Word: plasticity
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fire alarm which caused the evacuation of Thayer Hall Friday night was set off by the smoldering ashes of plastic objects in a paper bag, Sgt. James McCarthy of the Harvard Police said yesterday...
McCarthy said that when fire-fighters arrived, they found a smoking plastic bag in the room but have no idea how the fire started...
...droids to leave Tatooine. The special effects (those from the original version) range from the sublime to the ridiculous. The final scene in which the X-wing fighters speed through the trenches of the Death Star is so real it looks like it was filmed on location, while the plastic Storm Troopers and the inflexible curmudgeon C-3PO look hardly more believable than their action-figure derivatives...
Coke discovered this first, and ended up dumping a film studio, plastic bags, wine, just about anything that didn't contain sugar and fizz. Result: an unprecedented run of sales and earnings growth that has created billions in shareholder wealth...
...Utilitarianism: 1950s Plastic means mass production, and nerdiness rules...