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“Plastics.” That word of career advice was whispered to Dustin Hofftnan in the highly popular 1967 film The Graduate.

Offered in all seriousness by a drunken middle-aged entrepreneur, the word drew an explosion of laughter from audiences across the country. It was a symbol of the “generation gap.”

To the young, “plastic” meant cheap, artificial, false. To the American businessman, it meant profits, the key to an industry that has surpassed the expectations of even the

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