Word: rubberized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...decided to shut down the plant because it was not competitive with the company's other semiconductor plants, including one in Malaysia. B.F. Goodrich, struggling for profits in an overcrowded tire market, closed a West German plant 19 months ago, and is now considering selling all its rubber-making interests in Europe. At ITT's Brussels headquarters, upwards of 60 employees, ranging from secretaries to $125,000-a-year division chiefs, were axed from the payroll the week before Christmas. The company's European food and cosmetics holdings have been put up for sale...
...generate more cargo, but only cut profits for everybody. The Teamsters Union stridently opposes deregulation too; the 300,000 members covered by its master freight agreement have won fat wage and benefit increases that truck lines have been able to pass on to customers by posting rate hikes rubber-stamped...
...superb individual effort by league scoring leader Bryan Trottier at 18:14 evened the score. Trottier batted a loose puck into the Boston zone, then split two defenders before regaining possession and sliding the rubber past Cheevers from a prone position...
...smokers who work in the asbestos, rubber, coal, textile, uranium and chemical industries, the risk of developing lung cancer is 90 times as great as the risk for nonsmokers in other fields...
...checking station at Clinton, N.J., watching a cold rain that has fallen intermittently throughout the day. As a pickup truck driven by a man in a bright orange cap and jacket pulls up to the station, he puts down his soft-drink can, slips on a pair of heavy rubber gloves and steps out into the wet to watch while the team of state employees swing into action. The routine, already practiced a hundred times since sunup, is simple, though a trifle ghastly. Two burly men lift the dead whitetail deer out of the back of the truck and drop...