Word: tins
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Fourth World. The old Third World became a more exclusive, OPEC-led grouping, limited to those nations that are exploiting their rich mineral or agricultural resources. Emboldened by the oil producers' success, many other Third World countries tried to create their own price-fixing cartels for copper, iron ore, tin, phosphates, rubber, coffee, cocoa, pepper and bananas. Their leaders talked of "one, two, many OPECs." The grand plans generally failed because members have lacked the cohesiveness to make them work ?so far. But the new importance of raw materials moved some big producers to raise prices unilaterally. Jamaica...
...quietly testing an automated pricing and check-out system that can "read" coded prices on each item, tot up the bill and do nearly everything but pack the groceries in a bag. Advocates of the system, who describe it as the biggest advance in retailing since the tin can, say that it promises big savings in both shopping time for consumers and operating costs for store owners...
...TIN ROOF. A triumphant revival of the Tennessee Williams play starring Elizabeth Ashley as a sensuous, febrile, scorchingly Southern Maggie...
...environmental problems that plague the U.S., litter has perhaps the lowest priority. But even when trash is out of mind, it is never really out of sight. Paper cups, tin cans, plastic wrappers, aluminum flip-tops and glass bottles are the detritus of profligacy, defiling the national landscape. The American penchant for littering is costly as well as unsightly; picking up the rubbish costs an estimated $1 billion per year. But the mess can be cleaned up, as Washington and Oregon are showing in different ways. One state uses the carrot, the other the stick. Both have been successful...
Fantasy did play an important role during Joni's first months in New York City. She covered one bedroom wall in tin foil, festooned the doorjambs with crepe paper. She toyed with writing a children's book about mythical kingdoms and later celebrated her new freedom in Chelsea Morning: ... the sun poured in like butterscotch...