Word: plasticizers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...about 6,000 people, but nearly 2,500 are behind in their payments. So the department decided to give credit where cash was due. Westchester last week became the first county in the nation to accept credit card payments for alimony and child support. "All the world pays in plastic, so why not do it with child support?" asks Phyllis Hartstein, assistant social services commissioner...
...Todd Nelson, 18, of Rose Creek, Minn., winner of a nationwide contest for high school students. The object of Todd's experiment: to determine the flight characteristics of various types of insects in zero-g. The bugs did not seem to get the idea. Except when their plastic containers were jostled by the astronauts, they mostly clung to the walls. The astronauts were sympathetic. Said Lousma: "You don't see Gordo flapping his wings in zero-g either...
When most people join the Harvard Cooperative Society, they get a little red or grey plastic card. But Stephen Waters '85 will get an engraved Harvard chair, a new suit, and--just maybe--a date with Miss U.S.A. 1982. Waters is the Coop's 100,000 member and will receive his gifts today, as the Coop celebrates its 100th anniversary...
...firing was no more than four blocks away from the hospital. A student nurse's eyes are wet when she talks about how frightened she becomes. Most of the beds in the hospital have no mattresses. The toilets are outside. In the kitchen, blackened by smoke, a cracked plastic plate with an "Alliance for Progress" logo lies on a shelf among mouse droppings and rotting grains of rice. On the wall of a nearby building, huge white letters shout: DEATH TO RED PRIESTS. On other walls are the red and white graffiti of the guerrillas...
...marketing gimmicks have ever been able to touch the gasoline credit card. With more than 36.4 million such company-issued cards in the wallets and purses of American motorists, stopping for a fill-up has rarely been much tougher than pulling into a station, whipping out the plastic and announcing, "Charge it!" The gasoline credit card was, indeed, one of the first mass-marketed charge cards, appearing as long ago as 1914 when Texaco, then a young company, began distributing them to customers...