Word: plastics
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...chose the three winners from 16 qualified applicants by using the somewhat unorthodox method of a lottery. Agency officials drew names from a plastic drum borrowed from the Selective Service. This set off loud beeps of protest from such applicants as American Express, MCI and Metromedia, which claim they are better equipped to provide the service than the others. But the relatively small firms that won-Radiofone, Pagememo and United Paging-have links to larger companies, including Western Union and Cox Communications...
...pepenadores, the rubbish pickers, who swarm like rats through the reeking mountains of garbage in the main city dump, the Santa Fe. There are about 2,500 regulars there, roughly one for each ton of trash dumped daily. By picking through the pile for resalable bits of metal or plastic, they, hope to earn enough to survive. Says Pablo Téllez Falcón, 45, the chief of the dump: "They regard us as the shabby people who work in the slime with a bottle of tequila in the back pocket...
Madden finds a plastic bag containing, to his horror, a blond and severed head. Madden lacks the nerve, at this point, to identify the remains...
...scoreboard at the north end of the stadium still reads Patriots/Saints from the last game of the 1983 season in December. During off season the field is usually quiet, except for the occasional concert or ethnic festival but about two weeks ago something changed. Workers covered the field with plastic and plywood and then dumped 600 truckloads of dirt on the field for tractors and bulldozers to sculpt into a motocross track...
...shutdown believe that something was burning that should not have been. Normally, the liquid hydrogen and liquid oxgygen that combine in the engine nozzles to fuel the shuttle at takeoff produce billows of clean white steam. The film shows reddish-orange streaks in the clouds, a sign of burning plastic...