Word: stuff
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Defender Kevan Melrose: "Well, those guys are younger than me. They're not as up on this stuff. I wasn't surprised...
However well-intentioned shoppers may be, so-called biodegradable products "foster precisely the wrong attitude," says Jim Middaugh, a spokesman for the Environmental Defense Fund. "They foster the idea that throwing stuff away is a good idea." Not all manufacturers have gone the degradable route. Procter & Gamble plans to expand the use of recycled plastic in making containers for Liquid Tide and Cheer. Smart companies know which way the wind is blowing...
...Some guy buys windmills, another guy steals, another guy buys Cadillacs and provides whores and yachts for customers. But you do not have, according to studies by Professor George Benston and Alan Greenspan ((now Federal Reserve Board chairman)), a very significant part of the industry doing that kind of stuff...
...letter, a reply envelope, a card (too big for the envelope, with a pointless perforation so that half of it can be torn off and thrown away), a brochure and perhaps a little Taiwanese-made American flag to burn in the privacy of your home. Why all this stuff? Because you demand it. While trying to appeal to you with flattery for your intelligence and compassion, direct-mail packages are designed on the assumption that you're a self- indulgent idiot. Even environmental groups destroy thousands of extra trees, sating their members' hunger for superfluous paper...
...smuggling it aboard in a suitcase. Semtex is also thought to have been used to destroy a French DC-10 over the Sahara last September, killing 170 people. While visiting London last week, President Vaclav Havel acknowledged that his Communist predecessors sold Libya alone 1,000 tons of the stuff. Said Havel: "If you consider that it takes 200 g ((6 oz.)) to blow up an aircraft, this means world terrorism has enough Semtex to last for 150 years...