Word: plasticizers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Many other factors were involved in the car's demise, not the least of which was the DMC-12 itself. True enough, it was sleek and racy, with a stainless-steel skin, a corrosion-resistant, glass-reinforced plastic underbody, a 130-h.p. Renault engine and gull-wing swing-up doors borrowed from the 1954 Mercedes sport coupe. But, doors aside, car critics could find nothing distinctive or terribly special about it. One described it as "clunky." Still, the car had its fans...
...million), anticipates a boom. Says Executive Vice President Bob Baraker: "We expect our business to go up by half or even double in the year ahead, and that is based just on the queries we've had in the past three weeks." The company makes "blister packs": plastic sheets that encase each capsule in a container within its own bubble. Tiny Pillar Corp. of Milwaukee (1981 sales: $2 million) is awash in stacks of new orders for its sealing machinery. Says President Ernest Goggio: "People want to buy right now. They don't want to fool around...
...Chicago area. For the past 13 years Arnold has worked on the loading dock of the Jewel Food warehouse in suburban Melrose Park. Tainted Tylenol was found in two Jewel supermarkets. Describing Arnold as a "closet chemist," police searched his house and turned up a suspicious-looking plastic bag of white powder, along with drug manuals that contained instructions for encapsulating cyanide. A lab test found the powder to be a harmless carbonate, but Arnold admitted that he had kept sodium cyanide in his basement several months ago for "experiments." Nevertheless, Chicago police insist that Arnold, now out on bail...
...beam therapy, said to improve facial muscle tone, was developed in the Soviet Union, popularized in Europe, and is currently winning a large following in California and Florida. "It's like taking your face to the gym," says one satisfied customer. But according to the American Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons, it is more like being taken to the cleaners...
...gave way and dropped about 6 ft. onto the delicate timbers of the ship with an awful crunching sound. Said Prince Charles after the near disaster: "I was slightly horrified, [but] the important thing is to be British and stay calm." Luckily, no serious damage was done. Wrapped in plastic sheeting and constantly sprayed with sea water to prevent further decay, the Mary Rose was soon en route to Portsmouth Harbor, culminating the most expensive ($7 million) underwater archaeological salvage operation in history...