Word: plasticizers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last year the security guards now posted in just about all U.S. airports seized precisely 2,034 weapons-most of them carried by passengers about to board planes, others discarded in airport washrooms or behind the plastic palms in the waiting areas. Despite the sharp increase in air travel so far this year, the weapons take is off by about 25%. As of mid-August, the Federal Aviation Administration reports, the total of pistols, rifles, Mace canisters and assorted other items of hardware seized had reached "only...
...night closed in, we set out our lines, staggered at depths ranging from 50 ft. to 250 ft. On the leaders near the squid used for bait we attached Cyalumes, plastic cylinders containing a glowing green chemical. The deep-dwelling swordfish has evolved eyes as big as silver dollars, and the Cyalume lights up the squid to attract the foraging broadbill...
...streets today are still sealed behind a high fence of yellow plastic panels, like a Berlin Wall of environmental quarantine. Every 20 feet a posted sign warns: CONTAMINATED AREA. NO ADMITTANCE. Some of the telephone lines leading to the shuttered houses lie slack in lush summer growths of hydrangea that bloom unattended. But no matter, because the phones never ring any more. Two years after the disaster known as "Italy's Hiroshima," the core of Seveso is a dead community, and no one knows when-if ever-it will become habitable again...
...Laker ticket office outside London's Victoria Station, 1,500 young people queued up for days to buy tickets to New York. As shown in the photo on the facing page, they slept on the sidewalk under makeshift plastic tents while it rained all week. On Thursday, with conditions worsening every hour, the British Civil Aviation Authority moved. The strict regulations rationing sales of low-fare tickets were bent, allowing airlines to use up their August, September and October stand-by quotas now in order to get stranded Americans home. Still, it will take weeks to move...
...textile company has three plants in Easthampton which employ 300 workers and produce rubber and plastic products. Most of the company's business operations are concentrated in southern states...