Word: plastics
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...more than a century, Corcoran's has provided Harvard Square shoppers with home furnishings and clothing, but as the store cedes its space to Urban Outfitters this month, it will become a haven for plastic dinosaur shoppers and funky clothing consumers...
Intrigued by Kligman's early results, the drug's manufacturer, Ortho Pharmaceutical Corp. of Raritan, N.J., began sponsoring clinical trials around the country. One method used to assess the drug: researchers make molds of facial skin with dental modeling plastic, then scrutinize the impressions with an imaging analyzer of the kind used by NASA to examine the moon's surface. The company claims that results so far have been positive and plans to submit its findings next year to the Food and Drug Administration. Although it is already approved for treating acne, Retin-A cannot be promoted as an anti...
...installment debt ballooned in recent decades, from 7.3% of disposable income in 1950 to 14.7% in 1970 and 15.5% in 1980. In mid-1987 it stood at a record 18.8%, or $591 billion. Credit card companies, aiming to make consumers feel virtuous rather than guilty as they use their plastic, have even introduced new accounts in which a percentage of each purchase price goes to the cardholder's favorite charity or special-interest group...
...young, and we had a frozen graft that perfectly matched her joint," Schmidt says. The hospital's bone bank is one of several hundred nationwide. With prior consent, doctors routinely remove bones from patients who die suddenly, check them for infections such as hepatitis and AIDS, encase them in plastic and store them at -112 degreesF in freezers. Though the living tissue is killed by the extreme cold, the bone's structure survives. Thus, once surgeons implant the new graft, tissue rejection -- the unforgiving nemesis of most transplant attempts -- occurs in only 3% to 5% of cases...
...growers are using pesticides and fertilizers less wastefully, while trying to hold down energy costs. Says Iowa Farmer Jack Drake: "I'm making fewer passes across my fields with machinery and looking everywhere for least- cost methods." Strawberry farmers on the California coast have begun covering their soil in plastic to keep fruit from rotting on the ground. Farmers close to Colorado State University are taking seminars to learn how to use computers for better money management...