Word: plasticizers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...skier-days was virtually the same as that observed at the same mountain in 1960-61. But the pattern of ski injuries was greatly changed. In the past, the classic ski injury, the broken ankle, accounted for nearly half of all ski fractures. Now, because of stiff plastic boots that protect the ankles, and bindings that release under bone-breaking tensions, such injuries make up only 16% of the total. "The reduction in leg injuries has been bought at the expense of the arm and torso," the doctors say. Twelve years ago, sprained and broken ribs, arms and shoulders were...
...environmental problems that plague the U.S., litter has perhaps the lowest priority. But even when trash is out of mind, it is never really out of sight. Paper cups, tin cans, plastic wrappers, aluminum flip-tops and glass bottles are the detritus of profligacy, defiling the national landscape. The American penchant for littering is costly as well as unsightly; picking up the rubbish costs an estimated $1 billion per year. But the mess can be cleaned up, as Washington and Oregon are showing in different ways. One state uses the carrot, the other the stick. Both have been successful...
...almost embarrassing in its overplayed flightiness; Ko-Ko's entry onstage reading a Japanese newspaper, on the other hand, comes off well enough. The use of twirling Japanese umbrellas for "Behold the Lord High Executioner" was only a pale reminder of the brilliant, all-stops-out use of big plastic umbrellas two years ago in Patience. The best new approach in the production, though, works extraordinarily well--it consists of an easel with a series of mathematical equations whimsically demonstrating the point of "See How the Fates Their Gifts Allot," perhaps the show's wittiest number. This...
...voluntary (private, nonprofit) hospitals, expects to be broke by year's end, a victim of rising costs, which produced a deficit of $5.6 million in 1973, up from $2.4 million in 1972. Pain in the pocketbook is causing patients of private physicians to put off deferrable care like plastic surgery and to postpone paying for what treatment they do get. Not surprisingly, the Doctors P Business Bureau of Southern California, which specializes in "ethical collections," is doing a booming business. As for emotionally troubled patients, Los Angeles Psychiatrist Barbara Biggs asserts...
Having a Baby. Allen then holds mock weddings complete with flowers, plastic wedding rings, organ music and receptions. Most of the weddings are in the classroom, but last spring one couple decided to get married under the cherry trees on the school's front lawn. Some 300 students attended the ceremony...