Word: tinned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...biggest problem will be proliferation, not only of nuclear fuel and arms but also of poison gases, biological toxins and other awful things no one has yet dreamed up. If tin-pot dictators and drug cartels get hold of the technology, they will become increasingly troublesome. Even a cheap, radio- controlled model airplane can do a lot of damage if, say, it is carrying a genetically engineered anthrax spore...
...reasons for this eclipse are simple and depressing. The sweet democracy of Top 40 radio devolved into a dictatorship of rock; songs like Tomorrow (from Annie) and Memory (from Cats) became standards without having been hits. And Broadway producers, turning a tin ear to the lessons of Hair and Superstar, did little to lure younger songwriters -- Randy Newman, Carole King, Jeff Barry and Ellie Greenwich, Jim Steinman -- who might have brought the American musical into the age of rock. Or maybe it wouldn't have mattered, given the stodgily conservative tastes of Broadway's geezer audience. The Rocky Horror Show...
...strings that is three to four times as large as in the show," says Thomas Z. Shepard, an independent producer with more than 60 original cast albums to his credit. Shepard's tour de force is the 7 1/2-min. I Got Rhythm, a furious fugue of corrugated tin, metal plates, pickaxes and flying feet. The song took Shepard a whole day to record -- as long as many entire Broadway albums. Three times he overdubbed the taps of seven dancers, he says, "so it would sound like 21 taps. It gave me a crispness and balance I never could have gotten...
...Hoyt, recycling manager at the U.S. Naval Base in Norfolk, Virginia, took over a solid-waste disposal program that had been costing taxpayers $1 million a year. A shrewd businessman, Hoyt was sensitive to hauling managers' needs and negotiated lucrative deals. Now, says one Navy officer, "not a tin can or newspaper falls to the ground on base." This year Hoyt's program is earning close to $800,000. "The key is knowing the market," he says...
Arriving in Lusaka today, a visitor might think Zambia is a country emerging from war. Stretches of road in the capital look as if they have been under mortar bombardment. Buildings are dilapidated, vehicles rattletrap. Thousands live in tin-shelter shantytowns. Unemployment and crime are running high. Zambia has become one of the poorest nations anywhere, with one of the world's highest per capita foreign debts -- nearly $1,000 for each of its 8 million people; average annual income per person is less than $290. As in many African countries, a small layer of extremely wealthy people flourishes above...