Word: scraps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...College may scrap its system of fining students who drop a fifth course--but it may also make it impossible to drop a fifth course late in the term...
...last week, when Hopman and his prognathous protégés posed proudly with a sterling-silver heirloom. And why not stick out their chins? The Aussies have been inviting the world to come fight for the Davis Cup every year. But hardly anyone makes much of a scrap...
...getting smaller," cites a drop from 56% to 50% in Hertz's share of the market in 26 key places since the original Avis campaign began. Another reason is that Ally, a fighter pilot in World War II and the Korean War, does not mind a good scrap-even with a mogul like William Bernbach, the creative boss at Doyle Dane who thought up the dramatically successful Avis campaign...
...considerable ingenuity goes into the recovery and reuse of waste materials. Some industrial waste is saved and reprocessed at the plant itself; the rest comes through the scrap and salvage industry, which buys up wastes from plants, offices and homes. The copper in a skillet, for instance, may have an indefinite series of incarnations over a cycle of many years, moving from smelter to refinery to brass mill to the factory to housewife's kitchen to junk collector to a secondary refinery where it is smelted into ingots and sold back to the factory. Overall, only an estimated...
...wallboard. Some 25% of all paper now derives from this "secondary forest," and there is so much reforestation that 60% more timber is maturing every year than is cut. A new process breaks up old cars into tiny bits and magnetically extracts the steel to produce a 97%-pure scrap, offering a hope that most of the nation's automobile graveyards can eventually be eliminated. Fly ash is converted to make lightweight bricks, panels and construction blocks. Celotex is using blast-furnace slag to make mineral wool...