of parts by building them directly into the casing on automated assembly lines, was an instant success, enabling the Swiss watchmaking industry to command...
Obviously the Crimson offense also did not mind playing on the prickly plastic...
...fire alarm was triggered at 2:40 a.m., after flames engulfed a plastic trash can which was being used by residents to prop open a door in the hallway which leads to Eliot rooms...