plastic
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Eat Sleep Knit, a yarn store in Dallas, Georgia, posted a photo on Tuesday of plastic tubs overflowing with skeins of scarlet and crimson and magenta—all from orders it had received over the past few days.
From Slate
“It was a combination of that stress lifting, and even more, just the incredible pride in the company, and in every single person in this room, to pull this off,” Jordan told a crowd of Southwest employees that day, many holding plastic cups of sparkling apple cider.
When the airline shed its plastic boarding passes, or its row-facing-row lounge seating, there were minor outcries, Jordan said.
JM Eagle is a large producer of plastic and PVC pipe, a business it got into in 1982 after purchasing those operations from Johns-Manville Corp., which went bankrupt because of asbestos claims.
From Los Angeles Times
Plastic or glass packaging and nitrate levels -- which can indicate pollution at source -- are other factors, Pieterse said, against a backdrop of Stellenbosch's expansive vineyards and warm mountainscapes.
From Barron's
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
