Word: rubberized
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...dumping ground and completely dysfunctional." So extreme was the clutter that of his three vehicles, he could fit only the Porsche inside. Engel contacted Mike Maxwell, owner of Garage Improvement, a Garage Envy dealer in Oregon, who completed the makeover this July for $15,500. Maxwell added stain-resistant rubber flooring, cabinetry, recessed lighting and a hot-and-cold water faucet so Engel could wash his cars. "Now it looks like a finished room--a place I'd want to go to hang out," says Engel. His once curbside suv and his boat fit comfortably alongside the Porsche--well worth...
...Szaky says, garbage is only called garbage until enough people want it. But demand for trash is evident in growing markets and rising prices for by-products that used to be dirt cheap, free or off-loaded with a cash kicker--such things as tire chips and crumb rubber, organic waste, even restaurant grease. "Resource recovery is a dynamic industry right now," says Lou Zicari, associate director of the Center for Integrated Waste Management, an offshoot of the State University of New York. The Environmental Protection Agency estimates that 72 million tons of waste were recovered...
...airports. I was at an airport about a year and a half ago where in the course of 20 minutes, each place that I went to searched for different things: toothpicks, rubber bands, you name it. It was security madness. Afterwards, I started hearing the word everywhere: security alert, security check, security clearance, security this, security that. I was like, "What's going...
...slight lead over Quad Cities businessman Whalen thanks largely to President George W. Bush's low approval ratings. A self-described progressive Democrat, Braley has criticized the President's handling of foreign and domestic concerns, from the Iraq War to the economy, and dubbed his opponent a potential "rubber stamp" for the Administration...
...emerge as a stable, modernized, predominantly Muslim but religiously tolerant state with a secular government in the volatile region, have obvious appeal for the Bush Administration - so much so that it tends to downplay the country's gagged media; the arbitrary arrests, exiles and murders of opposition leaders; its rubber-stamp political institutions and bogus elections; and rampant corruption, including a $78 million kickbacks-for-oil-rights case that has been pending in the U.S. courts for more than three years...