Word: lightweights
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...fastest-growing market is the auto industry, which is increasingly replacing metal with lightweight plastics in bumpers, body panels and other parts. These polymers typically weigh half as much as steel but are just as strong. The plastics conserve gas by making a vehicle lighter, and manufacturing them requires 10% to 20% less energy than fabricating metal parts. Admittedly, there can be problems. General Motors found that the polymer body panels of some of its minivans started to peel like old wallpaper. Moisture had seeped between the sheets of plastic and caused the panels to come unglued...
...pictures developed by strangers. Soon after the arrival of the VCR, people who wouldn't have been caught dead in a Times Square porn house became comfortable with seeing sex tapes at home. Erotic movies account for an estimated 10% to 20% of video rentals. And when affordable, lightweight camcorders became commonplace during the past few years, X-rated home movies were the inevitable next step. No one keeps statistics on the trend, but psychologists say an increasing number of couples are making the tapes...
...rowers, ranging in age from 14 to 89, will compete in one of 16 separate singles or crew races in Club, Youth, Lightweight and Championship divisions. The action will begin at 8:40 a.m. and conclude...
...lightweight squad returns a strong crew from last year and hopes to build on its impressive finishes this fall at the Head of the Connecticut and the Head of the Hudson. A threatening Princeton crew was unable to enter the Head this year, which furthers the Crimson's chances for success...
...that the trade magazine Snow Country called the "most talked-about product to hit the ski market since the plastic boot." A leading manufacturer of ski boots and bindings, Salomon spent six years and $40 million developing its first ski ever. The result is the S9000 Equipe, a superfast, lightweight model that is winning raves from the ski press...