Word: plasticizers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...many pundits had said, sport a bulbous nose or a double trim tab. Its magic lay in the two one-ton deltoid wings drooping from the bottom of what, in effect, is a normal keel turned upside down; its trim tab is very narrow, however, with a strip of plastic fairing to make it even more effective. As Australia II had amply demonstrated, the wings kept the boat from sliding with the wind when heeling and helped it stand straighter when tacking. The configuration allowed Lexcen to use a sleeker hull design so that the boat's wetted surfaces...
...State Representative Joan Kemler, stirred by the smell of smoke, crept downstairs. Flames were shooting through the living-room wall of her West Hartford home. She quickly routed her husband. Surgeon Leonard Kemler, and their two children to safety and summoned the fire department. Police found two liter-size plastic soda bottles propped against the two-story home; they had been filled with a flammable liquid, possibly gasoline. "It definitely was a case of arson," said Police Chief Francis Reynolds...
...investigators strongly feel the arsons are related," said a police spokesman. All of the fires were set in the pre-dawn hours, and three of the four involved accelerants in plastic soda bottles. The incidents have stunned West Hartford; police have beefed up patrols. But no arrests have yet been made...
...will teach her to hate the Phalangists and how to kill them." Oscar, a Phalangist commander in Suq al Gharb, has kept members of his family and some of his pets at his headquarters. He scoops up his eight-year-old son, who has just finished playing with a plastic six-shooter. Says the father: "My boy is already learning how to kill his enemies...
...sloped in a way that forces the user to have proper posture. One Chicago distributor expects to sell 15,000 of the chairs this year, up from less than 1,000 in 1979. Another popular item, particularly favored by truck drivers and police officers, is the Sacro-Ease, a plastic or velour car seat that provides support for the small of the back. Made by McCarty's of Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, the Sacro-Ease retails...