Word: plasticity
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...story about Swimmers or Conroy's story about the curse of a mad father, but they were bare bones, hints. How could they be otherwise? If reporters had the license of artists, one would have been able to read the California cultists' last-minute thoughts as they slipped the plastic bags over their heads, and to understand their terrible bliss. One might have known if James Earl Ray (or Dexter King) was lying...
CONCORD, New Hampshire: Michael Dorris, the author who helped spread awareness of fetal alcohol syndrome with his award winning book "The Broken Cord," has died from an apparent suicide at age 52. According to Concord police, Dorris was found in motel room and apparently suffocated himself with a plastic bag. Part American Indian, much of Dorris' writing focused on the history and plight of Native Americans. "Native Americans: 500 Years After," and "A Guide to Research in Native American Studies," are among his better known works. But his book "The Broken Cord," earned him the most notoriety with a National...
...Diego medical examiner reported, the cultists died in three groups: a first round of 15, then the next 15, then seven, all apparently by ingesting phenobarbital mixed with a bit of applesauce or pudding, kicked by a shot of vodka, then helped along by the asphyxiating effect of a plastic bag over the head. The final two men--the ultimate angels of death--had only bags, no shrouds. Alone in the master bedroom, his order in the march of death still unknown, was the master himself: 65-year-old Marshall Herff Applewhite...
...those who live there, Bridgeport is a close-knit working-class neighborhood redolent of the 1950s. Plaster madonnas adorn people's front lawns, plastic Easter bunnies perch in picture windows at this time of year, and on Sundays families attend Mass at the Irish, Italian and Croatian churches where their grandparents were married. Bridgeport is a place where one can still see precinct captains and aldermen of the 11th Ward drinking at Schaller's Pump, and where sauerkraut soup is still served at a diner not far from the home of Chicago's legendary Boss, Richard J. Daley...
Here's a sign the economy may be in real trouble: the baby boomers, legendary for their spending and borrowing, are slipping into debt hell. And at least one major credit-card company is starting to feel the heat. Advanta, the nation's ninth largest issuer of plastic, stunned Wall Street last week by forecasting a loss of $20 million in the first quarter. The company relies on a computer model to pick more affluent customers, who are offered a large credit line and teaser rates as low as 5.9%. The result: the number of cardholders jumped from 2 million...