Word: plastics
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...chill has taken a heavy human toll as well. At least 46 people have died from weather-related causes since the cold wave became acute a month ago. A Dorchester, Mass., family placed plastic sheeting over windows to keep out the cold, using a portable gas heater for heat. Overcome by carbon monoxide, the father and a son died. Eight in Boston have already perished in fires this year, including an 18-month-old girl who knocked over a heater onto some newspapers...
...uncertainties generated by the current economic turmoil have trapped Webster in a tense guessing game. He must pick a price level low enough to stimulate new sales but high enough to cover soaring costs. In 1980 the prices of his raw materials, including steel and plastic, jumped anywhere from 7% to 20%. Says Webster: "Every decision has a bearing on the bottom line. During inflationary times my margin for error is erased...
...credit, which was rising at the rate of more than $3 billion a month in 1979, had slowed to a scant $146 million a month through October 1980. Credit cards are going into the drawer or into the wastebasket; more Christmas shoppers this year paid with cash than with plastic. Purchases that cannot be paid for immediately are often postponed. Last week when the washing machine wouldn't work, Cookie Sullivan, 35, a Winchester, Va., secretary headed for the Laundromat. Says she: "I'll be damned if my husband and I can afford a new machine with today...
...client sips a cup of peppermint tea, takes a shower, then pads along a plastic-covered carpet into a dim room lighted by two candles and filled with the soothing recorded sounds of wind chimes and bird chirps. He steps into a flotation tank and lies down in 8 in. of water laced with 800 Ibs. of dissolved Epsom salts and heated to 93°F. He glides back and forth once or twice, feeling weightless because of the high buoyancy, then settles back, secure in the knowledge that he is one of the earliest consumers of a modish...
...pulled into the yard Reagan glanced toward his pond. It used to be a mudhole, and Reagan and his closest friend, Willard Barnett, whom he calls Barney, got a black plastic Liner laid across the bottom. Barney, 67, is a rugged, silver-haired man who used to drive for Reagan when he was Governor and is now like a brother. The pond these days is 11 ft. deep and 100 ft. long, and Reagan calls it Lake Lucky...