Word: plasticizers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Paul "Green Giant" Volcker for President in '80 on a bold, anti-inflation platform that defends the dollar abroad, puts a nonpartisan squeeze on runaway Government spending at home, and effectively controls the excessive flow of money and plastic money into the U.S. economy...
...Senators told Carter upon returning to Washington, that was a gross understatement. ''We saw people in a makeshift hospital, lying under plastic sheets held up by poles,'' said Sasser at a press conference. ''The living, the dying and the dead were all together. The only noise to be heard was the cough of children with tuberculosis. There were emaciated people in the final stages of malnutrition." Danforth added that the plight of refugees at the Thai-Cambodian border "defies the imagination. What struck me was to spend hour after hour and see only starving...
Burger has also concerned himself with running the Supreme Court more efficiently, installing computers and photocopying machines (the Justices had none when he got there). He has become a housekeeper as well, arranging for flowers to be planted in the courtyards and plastic rubber plants placed in the corridors. Not all of his interior decorating has pleased his colleagues: in the early '70s, Burger moved one of his desks into the court's conference room. That offended some Justices who prefer to think of the Chief as one of the pares rather than as primus...
...Street banks today have $48.7 billion in loans outstanding to Peru and other oil-poor developing countries. Consumers in the '20s had just discovered the installment plan and were plunging into debt to buy radios, refrigerators and that new Model A from Henry Ford. Their grandchildren now have "plastic money" in the form of credit cards and owe $292.5 billion. The '20s real estate boom was centered in Florida, had created millionaires and seemed to prove, then as now, that one rarely loses money buying land. Even President Carter's insistence last week that...
Indeed, the heavies usually use the Head to experiment with unusual combinations, and last year, with a particular boat, the state-of-the-art molded Robinson plastic shell. Again this year the emphasis will be on giving newcomers a try, as coach Harry Parker will let returning varsity veterans Jay Smith John MacEchern and Charlie Altekruse row in events other than the varsity eight. Altekruse and George Hatch--back after a year off-will compete together in championship double sculls...