Word: plant
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...time but never stopped. As a young man growing up in Bayonne, N.J., he could toss a football 65 yds. He briefly hoped for a career in professional baseball, but he didn't perform well under big-time pressure. Instead he worked days in the local General Motors plant, studied for a bachelor's degree at night and became a schoolteacher...
...walking across the churchyard with the cameramen jousting and stumbling behind. After a brief stop at the bank, he leads us to the edge of a vast, weed-choked parcel that for 100 years was home to a plate glass factory, Crystal City's economic raison d'etre. The plant's 1990 closing sapped the town's strength, so another politician might use the moment to rail against Corporations That Turn Their Backs on Our Communities. Bradley looks for poetry instead. The missing landmark "tells me life has unknown terms and change is all around us," he says, "and some...
Bell and the Army, which inspects Bell's work at the plant, have blamed each other for the problems exposed in the Marine probe. "Ultimately it's [the Army's] decision to do them or not," a Bell official said of the safety fixes. "This is not our aircraft." But the Marine inquiry said Bell was "contractually responsible" for providing the crew with a safe aircraft. The Army major in charge of monitoring Bell's work concurred. "Bell is the one responsible for wrench turning," he told Marine investigators, "and for the inspection of all that...
...Northeast Cape Fear River. The entire water supplies of Pitt and Edgecombe counties have been contaminated, and four more inches from Harvey isn?t likely to help. New Jersey is facing similar problems ? 1 million residents were told to boil their water this weekend after flooding overwhelmed a treatment plant ? but the problems of an agricultural state are special. At least 110,000 hogs and a million poultry lie rotting in fetid floodwaters, and the animals that survive ? military vehicles have been called in to help save livestock across the eastern part of the state ? are certainly not defecating where...
...boosters insist the long-legged dwellings are a romantic reminder of how people and nature once harmoniously co-existed in Florida. "My son is studying to be a biologist because of the love for wildlife he nurtured out here," says J.R. Hinsley, a plant-nursery owner whose stilt house--a furnished, air-conditioned "hunt camp" he calls the Fontainebleau--sits above alligator nests deep in the Everglades, southwest of Boca Raton, accessible only by airboat. "People can call us swamp rats and rednecks all they want," says Hinsley's neighbor Don Kirk, 59, "but folks are supporting us because most...