Word: plasticizers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There was more optimism than calculation behind the investment strategy of Ian Brown, 39, a Beverly Hills, Calif., plastic surgeon. Brown jumped into the stock market for the first time last week as the Big Board reached its record bottom, on the theory that things could hardly get worse. He bought $30,000 worth of shares in high-technology firms like IBM, Microsoft and Apple, with no intention of selling at all. Said Brown: "Now I'm just going to sit on them and watch and wait." By Friday the doctor's first foray into stocks was already beginning...
...since I stopped trying to play it.") But the older Cardinals manager, Coach Red Schoendienst, still likes to flutter his fingers at the opponents in a tried-and-true hex. Something was working. With bunts, balks and stolen bases, the Cardinals finished a three-game sweep on their own plastic turf (3-1, 7-2 and 4-2) to assume a one-game lead...
...Halloween can be a lonely time too. While your schoolchums are busy doing the Monster Mash at a Mather House bash, or mixing exotic witch's brews in 10-speed blenders and plastic-coated cauldrons, you may find yourself all by your lonesome, with nothing to do but nurse a paltry patch of goosepimples...
...mania sweeps the West. Every woman in Great Britain and the United States with hair has it remodeled into a blond, molded plastic do known as "the Di". It is the first time since Farrah Fawcett that such widespread female hysteria occurred in the free world...
Once you got over the loot stage, Hallowe'en wasn't the same, though. No free candy, the costumes all became tacky, and the plastic decorations in the dining hall the same, except for the added layer of dust. Trick or drink sounds promising, but how many variations can you do on black and orange liquor...