Word: throwaway
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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McCall probably first earned his national reputation as an environmentalist, not a prankster. During his eight years in office, moderate Oregon banned throwaway bottles and flip-top cans, liberalized its abortion and contraception laws, and began a policy prohibiting development of the state's 300-mile coastline. McCall--and many other Oregonians--wanted to save the state from the anarchistic growth that California and other states had experienced in the preceeding years. The state tightened up environmental regulations--so much that some heavily-polluting factories had to be closed--and discouraged all but clean industries from settling there...
Human beings, Dawkins contends, are simply throwaway survival-machines for their immortal genes. Man is a gene machine: a robot vehicle, blindly programmed to preserve its "selfish" genes...
...typifies this: the surface is almost as pretty as a Bonnard (though not nearly so well painted), and the very fact that Ensor was not trying to use illusionist tricks to convince viewers of the skeleton's reality lends his image a paradoxical strength-that of the throwaway line. One of the most affecting paintings in this show, for the same reason, comes late in Ensor's career, 1915: a portrait of his mother's corpse. At first glance she is mere background, an almost monochrome rumpling of the sheets behind a still life of medicine bottles...
...book forces you to look around and see that yes, these things are forgotten. The age of throwaway containers has relegated the containers of work, worship, play, the family and the community to no-deposit, no-return status. Unless a building is consecrated "historic" by some authority, no one thinks to recycle it when its original function ceases to be historically valid, or when the structure can no longer hold the activity for which it was built. Instead, we replace the old construction with something which serves the demands of the moment and the market...
...jobs issue has been a source of confusion, with opponents' ads threatening job losses if Question 6 passes, but the authoritative Federal Reserve Board study predicting more jobs. What most people don't realize is that the switch to throwaway containers has cost Massachusetts up to 3,000 jobs over the past twenty years, as beverage companies regionalized their operations and moved out of state...