Word: plasticizers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Visitors will find that Langley looks much like other airport-modern Government office buildings. It has more guards than most (including some behind thick glass walls on the executive floor), more desktop boxes with various-colored covers to conceal their contents, more plastic wastebaskets whose contents are for burning, more locked cabinets, steel vaults and restricted areas. Tourists presumably will not see the more arcane laboratories, operations and communications centers, and photo-interpretation rooms...
...Plastic Charges. As they charged, the marines concentrated much of their fire on the first-class front of the train, where the Moluccans had established their command post. Demolition experts with plastic charges blasted down the doors, and the marines ducked inside, shooting as they went. As the assault began, 13 armored cars in nearby Bovensmilde started racing toward the school building. One of them burst through the main doors while three others took up positions around the building...
...their pictures do not represent the most significant aspects of their artistic progress. Many of the themes and subjects they used were Romantic holdovers. Their achievement was rather that they changed the dramatic narrative of art from a third-person to a first-person account; that they made the plastic means convey not only the emotions of the characters within the picture, but the emotions of the artist...
Robert Lowell, Litt.D., poet. Maurice Sendak, L.H.D., writer. In a world of transient, tinsel pleasures, of television and plastic toys, a world in which little survives because little deserves to, you have given us children's books that will live...
...basis of Cooper's system is his use, as a measure of conditioning, of the amount of oxygen a circulatory system can take in and use in a given time. This he measured by positioning runners on treadmills and capturing their exhalations in plastic bags. The more oxygen used, the more work done before exhaustion, the better the subject's condition. Cooper found that he could approximate such tests by measuring the distance a runner could cover in twelve minutes over a track-1% miles for a man under 30 in excellent condition: 1.1 to 1.24 miles...