Word: teflon
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...notion that Ronald Reagan by some alchemy is a "Teflon President," one with some sort of magical resistance to being stained by his own actions, is a natural precipitate of the high-tech political generation. The idea is glitzy, and probably wrong...
Those who believe that Reagan's popularity comes from a Teflon magic refuse to acknowledge his gains and exaggerate his failures. Mayors who feared that federal aid cuts would bankrupt their cities now run surpluses. The estimates by Reagan's critics that 3 million people are homeless proved to be overblown by tenfold. Such attacks diminish the true anguish of the needy and insult American intelligence...
...Arthur Schlesinger Jr., author of some of the most eloquent and telling critiques of the Reagan Administration, wrote in the Wall Street Journal that those who would depose the man in the White House had better begin "by recognizing why Mr. Reagan has been so effective as President." The Teflon tag is a slick stump slogan and it may stick to Reagan, but it does not really explain the political struggle that is going...
...Conoco is a daring departure. The 179-year-old firm, which started as a gunpowder business on the banks of Delaware's Brandy wine Creek, now sells everything from synthetic fibers and insecticides to cookware coatings and auto paints. But for the company that invented nylon and Teflon, growth has come mainly from in-house research and innovation rather than conglomerate building. The addition of Conoco would more than double Du Pont's size, and some Wall Street analysts fear that the new colossus would lose some technological drive. Says John Henry of E.F. Hutton: "Du Pont...
...technique devised by Brighton, Teflon-coated electrodes are implanted directly into the bone around the fracture site even before the broken limb is placed in a cast. The electrodes are then hooked up to a small 7.5-volt battery that is strapped to the cast; a tiny current of 10 to 20 microamperes is directed into the area of the break. The voltage is applied about twelve hours a day for two to four months. Then the electrodes are surgically removed...