Word: plastics
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Plastic white doves--with authentic features attached--are one of thousands and thousands of yuletide trinkets sold at this seven-room veritable Disneyland of the Christmas season open one month a year just 20 miles north of Cambridge. Maybe your true love would be more interested in the seven varieties of tinsel, 15 shapes and sizes of candles, or dozen-odd varieties of plastic berry and plant clusters--from assorted nuts to fir and cranberry sprays, ranging from...
Although trifle is traditionally made in a large bowl, a more convenient method is to prepare approximately six separate servings using clear plastic cups of similar containers, such as deep wine glasses...
...fresh fruit to live poultry began arriving. Says Howard Sandoz, a railroad inspector who brought over 12 lbs. of steak: "I saw the tent people on TV and thought about all the food I had. I'm just doing my part." Houston-area companies contributed tents, rolls of plastic, Coleman stoves, water tanks and portable toilets. Stacks of donated firewood, piles of used clothing (so much that donors had to be warned that some of it will be sold at local flea markets) and job offers came pouring...
...Tokyo last week had a strangely archaic flavor. White-jacketed party workers carried cardboard boxes full of ballots across the floor of the city's cavernous harbor-front International Trade Fair exhibition hall. They tallied 974,150 mail-in votes by hand, then stuffed the ballots into green plastic baskets for a final scrutiny by election referees. Finally came the announcement that 58% of the members of the ruling Liberal-Democratic Party (L.D.P.) had picked Yasuhiro Nakasone, 64, to succeed Zenko Suzuki, 71, as their president. When, two days later, the choice was confirmed in a vote of Japan...
TIMES BEACH, Mo, --Workers in white plastic suits with black gas masks walked the streets of the small town yesterday looking for traces of deadly down in dirt that kids have played in for the post 10 years...