Word: plasticity
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...denounced the curbs as "banning through the back door." Seven other former detainees appealed to the Supreme Court in Pretoria last week for an order that would prevent police brutality against prisoners held under emergency regulations in force since last July. The seven claim they were beaten, hooded with plastic bags, dunked in buckets of water containing tear gas and tortured with electric shocks. The case was dismissed on a technicality. Meanwhile, some 200 to 300 detainees being held at prisons in the Cape Town area reportedly began a hunger strike to protest their confinement. VIET...
During the past decade, however, the cartel has found it increasingly difficult to support prices because world demand for tin dropped while non-cartel countries were expanding production. Industrial use of tin slumped when manufacturers turned to other metals and plastic. Meanwhile, Brazil, not a member of the cartel, had become the world's fifth largest producer by 1984. The combination of decreased demand and increased production created a global oversupply...
...travels to China on trips every six weeks, bumping shoulders with buyers from national homeware chains, multinational merchandisers and a multitude of hungry importers. "As a wholesaler I have to give my guys value," he says, surrounded by faux entombed warriors, meter-high bird cages and multi-colored plastic pots. "There's a constant pressure on me to find goods that they can sell for a 100% margin. Chinese labor is starting to become too expensive in this industry. You'll find they will soon move up the scale into more high-tech goods. It's evolution...
...typical brain break meal of peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. They are a distinctly un-preppy, counter-Harvard-culture (un-Harvard might not be specific enough) set of musicians, who hang out by the mailboxes either with an acoustic guitar in hand, a drumstick behind each ear, or a plastic pick, pinched between two pierced lips...
...vomited into a double plastic bag. Not a molecule of stomach content ended up anywhere else. When I was done, I carried the bag to the restroom, tied it, and placed it in the trash receptacle. One of my accomplices spilled a bag of jelly beans. She meticulously picked up each one. As was the plan, Harvard workers did not have to clean up vomit, jelly beans, or any other nonexistent “remnant” of our protest...