Word: plasticizers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...depressing, you think, as your bus finally rounds the corner of Sutphin Boulevard and whines to a stop in front of the bar, barely missing one of the derelicts lying along the curb. Your token chuckles down the coin slot and you sit back in the plastic seat, comfortable for the first time in an hour. The doors close and you are on your way to the airport, heading away from all those cold quiet faces and their insistent stares...
...Kimball - an American company that makes moderately priced pianos and has 25% of the U.S. piano market -purchased Bösendorfer. "People were afraid that we would make the 'Kimballdorfer,' some plastic monstrosity," says Vice President Anthony Habig. "But now a lot of them admit that they can get a finer instrument than before...
...union contracts expiring this year, but several important ones come up for renewal in 1979. Among them are the United Auto Workers (with 800,000 members), the Teamsters (900,000 members), the International Union of Electrical Workers (200,000 members), and some 80,000 rubber, cork, linoleum and plastic workers. These unions have three-year contracts that now provide an average of 10% in annual pay increases, and White House officials hope to see the yearly raises cut to perhaps 7%. The Administration will have little hope of success with next year's heavy bargaining calendar if it cannot...
Today, at 250 locations in and near major cities, the green Holiday Inn marquee and the yellow McDonald's arches have company: the red steeple housing a black plastic nonringing bell, the symbol of Alabama-based Kinder-Care Learning Centers, Inc. By offering a service that is safe, uniform and reasonably priced, it has become the largest network of places where parents can deposit offspring for a few liberating hours...
...that the press has to cut people like me down to size. So they come up with all sorts of wild things. They make me into an insane eccentric with an incredible fear of losing my youth, who lives in a bomb shelter, who contemplates or is going through plastic surgery, who has devastating relationships with women. It goes through cycles. First they say that women like me too much; then that women don't like me at all; then that they like me too much again. Somewhere along the way they say that I secretly like men?but then...