Word: plant
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...other corporate pair-offs, Dow Chemical and Domtar, a Canadian paper manufacturer, are setting up a recycling operation that will include several large plants. Next month Mobil and GENPAK, a food-packaging manufacturer in Glens Falls, N.Y., will inaugurate the first recycling plant in the U.S. that will handle fast-food containers and other products made of polystyrene foam. The firms will transform the plastic into pea-size pellets that can be used in wall insulation and industrial packaging...
...marker for your message board has run out of ink. Your poster gum doesn't stick anymore. The plant you bought from PBH has withered and died...
...practical technique for creating useful fusion energy at low temperatures could change the world forever by providing a source of virtually limitless power. Moreover, the process would generate no pollutants -- not even carbon dioxide, which many scientists fear is warming the globe in a greenhouse effect. A fusion plant would give off much less radiation than do conventional nuclear-power generators. And it would essentially run on seawater. Any scientist who managed to harness fusion would be guaranteed a Nobel Prize for Physics (and probably Peace as well), untold riches from licensing the process and a place in history alongside...
...Philadelphia forward Charles Barkley--the Round Mound of Rebound, the Guru of the Glass--and tonight in the first round of the NBA playoffs, Lord Charles will plant his large frame under the basket, dominate the paint and lead the 76ers to victory over the New York Knicks at Madison Square Garden...
Kohl tried to halt the popularity slide by reshuffling his Cabinet last week, but the move only underscored his political weakness. Among those ousted was disruptive Defense Minister Rupert Scholz. Recent controversies concerning West German involvement in Libya's suspected chemical-weapons plant, local political scandals and resentment over unpopular tax and health-care reforms don't fully explain the public disenchantment that first showed up earlier this year in municipal elections. "I believe there is a kind of gambler's attitude in parts of the electorate," says Otto Lambsdorff, chairman of the centrist Free Democratic Party. "They are saying...