Word: plasticizers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...contents of his briefcase yield a clue to the South Dakota native's unconventional nature. From it he pulls fold-up children's kites, plastic toys to throw or spin, glossy photographs of speeding boats, sketches of cars with propellers cruising through the air and numerous patents, complete with golden seals...
Disposable razors are one thing, but will anyone buy a throwaway camera? Fuji Photo Film and Eastman Kodak apparently think so. Their new rival models, both announced last week, combine film, plastic lens and a shutter into one small box. After shooting pictures, users will take the entire camera to a photo lab for film processing. Kodak's Fling, which could be available by the summer, will sell for $6.95 and take 24 shots. It contains the 110 film used in Kodak's Instamatic cameras. Fuji will begin selling its Quick Snap this spring. It will cost less than...
Foosball, for the uninitiated, is a kind of miniature soccer game. Twenty-two plastic and wooden men, 11 per side, are attached to eight rods which the foosers manipulate, allowing the players to perform such daring maneuvers as a "Z," in which the ball bounces off each side of the playing table and directly into the goal...
...condoms, whose most startling magazine ad, directed at American women, features a young woman resolutely proclaiming, "I enjoy sex, but I'm not ready to die for it." Mentor, a new line, is marketed directly to women, who purchase nearly half the condoms sold. It comes in a tiny plastic cup designed for women's purses (the traditional flat packaging is for men's wallets...
...most talked about new approaches, electronic house arrest. Probationers selected for the program are required to be housebound when not at work. To make sure they comply, each wears a kind of futuristic ball and chain: a 4-oz. radio transmitter that is attached to the ankle with tamperproof plastic straps. The device broadcasts a signal to a receiver hooked up to the wearer's home phone, which in turn relays it to a computer at the probation department. If the wearer strays more than 100 ft., the computer spits out a note for the probation officer...