Word: starching
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...British have come up with a better solution. The big packaging firm of Coloroll, Ltd., is producing plastic bags that will decompose naturally in five years. The secret: addition of clean, dry starch to plastic polymers. "By putting in the starch," explains Inventor Gerald J.C. Griffin, a teacher of plastics technology at Brunei University, "we are adding carbon, hydrogen and oxygen. The bags will act as a carbon source for soil bacteria, breaking down into humus and carbon dioxide." Griffin's process, which can be used for most plastic products, has a powerful appeal beyond reducing long-lived litter...
...proven compatible with decent rents. Yes. Controls on rent do make things worse within the investment system, by inhibiting maintenance and construction. But should we remove them? Even the current increase has forced elderly people on fixed incomes and families without employment to switch to diets of starch and pet food in order to pay their rents, or to move out of their homes-and hometown. We have to dig deeper, beneath the tug-of-war between protected profits and decent living standards if, to use Pillsbury's phrase, "the reality of the issue is to shine through...
...good reason to be pleased with himself: taking the starch out of tennis has proved to be highly profitable. His income this year could reach $ 1 million, with only a quarter of that coming from tournament winnings ? at a time when tennis has busted out of its country-club cocoon to become one of the nation's most popular spectator and participant sports with an estimated 34 million players. Jimmy Connors, the hellion of tennis, has become a leader and symbol of the upheaval...
...There's no starch at his dinners," said one Washington partygoer approvingly of Iranian Ambassador Ardeshir Zahedi, 46. Once married to the Shah's daughter Princess Shahnaz, Zahedi has since 1973 been cultivating a playboy image. His friends say they are convinced his mission is simply to demonstrate the Iranian way of swinging. Zahedi likes to give lavish parties where he showers his friends with "yum-yum," his favorite word for caviar, champagne and diamonds. His wooing techniques are quaint. Recently, Zahedi startled a blonde with a chorus of "kitchy-kitchy-koos" over the dinner table. And Columnist...
...concedes that he is not "100 per cent satisfied" with his diet and that it was not easy to "abandon 20 years of a certain way of eating." But, he adds, "You have to wean yourself away from the idea of a meat dish, a vegetable dish and a starch dish at every meal...