Word: throwaway
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...book forces you to look around and see that yes, these things are forgotten. The age of throwaway containers has relegated the containers of work, worship, play, the family and the community to no-deposit, no-return status. Unless a building is consecrated "historic" by some authority, no one thinks to recycle it when its original function ceases to be historically valid, or when the structure can no longer hold the activity for which it was built. Instead, we replace the old construction with something which serves the demands of the moment and the market...
...jobs issue has been a source of confusion, with opponents' ads threatening job losses if Question 6 passes, but the authoritative Federal Reserve Board study predicting more jobs. What most people don't realize is that the switch to throwaway containers has cost Massachusetts up to 3,000 jobs over the past twenty years, as beverage companies regionalized their operations and moved out of state...
...increases in Vermont on that state's bottle bill, without mentioning that prices have gone up just as much in the 48 states without bottle bills. It is my experience that where beverages in resusable bottles can be bought in Massachusetts, they cost less than the same beverages in throwaway bottles...
...idea for the ponderous pendants was dreamed up "as a lark" by Marsten, her Caveat Emptor partner Richard Neibaur and Illustrator John Johnson. They call their creations throwaway chic, but at $2.50 each, the necklaces are no giveaway. Still, Bonwit Teller, Jordan Marsh and Filene's of Boston, among other stores, have placed orders, suggesting that the eggplant-size paper rocks will be at least as much of a hit on the party circuit this fall as, say, pet rocks were last year. In fact, orders are pouring in so fast that the ersatz emeralds, diamonds and rubies...
...American Magazine in 1923, the writer reports bleakly of his schooling in Niles, Mich.: "Well I don't know how it is now, but in those times practally all the teachers in high school was members of the fair sex. Some of them was charter members." That throwaway second sentence, evoking algebra-spouting harpies of deadly rectitude, would be recognizable as pure Lardner if it were found unsigned in a fortune cookie...