Word: plant
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Soviet officials were criticized for not providing accurate or timely information after the 1986 explosion and fire at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. That incident sent a cloud of radiation into the atmosphere, contaminating crops and livestock in Europe...
Inefficiency is so commonplace in the Soviet Union that we were piqued by tales of a dramatic transformation under way at the Lenin Factory in Michurinsk. The plant, which makes auto parts, had gained national notoriety in 1986 after criminal investigators broke up an organized-crime ring trading in stolen merchandise. Now we heard the Lenin works had been "leased out" to kooperativshchiki...
...most active inspection program is run by the Commerce Department's National Marine Fisheries Service, but it is purely voluntary and paid for by the plant operators and major fish outlets like fast-food restaurants. About 7% of seafood plants participate, and they tend to be the cleanest ones that need inspection least...
...that of an old-time tent revival, almost 200 residents anted up more than $250,000 to buy a small equity stake in a new Kansas City-based company that plans to produce light aircraft. Townspeople hope their investment will help persuade the company to put its assembly plant in Clay Center, where it would provide 300 jobs. Says Deanna Fuller, a former farmwife who heads the local economic development group: "These people just want to make it possible for the young folks to come back...
...Clay Center are anxiously waiting to find out whether the aircraft company will locate there. And Deanna Fuller, who maintains a storefront office next door to city hall, is working on a dozen other possibilities. Already she has assisted in organizing a community campaign to help expand a manufacturing plant that makes grain augers. Editor Ned Valentine, whose family-owned newspaper has chronicled the town's ups and downs for 100 years, is optimistic. Says he: "The difference between towns that survive and towns that don't is attitude, not population." Clay Center may have the moxie to thrive once...