Word: plastics
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...members of the group were charged last week with a pair of armored-rack robberies worth more than $4 million. Yarbrough is also charged with opening fire on three FBI agents outside his home in October. The formidable arms cache discovered in his home after his arrest included crossbows, plastic explosives, hand grenades, night-vision scopes and semiautomatic rifles. Said Yarbrough: "The Bible tells me to prepare for the day of destruction...
Stores are paying more attention than ever to light-fingered crime. Spending for antitheft devices has gone up about 18% in the past year. The most popular anti-crime item is a plastic tag about the size of a pocket comb that stores are putting on everything from dresses to fur coats. The tags, which can be conveniently removed only by a special tool, set off an alarm when they pass through a sensing device that is usually located at exits. Criminals frequently try to cover up the tags with aluminum foil to fool the detection machines, or even bite...
Huffy's aerodynamically designed Olympic cycles, which carried the Raleigh name, were dubbed "Funny Bikes" because of their small front wheels, large, solid back ones made of plastic, and boomerang-shaped handle bars. "They were the first attempt at a radical departure in bicycle design," says Huffy's Michael Melton, technical director of the U.S. cycling team, who developed them. In Los Angeles, the Funny Bikes' riders pedaled to five medals...
...packets of the controversial booklets were attached to about 100 specially designed balloons and floated from neighboring Honduras to Nicaragua last March to scare the leftist Sandinista government by creating the impression that the Washington-backed rebel effort was more widespread than it was. The airborne handbooks, coated in plastic to make them water-resistant, were among 3,000 printed at CIA headquarters. But only a fraction were ever sent aloft, because the agency was short of money and the balloon blitz had no discernible effect on the Sandinistas...
...brokers fought to get some of the action. The government of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was selling off 50.2% of the company as part of a program to return some nationalized firms to private ownership. Around trading posts adorned with yellow balloons and huge red, green and blue plastic model telephones, 800 million Telecom shares changed hands, a London record for one day's activity in a single stock...