Word: plasticizers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Dolly Parton: "Dolly Parton is no plastic lady...
Though sales started slowly at first, today some 300 of the 500 largest U.S. industrial companies supply their employees with inexpensive, disposable Blackfeet products. Sears features the Indian pencils and plastic pens in some of its catalogues and sells more than 8 million of them annually. The U.S. Army and Air Force distribute Blackfeet wares in their PXs worldwide. With sales last year of $5.1 million, the company earned a net profit of $175,000. The business supports 100 jobs on a reservation where unemployment still hovers near 50%, and Chairman Old Person confidently plans to borrow more money...
...credit-card company. The mergers in recent months of the Prudential Insurance Co. with Wall Street's Bache Group Inc. and American Express with the Shearson Loeb Rhoades brokerage firm provide a glimpse of the shape of things to come in finance. With the help of computers, plastic credit cards and toll-free long-distance phone calls, these money supermarkets are carrying out perhaps the most significant change in the way people handle money since Marco Polo discovered the Chinese using paper currency in the 12th century...
...reason a Dean should write to me. I out the envelope back, unopened. I could always pretend I never got it. Or I could fake amnesia, like Joseph Cotton in that movie. A convincing case of amnesia would wipe out all traces of Janet Pressell. Then, after some artistic plastic surgery and some intensive dieting, she could emerge as Victoria de la Mandolin, tall and willowy a femme fatale on twenty continents...
...nature's masterpieces. The fist-size organ beats 100,000 times a day, and over a lifetime pumps enough blood through the 60,000-mile circulatory system to fill 13 million bbl. The Utah heart, dubbed the Jarvik 7 for its designer, Robert Jarvik, is made of plastic and aluminum and powered by electricity. The implant operation will be performed by Utah Surgeon William DeVries. He will cut away the heart's lower chambers (the ventricles), leaving the upper ones (the atria) intact. Then he will sew Dacron fittings to the aorta, pulmonary artery and atria. The artificial...