Word: plasticizers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...domestic automakers' share of the American market has declined, so has the need for robots. GM alone accounts for 40% of U.S. demand for the devices; last year, when the No. 1 automaker killed a major program intended to build plastic-bodied cars, it canceled about $100 million in orders for robots and support equipment. That was bad news for GMF Robotics of Troy, Mich., the nation's biggest robotmaker (1986 sales: $186 million). GMF, a joint venture of GM and Fanuc, Japan's largest robotics firm, has cut its work force to 400 people, 60% of what...
...most popular water bed is still the original water-filled vinyl bag set within a plastic or wooden frame. Fast gaining in appeal, however, is the soft-sided bed made of vinyl with foam baffles, cells or cylinders inside that reduce wave motion. Water temperature can be varied by a thermostat-controlled heater mat that plugs into a wall socket...
...enough in hospitals throughout the country. A tiny human being, weighing merely a pound, enters the world with premature haste. His lungs are too rudimentary to admit vital air, his kidneys too weak to cleanse blood. Neonatologists, nurses and technicians descend, stabilizing his heartbeat and temperature, blanketing him in plastic and whisking him off to the intensive-care unit...
Goldstein is one of thousands of Mexicans in towns and cities along the 2,000-mile U.S. border engaged in the lucrative and rapidly expanding business of providing health care for Americans. In Tijuana alone (pop. 1.3 million), there are 18 plastic surgeons and a range of other specialists among some 2,000 registered doctors and 1,700 dentists. Their listings take up 44 pages in the city telephone directory. From a simple dental filling to major reconstructive plastic surgery to a cataract operation, almost every health need imaginable is available just across the border. A major part...
...number of middle-income Americans looking southward for doctoring grows, so does the demand for sophisticated services. Mexican plastic surgeons are now in big demand. Reason: a face-lift or tummy tuck south of the Rio Grande costs about 40% of what it does in the U.S. "An operation that typically costs $5,000 in the U.S. can be had for about $2,000 here," says Dr. Jorge Lopez y Garcia, a plastic surgeon from Mexico City. Lopez, a graduate of the Institute of Reconstructive Plastic Surgery at New York University Medical Center, flies to Nuevo Laredo twice a month...