Word: plasticizers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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With headlines announcing that "Royal Di-vorce stuns U.K.," "Wapner elevated to Supreme Court," and "Liberty's evil twin turns 50," the 750,000 plastic wrapped copies will go on sale for $2.50 each at 90,000 locations across the country, including Safeway and Cumberland Farms outlets...
...weekend cleaning woman at the Continental Illinois Bank of Chicago, the clear plastic bags on the floor of the computer room looked to be full of trash. She thereupon heaved them into a bin that was taken to a garbage- compaction area. But the following Monday, Continental's data processors discovered they were short $227 million in checks that the bank had honored but not yet entered in its computers. A crew of janitors then began searching the immediate area, to no avail. Finally, after an anxious hunt, they located the documents in the compaction room amid bundles of wastepaper...
...revel through a 350th anniversary fete. There will be, expectably, a stately convocation and more than 100 symposiums on topics ranging from the U.S. Constitution to the structure of a Beethoven string quartet. But the overriding tone of the festivities is pure glitz, in which an illuminated gas-filled plastic rainbow will arch 600 feet across the Charles River from Harvard's campus in Cambridge to Boston. Along the riverbank, a larger-than-life marionette of the university's natal benefactor, John Harvard, will prance to the music of a female samba group called the Batucada Belles. Saturday night...
...third largest city. In October 1984 gunfire peppered a DEA agent's car while it was parked in front of his Guadalajara home. Four months later another U.S. drug buster, Enrique Camarena Salazar, was abducted in the same city. His corpse was found the following month in a plastic bag. While dozens of police officers were dismissed or jailed in the wake of the murder, Washington claims many other suspects remain at large. U.S. officials say Miguel Angel Felix Gallardo, a drug lord believed to have been involved in the execution, still sends regular shipments of cocaine across the border...
...other hand, yields on passbook savings accounts, which have traditionally hovered at around 5%, fell to 4.75% last week at several major institutions. Many bank-credit-card rates remain stubbornly high, at between 17% and 20%, except in Arkansas and Connecticut, which have laws limiting rates on plastic...