Word: plasticizers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...window for a box of paper clips. They'll kill you for your belt buckle," says Patrolman Dennis Hansen. "They have no value system-zero." Drug dealing is so blatant that a visiting city councilman and plainclothes policeman were solicited at their car windows. Young Cuban entrepreneurs drop plastic Baggies of "Mexican brown" from their hotel fire escapes to accomplices in the street. Heroin, packaged in balloons, is hawked in the park like soda...
...sparked economic boom. He started in 1969 as an importer of building materials. Two years ago, he and some other investors formed their own cab company with several white Chevrolets. But the American cars, says Khonkar, broke down too often. The London cabs have also had problems. Example: the plastic tips of the speedometer cables melted in the heat. Nonetheless, the British imports stand up better than the American ones. Says Khonkar: "They make a very good impression with visitors to the kingdom...
...morning Ann Logan, 29, breezed through the doors of the Ar cadia Outpatient Surgery Inc. in Arcadia, Calif. Within an hour, she would undergo surgery to remove a lump of scar tissue from her breast. Logan snapped a plastic name band on her wrist, took her seat on a soft, brown leather sofa and began thumbing through a magazine. Hers was not going to be a long stay: a quick (55 minute) visit to the lemon-yellow operating suite, a brief rest in an equally cheerful recovery room, and then on her feet and out the door...
...outpatient surgery movement, which began in the early 1970s, stemmed from the dissatisfaction of both doctors and patients with the escalating costs, inefficiency and indifferent service of hospitals. "Hospitals dropped the ball," asserts Los Angeles Plastic Surgeon Robert Kotler. "Our patients complained about the bills and lack of service. We doctors complained because they couldn't provide us with specialized personnel and forgot about personal attention." Frustrated doctors began to set up operating rooms in their own offices. The more enterprising put their resources together to create independent surgical centers. Such centers, which are licensed by individual states, have...
...religious souvenir shops, innumerable ice-cream parlors and other tourist businesses that line its narrow streets. Lourdes alarm clocks, fondue sets and cigarette lighters compete for shelf space with bottles of "Eau de Toilette a la Bernadette" (three scents), tin napkin holders depicting Bernadette and the Virgin, and plastic packets of "Lourdes Mints" guaranteed to be made from grotto water...