Word: plastics
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Earlier, London Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Kenneth Newman had warned that in the future, police antiriot squads would be permitted to disperse crowds by firing plastic bullets and using tear gas. Both weapons are employed by British troops stationed in Northern Ireland but have never been used elsewhere in Britain. Said a determined Newman: "Officers deployed in such grave situations look to me for reasonable protection. They must and will have it. Anarchy cannot be allowed to prevail...
...contended that she suffered a heart attack after officers pushed her to the floor. A day after word of her death spread through the neighborhood, hundreds of youths gathered in the streets and attacked riot squads that had been sent to the area. The police, who were carrying only plastic shields, were showered with flaming gasoline bombs. Four teenage boys, three black and one white, were arrested later in the week in connection with the policeman's death. The oldest was 15, the youngest...
Congress has been increasingly concerned about the high cost of plastic credit. Three bills introduced this year would set a ceiling on charges. The measures, which are likely to be taken up in early 1986, would peg card rates to the interest on other kinds of short-term loans. One of the bills, sponsored by Democratic Representative Mario Biaggi of New York, would limit card interest to no more than 5% above the cost of 90-day commercial paper, a type of corporate IOU that now yields about...
...Georgia's new machines --"Is that pretty, or what?"--explained the process. Worms and other slithery kinds of bait are packaged in ventilated 8-oz. cups with a bedding of moist paper shot through with feed, fattener and conditioner. Minnows, goldfish and the like are in water-filled plastic bags with a chemical that slows their metabolism. "What kills them is their own waste. They pollute the water. The chemical slows them down in their movements, so to speak...
Baseball on a pair of ping-pong courts. Jackrabbit base-stealers, high-flying infielders and plastic ground. And two old-school, real ballplayers...