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- <text id=91TT0019>
- <title>
- Jan. 07, 1991: Business Notes:Boycotts
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- Jan. 07, 1991 Men Of The Year:The Two George Bushes
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- BUSINESS, Page 72
- Business Notes
- BOYCOTTS
- Balloons Of Doom
- </hdr><body>
- <p> Now that you've mothballed your fur coat and promised to
- eat only dolphin-friendly tuna, here comes the latest sacrifice
- for the animal kingdom: balloons. The mass launching of
- helium-filled balloons, once a fixture of homecoming games and
- political rallies, may soon go the way of goldfish swallowing.
- Connecticut, Florida and Tennessee have led the way in outlawing
- the practice because ecologists contend that the balloons are
- eventually eaten by marine animals. The resulting blockages can
- bring death by suffocation or hunger.
- </p>
- <p> Balloon-industry boosters insist that the product typically
- ends its life by shattering at high altitudes into harmless,
- biodegradable smithereens. But the argument is lost on some of
- the most fervent balloon fanciers: children. In Louisville
- fourth-grade students successfully campaigned for a local law to
- forbid outdoor launchings.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
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