Word: plasticity
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...straight. fifty panelists, one of whom directed Showgirls, have determined that 1.5 billion misguided Christians have an erroneous impression of who Jesus was. A more accurate version of the life of Christ was created by a vote that involved dropping plastic beads into a bucket. Did I miss something? O ye of little faith! ELEANOR MCKEE Honolulu
...that with the $13 billion in losses the carriers had piled up since 1990--roughly equivalent to all the profits earned in the history of American commercial aviation--and the industry ought to be smiling, or at least unbuckling its seat belt and raising a $5 martini in a plastic...
...credit cards. Do you still have one card too few? Visa, MasterCard, Citibank and Chase Manhattan all think so. This fall New York City will thrill to the roll-out of cash cards, the latest salvo in the banking and credit-card industries' eternal search to replace currency with plastic. Despite promises of a cashless society, 85% of everyday transactions are in cash or checks, which generate little income for banks...
...Cheyenne on Friday evening, in an interview with TIME, she defended her own response to her daughter's death. Clutching a plastic bag of Jessica's clothes, she said defiantly, "I know what people want. Tears. But I will not do that. Emotion is unnatural. There is something untruthful about it." When she and her son Josh received the news of Jessica's death, Hathaway said, "Josh started to cry." Then she rephrased the sentence, as if the verb were somehow incorrect. "No, I would rather say he was in tears. He said he didn't want to fly anymore...
McVeigh: I've never had my hand on one. I used to watch other people do it. I won't go into that. There were plastic soda bottles. They would put vinegar and baking soda in and screw the cap on, and it would burst...