Word: plaines
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...made your engine run smoother. Union Camp spent millions of dollars trying to convince us that it had the cleanest paper, Great White, that made your copier run smoother. In the end, few consumers were willing to pay more for a particular brand of either common commodity--gasoline or plain white paper. Now both companies are succumbing to longtime rivals, Exxon and International Paper, in deals that were unthinkable just a short time ago. Suddenly, neither Mobil nor Union Camp could be assured of making money for shareholders any other way, so they just gave up and sold...
With no hope of even a cyclical upturn in the plain-paper business, Union Camp was shunned by the investors that most influence stock prices: the mutual funds. Before the bid by International Paper, Union Camp was one of only 12 among the 66 industrial companies in the S&P 500 that still traded below its 1987 high--after a decade when that index quadrupled...
...practical idealism, democracy and plain common or garden decency..." --John Major, Conservative Prime Minister of Britain, summing up his beliefs...
Once upon a time the forests were the land. Covering the planet like an elegant drape, they nourished and protected most terrestrial life. Now the fabric is in tatters--slashed by timber interests, agriculture, suburban sprawl and plain human carelessness. In this second installment of our Heroes for the Planet series, we tell the stories of those working to preserve the great swatches of green that still survive...
Tony R. Doherty, one of the plaintiffs and a resident of Jamaica Plain, said he could not understand the mayor's action and thought it was the result of political pressure...