Word: plasticizers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Looking good is the most pressing concern of travelers. At Bloomingdale's in New York City, a new tool cannily combines several grooming appliances in one 6-oz. unit. The 4-in. blower of Schildkraut's red plastic and metal gadget ($33) becomes both blow dryer and handle for the iron. Another take-along is Le Dome ($16.50) instant nail dryer. Simply insert fingers or toes into its plastic chamber, and a battery-driven fan dries them in two minutes...
...Cooper helmets that the Crimson has this year are fitted with a clear plastic visor and not a metal cage because of a new rule that allows the plastic facemasks...
...divided over what compromises, if any, to offer when hard bargaining begins. But in Geneva they cooperated in drafting position papers, cables to Washington and communique language even though, for the sake of secure communications with the White House, they were jammed together elbow to elbow in a small plastic bubble specially set up inside the U.S. mission...
...shrieked metal on metal and moved on. The sea continually changed color and direction, the sun laying a slice of silver on the horizon, which faded to a dull blue a moment later. In the office a boyish customs officer played rock music on his tape deck on a plastic table: "I've got you, baby./ You've got me." He did not mind the presence of a visitor. "Breaks the boredom," he said...
HUDDLED TOGETHER in a clear plastic cubicle, "The Dome of Silence", at CONTROL Headquarters, the Chief, Agent 86, and 99 plot strategy to thwart the latest move by the evil forces of CHAOS...