Word: plasticizers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...strategy is to pamper its passengers, especially business travelers, who make up an astonishing two-thirds of its customers within Europe. First-class flyers, for example, sink into seats covered in brown leather instead of common cloth, and they can listen to music over stereo headsets rather than through plastic earplugs...
...agency cited several problems with the proposal. First was concern over when and how doctors would decide to implant the plastic and aluminum device. The Utah team said it would try the procedure only as a last resort, when a patient's heart could not take over for the heart-lung pump used during surgery. But the FDA suggested that the doctors first consider using a less drastic mechanical aid, the so-called assist device. This piece of equipment leaves the natural heart intact but takes over the operation of one of the pumping chambers, usually the left ventricle...
...worn through one copy of Hot Rocks and had the 1972 American tour promo poster on your bedroom door. You got the wimpy kid to call you Mick, and you learned to pout like Charlie Watts as you tapped out the beat to "Jumping Jack Flash" on your plastic pencil case. This was the only music you needed...
...lose much stature in the process because everyone who cares knows they stopped producing their best stuff sometime during the reign of Richard Nixon. This is the Stones hanging on, older and less tough, but still worth listening to if you once did Charlie Watts on you plastic pencil case...
...network of entrepreneurs along the Mexican border who are engaged in the lucrative if often shadowy business of buying and selling cactus plants wholesale. In summer, when demand hits its peak, a cactus trader may ship thousands of the plants in a week. They wind up in plastic pots at supermarkets or in the homes and gardens of the well-to-do, from Nagasaki to New York to Nuremberg. The trouble is that many of the plants are taken and transported illegally. Says California Botanist Lyman Benson, a leading authority on cacti of the Southwest: "The cactus family...