Word: discarded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Americans discard more than 3,000,000 tons of plastic every year. Most of it ends up in local dumps, creating mountains of nonrotting, nonrusting, immortal trash. Three years ago, a team of scientists led by a University of Toronto chemist designed a plastic that would self-destruct in direct sunlight; a company in Delaware offers a kind of cellulose that dissolves in water; another in Idaho is marketing a process that makes styrene products break down into photodegradable substances. But such products have been handicapped by high costs or limited applicability...
Oliphant cited three main reasons for the Justice Department's recommendations to discard the indictments...
...their occasional tolerance of radical new ideas, however, few scientists are ready to discard the old rationality. Even the iconoclastic Mendelsohn admits that "there is too much of use in the scientific way of knowledge to simply brush it aside...
...over the idea that the United States continues to be as wealthy and generous as it was during the early postwar years when it provided Japan with economic aid. Japan is now a prosperous country, and her economy has grown to such a point that she can afford to discard her self-serving economic policy for one which will benefit both herself and the rest of the world...
...Please do not discard this letter. It is not a fan letter, so I will appreciate it if you read through...