Word: makeing
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Polystyrene foam is one of the great success stories of modern industry. Light, shock-resistant, insulating and cheap to make, it shows up everywhere: in disposable coffee cups, in boxes that hold fast-food hamburgers, as packing "peanuts" for safe shipping. But the stuff has a serious downside as well. Polystyrene is bulky, taking up space in landfills; as a plastic, it takes decades to decompose; its manufacture causes the release of hazardous chemicals; and the market for recycling it is hopelessly limited. Environmentalists have argued for years that the foam should simply be banned...
...told George Bush that Venezuela plans to expand its production capacity. Great, said Bush; a former Texas oil speculator himself, he wasted no time in urging Perez to liberalize Venezuelan foreign-investment laws even further and let U.S. companies join in exploration and production. Perez's political opponents might make that difficult for him, since it was he who nationalized Venezuela's U.S.-dominated oil industry in 1974. But whether Yanquis are involved in the drilling and pumping or not, Perez said last week that his government is committed to expanding Venezuela's capacity over the next two or three...
...difficulty. It's harder still when his widow controls many of the rights to his works and image and remains a controversial figure in his story. For those reasons, Buddy bears a striking resemblance to the 1978 film The Buddy Holly Story, starring Gary Busey, including a tendency to make saints of the singer and his wife and cartoon cads of almost everyone else. The real reason for telling Holly's story again is as an excuse for a rock concert...
...There are no cases in North America of wildwolves attacking people," he said. But "wolvesdon't make good pets--they can grab the neighbors'kids and tear up the house...
...people can't make it, we don't wish them death or anything, we just want people from their houses who can make it. Their constituency is entitled to be represented...