Word: plasticizers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...press spokesman for the Executive Office of Environment Affairs-the agency in charge of administering the bill-denies these charges. He concedes that not all of the returnables are recycled into bottles or cans, but he insists that they are used for other products, such as aluminum siding and plastic insulation...
Pancake shows us the sufferings of his characters unflinchingly: the stories are frank, sometimes brutal. In "The Honored Dead, "we see Eddie's corpse and pieces of another young body in plastic bags. And the protagonists inflict plain as well as suffer it. In "Hollow," the young man Buddy shoots a doe and indressing it cuts into" a swimming lump" an unborn fawn. The boatman in "A Room Forever" knows that he is physically hurting the young girl, "a kid playing whose, "who offers herself to him, but takes her just the same. Brutality isn't used for cheap thrills...
...Joseph's Adult Maximum Strength Aspirin-Free Tablets now come in multilayered plastic sheets so tough that a consumer can get a headache just trying to pry one open. Other manufacturers have tried, not successfully, to find the middle ground between and frustration. Bristol Myers now packs bottles of Excedrin and Bufferin in little pull-top cans that look like baking-powder canisters. The company picked this approach, which will cost an extra 5? per package, after trying out 24 different methods. It found that consumers liked the idea that any tampering with the can is especially easy...
...Houston, Wilson, 54, was convicted of shipping 20 tons of plastic explosives from the city's Intercontinental Airport to Tripoli in 1977. In Dallas, Smalley, 42, was charged with conspiring to smuggle 100 tanks to Iran and 8,300 antitank missiles to its foe Iraq. Both offered similar alibis: they were motivated by patriotism rather than profit and believed, their lawyers claimed, that they were involved in covert operations sanctioned by the U.S. Government...
...Libya the largest illegal movement of explosives ever investigated by the U.S. Jerome S. Brower, a California explosives manufacturer and distributor who is an unindicted coconspirator, testified that Wilson, who left the CIA in 1970, said he wanted "as much as I could get" of cyclotrimethylene trinitramine, a plastic explosive known as C4. Brower said he shipped 42,300 Ibs. in 856 5-gal. cans disguised as "drilling mud," a chemical lubricant used in oil-drilling rigs, from California to Houston, where it was loaded aboard a leased...