Word: plasticizers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...qualify for regular Visa or MasterCard plastic, a person needs an income of at least $10,000. The standard green American Express plastic calls for an income of about $15,000. The minimum income for the MasterCard prestige card is about $30,000, while Visa's is about $35,000. For an American Express gold card it is approximately...
American Express, meanwhile, is trying to turn its gold card into all-purpose plastic. Last month the company introduced a fitness program that gives cardholders access to more than 100 health clubs around the world. The financial services firm is also using Shearson Loeb Rhoades, its Wall Street subsidiary, to promote the gold cards. Shearson-American Express is now launching a financial management account that combines stock and bond trading, banking and credit card transactions. The price of that service is $100 a year, which is automatically charged to the credit card account...
...healthy respect for the natural qualities of the wood. More over, pieces like the Danko Chair are light in weight and appearance and thus well suited to small apartments. With delight ful ingenuity, Danko is experimenting with folding chairs of molded plywood. One of the plies is a bendable, plastic material, so the chair folds without metal hinges...
...visiting our son who is a freshman at Harvard. While visiting his dorm I had occasion to use the women's rest room and was appalled by the squalid, if not filthy, condition of the facilities. The sinks were filled with hair and dried up toothpaste--there were empty plastic shampoo bottles etc, strewn on the floor. The showers seemed lined with scum. Were I a woman student at Harvard, I could not endure the daily assault on my sensibilities...
...fulfill the cin-éaste's nightmare-movies as the ultimate junk food-then RENTABETA, a Los Angeles company, may make the medium as handy as paperbacks. For as little as $2.95 a day, RENTABETA provides a playback unit that weighs 15 lbs. and comes in an indestructible plastic case. About 500 video stores in three Western states are currently renting the 3,000 available units. They also instruct customers about connecting the RENTABETAS to their home sets ("It's just two little wires...