Word: plasticizers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Billy Greenwood of Laguna Beach, Calif. In 1984, after learning from an informant that Greenwood might be dealing drugs and after observing a parade of cars making brief nocturnal stops at his posh hilltop home, Police Investigator Jenny Jones asked the local refuse collector to turn over the brown plastic trash bags in front of the house. Clawing through the contents with rubber gloves, officers uncovered a rich nest of drug-related paraphernalia: razor blades, straws containing cocaine residue, and phone bills listing calls to people with drug records. Based on this evidence, the police obtained a warrant to search...
...Czechoslovak scientists have made several advances in plastics. Bausch & Lomb used materials and techniques patented by the Czechs to produce the first soft contact lenses. Now Czech researchers say they have invented a plastic that can withstand temperatures of up to 4,000 degrees F. American aerospace firms are interested in using it in rocket nozzles...
...black cowboy hat, boots, gloves and heavy brown nylon chaps. "They're brought in U-Hauls so they don't freeze. We don't buy dead snakes. They come loose in horse trailers where we've got to get in and / pick 'em out, in 55-gal. drums, plastic garbage cans, wooden boxes and even burlap sacks...
...flushing the snakes from their dens. This is the snake-hunting-as-a-sport group, and its members come from as far away as Canada. Hunting garb ranges from Reeboks and jeans to paramilitary Indiana Jones attire, including boots with a side knife and scabbard, camouflage flak jackets, molded plastic snake-proof leggings. "Some of these folks are really into serpents," says Wayne Wilson, a Jaycee and hardware-store owner...
...flipped over in a snowstorm while taking off from Denver, killing 28. Though investigators suspect that accident may have been caused by wing icing and pilot inexperience, the company's airlines have suffered numerous mechanical problems. In one case last October, a worker inadvertently carried a 14-in. plastic duct past a running engine on an A300 Airbus, which sucked the part out of his hands and into its intake. According to the carrier's machinists' union, a mechanic wanted to take the engine apart, but a foreman overruled him, and four months later the engine blew up after...