Word: plastics
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Through the dark and cold night, he made his way across the sodden suburban field just outside Washington. The drop was right where it was supposed to be. At the base of a tree, wrapped in a green plastic garbage bag, were eight rolls of undeveloped 35-mm film containing photographs of classified American documents. When he opened the bag, he did not know that the surrounding roads of Montgomery County had been closed or that the FBI was watching. Thus did Lieut. Colonel Yevgeni Barmyantsev, 39, the acting Soviet military attaché in Washington, last week become a prominent...
...Company's production of The Importance of Being Earnest. From Algernon Moncrief's description of the practice of "bunburrying" in the first scene to his statement in the last that "style, not sincerity, is the vital thing," all entertainment value comes from Wilde himself and not from the actors' plastic performances...
...over a six-year period by two former M.I.T. engineering students, George Lechter and David Eckel, it is called the Really Me mirror and retails for about $50. Some 5,000 have been sold, many to speech therapists, who use them to guide patients' mouth exercises, and to plastic surgeons, who use them in consultations to help patients understand what they can expect from operations. The marketers report that some 70% of those who see themselves positively for the first time do not like their appearance and would prefer an old-fashioned rorrim...
...industrial installations along the shoreline. The gravest threat is to the huge desalination plants that Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain and the other arid nations depend on for their drinking water. From Saudi Arabia to the Straits of Hormuz last week, armies of workmen were ringing the shore with floating plastic booms designed to protect the plants' intake valves. Meanwhile, panicky shoppers in Qatar went on a hoarding spree, pushing the price of bottled mineral water to almost $1 a liter-more than five times the OPEC price for crude oil. Officials from Iran and the seven Arab states that border...
...volt battery and has a range of 30 miles, rents for $39.95 a year with a $5-a-month broadcast fee and a 25? charge per call. Metromedia says it has been getting 1,250 inquiries a week about the product, which comes done up in a colored plastic case decorated with a smiling...