Word: plasticity
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Avenue Galiano, a shopping street in downtown Havana, where she was gazing longingly into a store selling plastic shoes for 20 pesos (15 cents). They are rationed, and it is not her year to buy new ones. Ana was eager to talk, but not in public, where the government's ever present watchers could see. Come to my home, she said, and you will see how terrible life is here...
Wasteful students at the Union, the College's largest dining hall, yesterday had the chance to see the product of their profligacy: a large, clear plastic tub of leftover food...
Rooney told defense attorneys in crossexamination that his initial description in apolice report of the coolers as "orange igloocoolers" was also incorrect. Instead, the coolerswere brown plastic with a clear bottle perched ontop...
...Yellow lettuce salad with creamy Italian sauce in a plastic container, boiled corn and carrot nibblets, plastic-wrapped flat bread with chunks of stale walnuts, stone-hard long grain rice, and barbecue sauce in yet another plastic container. Margarine, salt, and black pepper...
...outermost border; they are where cultural diversity begins. If America is a braided rope, its strands lead back to a hundred countries, each strand a line. Sometimes the line to reach America is metaphorical; more often it is as tangible as a battered suitcase, fear sweat and molded plastic furniture...