Word: plastics
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...item in question was not precisely a toilet seat but a corrosion- resistan t plastic case that fits over a toilet. It is used aboard the Navy's P-3C Orion antisubmarine planes. Republican Senator William Roth of Delaware, chairman of the Governmental Affairs Committee, which looks into suspected cost overruns, had been conducting an investigation of the accessory. Roth was tipped off by a contractor in Washington State who had been asked to bid on the toilet unit in January. When the contractor learned that Lockheed Corp. was charging $34,560 for 54 toilet covers, he wrote a letter...
...shows in 1984, which meant that following the Dead around the country was what they had accomplished for the year. Such wandering is considered not goofing | off but commitment. There were yuppies, who had flown out from New York and paid their fares with plastic. But the stoniest of the pilgrims followed their quest in the elderly bread vans and decommissioned school buses painted with rust primer and furnished with curtains and the kind of mattresses that are chucked under lampposts at 3 a.m. On their windows were stickers showing skulls or tap-dancing skeletons, talismanic to the Dead...
...Terror cannot be finished by one war. It's total nonsense; it was illusion. I told the people (of northern Israel) I am not going to promise you that no (rockets) will fall on you, any more than I can promise anyone in Tel Aviv or Jerusalem that no plastic bomb will be blown up in a bus or a supermarket. In fighting terror, you cannot let it interfere with the normal life of civilians in Israel...
Beyond the rhetoric, police in Belgium and West Germany point out that both guerrilla groups used plastic explosives from a cache of 800 kilograms stolen last year from a quarry in Belgium. Last week, too, French police revealed that just before General Audran was shot, his eldest daughter received a phone call from a woman who asked in a heavy German accent whether her father was home. The French terrorists seem to take pains to identify themselves with their West German counterparts. After Audran's assassination, for example, Action Directe attributed the killing to what it called "the Elizabeth...
...jury was almost effusive in its praise of a Veterans Administration- sponso red prosthetic device called the Seattle Foot, the result of a collaboration among physicians, engineers and designers. The plastic device, which looks like a real foot, makes it possible for amputees to run or play ball...