Word: plasticizers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Some banks have become more cautious in shoveling out the plastic, but for many more it is simply business as usual. Says William Maulding, senior vice president of Atlanta's Citizens & Southern National Bank: "There has been no tightening of money at C & S. Any customer who meets our standards for a credit card will be issued one. We could make more loan money available this year than last if the demand were there." At New York's Citibank the average card customer in 1978 used about 38% of his available Visa credit line, but last year that...
...SCENARIO is almost too obvious: record executives hear the energy-packed Alive on Arrivaland construct the plastic formula enabling Forbert to become the Barry Manilow of the street-punk-rocker crowd. Alive on Arrival is an uncut gem. Unfortunately the attempted refinement of Jack Rabbit Slimmarred the original stone. Maybe next time Steve Forbert can restore...
...research was just a glimmer in some Madison Avenue mind. Convention after convention, speech after speech, they'd release the balloons, each weighted with a drop of water, at the climatic moment. Today, the balloon drop is a dying art form. But for Reagan it looks appropriate; the huge plastic bag, pregnant with balloons, hangs from the ceiling of the Toga Room, waiting to deliver on cue. Nowadays, though, it's hard to find anyone who can engineer the spectacle. Reagan brought the audience to its feet at his close, looked skyward--nothing. Half an hour later, they were still...
...stations, the large part of this integration is a matter of avoiding the elements: vandalism, grafitti, normal wear and tear. Almost everything is armed for the onslaught. Materials such as stone, bronze and brick defy mutilation. Destructibles are out of reach. The message is clear: give the kids plastic, keep the china in the dining room...
...five-minute drive to work. Normally, she would make this trip three hours earlier, eat a cafeteria breakfast and start her job at 6 a.m. on the fifth floor of the Dodge Main Assembly Plant, putting glue on doors, cleaning out loose bolts and putting a plastic water shield and two pieces of felt into passing Aspens and Volares...