Word: trashes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...anti-handout convictions too are often born of careful thought and high ideals. "I have never given a red cent to a panhandler, and I never will," declares Businessman Wade Lewis, 47, of Greenville, N.C. "I won't give anybody anything, but I will help somebody go through a trash can to pull out cans and claim the nickel deposit. People need to know that they have to work to get what they need...
...team up Mount McKinley, the highest peak in North America, Captain Richard Garrison, an Army chaplain, discovered that even the remote Alaskan wilderness has been despoiled. There, at 8,500 ft., was a pile of garbage -- partly eaten food, foil wrappers from freeze-dried meals, plastic bags and other trash left behind by previous climbers who had disobeyed the basic outdoor rule to backpack out all such junk. "It really detracts from the experience," says Garrison...
...while McQueen is at her best in Squeeze Me and the bawdy Find Out What They Like. Carter demonstrates why her name is alone above the title in a bravura sweep from the campy love play of Honeysuckle Rose to the patter of the wartime Cash for Your Trash to a contemplative number newly added for her, This Is So Nice...
...your customers." On the fourth floor, Sales Manager Hidetoshi Koizumi orders his troops to ring up 60 stock sales among themselves that day. "I want you to go all out," he admonishes. Tension often runs high. Recalls an ex-employee who worked in sales for three years: "The metal trash can between me and the person sitting next to me was always full of dents because my neighbor was constantly kicking it. His phone was often broken because he threw down the receiver after every call...
Compliance will not be easy. Merchant fleets dump at least 450,000 plastic containers overboard every day. The U.S. Navy, which accounts for four tons of plastic daily, has canceled a contract for 11 million plastic shopping bags, and is testing a shipboard trash compactor. It is also developing a waste processor that can melt plastics and turn them into bricks. The Navy's projected cost of meeting the treaty provision: at least $1 million a ship. Supporters of the Marpol treaty readily acknowledge that it will not totally eliminate plastic pollution. "If a guy goes out on deck late...