Word: plastics
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...what will it take for the Quadrangle to get its fair share of renovations? One week the students could commandeer a shuttle bus; the next week Hilles; and finally, during reading period, a coordinated attack on the Quadrangle kitchens. Amid the shattering plastic and shrieks of Quaddish fervor, two hisses of rustling paper will rise to a crescendo and drown out the actual event...
...industry that has responded slowly to the oil-price drop appears to be the $80 billion petrochemical business. In Worcester, Mass., Robert Freelander, owner of Come Play Products, a toy firm, notes that the price of some of his plastic items will be the same this Christmas as last. The reason: "Manufacturers have not been given a reduction in the price of materials. Since December, the cost of polyethylene has gone up about 3 cents a lb." Executives at the floor-coverings division of Dan River Inc., in Greenville, S.C., are less than elated with the results...
...Washington's National Airport. Koch breezed through three airport metal detectors and into the departure lounge. That was as far as he planned to go. Inside his carry-on bag, Koch had concealed a 9-mm handgun that weighs only 23 oz. and is made partly of superhardened plastic. When disassembled, the Austrian-made weapon, known as the Glock 17, does not look like a firearm. Only its barrel, slide and springs, which are metal, show up on airport scanners. The polymer handgrip, trigger guard and ammunition clip that complete its profile...
...contest could be messy, as bystanders found out while watching a plastic egg filled with chocolate pudding descend. The container shattered on impact, splattering spectators with pudding...
...sees as his country's pervasive moral and material decay: "(He) wondered how anybody worth anything could continue to live in England. Every small town he drove through had the same faceless High Street: betting shops, uninviting pubs, takeaway Chinese restaurants, the pavements scarred with refuse spilling from plastic bags, as if the only growth industries left were those propagating ugliness and sloth. It seemed that the England he had once known had deliberately effaced itself...