Word: plasticizers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...blue plastic hard hats were popular souvenirs, and he easily won the battle of first impressions...
...years, consumers are choosing $600 and $700 Sonys, the industry's standard of excellence, whose sales are up substantially. At Beverly Hills' trendy Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf shop, the all-metal $99.50 Eva brand coffee maker outsells by 3 to 1 the part plastic $79.95 Braun coffee brewer. Sales of Kodak's low-priced Instamatic cameras have been sluggish, but sales are really clicking for Nikon, Olympus and Canon cameras, which retail for some $250 and up, and provide all the features that most people are ever likely to want in a lifetime. The understated lines...
Next a thin wire, covered with plastic except at its tip, is passed through the endoscope and positioned in the papilla, the nipple-like opening to the bile duct...
...most exciting development on the hitherto complacent transatlantic travel scene." The crews are smart and thoughtful, the meals attractively priced. "But, alas," reports Ronay, "it's the familiar story of dry meat, tasteless, watery vegetables, gray potatoes or a new horror, rubbery scrolls of pasta (and eaten with plastic cutlery at that...
Walking through the area, reported TIME Correspondent Christopher Ogden, "Mrs. Carter stopped first in a patched blue-and-white plastic tent full of small children, who were lined up sitting on straw mats in three neat rows. They were 'unaccompanied minors,' the official euphemism for orphans, and they were eerily silent, showing neither tears nor smiles. The First Lady bent over and whispered to a girl of about six, but the child stared back uncomprehendingly. When she left the tent, waving, only one child responded with the traditional Indochinese Wai greeting, which involves holding the hands together...