Word: vinyl
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Still, a mood of optimism pervades the Betty Lee Beauty Shop. Its two rooms are bright and cheery, full of light and mirrors and colors. There is a screen that modestly shields from view women who are having their hair done, and it is covered with vinyl in a pattern consisting of the word "love" repeated over and over. Fuller bought the business from Mary Ryan, who had started it in 1938--no one knows where the name Betty Lee came from--and has thrived there ever since. She doesn't know exactly how she ended up being a hairdresser...
...power for over 40 years now and has succeeded in establishing an elaborate network of social welfare programs designed to protect the individual from having to bear the full brunt of Acts of God or the Capitalist System. If you catch pneumonia or if you get liver cancer from vinyl chloride gas at work you need not worry about doctor bills. If your job becomes obsolete or if you are paralyzed in a car accident, the government provides any training and help in relocation necessary for you to get a new job. And when you are retired, you receive...
...Russia, researchers have found that workers exposed to chloroprene (the base for several synthetic rubber products) have higher rates of skin and lung cancer than the rest of the population. Vinyl chloride, a colorless gas that is the basic ingredient of the widely used plastic poly vinyl chloride (PVC), has been identified as a cause of angiosarcoma of the liver. Until recently, this cancer was so rare that one Los Angeles hospital found only one case in 52,000 autopsies. Since last year, however, doctors have confirmed 19 cases of the cancer in the U.S. alone, 17 of them...
BIRTH DEFECTS. The Ohio department of health has found that women in three communities with PVC plants-Painesville, Ashtabula and Avon Lake-bore more children with birth defects and other malformations than women in other communities in the state; laboratory research has shown that vinyl chloride can cause chromosomal damage in humans. Anesthetic gases also appear to be teratogenic, or capable of causing birth defects. Russian, Danish and U.S. studies all show a high miscarriage rate among women anesthesiologists and operating-room nurses...
...plastics industry has drastically lowered vinyl chloride levels in plants but has challenged federal requirements that they be brought down to one part per million or less, arguing that the costs of full compliance would force many firms out of business and put thousands of employees out of work. Other companies share their concern, pointing out that the costs of combatting pollution will make their products uncompetitively expensive. Part of the hefty jump in auto prices-and the resulting sales slump-stems from the required installation of antipollution devices...